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Critically Honor

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

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Cats (2019)

1/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: MISTAKE How could it go so wrong? There are so many things wrong with this film, it is difficult to narrow it down...

That Thing You Do (1996)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: JOVIAL Tom Hanks wrote and directed this fun movie, about a young band trying to make it in the 90s music industry....

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...

Shoplifters (2018)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ORIGINAL The Japanese drama and Palme d’Or winner, ‘Shoplifters,’ follows a dysfunctional ‘family’ who shoplift to...

The Last Dance (2020)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: WOW The Last Dance tells the story of Michael Jordan’s rise to a basketball legend. In ten episodes, this miniseries...

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...

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...

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