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
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
2
The problem that this has is that...Eli Roth wasn't the right person to be doing it.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
3
The Little Stranger (2018)
It's brave enough to take its time.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
4
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
5
The Predator (2018)
Uncomfortably badly done.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
6
The King of Thieves (2018)
It's not gritty enough... it's not taking any sort of huge risks.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
7
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
8
Upgrade (2018)
It takes just the right number of liberties with what you can actually believe in.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
9
The Nun (2018)
Shot in a color scheme that is so boring, it makes the plot look slightly interesting.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
10
Oddly enough the narrative ended up being empowering.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
11
American Animals (2018)
A very haunting film.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
12
Yardie (2018)
13
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
14
Black Panther (2018)
You could feel like everybody felt like they were making something that they were really proud of.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
15
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
It's a brilliant performance in a film that's an honorable misstep.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
16
Journey's End (2018)
Harrowing and heartbreaking.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
17
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
18
Cargo (2018)
It's actually very powerful.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
19
Deadpool 2 (2018)
I don't think the second film is terrible, I did find it quite dull.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
20
On Chesil Beach (2018)
I really did believe in the central couple and their alienation.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
21
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Alden Ehrenreich is a very snappy bit of casting.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
22
Show Dogs (2018)
It's a really, really lame, limp movie that isn't funny.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
23
The plot really, really, really made no sense what so ever.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
24
The Boy Downstairs (2018)
25
The Happy Prince (2018)
The thing that's most impressive is that it's well directed.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
26
Ocean's 8 (2018)
It's bright and breezy. It's frothily directed. It's entertainingly played by an ensemble cast, all of whom appear to be having a really good time.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
27
Overboard (2018)
Comedy is very binary. People are either laughing or their not... If you're in a room where a comedy is playing and nobody is laughing you can hear the lack of space.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
28
Freak Show (2018)
It's hear is absolutely in the right place... I wish I liked it more. I found the film itself was very clumsily told.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
29
Leave No Trace (2018)
I loved this film.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
30
The Mummy (2017)
The film can't decide what it wants to be other than a Tom Cruise vehicle.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
31
Geostorm (2017)
32
The Snowman (2017)
There are many sequences that left me going, "Wait, what?"
Posted Aug 27, 2018
33
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
The problem is, because it is Sicario, of course you're going to compare it to the first Sicario and it isn't as good as the first Sicario.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
34
Adrift (2018)
There are some moments in the film that won't necessarily work for everyone... I enjoyed it more than I thought.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
35
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
It's a really, really unsatisfactory film, which is a shame because the story is quite an extraordinary one.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
36
Coco (2017)
I don't think there's any question that Coco is really great.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
37
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Very quickly, it becomes completely mechanical.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
38
The First Purge (2018)
It's efficiently done. It's quite grueling. And what I like about it is that central idea... It's solid.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
39
The Commuter (2018)
The whole big thing is, 'Here's the setup, here's the rules.' And then literally 20, 25 minutes in, the film goes, 'I can't be bothered with that.'
Posted Aug 27, 2018
40
First Reformed (2018)
They are weird moments of almost hypnotic transcendence, but at the center of it is that tortured God's lonely man character perfectly embodied by Ethan Hawke.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
41
Winchester (2018)
It's not good. And it's not good in a way that's made worse by the fact that there's so much potential in this story.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
42
Darkest Hour (2017)
I don't want to undermine my admiration for Gary Oldman's performance, but I think the film itself is flawed.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
43
Downsizing (2017)
All those disparate elements fail to gel.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
44
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
It's efficiently done and there moments in it that are arresting... [but] have we now done with this particular cycle of films? Because I think we all have.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
45
Skyscraper (2018)
I really enjoyed it. It's complete nonsense, it's complete derivative.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
46
Hotel Artemis (2018)
I thought it was fairly disposable. It's not something that's going to linger in the mind long after you've watched it. But whilst I was watching it, I thought it was fun.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
47
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
The script is all over the shop. It's very clunkily put together.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
48
A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)