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Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications:: Film4 , Ultra Culture

Total Reviews:: 232

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" In appearing to embrace the mainstream, erstwhile enfant terrible Harmony Korine orchestrates one of his most provocative, formally experimental films to date." — Film4 Posted Apr 3, 2013
	87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" An ageing Frank Langella and a disembodied Peter Sarsgaard make for an unexpectedly dynamic double act in this refreshingly unsentimental geriatric drama. Robust and frank." — Film4 Posted Mar 4, 2013
	0%	Run For Your Wife ()	" It's hard to believe that the play could have warranted a 9-year theatrical run in 1983. I guess the past really is a foreign country. One populated exclusively by toddlers." — Ultra Culture Posted Feb 19, 2013
4/5	54%	V/H/S (2012)	" Spectacular hits and forgivable misses make this a surefire candidate for cult status." — Little White Lies Posted Jan 17, 2013
	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" For the most part, an authentically subversion take on fringe sexuality." — Ultra Culture Posted Jan 7, 2013
	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Even as a historical figure considerably better known than any he's played before, there's no trace of impersonation in Lewis's performance." — Ultra Culture Posted Jan 7, 2013
	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" A good example of a movie that contains a single scene of such unfathomable cinematic perfection that to dwell on its various failings seems cruel and unusual." — Ultra Culture Posted Jan 7, 2013
	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" It's the behaviour of the supposedly affable dwarves that makes this particular 'adventure' such a punishing experience." — Ultra Culture Posted Jan 7, 2013
	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" The film's writers understand that satire is infinitely more powerful when it's accessible" — Ultra Culture Posted Dec 26, 2012
4/5	74%	Laurence Anyways (2013)	" Dolan seals the deal. But only just." — Little White Lies Posted Nov 29, 2012
	85%	End of Watch (2012)	" End of Watch's found footage pretensions tend to materialise when it has too few ideas." — Ultra Culture Posted Nov 10, 2012
	87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" Maintains the legitimately dark tone of the original short while expanding the narrative in a pleasingly Scissorhands-esque direction." — Ultra Culture Posted Nov 10, 2012
	——	After Lucia ()	" 93 more riling minutes of cinema you will not find." — Ultra Culture Posted Nov 10, 2012
	96%	Argo (2012)	" Functional." — Ultra Culture Posted Nov 10, 2012
	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Makes the life of a film critic that little bit easier by setting 90% of the drama, action and dialogue literally in the middle of the road." — Ultra Culture Posted Nov 10, 2012
2/5	69%	Liberal Arts (2012)	" You'd do well to take the film's advice: read a book instead." — Little White Lies Posted Oct 4, 2012
	65%	The Campaign (2012)	" Emblematic of a US comedy scene that's turning into something of a fraternity." — Ultra Culture Posted Sep 28, 2012
	69%	Ted (2012)	" Feel free to tell me to lighten up and get a sense of humour, but it's also worth asking whether it's humour that really drives Ted's nasty streak." — Ultra Culture Posted Sep 7, 2012
	78%	Take This Waltz (2012)	" Williams works her adorable little chipmunk cheeks to the bone in a typically weighty role." — Ultra Culture Posted Sep 7, 2012
	79%	Ruby Sparks (2012)	" One of the most thoughtful, brilliant films about filmmaking in ages." — Ultra Culture Posted Sep 7, 2012
	34%	Lola Versus (2012)	" Greta Gerwig makes something of a success out of this mixed bag of rom-com tropes and indie quirks." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 17, 2012
	80%	Magic Mike (2012)	" A mess of Soderberghian devices so dense that it must surely be considered his definitive work." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 11, 2012
	38%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" Dark Shadows makes almost no attempt to reward cinema audiences." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	94%	Woody Allen: A Documentary (2012)	" Appropriately fawning." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	82%	Rust and Bone (2012)	" Strangely unaffecting." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	37%	Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)	" An unapologetically fan-only experience that might have found more success as a series of YouTube clips than a fully-fledged 94-minute movie." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	74%	Laurence Anyways (2013)	" Dolan still does attractive young people walking in slow-motion to electropop better than anyone else." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	79%	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)	" Better than its predecessor but worse than most other things." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	64%	Antiviral (2013)	" Brandon's cunning plan to step out of his father's shadow is basically to plagiarise every movie he's ever made." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	67%	Lawless (2012)	" There's no denying it's a one-note film, but what a lovely note it is." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	93%	Amour (2012)	" A two-hour portrait of human existence at its most fucking-hell-when-will-it-end brutal." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" There's something quite charming about Ascher's refusal to outright dismiss his subjects' hallucinations." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" Its treatment of Big Themes like racism, war and oppression, is shallow to the point of repulsion." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	51%	Post Tenebras Lux (2013)	" Boasts some incredible scenes." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	85%	Sightseers (2013)	" The film's narrative concerns frequently play second fiddle to the utterly convincing relationship at its centre." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	44%	The Paperboy (2012)	" Extreme inconsistencies of tone and structure are mercifully offset by its moments of perverse (and possibly accidental) genius." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	91%	Gimme The Loot (2013)	" Charmingly lackadaisical." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	64%	Cosmopolis (2012)	" Just about important enough to be self-important." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	77%	Killer Joe (2012)	" To pick out any one transgression in Killer Joe is to minimise its overall achievement in crafting one of the least affable movies in recent memory." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 6, 2012
	64%	The Five-Year Engagement (2012)	" Overlong and curiously (wait for it) unengaging." — Ultra Culture Posted Jul 5, 2012
	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" Horror of Giant Lizard < Horror of Adolescence" — Ultra Culture Posted Jun 28, 2012
	41%	Rock of Ages (2012)	" As the tagline says, Rock of Ages is nothin' but a good time. Sometimes, it's even less." — Ultra Culture Posted Jun 11, 2012
	45%	On the Road (2012)	" Salles's film revels in the spirit of adventure espoused by beatniks Sal and Dean but is also awake to their all-consuming selfishness, regularly undercutting the free-spirited chaos with a few much-needed reality checks." — Ultra Culture Posted May 24, 2012
	76%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" Built on dynamic set pieces and jet black humour, it's reminiscent of last year's Drive. It's a shame then, that Dominik saddles the film with a heavy-handed political subtext that would echo much louder if it spoke a little quieter." — Ultra Culture Posted May 22, 2012
	94%	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	" An absolute smash. It's a gloriously overemotional tale of two pre-teen lovers full of lime-soaked scenery and pleasingly stilted 1960s telephone conversations." — Ultra Culture Posted May 16, 2012
	54%	Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012)	" For all its good intentions, there's something deeply unsettling about this bubblegum pop approach to environmentalism." — Ultra Culture Posted Apr 30, 2012
	85%	21 Jump Street (2012)	" Feels like it's doing something new with the teen genre, while still acknowledging its debt to the classics that came before it." — Ultra Culture Posted Apr 29, 2012
	88%	Titanic (2012)	" The most breezy 194 minutes ever to grace the multiplex." — Ultra Culture Posted Apr 29, 2012
	78%	Jeff Who Lives at Home (2012)	" Treads similar ground to Cyrus but with slightly diminished returns, despite solid performances from A-list leads Segel and Helms." — Ultra Culture Posted Apr 29, 2012

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