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Amber Wilkinson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: Eye for Film , iofilm.co.uk
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 582
Total QuickRatings:: 1

Location:: Edinburgh

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4.5/5	83%	Shadow Dancer ()	" Distilling a country's worth of tensions down to the dynamics of a single household, Marsh has produced a thriller so taut that it makes last year's masterclass in dread, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, pale in comparison." — Eye for Film Posted Feb 8, 2012
3.5/5	32%	Man on a Ledge (2012)	" Enjoyment of Man On A Ledge largely depends on whether you can suspend your disbelief from 21 storeys without it crashing to the ground. " — Eye for Film Posted Feb 3, 2012
4/5	——	Ambassad�ren (The Ambassador) ()	" Subversive and incendiary." — Eye for Film Posted Jan 21, 2012
3/5	67%	Wish You Were Here ()	" Hovers somewhere between emotional drama and psychological thriller but never quite pulls off either as well as you wish it had." — Eye for Film Posted Jan 20, 2012
4.5/5	71%	The Queen of Versailles ()	" While in some ways the collapsing of the Siegels' wealth may seem like commeuppance for their excessiveness, Greenfield has painted such a human portrait that Jackie, in particular, remains sympathetic, even when she is adding to her own tragedy. " — Eye for Film Posted Jan 20, 2012
3/5	13%	W.E. (2012)	" While the film sacrifices depth in favour of shiny surfaces and is by no means a masterpiece, it is not an out-and-out failure either." — iofilm.co.uk Posted Jan 20, 2012
2.5/5	80%	Haywire (2012)	" Steven Soderbergh is becoming increasingly strong on convolution and weak on connection. " — Eye for Film Posted Jan 18, 2012
4/5	100%	The Colors Of The Mountain (2011)	— Eye for Film Posted Jan 9, 2012
2.5/5	54%	The Iron Lady (2012)	" Anyone over the age of 35 will find the whistle-stop, romanticised tour of Thatcher's career offers scarcely any insight, skating over most of the interesting issues. " — Eye for Film Posted Jan 6, 2012
4/5	83%	Puss in Boots (2011)	" Just a whisker away from being the cat's whiskers. " — Eye for Film Posted Dec 8, 2011
1.5/5	8%	New Year's Eve (2011)	" It's as though Marshall and writer Katherine Fugate gathered together all the subplots from films that never got made or were left on the cutting-room floor - and sticky-taped them together end on end to create this horror of a holiday centipede." — Eye for Film Posted Dec 8, 2011
5/5	93%	Snowtown (2012)	" Layer in the realisation that what you are seeing actually happened and the result takes you beyond disturbing into that place where your skin starts to creep and your brain crawls into the foetal position. " — Eye for Film Posted Nov 22, 2011
4/5	94%	Weekend (2011)	" Deserves to find a place in the hearts of wistful romantics everywhere, no matter what their sexual preference." — Eye for Film Posted Nov 19, 2011
4.5/5	92%	The British Guide To Showing Off ()	" Jes Benstock's documentary is a big glittery hug of a celebration. " — Eye for Film Posted Nov 17, 2011
3.5/5	——	Titeuf, Le Film ()	" Vibrant, vulgar and pretty damn funny." — Eye for Film Posted Nov 15, 2011
2.5/5	73%	Rampart (2012)	" As a character study of a dirty cop in a spiral to oblivion it just about works thanks to Harrelson's commitment, but ultimately the in-your-face style and confusing story stop the emotions from getting truly under your skin." — Eye for Film Posted Nov 14, 2011
3.5/5	100%	A Cat in Paris ()	" Jean-Loup Felicioni and Alain Gagnol draw inspiration from Expressionist painters to give their short but not-too-sweet animation its distinctive fluid style...its light and shade perfectly matching the night-time skyline where much of the action is set. " — Eye for Film Posted Nov 14, 2011
3/5	——	The Fairy (2012)	" Sometimes the visually arresting craft of Gordon and Abel is more to be admired than laughed at, but there is darkly comic joy to be had in some business with a baby, not to mention a dog and a drain, as well as some surprising moments of poignancy." — Eye for Film Posted Nov 10, 2011
4/5	92%	Arthur Christmas (2011)	" This simultaneously cool and cosy tale of families and Christmas spirit will have Aardman's pockets jingling all the way to the bank. And deservedly so." — Eye for Film Posted Nov 9, 2011
5/5	98%	The Conversation (1974)	" Coppola may have made films of a more spectacular nature but here he makes a virtue of a introversion - so that the film's horror moment is all the more vibrantly terrible when set in relief. " — Eye for Film Posted Nov 8, 2011
3/5	29%	Machine Gun Preacher (2011)	" It is commendable that Gerard Butler, director Marc Foster and writer Jason Keller have tried to bring the issue of child soldiers to as wide an audience as possible - but though its heart may be in the right place, it never finds a steady rhythm." — Eye for Film Posted Nov 7, 2011
4/5	84%	The Princess Of Montpensier (2011)	" The twisting narrative is rendered skilfully so that it is easy to follow even as allegiences and alliances shift, and there is plenty of space to revel in the complexity of the characters. " — Eye for Film Posted Nov 3, 2011
3.5/5	76%	The Help (2011)	" If you are willing to accept that this is an exploratory snapshot that seeks to confine itself to the times it is portraying and leave any consideration of modern-day echoes to the conscience of the viewer, this is a good story, well told." — Eye for Film Posted Oct 26, 2011
