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Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:: Flicks.co.nz

Total Reviews:: 34

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" Dreadfully near-catatonic pace that never makes you feel like there's much at stake." — Flicks.co.nz Posted May 2, 2013
4/5	93%	Barbara (2012)	" A low-key, tenuous romance characterised by its sparse, deliberately paced storytelling." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Apr 9, 2013
4/5	——	The Red House ()	" 'The Red House' pulls the viewer into a world where love and landscape collide in a constant state of flux, negotiation, and mystery." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Mar 14, 2013
4/5	95%	The Imposter (2012)	" Few films in the past year have matched the narrative cunning of Bart Layton's captivating true-crime documentary..." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jan 7, 2013
3/5	70%	Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)	" Rashida Jones' first lead feature role is a likeable enough effort to step out from the tube..." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jan 7, 2013
2/5	56%	Hunky Dory (2013)	" It's pleasant, forgettably feelgood and unabashedly hackneyed, doing everything you expect it to - nothing more, nothing less." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Dec 2, 2012
2/5	87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" May be one of the blandest, mushiest non-rom-com films of the year." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Nov 15, 2012
2/5	85%	Electrick Children (2013)	" The film ultimately exposes itself as fluffy fantasy." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Nov 8, 2012
3/5	91%	Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)	" Content to charm our pants off rather than set our imagination on fire." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Oct 18, 2012
4/5	87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" Burton has made a highly affectionate bit of ghoulishness." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Oct 18, 2012
4/5	96%	Searching for Sugar Man (2012)	" A soulful, lip-tremblingly joyous movie that's one of the more affecting experiences I've had in a cinema this year." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Oct 11, 2012
4/5	96%	Argo (2012)	" A film worthy of its incredible hook: engaging, thoughtful, completely gripping." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Oct 11, 2012
3/5	43%	Hotel Transylvania (2012)	" A mildly diverting piece of Tim Burton-esque Gothic comedy, though it clearly suffers from being passed through too many hands." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Sep 24, 2012
4/5	93%	Looper (2012)	" From the room-silencing blunderbuss bang of the first execution, Looper's pleasures are plenty." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Sep 20, 2012
2/5	65%	The Expendables 2 (2012)	" Post-modern eye-winkery that lets its stars cringingly regurgitate classic action-movie quips." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Aug 30, 2012
2/5	56%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" All could be forgiven if the action delivered, but it doesn't." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Aug 15, 2012
3/5	78%	Brave (2012)	" Finds the studio back on steady, if not exactly earth-shattering ground." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jun 21, 2012
3/5	57%	Safe (2012)	" Has a distinctly old-school Steven Seagal-circa-Out for Justice vibe." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jun 21, 2012
2/5	67%	Letters to Father Jacob (Postia pappi Jaakobille) (2010)	" ...unfortunately the film doesn't leave an impression of narrative economy, more of deflating, inconsequential wispiness." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jun 12, 2012
2/5	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" ...combining Coming to America-like fish-out-of-water comedy with the tasteless anarchy of Team America: World Police..." — Flicks.co.nz Posted May 17, 2012
5/5	99%	A Separation (2011)	" ...riveting, enormously resonant and impressively acted..." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Apr 19, 2012
4/5	81%	The Skin I Live In (2011)	" High-art pulp: brazenly kitschy, elegantly creepy, patently ludicrous." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Mar 15, 2012
4/5	76%	We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)	" Imagine The Good Son re-dreamt by Nicolas Roeg, and you might have something close to Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin..." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Mar 1, 2012
2/5	80%	Shame (2011)	" Shame's biggest failure is that it doesn't dig deep enough." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Mar 1, 2012
4/5	96%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)	" An exciting, appropriately epic and emotionally satisfying finish." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jul 14, 2011
4/5	88%	The Big Picture (2012)	" Starts out with the makings of a thriller... but eventually settles into redemptive character drama mode with shades of Michelangelo Antonioni's existential classic The Passenger. " — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jul 14, 2011
3/5	81%	Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)	" ...there are crashing pagodas, hurtling cannonballs, wild chases, and of course, a lot of whiplash-inducing kung fu, effortlessly balancing elegance, ferocity, variety and comic timing like the genre's pros." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jul 4, 2011
3/5	80%	Barney's Version (2011)	" An initially engrossing but progressively rambling and schmaltzy film that's mostly saved by a set of fine, if not exceptional performances. " — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jun 21, 2011
2/5	64%	Biutiful (2010)	" Unwatchable without Javier Bardem's affecting, devastatingly committed performance, Biutiful plunges the viewer into a shapeless, sprawling character study that functions as nothing less than a punishing reminder of how rotten the universe can be." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jun 21, 2011
3/5	70%	Limitless (2011)	" ...even as we're dragged along by its brisk pacing and occasionally smart twists, there's a nagging feeling a better film's in here waiting to be made." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Mar 15, 2011
2/5	32%	I Am Number Four (2011)	" ...soulless factory-line junk..." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Mar 3, 2011
2/5	66%	Love Crime (2011)	" ...so staid, and stuffy, there's barely any room to delight in its potentially devious pleasures or forgive the implausibility of its increasingly strained plotting." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Jan 18, 2011
4/5	96%	The Social Network (2010)	" An invigorating and vital film." — Flicks.co.nz Posted Dec 20, 2010

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