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Critically Honor

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

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Nightcrawler (2014)

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

Judy (2019)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: OUTSTANDING Rupert Goold’s interpretation on the life of Judy Garland, who came to fame at an extraordinarily young...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood (2019)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ADORABLE Tom Hanks’ Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in this loveable film is thoroughly deserved, as he...

The Colour Purple (1985)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ASTOUNDING Steven Spielberg’s interpretation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel is magnificent, a piece of cinematic...

The Goldfinch (2019)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: DIFFICULT Donna Tartt’s ‘The Goldfinch’ is translated to screen rather inconsistently by director John Crowley....

The Big Sick (2017)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: HILARIOUS Written by real-life couple Kumail and Emily about the beginning of their relationship, ‘The Big Sick’...

End of Watch (2012)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INTENSE Audiences are given an insight into the terror of working in the LAPD, through the friendship between two...

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INDIE Noah Baumbach explores the difficulty of joint custody post-divorce in his dramatic and heavy feature film....

The Godfather (1972)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: MARVELLOUS Francis Ford Coppola’s classic starts of brilliantly, and just keeps getting better and better as the...

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...

The Beat Beneath my Feet (2014)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: CUTE Cute, but not much more. ‘The Beat Beneath my Feet’ tells the story of a stereotypical ‘different’ boy, who...

Girlhood (2014)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SPECTACULAR Céline Sciamma explores ‘girlhood’ and sisterhood in such a raw and lovely way. The plot is full of so...

Rocketman (2019)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ENJOYABLE The story of how Reginal Dwight became Elton John, is heart-warming, with a feel-good soundtrack of...

Zodiac (2007)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ATTENTION-GRABBING Director David Fincher offers a gripping film following the true, well-known unsolved murders...

Force Majeure (2014)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SUBTLE The first half of the film is brilliant, and unfortunately, the second half does not equal it. Beautifully...

Entre Les Murs (2008)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ENLIGHTENING Based on the book by François Bégaudeau, audiences are welcomed into Monsieur Marin’s classroom, in...

Cold in July (2014)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: WRONG An interesting concept, with some terrific acting, but unfortunately, it just does not work. Richard Dane...

Misbehaviour (2020)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: EMPOWERING A true story of a female liberation group who targeted the Miss World Competition of 1970. Kiera...

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