The Independent's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 106 reviews, this publication has graded:
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47% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: | Dune: Part One | |
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Lowest review score: | Home Sweet Home Alone |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 106
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Mixed: 54 out of 106
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Negative: 3 out of 106
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Clarisse Loughrey
The Bob’s Burgers Movie proves that more of the same is sometimes the very best thing.- The Independent
- Posted May 26, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
By framing Elvis’s story through Parker’s, Luhrmann’s film is cannily able to take a step back from the intimate details of the musician’s life. Instead it views him as a nuclear warhead of sensuality and cool, someone stood at the very crossroads of a fierce culture war.- The Independent
- Posted May 25, 2022
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Geoffrey Macnab
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.- The Independent
- Posted May 24, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Benediction isn’t a cradle-to-grave biopic, nor does it dramatise a single, pivotal event. It’s one man’s breathless search, careening back and forth through the chapters of his life in search of something concrete and true. It’s beautiful, but only in the way it tends to its tragedies with such care.- The Independent
- Posted May 21, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers sees fit to both indulge in nostalgia – largely through Ellie’s wide-eyed adoration of the old show – and poke fun at it.- The Independent
- Posted May 21, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Everything Everywhere All at Once exists in the outer wilds of the imagination, in the realm of lucid dreaming and liminal spaces. It bounces off familiar representations of altered states, whether it be The Matrix or the phantasmical films of Michel Gondry, while feeling entirely unclassifiable. It’s both proudly puerile, with a running joke about butt plugs, and breathlessly sincere about the daily toil of intergenerational trauma.- The Independent
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Is Noé suddenly feeling self-reflective? Not to be contrarian for the sake of it, but I struggle to find anything gentle or humanistic in Vortex. That’s what’s so mesmerising about it. It is the ringing of the death knell, a memento mori in action, and an alienating if ultimately deeply humbling experience for its audience.- The Independent
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Top Gun: Maverick really isn’t packed with the kind of craven nostalgia that we’re used to these days. It’s smarter, subtler, and wholly more humanistic.- The Independent
- Posted May 12, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
It turns out that the point of the multiverse, and of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, isn’t its creative potential. It’s its cameos. A million universes could exist, and they’d all contain surprise appearances by people and things fans can hoot and holler over, before being purchased as toys on the way out of the cinema.- The Independent
- Posted May 3, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair doesn’t quite go where it’s expected, or hit the most obvious talking points. It offers something all the more intriguing – a last-minute twist that forces us to reexamine what we’d already accepted as either truth or fiction.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Downton Abbey: A New Era is whatever the opposite of a French Exit might look like. Rather than a party guest slipping out quietly, it’s the bumptious visitor making their final, sluggish turn around the room.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 26, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
What really caught me off guard about The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is its sweetness.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 21, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
In Benedetta, master provocateur Paul Verhoeven demolishes the line between the sacred and the profane. The breast becomes holy, a source of nourishment from which religious fervour can stem. The Virgin Mary, in turn, inspires not only boundless grace but sexual desire.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 20, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
True, grief is universal – but To Olivia never embraces the fact that stories draw their power from specificity. It’s what makes them feel real.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 14, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Unfortunately, the further away from Tatum and Bullock you get, the more the film struggles.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 13, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
It’s a big risk to spend that much cash on an auteur-driven historical epic at a time when historical epics have largely fallen by the wayside. But what a beautiful risk it is. I call upon Odin: may The Northman make a billion dollars.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 11, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Even when Leonard’s chatting away with his semi-captors, his words seem rather weightless, as if they were something simply to fill the air while his mind quietly calculates his next move. He’s like a chess master, in a way, and few actors could maintain that magnetic stillness quite like Rylance, who always seems to express so much while doing so little.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
True Things isn’t quite as effective as the director’s 2018 debut, Only You, which tracked the fluctuating desires of a couple (played by Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor) undergoing IVF treatment. But it does reiterate Wootliff’s fluency in the unvarnished, messy spaces of female desire, operating in a way that doesn’t sacrifice the actual sexiness of her work.- The Independent
- Posted Apr 1, 2022
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Adam White
The Bubble’s script is credited to Apatow and Team America co-writer Pam Brady, and there are occasional flashes of barbed, satirical wit here. Generally, though, The Bubble resembles a flutter of loose ideas, to which a vast ensemble of reliably funny actors have been tasked with adding colour.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
At no point here – or during the last film – does it feel like anyone actually figured out how Sonic works as the centre of a live-action movie.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
‘Spider-Man’ spin-off is too flavourless to even be the wild, untethered disaster some were secretly hoping for.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
The Worst Person in the World carries a shimmery feeling of definitiveness to it. It’s the rare piece of art actually invested in why an entire generation can seem so aimless and indecisive.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 24, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Ambulance is a purely aesthetic beast, made for those who like their films to look like they’ve been edited by someone in the middle of a panic attack.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 24, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
To frame it in Fresh’s own language, all we get here is a single bite – not the whole steak.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 17, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Lyne can laugh at these people because he holds little respect for them, and there’s a general sense of revulsion directed here towards the rich and reckless. His camera navigates queasily through the film like he’s capturing a natural disaster in action.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 14, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Rex actively underplays Mikey’s self-interest and cruelty, so that – in a way – the audience becomes an equal target of his manipulation.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 10, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
The tone here aims for a vague combination of time-travelling romps like Back to the Future and Flight of the Navigator plus time-travelling weepies like Forever Young and The Lake House. It wears both those tones unconvincingly, like a serial killer in a skin suit.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 10, 2022
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Adam White
In its earliest stages, Turning Red is bracingly different, and filled with an earnest warmth when it comes to themes of girlhood and the panic-inducing weirdness of the human body. That it becomes a loud and action-driven spectacle seems disappointingly inevitable for a Disney film.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 10, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
The Duke reminds us once more, [Michell] knew how to get the very best out of his actors without forcing unnecessary dramatics.- The Independent
- Posted Mar 3, 2022
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Clarisse Loughrey
Matt Reeves’s take on the Caped Crusader may not be a genre-defining miracle, but it delivers a tapered-down, intimate portrait, while Zoe Kravitz’s Catwoman brings an almost-extinct sensuality to the role.- The Independent
- Posted Feb 28, 2022
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