Catherine Shoard

Catherine Shoard

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Guardian [UK]
Total Reviews:
143
Total QuickRatings:
1

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/5 100% Le Week-End (2013) " Such psychological candour gives Le Week-End gut punch. All three lead characters are brimful of insight." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 27, 2013
4/5 88% Life Of Crime () " This is an unexpectedly winning take from one of the less splashy directors to have attempted Leonard." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
4/5 96% Sunshine on Leith () " A remorselessly rousing attempt to do for the Scottish pub rock twins what Mamma Mia! did for Abba or Tommy for The Who." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
1/5 —— Third Person () " Third Person is a work of staggering trash; an ensemble drama with the aesthetic of an in-flight magazine, but less classy writing." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 11, 2013
1/5 36% Devil's Knot () " It reduces a complex and extraordinary case to soap. It makes you care less, for all its heavy-breathing and cheapo coaxing." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2/5 64% August: Osage County (2013) " Wells sacrifices flair to fidelity. Letts is one of the most formidable talents around today, but in handling his screenplay with such kid gloves, Wells puts a passenger in the driver's seat." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 10, 2013
4/5 70% Fading Gigolo () " Turturro has given Allen his biggest and best on-screen turn in years: the part was written for him and it's full of scope for aimble kvetching and nimble slapstick." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
4/5 —— The Railway Man () " [An] extremely affecting and accomplished drama ..." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
3/5 67% Labor Day (2013) " Reitman must be aware of the potential for innuendo, and the leap of faith such earnestness asks of its audience. He dares us to care." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
4/5 85% The Invisible Woman (2013) " Fiennes has done the right and proper thing here. He has, at 50, made a mature movie, prudent in the best possible sense." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 35% The Fifth Estate (2013) " This is highly competent catnip for the watercooler crowd." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 6, 2013
4/5 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " For all the longueurs, there are still enough moments of near brilliance to sustain you through the trip." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2/5 62% About Time (2013) " Curtis has managed to achieve the impossible. Specifically: he has gone back to 1993 and remade Groundhog Day with a ginger Hugh Grant." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2013
4/5 65% The Heat (2013) " The Heat is lean, mean and completely uninterested in anything that isn't funny." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2013
4/5 84% Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () " You'd expect an Alan Partridge movie to be funny. You wouldn't expect it to be a coup de cinema. And yet, in its own superficially low-brow, cheapo way, Alpha Papa is exactly that." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 24, 2013
50% Now You See Me (2013) " A fairly unmagical couple of hours at the cinema." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
59% The Bling Ring (2013) " Coppola's dialogue is remorselessly authentic in its inanity, and this blankness runs deep in what finally feels a shallow film about shallow people." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
85% A Field in England () " Almost unbearable." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
72% The Wall (2013) " The sheer quantity of voiceover - or, more likely, subtitles - acts as a barrier to deep psychological immersion." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
—— Tropicália () " For beginners keen for a crash course, this hits every button with precision." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
21% Bula Quo! () " It's not often a brutal murder is soundtracked by a three-chord riff, but this amiable cobblers somehow gets away with it." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
79% Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013) " Smart and modulated, with attention given to the broader cultural background, and a platform offered to the rioters' detractors." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
38% Paris Manhattan (2013) " It's less affectionate homage than deeply freaky case study." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
75% Paradise: Faith (2013) " For believers, it'll be an essential tract. Such is its commitment even the sceptical can't help but be impressed through the retching." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
95% The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)(Every Man for Himself and God Against All) (1974) " A compassionate, traumatic masterpiece, every frame amazing." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
30% Chasing Mavericks (2012) " While the religious undertones are largely drowned out by the endless spumy slo-mo and board porn, there's only one way this current is flowing: towards church." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
71% Out in the Dark (2013) " A tender gay romance conducted across the Gaza Strip that flips into thriller territory halfway through, to unsettling effect." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
35% The Internship (2013) " Getting explicit sponsorship from Google is one thing; acting as an extended ad for Silicon Valley's finest strip joint does seem a bit seedy." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
4/5 79% Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013) " By the end, they are speaking with enormous precision and passion, an intellectual rigour miles superior to the work that landed them in trouble in the first place." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
1/5 7% The Big Wedding (2013) " Weddings can often be occasions of trauma, as well as joy, and so it proves with this ensemble comedy. Well - minus the joy, that is." — Guardian [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
—— Suzanne () " The second feature from 33-year-old Katell Quillévéré, it's the sort of woozily shot, remorselessly emotional, acutely observed socio-realist soap that both confounds and confirms chick-flick prejudice." — Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2013
3/5 57% Borgman () " There's the frustrating sense of ideas bubbling too low beneath the surface, of mordant jokes serving as an end rather than a means." — Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2013
1/5 46% Jimmy P. () " "How much longer do I have to stay here?" he enquires of a nurse at one point. You ask her, Jim, ask for us all." — Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2013
4/5 60% Heli () " Squint, and the title makes more sense. Shut your eyes entirely to its horrors and you'll really miss out." — Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
2/5 38% The ABCs of Death (2013) " It presents 26 disparate (read: in need of an editor) slices of dicing from 26 directors you've almost certainly never heard of (and indeed, the one you have - Ben Wheatley - feels tainted by association)." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/5 71% Crawl (2011) " A squeaky door steals the show." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 21, 2013
3/5 61% Jack Reacher (2012) " It is, in its way, a curious sort of auteurist cinema, in which a lone wolf (Cruise produces as well as stars) has taken an impeccably mainstream product and made it strange around him." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2012
1/5 27% Life Just Is () " Gogglingly boring and appallingly acted: if this is east London's answer to mumblecore, god help us." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/5 70% Les Misérables (2012) " By the end, you feel like a piñata on the dancefloor: empty, in bits, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/5 89% Some Guy Who Kills People (2012) " In the sober light of day, the flaws here seem to glare and screech; under the right conditions, this is cheery genre fun." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 4, 2012
4/5 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Almost every frame is astonishing." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2012
4/5 84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " Much Ado may be a bit of a B+ staple on the Shakespeare circuit, but Whedon - as well as improving student grades the world over - makes it feel second to none." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2012
4/5 80% Everyday () " This is a strange and stirring film, which combines a Malick-ish concern with the emotional import of nature with a rare charm and levity. Everyday is a red letter treat." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2012
4/5 93% Frances Ha (2013) " Noah Baumbach, making his most compassionate movie since 2005's The Squid and the Whale, gives these lives the full French new wave/mid-period Woody Allen treatment, conferring charm and substance on even their most mundane interaction." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2012
3/5 80% Quartet (2013) " Hoffman has delivered a love letter to the elderly thesps of his adoptive country. We can forgive him its falsehoods." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 11, 2012
3/5 37% Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) " Linney is terrific, and Murray, too, but he doesn't shy in showing that, in some respects, Roosevelt was as much the product of an earlier age as his buttoned-up house guests." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 10, 2012
3/5 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " There's a generous pinch of very funny lines, mostly bestowed on Robbins." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2012
2/5 42% Midnight's Children (2013) " Director Deepa Mehta slathers proceedings in a haze of period whimsy - sometimes engaging, sometimes less so." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2012
4/5 83% Seven Psychopaths (2012) " There are scenes of complete brilliance, Walken is better than he's been in years, cute plot loops and grace notes." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 7, 2012
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