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Critics / David Jenkins
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    DAVID JENKINS

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

    Biography: Time Out film critic.

    Publications: Channel 4 Film, Little White Lies, thelondonpaper, Time Out, Time Out New York, Time Out Sydney, Total Film

    Total Reviews: 195

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    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    48%

    Nativity! ()

    " CBeebies if Ronnie Corbett was artistic director; filmmaking by committee, if that committee were made up of the esteemed members of Coventry City Council and chaired by Lenny Henry." — Time Out

    Posted Nov 27, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    77%

    The Informant! (2009)

    " It may come across like a self-satisfied madcap bauble, but that titular exclamation mark is the key that unlocks the myriad subtextual delights of Soderbergh’s timely latest." — Time Out

    Posted Nov 20, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    97%

    Tulpan (2008)

    " Dvortsevoy exhibits the storytelling composure and technical proficiency of a veteran, while his keen eye for a pastoral poetic flourish places ‘Tulpan’ firmly among the year’s most endearing cinematic experiences." — Time Out

    Posted Nov 13, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    43%

    Lala Pipo - A Lot of People ()

    " Insipid and puerile to the frame." — Time Out

    Posted Nov 13, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    100%

    Tales from the Golden Age (2009)

    " It’s a frustrating case of individual triumph cancelling out collective cohesion in this sporadically enjoyable, if tonally mismatched, anthology of five short films." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 30, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    91%

    Love Exposure ()

    " A swooning, often riotously funny melodrama charged with a refreshingly perverse undertow." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 30, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    80%

    Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

    " Utterly engaging from beginning to end." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 28, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    87%

    Johnny Mad Dog (2008)

    " The film sees war as a deadener of moral and physical inhibition, a paradoxical state where there are no winners or losers, just the living and the dead. Stunning." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    26%

    The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

    " A throng of outrageous supporting characters do little to salvage this stalled effort." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    47%

    Ong Bak 2 (2009)

    " Over-directed and under-written trash." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 16, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    94%

    Katalin Varga (2009)

    " A film of remarkable assurance and intensity." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    89%

    Zombieland (2009)

    " Director Ruben Fleischer has his eyes trained on the comic jugular, and he attains an astronomical laugh count from Rhett Reese and Paul Wernickat’s fizzing, pop-savvy script." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    100%

    Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2009)

    " It remains an emotive, sensuous and visually arresting work despite the unnecessary tinkering." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 4, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    58%

    Vinyan (2008)

    " A menacing pseudo-horror thriller with arty aspirations." — Time Out

    Posted Oct 4, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    28%

    Fame (2009)

    " This film makes even the most gaudy of Saturday night TV talent contests look like Dostoyevsky in comparison." — Time Out

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    59%

    Creation (2009)

    " Don’t expect anything too radical from this infuriatingly soft yet still pleasantly subdued and poignant screen adaptation of Randal Keynes’s book ‘Annie’s Box’" — Time Out

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    40%

    Born in 68 ()

    " A politically naïve and protracted slice of dewy-eyed nostalgia." — Time Out

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    36%

    Je Veux Voir (2009)

    " There’s no denying that this is a single-note film, but it’s a note of considerable emotional clout." — Time Out

    Posted Sep 18, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    38%

    Passchendaele (2008)

    " As a director, Gross paints in big, emotive strokes, and though his dialogue often feels too tied to historical fact, this old-fashioned, patriotic war movie has its heart in the right place." — Time Out

    Posted Sep 4, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    92%

    Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 (2009)

    " Unlike its more lively predecessor, this is more interested in dissecting the criminal mindset." — Time Out

    Posted Aug 29, 2009

    Fresh
    4/6

    Fresh
    76%

    Afterschool (2009)

    " The film has a lot to say about the effect of technology on teenage interaction, how schools repress individuality and how sexual awakening causes, rather than relieves, teenage angst." — Time Out

    Posted Aug 21, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    100%

    The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

    " A luminous musical about dreams, romance and destiny which lovingly reworks the classic Hollywood ‘putting on a show’ template into an essay on the emotional rollercoaster ride that is movie-going." — Time Out

    Posted Aug 14, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    79%

    Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2009)

    " Cassel injects a jolt of wild energy and ambiguity into what could easily have been another flatulent, apologist gangster epic." — Time Out

    Posted Aug 7, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    86%

    Rumba (2008)

    " This charming, affectionately crafted and gleefully unfashionable comic miniature from writing/directing troupe Abel, Gordon and Romy slips down a treat." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 31, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    16%

    Crossing Over (2009)

    " Any one of these stories, if properly fleshed out and shorn of contrivance, would have made for a perfectly serviceable film. Instead, we have lots of hysterical little bits of nothing much." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 31, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    98%

    Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)

    " ‘Once Upon a Time…’ now looks like an over-cooked mess of style, metaphor and reference." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 24, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    43%

    The Proposal (2009)

    " They may as well have called this one ‘Mis-Matched Sham Wedding Comedy #57513’ for all the effort it makes to shake new life out of a tattered genre." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 24, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    88%

    Frozen River (2008)

