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Critically Honor

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

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Seven Psychopaths (2012)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: DISAPPOINTING Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson; a fantastic cast, and therefore it...

The Secret History (1992)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: IMAGINATIVE In the Prologue, narrator Richard admits that he and his bizarre Classics friends at Hampden College...

Se7en (1995)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SHARP A terrifying thriller. Two detectives (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) investigate a serial killer (Kevin...

Booksmart (2019)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: YOUNG Olivia Wilde’s debut directing attempt is impressive, but certainly not for everyone. Best friends Amy...

Wind River (2017)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INTRIGUING Young, Native American Natalie (Kelsey Chow) is found lying in the snow, dead, after being raped. An FBI...

Joker (2019)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: FABULOUS Todd Phillip’s ‘Joker’ offers a fabulous interpretation of the well-known Batman character, telling the...

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...

Marriage Story (2019)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SAD After watching this film, one cannot describe Noah Baumbach as anything less than a genius. From the screenplay...

Blue Ruin (2013)

1/5 ONE WORLD REVIEW: RUBBISH Unexperienced, homeless orphan Dwight Evans (Macon Blair) seeks revenge for the death of his parents. For a...

Colette (2018)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: UNEXCITING The true story of female French author Colette, who was manipulated into publishing her celebrated...

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...

Gladiator (2000)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SAD A kind of film which offers what you expect, an engaging storyline of a young married man with a son seeking...

1917 (2019)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ICONIC Sam Mendes’ direction combined with Roger Deakins’ cinematography creates nothing less than a masterpiece....

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ORIGINAL A group of Jewish men take revenge on the Nazis by scalping their soldiers in an attempt to end the war....

Frankenstein (National Theatre)

4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: BRAVE Each night, Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated between the roles of the Creature and Victor...

In Bruges (2008)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INDIVIDUAL Two assassins, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), are sent to Bruges in Belgium to ‘recover’...

Ad Astra (2019)

2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: TEDIOUS Brad Pitt is the only exciting part of this movie, which must have cost an extraordinary amount to make, due...

The Gentlemen (2019)

5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ECCENTRIC Starting at the end, The Gentleman is extraordinarily engaging, with a star-studded cast, and a narrative...

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