Geoffrey Macnab

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The Independent
For 10 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Geoffrey Macnab's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Funny Face
Lowest review score: 60 Last Night in Soho
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Geoffrey Macnab
    Superpower
    Penn and Kaufman’s film about him is sprawling and uneven but also heartfelt and inspiring. It’s informative but has an immediacy which you rarely find in conventional news reports. The documentary leaves you with admiration not only for its subject, the comedian turned wartime leader, but for the doughty Hollywood star who put himself in the eye of the storm too.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Geoffrey Macnab
    Infinity Pool
    In its morbid and provocative way, the film is often funny but it’s thought-provoking and very creepy too.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Geoffrey Macnab
    The Whale
    The pathos is laid on very thick. At times, you wonder why a filmmaker as sophisticated as Aronofsky is resorting to such manipulative tactics. Beneath all its blubber, though, this turns out to be a film with a very big heart.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Geoffrey Macnab
    Funny Face
    Stanley Donen's 1957 musical represents a triumph of form over content.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Geoffrey Macnab
    Crimes of the Future
    This is a film rich in ideas but with very little tension or passion. At times, it’s more like a cerebral art gallery installation piece than a full-blooded dramatic movie.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Geoffrey Macnab
    The Power of the Dog
    All the characters’ feelings here are very deeply sublimated. The fascination of The Power of the Dog lies in its ambiguity and its depth of characterisation. Nothing is obvious here, not even the title.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Geoffrey Macnab
    Last Night in Soho
    It is hard not to wish Wright had made an entire film set in the Soho of the Sixties rather than one that pays tribute to it through the prism of the present day. It is a pity, too, that the magnificent Taylor-Joy’s role wasn’t further foregrounded.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Geoffrey Macnab
    Spencer
    Stewart’s febrile, sensitive performance and Larraín’s trademark lyricism give it an emotional kick that such predecessors lacked.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 80 Geoffrey Macnab
    Man with a Movie Camera
    It is more a film poem, an ode to modernity and a symphony of a city.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Geoffrey Macnab
    An Autumn Afternoon
    Yasujiro Ozu's final film, re-released in a restored version, is a stately, slow-burning but very moving family drama.

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