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Jason Solomons

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:: Daily Mail [UK] , Guardian [UK] , Observer [UK]

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/5	84%	Contagion (2011)	" I was shuffling nervously in my seat, edging away from the sniffling man next to me. Nobody shook hands or embraced after this screening." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 5, 2011
	84%	The Princess Of Montpensier (2011)	" It clips along with splendid locations and well-observed costumes and customs, displaying a sensibility and wit that never feel stuffy." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	84%	The Tree of Life (2011)	" Within its ambition to convey the meaning of life, The Tree of Life is also boring, cliched and banal." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	77%	Trust (2011)	" Schwimmer directs with intelligence and a minimum of hysteria, deftly handling the shifts in atmosphere this creepy story requires." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	14%	Huge ()	" Miller catches the dinge of the pub stand-up circuit nicely and certainly nails the desperation." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	49%	Holy Rollers (2010)	" It's a surprisingly cool little film, not funny at all but rather seriously torn between the secular and the sacred, a conflict Eisenberg expresses with a neurotic intensity." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	47%	Super (2011)	" This disastrously unfunny superhero spoof features a grating performance from Juno star Ellen Page, a vapid leading man in Rainn Wilson and an idiotic mix of humour and violence." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	95%	L'ann�e derni�re � Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961)	" I've always found it romantic and sexy, full of yearning and mystery." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	57%	Film socialisme (2011)	" The cumulative effect of this plotless collage is bizarrely comforting and I totally know what JLG is on about (something to do with ownership, sovereignty and old Europe), not that he'd care if I didn't." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2011
	35%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)	" Are there any ideas here? Other than to make more than $1.5bn, what is the point of a Michael Bay movie?" — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2011
	56%	The Conspirator (2011)	" It unfurls as a stodgy courtroom drama, in which everyone looks like an early photograph." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2011
	34%	Larry Crowne (2011)	" Larry Crowne has the air of a project locked in a drawer since 1993. They should have thrown away the key." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2011
	99%	A Separation (2011)	" A remarkably poised marital thriller from Iran, full of surprise developments and suppressed volatility." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2011
	92%	As If I Am Not There (2010)	" In her unblinking recounting of the story, director Wilson displays admirable restraint in the face of horror." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2011
	90%	Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009)	" [A] surprisingly delightful little film..." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2011
	90%	Bridesmaids (2011)	" Bridesmaids achieves, through the laughs, a kind of poignancy and empathy." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 26, 2011
	58%	The First Grader (2011)	" Wholesome and uplifting in the classic carpe diem manner and Harris is a lot more attractive than Robin Williams." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 26, 2011
	81%	Countdown to Zero (2010)	" Skilfully crafted and smoothly assembled..." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 26, 2011
	40%	Ghosted ()	" Muddled and sentimental, it is an unilluminating experience." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 26, 2011
	92%	Incendies (2011)	" Incendies is muscular, emotional film-making of the highest order, self-confident in its delivery yet always respectful of its characters' plight." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 26, 2011
	19%	Love's Kitchen (2011)	" Worth a detour to avoid." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 26, 2011
	85%	Viva Riva! (2011)	" Brutal and simplistic, the film nevertheless delivers rough excitement with a certain rude style." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 26, 2011
	44%	Bad Teacher (2011)	" Bad Teacher delivers a watchable comic performance from Diaz - including a charity school car wash in denim hot pants - and some real laughs." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	75%	Putty Hill (2011)	" American indie film has been lost in the murk of the mumblecore student scene recently but with Putty Hill, I felt a real thrill that something new is stirring." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	90%	The Messenger (2009)	" The Messenger takes on a warmth and plangency that rewards viewing." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	61%	The Beaver (2011)	" It is the very essence of a misfire, a film so out of step with the times that I'm tempted to say Dick Cheney on a hunting trip couldn't have misfired more." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	83%	Potiche (2011)	" A blend of boulevard farce, 1970s sex comedy and political satire. Deneuve responds to the challenge magnificently and with a glint of mischief." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	27%	Green Lantern (2011)	" The latest movie scraped from the barrel where studio execs store their childhood comic collections." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	60%	The Round Up (La Rafle.) (2010)	" There is no denying the power of the events, the importance of them now being told in movie form, nor the clear-eyed way that Bosch dramatises previously dry historical facts - in order to leave us misty-eyed." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	75%	Stake Land (2011)	" Like the film version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, it has quasi-religious overtones and one very good scene..." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 19, 2011
	14%	Our Family Wedding (2010)	" This inexplicable Hollywood movie contains a shocking collection of racial stereotypes..." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jun 25, 2010
	67%	Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010)	" A tiresome whimsy." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jun 25, 2010
	48%	Nativity! ()	" Another British comedy limps into cinemas having inexplicably wrestled its way out of a television script meeting." — Observer [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009
	15%	Mr. Right (2006)	" It isn't brave enough to show anyone actually being gay and having sex, but gathers its preening cast around a dinner table to bitch at one another." — Observer [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009
	25%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" [It's] pretending to examine the nature of justice, test the parameters of law and probe the relationship between good and evil. But really it's just intent on blowing shit up." — Observer [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009
	61%	Bunny and the Bull (2011)	" There's a bit of Withnail and I about the pairing and their story, but not nearly enough emotional momentum to help it out of the M&S dressing gown of cult nerdery." — Observer [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009
	82%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" It never really convinces on the demonic level. Yet it does partly succeed as a relationship movie." — Observer [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009
	90%	S�raphine (2009)	" S�raphine is a deceptively subtle tale." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009
	48%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" Directed by Nick Cassavetes with a syrupiness that would, I imagine, have made his father John smack the New York sidewalks in fury." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2009
	72%	Sunshine Cleaning (2009)	" This is nearly a decent family comedy - but like the mantra-chuntering character Adams plays, it's just not confident enough of its strong points to really stand out." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2009
	15%	Year One (2009)	" Made with such laziness of invention that everyone involved deserves a whack on the head with a club." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2009
	73%	Rudo y Cursi (2009)	" Not as obviously delightful as Y tu mam� tambi�n, Rudo y Cursi is never less than enjoyable, helped by charismatic playing between two stars constantly calling each other "pendejo" and some gorgeous camera work from Adam Kimmel." — Observer [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2009
	78%	The End of the Line (2009)	" Too long with Ted Danson telling me how bad things are at sea resulted in my buying a nice piece of halibut for dinner that night." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2009
	42%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" This isn't scary, just plain exploitative." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2009
	45%	New Town Killers (2008)	" A series of illogical twists derails a chase movie that ends in the unfortunate metaphor of an empty box." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2009
	48%	Doghouse (2009)	" A dim zombie comedy." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2009
	50%	Soi Cowboy ()	" This wilful obscurantism comes across merely as a pose, an undergraduate homage to both Antonioni and Apichatpong Weerasethakul." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2009
	89%	Red Cliff (Chi Bi) (2009)	" With some of the best battle scenes since Peter Jackson's The Two Towers, a smattering of 1980s love scenes and all the far eastern promise of a Twinings advert, you can't really beat Red Cliff as the classiest and most fabulous blockbuster of the summer." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2009
	78%	The Hangover (2009)	" The director, harnessing the talents of a relatively unknown cast, creates a genuine minor classic of the genre." — Observer [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2009

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