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
Jellyfish (2018)
There is real cinematic promise...and I look forward to seeing more from everyone involved.
Posted Feb 15, 2019
2
Instant Family (2018)
I was surprisingly taken by it.
Posted Feb 15, 2019
3
Piercing (2019)
I was genuinely, in the best sense, jaw-dropped.
Posted Feb 15, 2019
4
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
It's much more knowingly comedic... much more Revenge of the Nerds meets Back to the Future.
Posted Feb 15, 2019
5
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
It's not embarrassed about not being cynical.
Posted Feb 15, 2019
6
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Because of it having quite an arresting visual palette, it was better than I thought it was going to be.
Posted Feb 12, 2019
7
Boy Erased (2018)
I applaud the message of the film.
Posted Feb 12, 2019
8
Not only is it funny and visually arresting... but it manages to do something which is really quite complicated.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
9
All Is True (2018)
I found it very touching.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
10
It was made with palpable care and love.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
11
Escape Room (2019)
Total nonsense. It makes no sense.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
12
Burning (Beoning) (2018)
Burning casts such a strange spell.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
13
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Perfectly cast.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
14
Glass (2019)
I went with it... I thought this was Shyamalan's best film since Signs.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
15
Monsters and Men (2018)
Seems to be quite deliberately attempting not to enflame but inform.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
16
Beautiful Boy (2018)
I would be lying if I didn't say that I found it moving.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
17
Vice (2018)
Despite this ongoing fishing analogy, it never actually manages to land the big fish.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
18
Second Act (2018)
Stretches the bounds of contrivance past credibility.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
19
The Mule (2018)
I was entertained up to a point.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
20
The pileup of brilliance in this is so exciting.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
21
RBG (2018)
A total snooze.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
22
Holmes and Watson (2018)
It is indescribably bad.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
23
The Front Runner (2018)
It's a bit of a shoulder shrug in the end... it lacked a dramatic blow.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
24
The Upside (2019)
What this manages to do is to accentuate all the things that were wrong with the original.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
25
Life Itself (2018)
Every big dramatic moment is sapped of all its energy entirely.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
26
Holmes and Watson (2018)
All it's doing is, more feebly, what Robert Downey Jr. was doing ten years ago.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
27
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
I think the film is too odd to win over its audience.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
28
Bumblebee (2018)
This is the first of the Transformers movies that I've actually enjoyed.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
29
The Favourite (2018)
It feels cruelly contemporary.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
30
Aquaman (2018)
When you start worrying in a superhero universe about the mechanics of how it works, it means that something isn't clicking.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
31
Mortal Engines (2018)
I don't think the spectacle is enough.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
32
It's laugh out loud funny... but also it's touching.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
33
Mug (2018)
A very intriguing film.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
34
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
It's got a real old cinema feel to it... it feels like a movie that was made in a different age.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
35
White Boy Rick (2018)
I could feel the grit under its fingernails... I quite liked it.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
36
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
It was a story that was really well told... very engrossing.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
37
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
It does have teeth. It does have bite.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
38
Disobedience (2018)
Bold, thought-provoking... but it's also sensitive.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
39
Creed II (2018)
You can feel the punches being landed... because you care about the characters.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
40
Nativity Rocks! (2018)
In terms of it being a family movie, as an elderly family member, it doesn't work for me.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
41
Robin Hood (2018)
Nominally based on the story of Robin Hood although actually based as far as I can tell on the films of Guy Ritchie.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
42
Assassination Nation (2018)
Gleeful... I turned to myself and went, "wow."
Posted Nov 27, 2018
43
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
I think it suffers to some extent from some creaky dialogue...but the thing that holds it together is that Claire Foy surprisingly convincing.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
44
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
45
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
46
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
47
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
48
Unnecessarily convoluted and dense... and there is a lot of people explaining the plot.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
49
Wildlife (2018)
Although it is actually quite a talky film, it's not unnecessarily expository.
Posted Nov 12, 2018
50
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
I particularly loved the Tom Waits thing... I enjoyed it, I was never bored.
Posted Nov 12, 2018