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David Jenkins

David Jenkins

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Biography:
Time Out film critic.
Publications:
Film4 , Little White Lies , thelondonpaper , Time Out , Time Out New York , Time Out Sydney , Total Film
Total Reviews:
346

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/5 —— Life Goes On () Time Out
Posted Feb 10, 2012
4/5 97% Casablanca (1943) " Even hardened cynics who might be impelled to dismiss it as a collection of button-pushing clichés will most likely get swept up in the all the unabashed romance." — Little White Lies
Posted Feb 9, 2012
1/5 42% Intruders (2012) " No. Just no." — Little White Lies
Posted Jan 26, 2012
2/5 77% The Grey (2012) " It's hard not to view The Grey as either schlock with delusions of grandeur, or a bleak art-house parable masquerading as popcorn hokum." — Little White Lies
Posted Jan 26, 2012
4/5 100% Patience (After Sebald) (2012) " If you haven't read the book, you'll want to. If you have read the book, you'll want to read it again." — Little White Lies
Posted Jan 26, 2012
4/5 75% House of Pleasures (2011) " Dazzling and deep. You'll want to go back for more." — Little White Lies
Posted Jan 26, 2012
4/5 80% Haywire (2012) " Only Steven Soderbergh could produce a slick, modern, cineliterate deconstruction of the Hollywood action caper that also manages to be a rollicking good ride." — Time Out
Posted Jan 17, 2012
3/5 88% Margin Call (2011) " Fine acting and sense of purpose, if occasionally a little too equivocal." — Little White Lies
Posted Jan 12, 2012
4/5 93% A Useful Life (2011) " Cinema is dead! Long live the cinema!" — Little White Lies
Posted Jan 12, 2012
4/5 67% Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978) Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2012
5/5 100% Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2011
4/5 —— Policeman (Ha-shoter) () Time Out
Posted Dec 14, 2011
4/5 100% Urbanized (2011) " Concerned inhabitants of the global village would do well to track this one down." — Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2011
3/5 —— La Fille Du Puisatier () Time Out
Posted Dec 8, 2011
3/5 —— La Fille Du Puisatier () " [An] inauspicious but cheerfully populist directorial debut." — Time Out New York
Posted Dec 7, 2011
5/5 83% Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) " The production design and costumes are immaculate, while Ruiz's camera glides around soirées, ducks under tables and peers from behind curtains." — Time Out
Posted Dec 6, 2011
3/5 87% Romantics Anonymous (2011) " It'll be too light and frothy for some tastes, but it's bound to leave you with a warm glow." — Time Out
Posted Dec 1, 2011
5/5 88% Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)) (2010) " It harnesses the skewed workings of the subconscious, confirming Svankmajer as a master filmmaker and knocking films like 'Inception' and 'The Matrix' into a cocked hat." — Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2011
4/5 92% Obscene (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5 —— Kenny Rogers: The Journey (2006) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5 68% Irina Palm (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5 —— Princess (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
—— Big Nothing (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
3/5 —— Road To Las Vegas (1940) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4/5 88% White Material (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
2/5 —— The Big Dream (Il grande sogno) (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4/5 93% West Side Story (1961) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
82% Bugsy Malone (1976) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
68% DarkBlueAlmostBlack (Azuloscurocasinegro) (Dark Blue Almost Black) (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
2/5 65% Cherry Tree Lane () Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4/5 82% Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
2/5 54% Welcome to the Rileys (2010) " Stewart lets it all hang out in a firecracker role but her damaged character never achieves the depth the weak material could have done with." — Time Out
Posted Nov 15, 2011
2/5 25% Seeking Justice (2012) " It's not that 'Justice' doesn't achieve its goals - but the goals are so modest that disappointment is inevitable." — Time Out
Posted Nov 15, 2011
3/5 100% Sound It Out (2011) " Sound It Out is the name of the last independent record shop in Teeside, and this dinky, bittersweet film offers a profile of its chipper staff and endearingly oddball clientele." — Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
3/5 71% The Future (2011) " Not a crowd-pleaser by any measure, but a mature, bold and recklessly inquisitive film, however unpleasant it is to consume in the moment." — Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
2/5 29% Machine Gun Preacher (2011) " The need to cram in facts and events makes 'Machine Gun Preacher' feel too much like one large and needlessly glossy montage sequence." — Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
4/5 50% Sket () " A film of real substance that shows a timely interest in how and why gangs materialise." — Time Out
Posted Oct 25, 2011
5/5 89% Miss Bala (2012) " All the more disarming for the fact that it takes place in a society where politics appears redundant and money and power are gained through violent, minutely orchestrated coups." — Time Out
Posted Oct 25, 2011
2/5 89% The Yellow Sea (2011) " A listless succession of brutal, consequence-free stabbings encase a pair of lengthy chase set pieces, both technically adept, both utterly ridiculous." — Time Out
Posted Oct 18, 2011
3/5 91% The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) " The film is testament to the power of archival legwork in documentary-filmmaking." — Time Out
Posted Oct 18, 2011
4/5 50% Sleeping Beauty (2011) " Browning...proves that she's a fearless and distinctive young actress whose rigorously passive performance imbues her character with immense depth and mystery." — Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2011
3/5 81% Tyrannosaur (2011) " It's not a particularly deep or unique statement, but Considine howls it with sincerity and conviction." — Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2011
2/5 4% Abduction (2011) " While the ultra-banal dialogue draws the occasional titter, the action scenes are tame and it's rife with plot holes that you could navigate a burning blimp through." — Time Out
Posted Sep 27, 2011
4/5 82% Mademoiselle Chambon (2010) " A heartbreaking, ambiguous twist on 'Brief Encounter', railway station finale and all. Take hankies." — Time Out
Posted Sep 21, 2011
4/5 96% Tomboy (2011) " Sciamma's careful and detailed portrayal of a confused kid trapped in gender purgatory never lunges for the easy gag at the expense of psychological credibility." — Time Out
Posted Sep 14, 2011
3/5 44% 30 Minutes or Less (2011) " It's funny, clever and pacy to a fault, and the script more than satisfies its quota of decent zings." — Time Out
Posted Sep 14, 2011
4/5 85% Jane Eyre (2011) " This is no plain Jane." — Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2011
5/5 93% Days of Heaven (1978) " Visually and thematically, it's still one of the most beautiful films ever made." — Time Out
Posted Aug 31, 2011
1/5 0% Powder () " Aside from the fact that each cast member employs a different style of acting, this is drably shot (Ibiza looks like Clacton), slackly edited and detached from any recognisable reality." — Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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