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Catherine Shoard

Catherine Shoard's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Once swivel-headed Norbot (Reece Shearsmith, terrifying) is powered up, the show is back on the road and the film trips happily down familiar paths. ” – Guardian Oct 28, 2024 Full Review Home (2008) 93% 3/5 EDIT “The acting's superb, the premise intriguing, but it's hard to have sympathy for the heroine's stubbornness.” – Guardian Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Tenet (2020) 70% 2/5 EDIT “The world is more than ready for a fabulous blockbuster... It's a real shame Tenet isn't it.” – Guardian Aug 21, 2020 Full Review The Air I Breathe (2007) 11% EDIT “Pretentious at best, risible for the rest of the time, this is most notable for Andy Garcia's staggeringly hammy cameo as the opera-loving moneylender Fingers.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 1, 2020 Full Review The New World (2005) 63% EDIT “All [Malick's] trademarks are present and correct: the swaying grass, the gurgling rivers, the trees, the birds, the internal monologues. They all fit.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Cache (2005) 89% EDIT “Austrian sadist Michael Haneke's most mainstream film to date is this exquisitely calibrated and jittery thriller.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Rumor Has It ... (2005) 21% EDIT “Rumour had it that this was rubbish, and so it is.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Frozen (2005) EDIT “Not, at first glance, the sexiest pitch, so thumbs up to first-time director Juliet McKoen for making this fairly gripping.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Burlesque (2010) 37% 3/5 EDIT “And it's this tension that rescues Burlesque - a film cursed with being too competent to be a Showgirls-style guilty pleasure, and too ropey to be really recommendable.” – Guardian Mar 28, 2019 Full Review Fun With Dick and Jane (2005) 30% EDIT “A gummy remake of the George Segal/Jane Fonda 1977 comedy, this is evidently conceived as a showcase for Carrey's waning talents, but it suffers from a mouldy premise and the slightly unsavoury underlying message.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 17, 2018 Full Review Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) 88% EDIT “Coogan may be game and there are plenty of nods to assorted sexploits, but this riffing on his caddish public image was done a lot more amusingly and a lot less smugly in a 10-minute skit in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 17, 2018 Full Review Breakfast on Pluto (2005) 58% EDIT “Sadly, Kitten himself is the sort you'd be happy to string across a tennis racket, and the film never quite copes with his lethal insufferability.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 16, 2018 Full Review Jarhead (2005) 60% EDIT “Gyllenhaal can, in fact, act, so the blame must fall elsewhere for his dim performance, all topless tears and soulful voiceovers. The same goes for Peter Sarsgaard, Chris Cooper and Jamie Foxx, three good actors forced into contortions of theatrics.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 16, 2018 Full Review Hidden Figures (2016) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Although it looks like a movie machine-tooled to ride the wave of #OscarsSoWhite backlash, its actual ambitions seem far more modest: to entertain a lot, to educate a bit and to cheerlead pretty much constantly.” – Guardian Dec 12, 2016 Full Review Fences (2016) 92% 4/5 EDIT “This film is conceived as a showcase for its performers, and, as that, it is immaculate.” – Guardian Nov 22, 2016 Full Review Queen of Katwe (2016) 94% 4/5 EDIT “For what is, in essence, a by-numbers Disney sports flick, there's endless freshness and vivacity to Mira Nair's picture - her best in years.” – Guardian Sep 11, 2016 Full Review Risk (2016) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Listening to Assange explain how his missives can be intercepted through overhead power cables, even those allergic can't fail but be impressed.” – Guardian May 19, 2016 Full Review Golden Years (2016) 29% 2/5 EDIT “There are the seeds of something interesting here, but premise and talent are ill-served by crude and cliched characterisation and thudding execution ...” – Guardian Apr 28, 2016 Full Review The Family Fang (2015) 84% 2/5 EDIT “Ultimately Bateman's latest adds little to a debate leant pithier insight by Larkin 44 years ago.” – Guardian Sep 15, 2015 Full Review Suffragette (2015) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Director Sarah Gavron does well to galvanize her story with a degree of urgency: the result of swift, assured camerawork and a brilliantly understated performance by Carey Mulligan.” – Guardian Sep 15, 2015 Full Review Truth (2015) 64% 3/5 EDIT “As high-class cheese goes, Truth slips down fine.” – Guardian Sep 14, 2015 Full Review The Program (2015) 62% 4/5 EDIT “A fluid and nippy telling of a tale that still seems strangely urgent.” – Guardian Sep 14, 2015 Full Review I Saw the Light (2015) 19% 2/5 EDIT “The framing is erratic, logic shonky and for every cliche Abraham confounds (the call not to use any music other than that which Hank performs is admirable), there's three he clings to (barely a letter goes by without being read aloud).” – Guardian Sep 12, 2015 Full Review The Lady in the Van (2015) 89% 3/5 EDIT “No better, no worse - the synopsis serves. If you like the sound of it, you will likely like the film. And, for what it's worth, I did.” – Guardian Sep 12, 2015 Full Review Anomalisa (2015) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Life is lonely and cold, it says, leavened only briefly, if you're lucky. Happiness is transient. Love an anomaly. We're lucky such art as this is not.” – Guardian Sep 7, 2015 Full Review
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