4/5	80%	Shame (2011)	" Fassbender and Mulligan burn white hot in the central pairing, their emotional maelstrom magnetic even when no dialogue is used. " — Eye for Film Posted Oct 25, 2011
2/5	37%	Monte Carlo (2011)	" Harmless enough to a point... but the idea that girls should aspire to little more than acquiring a boyfriend, a home or a brand-new pair of Blahniks will be desperately depressing for any parents dragged along." — Eye for Film Posted Oct 22, 2011
1/5	17%	Cosi (First Night) (2010)	" Its structure aims for Shakespeare, but is little more than shaky, its dialogue is dire and there is enough ham and wood in the performances to make a perfectly good barbecue. " — Eye for Film Posted Oct 17, 2011
4.5/5	76%	Bombay Beach (2011)	" The surealist edge seems oddly fitting for a place so fundamentally weird as the Salton Sea, but also lends the film an elegiac and dreamy quality." — Eye for Film Posted Oct 13, 2011
3.5/5	——	Bons�i ()	" Cristi�n Jim�nez likes quirkiness and his enthusiasm for it, evidenced in his first film Optical Illusions and again here, goes a good way to convincing you to take the ride." — Eye for Film Posted Oct 7, 2011
4.5/5	94%	Manhunter (1986)	" Cox's Hannibal is a masterclass in moderation. " — Eye for Film Posted Oct 4, 2011
3.5/5	100%	The Swimming Pool (La Piscine) (1969)	" Like the swimming pool focal point of the film, things on the surface may look bright and inviting but deeper down there is something altogether more chilling." — Eye for Film Posted Sep 30, 2011
4.5/5	89%	Miss Bala (2012)	" With Miss Bala Naranjo rebels against genre classification altogether, wrapping his political commentary about malevolence in modern Mexico within a thriller framework that also puts a neatly bleak twist on the underdog-wins-competition cliches. " — Eye for Film Posted Sep 29, 2011
4/5	77%	In A Better World (2011)	" The microcosm of the children's world is exceptionally well drawn." — Eye for Film Posted Sep 26, 2011
2/5	78%	Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)	" The "love" on offer in this romcom that marks yet another notch of disappointment on Steve Carrell's career is neither crazy nor stupid, just cynical and schmaltzy by turns " — Eye for Film Posted Sep 25, 2011
3/5	42%	Intruders (2012)	" Big on atmosphere but light on plot." — Eye for Film Posted Sep 17, 2011
2/5	44%	30 Minutes or Less (2011)	" Like a sort of laughter thong, it covers very little and doesn't save the blushes of anyone involved. " — Eye for Film Posted Sep 16, 2011
4/5	84%	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)	" This isn't the breed of spying popularised by James Bond, full of glamour and girls, this is the brass tacks end of the market, where commitment to country comes with a sheaf of paper and a public school briefcase." — Eye for Film Posted Sep 8, 2011
4.5/5	87%	Romantics Anonymous (2011)	" Frothy, funny and utterly charming." — Eye for Film Posted Sep 1, 2011
4.5/5	89%	The Lion King (2011)	" The 3D genuinely adds a layer of freshness to the experience, right from the opening frames when we fly into the heart of the film with Zazu, and the immersive effect makes you reconsider and appreciate the exquisite hand-drawn animation all the more." — Eye for Film Posted Aug 29, 2011
2.5/5	36%	One Day (2011)	" Disbelief is suspended by a thread so fine it is in danger of snapping almost constantly. " — Eye for Film Posted Aug 26, 2011
3.5/5	——	The Cinema Hold Up ()	" What is particularly interesting about Conchiero's debut, however, is the way she constantly reminds us of the child-like aspects of being a teenager." — Eye for Film Posted Aug 23, 2011
2.5	69%	Blackthorn (2011)	" Like many an Old West prospector's treasure, while Mateo Gil's movie has a good-looking gloss it's substance is more fool's gold that fortune." — Eye for Film Posted Aug 23, 2011
2.5/5	52%	The Devil's Double (2011)	" Lee Tamahori opts to swim in the shallow waters of gaudy exploitation rather than explore some of the deeper issues of the politics of power." — Eye for Film Posted Aug 7, 2011
3/5	73%	Sarah's Key (2011)	" The film suffers because the story of Sarah and her bravery and loss back in 1942 are much more compelling and hard-hitting than the comparatively twee modern 'drama'." — Eye for Film Posted Aug 7, 2011
3/5	48%	Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)	" Jim Carrey's latest is a perfectly pleasant if predictable picture about a part-time pop who learns his priorites after receiving a package of penguins." — Eye for Film Posted Aug 4, 2011
1.5/5	14%	Zookeeper (2011)	" The scriptwriters subsitute volume for humour, labouring under the misapprehension that if the animals yell at one another a lot it'll have us rolling in the aisles." — Eye for Film Posted Jul 30, 2011
4.5/5	96%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)	" If ever there was a critic-proof film, this is most certainly it - but, pleasingly, it's so good that it doesn't have to be. " — Eye for Film Posted Jul 16, 2011
4/5	85%	A Better Life (2011)	" Touching but never mawkish and with a steely point to make. " — Eye for Film Posted Jul 7, 2011
2.5/5	58%	Red State (2011)	" Billed as something of a horror movie, the shifting sands of its tone make it neither fish nor fowl, as Smith flirts with comedy, action and horror without carrying off any of them particularly convincingly." — Eye for Film Posted Jul 5, 2011
3/5	23%	Angels Crest (2011)	" Angels Crest has a number of peripheral problems, mostly to do with the sheer number of under-developed characters and subplots." — Eye for Film Posted Jul 4, 2011

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