CHARLES GANT
Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.
Publications: Heat Magazine, Independent
Total Reviews: 43
LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES
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| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | Jonze’s inspired evocation of childhood may strike a chord with adults; for younger audience members still living it, the appeal is far from certain. — Heat Magazine |
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| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | Zac confidently takes another few steps away from the Wildcats of East High in an amiable showcase for his talents. — Heat Magazine |
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| Nativity! () | Sweet, funny, bags of charm: Outnumbered meets Britain’s Got Talent, with added Christmas. — Heat Magazine |
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| Paranormal Activity (2009) | Peli makes our identification with the 20something couple so complete, we’re utterly caught up in the escalating terror. — Heat Magazine |
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| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | New Moon flirts with various treatment methods – rehab, alternative medication – before giving us the fix we crave. Fans will not be disappointed. — Heat Magazine |
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| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | A Christmas Carol is certainly set to win the nation’s attention. With all this hype, we’d hoped for something a bit more special. — Heat Magazine |
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| An Education (2009) | Much more than a simple cautionary tale, An Education captures the giddy hopes and fears of adolescence, and the dawn of the most transforming decade in recent memory. — Heat Magazine |
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| Jokes only get you so far, and The Goods gets increasingly bogged down in its uninspired plotlines. Ferrell's cameo is a particular lowpoint. — Heat Magazine | |
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| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Anderson's recent films The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited suffered in terms of story. The switch to animation, and the benefit of a plotline borrowed from a master storyteller, have recharged his creative batteries. — Heat Magazine |
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| Couples Retreat (2009) | Universal’s latest is merely adequate, and will likely be best enjoyed by the happily indulgent and mildly inebriated. — Heat Magazine |
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| Julie & Julia (2009) | Hollywood, famously, makes few movies aimed at older females because young men are much easier to satisfy. Julie & Julia is that rare film targeted at your mum, but we think you’ll enjoy it too. — Heat Magazine |
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| District 9 (2009) | Who knew that a movie that begins like an Apartheid spin on Brazilian ghetto drama City Of God, then mutates into The Fly, would wind up pushing some emotional buttons in a way reminiscent of ET? — Heat Magazine |
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| Funny People (2009) | There's loads to enjoy in this defiantly maturing comedy drama from one of the few directors powerful enough to get such a film made. — Heat Magazine |
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| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | Tarantino likes action, but more than anything he likes seeing actors delivering the dialogue he wrote for them. In the case of the surprising, original Inglourious Basterds, we are happy to indulge him. — Heat Magazine |
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| Orphan (2009) | Preposterous in all the right ways, Orphan is this week's true guilty pleasure. — Heat Magazine |
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| The Ugly Truth (2009) | This is a romcom made very much in the ribald spirit of lad-centric comedies such as The Hangover, and it makes a refreshing change. Sappy, it ain't. — Heat Magazine |
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| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | Now that all the summer’s blockbusters have shot their load, there could be room in the market for this solidly entertaining thriller remake. But your life would hardly be impoverished if you skipped it. — Heat Magazine |
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| After the clumsy storytelling and hollow action of some of this summer’s Hollywood blockbusters, Yates’ latest Potter is a shining beacon of quality. — Heat Magazine | |
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| Bruno (2009) | With as many gasps as laughs, and arguably less pleasurable than Borat, Brüno succeeds by sheer dint of Cohen’s unrivalled ability to conceive, and then bravely enact, the most jawdropping stunts imaginable. — Heat Magazine |
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| Public Enemies (2009) | A film more to admire than to love. — Heat Magazine |
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| Looking for Eric (2009) | Call it Looking For Box Office: king of gritty social realism Loach has made a wonderful feel-good hit. — Heat Magazine |
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| The Hangover (2009) | Debauched, depraved and very, very funny. — Heat Magazine |
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| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | They don't often make romances like this, so tell your mum - or granny! — Heat Magazine |
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| " Ledger's performance provides an adequate swansong for loyal fans on pilgrimages to the multiplexes this autumn. But many will exit scratching their heads." — Independent | |
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| Awaydays (2009) | Call us old-fashioned, but we wouldn’t have minded some characters to relate to, root for and care about. — Heat Magazine |
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| Tormented (2009) | Skins plus multiple slayings equals fun times, best enjoyed while mildly inebriated. — Heat Magazine |
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| Fighting (2009) | If you want to see a shirtless hunk knocking the shit out of fierce fighters, who better to do it than gorgeous hottie Channing Tatum. — Heat Magazine |
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| Angels & Demons (2009) | Avoiding the pitfalls of The Da Vinci Code, the eventful follow-up makes plenty of its own mis-steps. We now have renewed respect for the corny, endearingly unpretentious National Treasure movies. — Heat Magazine |
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| Star Trek (2009) | Star Trek is fresh, funny, exciting and – biggest surprise of all – emotionally engaging. — Heat Magazine |
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| Is Anybody There? (2009) | Whether by accident or design, Is Anybody There? shares its youthful lead and ‘80s setting with funny, inventive Son Of Rambow. It hasn’t emerged from its shadow. — Heat Magazine |
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| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | Entertaining enough to keep Fox and Marvel’s planned series of X-Men spinoff movies on track, but not quite the socko start to the summer season we’d anticipated. — Heat Magazine |
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| Observe and Report (2009) | Often more funny peculiar than funny ha-ha, this cult flick will offend and baffle plenty an audience member. — Heat Magazine |
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| State of Play (2009) | Enjoyable even to audiences with fond memories of the TV series, State Of Play could give brainy big-screen drama a good name. — Heat Magazine |
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| Religulous (2008) | Smart, hilarious and thoroughly entertaining. — Heat Magazine |
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| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | DreamWorks Animation tries something new, but we prefer its talking-animal comedies Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda. — Heat Magazine |
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| Knowing (2009) | It probably helps that the trailer flatlined our expectations, but the engaging, unconventional Knowing certainly qualifies as a pleasant surprise. — Heat Magazine |
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| American Teen (2008) | Anyone who doesn’t like it can stay behind after class. — Heat Magazine |
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| Watchmen (2009) | If you’re a fan, you’ll already have booked your tickets, and we doubt Snyder’s reverential approach to the bleak material will disappoint. — Heat Magazine |
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| The International (2009) | The film-makers are predictably making much of the allegedly prophetic nature of their bankers-as-villains storyline. Nice try. At its heart, The International is just another tale of a flawed idealist tangling with faceless corporate evil. — Heat Magazine |
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| Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | Shopaholic is a pleasingly addictive treat. Happily, it’s one that won’t max out your credit card. — Heat Magazine |
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| Hotel for Dogs (2009) | Cute, silly family fare from Nickelodeon. — Heat Magazine |
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| Notorious (2009) | It’s ultimately a generic music biopic. — Heat Magazine |
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| Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) | This time, the words really should be believed: a massive return to form for Woody Allen. No lie. At this rate, we might even forgive him for Cassandra’s Dream. — Heat Magazine |
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