Kate Stables
Select another critic »For 39 reviews, this critic has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.2 points higher than other critics.
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Kate Stables' Scores
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Average review score: | 73 | |
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Highest review score: | Men | |
Lowest review score: | The Jungle Bunch |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 39
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Mixed: 14 out of 39
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Negative: 0 out of 39
39
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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- 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- Total Film
- Posted Apr 25, 2023
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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- Kate Stables
A slick, dance-crammed London excursion that loses some magic when it focuses on romance.- Total Film
- Posted Feb 7, 2023
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Jan 31, 2023
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- Kate Stables
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.- Total Film
- Posted May 9, 2022
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Apr 5, 2022
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- Kate Stables
It’s hands-down Disney’s best and punchiest prequel yet, one whose playful perils make for a deliciously rowdy ride.- Total Film
- Posted May 26, 2021
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- Kate Stables
Chadwick Boseman gives this muscular film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, added punch and poignancy.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 24, 2020
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- Kate Stables
It’s ‘Hello Dahl-y’, as Anne Hathaway’s Grand High Witch brings camp not creepiness to Zemeckis’ entertaining fairytale.- Total Film
- Posted Oct 21, 2020
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- Total Film
- Posted Oct 15, 2020
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- Kate Stables
Daniel Kaluuya is the motor for this lyrical but hard-hitting road-movie, fuelled by fury and frustration.- Total Film
- Posted Jan 24, 2020
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- Kate Stables
Theron is gobsmackingly good as the real-life screen queen determined to unearth the victims of Fox News’ most powerful predator.- Total Film
- Posted Dec 9, 2019
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- Kate Stables
Greta Gerwig’s warm, woke take on America’s classic girlhood novel takes liberties, but makes a tender, engrossing tale.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 26, 2019
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- Kate Stables
Zellweger knocks it out of the park, lighting up this punchy and moving late-life biopic with big-hearted, big-voiced panache.- Total Film
- Posted Oct 4, 2019
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- Kate Stables
Tween-appropriate action and jungle-genre gags keep this family-friendly reboot giggly rather than gripping- Total Film
- Posted Aug 16, 2019
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- Kate Stables
The powerful, vanity-free performances are the real thing in this bittersweet biopic.- Total Film
- Posted Jan 24, 2019
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- Kate Stables
Ronan is the monarch of the lens in this feisty, feminist royal biopic, which favours queenly clashes over battlefield action.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 26, 2018
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- Kate Stables
A heist movie with serious bite, Widows is both brilliantly tense and strikingly relevant.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 5, 2018
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- Total Film
- Posted Jun 11, 2018
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- Total Film
- Posted Apr 30, 2018
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Apr 2, 2018
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Dec 14, 2017
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- Kate Stables
Gyllenhaal is outstanding in this inspiring warts-and-all story of a Boston bombing survivor’s recovery battle.- Total Film
- Posted Dec 11, 2017
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Dec 7, 2017
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 20, 2017
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- Kate Stables
Mixing a rom-coma into the romcom, this smart, sweet and highly personal love story finds a winning formula.- Total Film
- Posted Jul 24, 2017
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- Kate Stables
Jean-Pierre Léaud effortlessly summons up the iron ruler inside the failing man.- Total Film
- Posted Jul 13, 2017
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- Total Film
- Posted Apr 9, 2017
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- 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.- Total Film
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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