Robbie Collin

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For 880 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robbie Collin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Lowest review score: 0 May I Kill U?
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 71 out of 880
880 movie reviews
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    It’s the Pixar film that has to remind its audience what a Pixar film is.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    While the film never shocks it almost always compels, and Breillat crafts some images that keep tingling in the mind long after they’ve faded from sight.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Tran, a practised sensualist, is superb at depicting food as a vehicle for pleasure.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Teenage idealism curdling into cult-like insanity is a punchy, timely subject. But it’s hard to discern what Hauser and her regular co-writer Géraldine Bajard actually want to do with it, or how much sympathy their film has for Miss Novak’s follower-victims.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    It’s juicily ambitious stuff: imagine the familial tensions of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited mapped onto an entire nation, but also playing out in multiple close-up vignettes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Manning Walker’s wily command of tone and glistening sweat and DayGlo visuals do make you pine to be young again for the first half hour or so of this.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    For the most part, sound and image are irreconcilable, so you find yourself either listening in horror or watching with pleasure, only for the spell to be broken by some eye or ear-catching detail in the other temporal strand.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    On paper, this looks like a flatly impossible task for DiCaprio: the film’s central character is neither hero nor charismatic outlaw, but a grasping, biddable, determinedly unreflective stooge, whose actions inspire revulsion and outrage.But he meets the challenge with one of the finest, most complex performances he’s ever given.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric”, Theodor Adorno famously wrote. Glazer’s film gives us the prosaic instead, refashioning it into the darkest, most vital sort of art it might be possible for us as a species to produce.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    It ultimately feels like a counterfeit of priceless treasure: the shape and the gleam of it might be superficially convincing for a bit, but the shabbier craftsmanship gets all the more glaring the longer you look.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    It’s mostly handsomely shot, with painterly vistas of the French countryside and lots of dazzling Versailles interiors. But the central relationship never convinces – it all just feels like a performance, put on for the benefit of the courtiers and by extension, us.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    An entirely uproarious 90 minutes at the cinema which asks nothing more of its audience than that they keep their incredulity suspended for just a few seconds longer and keep enjoying the ride.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Where the film moves from compelling to revelatory is in its use of archive footage of Fox – from his films and shows, but also televised personal appearances – to reveal a join-the-dots picture of what was actually going on behind the hot-young-star facade.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    The staging and tone are determinedly old-fashioned, and the atmosphere of romance and danger only amplified by the glorious French settings: lots of muddy byways, echoing courtyards and fine, candlelit interiors, and not a green screen in sight.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Yes, Evil Dead Rise indulges in the odd bit of homage, from its chainsaw-based final showdown to an amusing opening gag about Raimi’s trademark demon’s-eye-view tracking shots. But it mostly just wants to scare you witless – and (for this critic, anyway), resoundingly succeeds.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    For all its decorative twists and curls, this is a sophisticated, searching work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Writer-director James Gunn finds moments of inspiration in this sequel, but the plot is a mess, the film irritable and frazzled.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    It might end up being the most beautiful, moving and all-around-loveliest children’s film of the year.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    The issue here isn’t the moment-to-moment loopiness. It’s that the film’s cumulative unmanageableness soon starts to look like a put-on – Aster seems much more interested in pushing the limits of his audience, rather than his own.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Air
    It’s absorbing and well-acted enough that at times you could almost forget you were being asked to emotionally invest in which company gets to slide its wares onto a rich young sportsman’s feet.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Somehow, this new animated adaptation of the video game is even worse than the abominable 1993 live-action. Even the CGI is second-rate.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    In terms of representation, you couldn’t ask for more. And that’s just as well, because in terms of entertainment, you could barely get less.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    The whole thing is stupefyingly unfunny and un-tense, and doesn’t end so much as just give up and grind to a halt.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The debut feature from 33-year-old Raine Allen-Miller adjusts and updates the classic Curtis formula to a small urban chunk of contemporary south London – and captures the place’s clatter and bustle with such undisguised love, it makes the blossoming of romance there feel like the most natural thing in the world.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Even with the steady supply of clichés and occasional leaps of logic, the dramatic scenes smoulder away nicely.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    As things go on, Cross’s plot doesn’t so much thicken as coagulate into nonsense. Serkis’s evil plans don’t always make much sense, even when factoring in the whole murderous psychopath thing, while the grislier imagery is often too poseur-ish to unnerve.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    As in Landon’s terrific body-swap horror comedy Freaky, there’s often a surprisingly thoughtful undercurrent to these zany riffs, and the tone is nicely judged for younger teens. But where Freaky was relatively honed, this rambles to a fault, taking numerous optional detours . . . en route to an emotional climax that doesn’t quite land.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    It’s a grinding disappointment all round, though at least now we know that what bears famously do in the woods can extend to their film work.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Your Place or Mine is thoroughly mild, considerate and well-behaved. But where’s the fun in that?
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    It’s mostly very charming, if perhaps a bit self-consciously so, given Fleischer Camp’s tendency to gurgle delightedly on camera at every other line.

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