For 39 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kate Stables' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Men
Lowest review score: 40 The Jungle Bunch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 39
  2. Negative: 0 out of 39
39 movie reviews
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    The tender, tragic vibe Williams tries for via our hero’s forbidden affair with aristo soprano Marie-Josephine (a brittle Samara Weaving) feels too speedily set up to be truly effective.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    What holds everything together and stops the film from sliding into a winking spoof is the intensity of newcomer Kansara’s performance. Her obsessive Ria drives the movie’s frantic pace with sheer willpower and scrappy physical courage
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    At the heart of both movie and boardgame is that deep sense of community and camaraderie, which bonds the quartet of misfits nicely.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    A slick, dance-crammed London excursion that loses some magic when it focuses on romance.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    What really elevates this sophisticated sequel is Banderas’ rich voicework, which reveals that, under Puss’ suave bluster, there’s a moody moggie discovering fear for the first time.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Kate Stables
    Men
    Garland’s bold, original version of what horror can be when it swaps tired old tropes for visceral, visionary thrills is an absolute game-changer.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Despite the well-honed wizarding credentials of Yates and co-scripters Steve Kloves and Rowling, the series still can’t seem to settle on a hero. Let’s hope that the prospective next two helpings can unravel whether it’s Newt’s beast-fuelled journey or Dumbledore’s quest with which we’re hitching a ride.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    It’s hands-down Disney’s best and punchiest prequel yet, one whose playful perils make for a deliciously rowdy ride.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Chadwick Boseman gives this muscular film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, added punch and poignancy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    It’s ‘Hello Dahl-y’, as Anne Hathaway’s Grand High Witch brings camp not creepiness to Zemeckis’ entertaining fairytale.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Handsome, risk-taking Netflix remake sacrifices suspense for sweeping sadness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Daniel Kaluuya is the motor for this lyrical but hard-hitting road-movie, fuelled by fury and frustration.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Theron is gobsmackingly good as the real-life screen queen determined to unearth the victims of Fox News’ most powerful predator.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Greta Gerwig’s warm, woke take on America’s classic girlhood novel takes liberties, but makes a tender, engrossing tale.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Zellweger knocks it out of the park, lighting up this punchy and moving late-life biopic with big-hearted, big-voiced panache.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Tween-appropriate action and jungle-genre gags keep this family-friendly reboot giggly rather than gripping
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    The powerful, vanity-free performances are the real thing in this bittersweet biopic.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Ronan is the monarch of the lens in this feisty, feminist royal biopic, which favours queenly clashes over battlefield action.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Kate Stables
    A heist movie with serious bite, Widows is both brilliantly tense and strikingly relevant.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Simply doesn't have the original's magic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Theron is astonishingly good, giving a subtle, vanity-free performance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    There’s a bumpy, wholly unexpected dip into melodrama along the way, but the film’s commitment to its characters, and its sheer emotional heft, carries you along regardless.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    The storytelling can feel a bit plodding, but Jim Broadbent’s exuberant Ernest and Brenda Blethyn’s timid, upwardly mobile Ethel give the marriage a touching intimacy and warmth.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Gyllenhaal is outstanding in this inspiring warts-and-all story of a Boston bombing survivor’s recovery battle.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Musing on memory and machine-emotion, it echoes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Her. But despite its fine portraits of loss, it never escapes its stage-play origins.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Stone and Carell ace it in this smart biopic, stylishly recreating the champ-vs-clown clash of the tennis titans that electrified ’70s America.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Mixing a rom-coma into the romcom, this smart, sweet and highly personal love story finds a winning formula.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Jean-Pierre Léaud effortlessly summons up the iron ruler inside the failing man.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Both smart political primer and tense cautionary tale.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Kate Stables
    Filled with cherry-blossom gorgeousness and sentimental homages to small-town Japanese life, it's a film of quiet, telling moments, even when big revelations surface.

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