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Critically Honor

Short reviews of films, books, plays, theatre, and TV shows, from a young critic.

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Emma (2020)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SAME Another Jane Austen translated to cinema, but this time it’s exactly like every other film or TV series about...

Inception (2010)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: WEIRD Christopher Nolan’s direction is nearly always iconic, but his 2010 movie just doesn’t hit quite the same as...

Staged (2020)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ADMIRABLE A TV show created and filmed in lockdown was never going to be fantastic, but that doesn’t mean that the...

A Rainy Day in New York (2019)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: EXPECTED Another classic Woody Allen movie. Although the script is hilarious, at points, the humour feels somewhat...

Legend (2015)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: AVERAGE Brian Helgeland directed and wrote the screenplay for this biographical thriller about the infamous Kray...

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: COOL The story of Queen, and their journey to fame and success, mainly focussing on the life of Freddie Mercury. It...

Nightcrawler (2014)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ANNOYING A frustrating film, firstly due to the misleading trailer, and secondly due to the slightly unbelievable...

Polisse (2011)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: TOUCHING A young photographer is hired to give insight into the lives of police officers who deal with paedophiles...

Storm Boy (2019)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: BIZARRE Set in Australia over two time periods, as Mike Kingley (Geoffrey Rush) explains to his granddaughter...

The Social Network (2010)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: REVEALING The Social Network tells the story of how Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) created ‘Facebook,’ and the...

Chef (2014)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: FUN Jon Favreau stars in and directs this feel-good family film, playing a brilliant but unsuccessful chef who...

This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: HAPPY An hour and a forty minutes of joy. Fabulous actors, including Jessica Brown Findlay, Jeremy Irvine, Andrew...

Bombshell (2019)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SATISFACTORY A story that needed to be heard just isn’t told that well. Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman...

Intouchables (2009)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ADORABLE An unexpected friendship forms between tetraplegic Philippe (François Cluzet) and his carer Driss (Omar...

Nowhere Boy (2009)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SWEET The story of John Lennon and how he met Paul and George. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, with her husband...

Extraction (2020)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: BRUTAL Directed by stuntman Sam Hargrave, it is no surprise that the fight scenes and moments of violence in the...

Low Level Panic (1990)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INTERESTING Three housemates are talking, with almost every scene set in their shared bathroom. A simple concept,...

Love Actually (2003)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: CHRISTMASSY A lovely film evoking much happiness to audiences. Telling the story of love through about sixteen main...

Made in Dagenham (2010)

3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: COMPELLING The true story of women who made the seats for Ford, and on being named unskilled labourers, fight the...

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