Kermode & Mayo's Film Review
Kermode & Mayo's Film Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this
publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following
Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Clarisse Loughrey, Mark Kermode
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Siberia (2018)
There are these elements in it that are quite tough and nasty that it doesn't earn the right to have.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
2
It's not tough enough to be insightful or jet black. It's not stupid enough to be funny. It just ends up being odd.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
3
Hell Fest (2018)
It wasn't anything new, it was old riffs done in a way that was actually quite efficient.... The nastiest is the right level of nasty, the silliness is the right level of silly.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
4
Suspiria (2018)
Whilst the Argento was a movie that leapt and flew, this is a movie that sits there and tells you off.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
5
Unnecessarily convoluted and dense... and there is a lot of people explaining the plot.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
6
Wildlife (2018)
Although it is actually quite a talky film, it's not unnecessarily expository.
Posted Nov 12, 2018
7
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
I particularly loved the Tom Waits thing... I enjoyed it, I was never bored.
Posted Nov 12, 2018
8
Outlaw King (2018)
I found it a bit of a slog... I watched it without ever being in it.
Posted Nov 12, 2018
9
The Grinch (2018)
It is as uninspired as it is undemanding.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
10
Overlord (2018)
11
They talk like they've been written by Christopher Guest... the film is really charming.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
12
Hotel Salvation (2017)
Quietly profound, very moving, very engaging and made me feel like I was in a kind of magical bubble and when cinema works at it best, that's what it does.
Posted Nov 6, 2018
13
I tried to concentrate on the visuals and then they reminded me how much I liked Madagascar more than I thought I liked it the first time I saw it.
Posted Nov 6, 2018
14
Bits of it are kind of like... Harry Potter does the Nutcracker... or what would it be like if we did Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe meets Tchaikovsky.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
15
Juliet, Naked (2018)
It's a great triumph of the film that while you're watching it you don't think, oh that's a ridiculous contrivance...
Posted Nov 5, 2018
16
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
It looks to me like something that lost its way in the edit... overall I think it doesn't hang together.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
17
Peterloo (2019)
By the end of it, it's quite overwhelming... and it needs to have that kind of power.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
18
The awkwardness extends even into the production design... there's a magazine called Horse Fun... this film is just a complete act of world building.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
19
The Hate U Give (2018)
This is a film that speaks so directly and so intelligently to teens and I think that is a thing to treasure.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
20
It lacks the genuinely creepy edge of the original.
Posted Oct 22, 2018
21
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
Whether or not you agree with the politics behind it, I think he argues it in a way that is engaging.
Posted Oct 22, 2018
22
Hunter Killer (2018)
Olympus Has Sunken.
Posted Oct 22, 2018
23
22 July (2018)
It's a tough watch but that is exactly what it should be.
Posted Oct 15, 2018
24
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
I jumped and audibly made a noise... What that proved to me was that the film had worked its spell.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
25
Mandy (2018)
It's a gore movie but its a bit kaleidoscopic.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
26
Smallfoot (2018)
It's weirdly and oddly and bizarrely and unexpectedly subversive.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
27
Venom (2018)
A complete and utter tonal mess... Boring. Then silly. Then funny.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
28
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
Individual set pieces work but as a whole, it doesn't work.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
29
Black '47 (2018)
It was bold and it was well done... accessible and entertaining in that kind of grim way.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
30
Night School (2018)
This would be so much better if it was actually funny.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
31
Redcon-1 (2018)
The sheer scale of it... is fairly impressive.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
32
A Simple Favor (2018)
The two leads are both absolutely sinking their teeth into this... slightly bitter cocktail and doing it with a sense of relish.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
33
The problem that this has is that...Eli Roth wasn't the right person to be doing it.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
34
The Little Stranger (2018)
It's brave enough to take its time.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
35
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Michelle Yoh is terrific not least because... you have [her] character who is very not funny in a way which is kind of impressive in a comedy.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
36
The Predator (2018)
Uncomfortably badly done.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
37
The King of Thieves (2018)
It's not gritty enough... it's not taking any sort of huge risks.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
38
Lucky (2017)
There is a slightly surreal feeling to it... it's a bit Twin Peaksy.... I thought it was really charming.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
39
Upgrade (2018)
It takes just the right number of liberties with what you can actually believe in.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
40
The Nun (2018)
Shot in a color scheme that is so boring, it makes the plot look slightly interesting.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
41
Oddly enough the narrative ended up being empowering.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
42
American Animals (2018)
A very haunting film.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
43
Yardie (2018)
44
Action Point (2018)
You're better off watching the documentary that inspired the film in the first place than watching the film itself.
Posted Sep 6, 2018
45
Black Panther (2018)
You could feel like everybody felt like they were making something that they were really proud of.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
46
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
It's a brilliant performance in a film that's an honorable misstep.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
47
Journey's End (2018)
Harrowing and heartbreaking.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
48
Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
The dialog is very terrible. And the problem, therefore, is that the actors have to wrestle with very terrible dialog.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
49
Cargo (2018)
It's actually very powerful.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
50
Deadpool 2 (2018)
I don't think the second film is terrible, I did find it quite dull.
Posted Aug 27, 2018