    " Occasionally marred by contrivance and a crude internal logic that doesn’t bear close scrutiny, ‘Frozen River’ works best as a knuckle-gnawing, blue-collar genre thriller." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 17, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    71%

    Ichi ()

    " With its hokey, flashback-heavy plotting, unadventurous camera use and a clutch of cloyingly earnest performances, it comes across like an irony-free, mid-season episode of ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 10, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    91%

    Cloud 9 (2009)

    " Poignant, lightly philosophical and beautifully performed." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 10, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    72%

    Sunshine Cleaning (2009)

    " Jeffs makes a good fist of the direction and Blunt proves that she can do comedy, but it’s Adams’s comforting, charismatic central turn which really gives the film its lift." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 3, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    53%

    Embodiment of Evil (2008)

    " It may tickle a type of hardened horror connoisseur, but most will want a shower after seeing it." — Time Out

    Posted Jul 3, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    64%

    The Disappeared (2008)

    " Johnny Kervorkian sets up the film nicely, but by the end, your worst fears are realised when it climaxes in the most anodyne way possible." — Time Out

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    11%

    Beyond the Fire (2009)

    " As well-intentioned as it is deathly dull, this moody, London-set indie attempts to fuse a sprawling, right-on social agenda with a tenderly wrought mismatched romance and doesn’t manage to say anything interesting about either." — Time Out

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    50%

    Soi Cowboy (2009)

    " Here is an artist who has gone back to the drawing board and pared down his act to deliver a stark and complex humanist message with technical brio and a broad knowledge of cinema, demonstrating real poise and originality." — Time Out

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    100%

    This Sporting Life (1963)

    " The film is raw and confident, but it’s a little shallow, too." — Time Out

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    93%

    Sugar (2009)

    " In ‘Sugar’, the pair skilfully dismantle the timeworn themes, characters and story patterns of the conventional sports movie and then reassemble them as a rich, socially astute realist drama." — Time Out

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    86%

    Max Manus (2008)

    " Though not without its moments, this latest tale of wartime derring-do rarely dares to enter uncharted territory." — Time Out

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    100%

    The Hide (2009)

    " It’s all given a much-needed shot of credibility by the strength of the writing and the subtlety of the directing. Losey is a talent to watch, and ‘The Hide’ makes for one hell of a Hollywood calling card." — Time Out

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh
    5/6

    Fresh
    79%

    Sleep Furiously (2008)

    " This is as fully formed and unique a debut movie as you could ever hope to see." — Time Out

    Posted May 29, 2009

    Rotten
    2/6

    Fresh
    68%

    Fermat's Room (2008)

    " The maths element of the film, which on the surface is its USP, feels like dressing on a taut but tawdry genre thriller." — Time Out

    Posted May 29, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    82%

    Pierrot Le Fou (1965)

    " A wild-eyed, everything-in-the-pot cross-processing of artistic, cinematic, political and personal concerns, where the story stutters, splinters and infuriates its way to an explosive finale." — Time Out

    Posted May 22, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    89%

    Everlasting Moments (2009)

    " Troell’s film meshes scenes of high drama and silent contemplation while the milky, sepia-toned Super16 photography lends the images an exquisite, tactile quality." — Time Out

    Posted May 22, 2009

    Fresh
    5/6

    Fresh
    90%

    Momma's Man (2008)

    " Awkward pauses and gestures and moments of self-examination give it a rich texture. It’s a lovely work, sad and funny. A melancomedy, if you will." — Time Out

    Posted May 8, 2009

    Rotten
    2/6

    Rotten
    57%

    Delta (2008)

    " Mundruczó generates a moderate amount of intrigue from the build-up but stubbornly resists handling his themes in any direct and digestible fashion." — Time Out

    Posted May 8, 2009

    Fresh
    3/6

    Rotten
    44%

    Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)

    " While Cyrus’s droll performance (Miley’s not Billy Ray’s) deserves better material, this is still amply entertaining." — Time Out

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Rotten
    1/6

    Rotten
    0%

    City Rats (2009)

    " It’s a terrible film, so blithely wrong-headed in its execution that some scenes are quite entertaining in an ‘is this really happening?’ kind of way." — Time Out

    Posted Apr 25, 2009

    Fresh
    3/6

    Fresh
    90%

    The Grocer's Son (2008)

    " It’s a small, well-rounded movie that you’d be hard pressed to find fault with, achieving its modest goals with subtle aplomb while whipping up humour and empathy from Antoine’s rapport with his doddery clientele." — Time Out

    Posted Apr 24, 2009

    Fresh
    4/6

    Fresh
    86%

    Before I Forget (2008)

    " Writer-director-actor Jacques Nolot (below) delivers a bold, searching and open-hearted turn as the subject of this confessional study of life as an elderly gay gent in the French capital." — Time Out

    Posted Apr 17, 2009

    Fresh
    4/6

    Fresh
    98%

    Let the Right One In (2008)

    " This bruised and brilliant fairy tale is one of the year’s true originals." — Time Out

    Posted Apr 9, 2009
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