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Christopher Tookey

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Biography:: Chris Tookey has been film critic for the Daily Mail in London, England, since 1993, and for six years before that TV and film critic for the Sunday Telegraph. He has also written for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Observer, European, Books & Bookmen, Literary Review and (in the US) National Review. He was Chairman of the British Film Critics' Circle for five years between 1994 and 1998, producing and presenting their annual awards ceremony in aid of the NSPCC.He is also author of The Critics' Film Guide (Box Tree, 1994). He is a frequent broadcaster on television and radio, makes after-dinner speeches at the drop of a rubber chicken, and lectures on Film Criticism to final-year American college students for the British American Film Academy.
Publications:: Daily Mail [UK] , Daily Mirror [UK] , Tookey's Film Guide
Critics' Group:: London Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews:: 886

Location:: London, England

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
0/5	14%	Top Cat (Don Gato y su pandilla) ()	" Abysmally scripted, crudely drawn and cheaply made, with astonishing inattention to detail, Top Cat: The Movie is one of the worst-ever spin-offs of a TV series." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 31, 2012
3/5	79%	Prometheus (2012)	" Prometheus isn't a classic, unlike Alien and Blade Runner, but there are enough quality ingredients to make me hope Scott gets the money to make the sequel." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 31, 2012
4/5	46%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" [It] gets closer to the spirit of the Brothers Grimm than any previous Hollywood movie. Disneyfied, it is not." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 31, 2012
5/5	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" The Dictator may be the most conventionally structured of Sacha Baron Cohen's films -- it's essentially a romcom -- but to my mind it's the funniest." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 10, 2012
2/5	70%	The Monk ()	" Vincent Cassel does his utmost to make his character intense and compelling, but negligible character development means he fails to hold our interest." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 3, 2012
2/5	67%	Juan of the Dead (2012)	" It's probably best enjoyed while drunk." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 3, 2012
2/5	42%	Silent House (2012)	" The problem is that the remake hasn't solved the essential defect of the first film." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 3, 2012
2/5	43%	American Reunion (2012)	" The guys are back and attending a high-school reunion, but not much has changed. That is not a good thing." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 3, 2012
2/5	20%	The Lucky One (2012)	" Flicks don't come chickier than this." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 3, 2012
5/5	92%	Beauty and the Beast (2012)	" Disney's most perfectly achieved combination of animation, story-telling and song must surely be this loving tribute to the old fairytale." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted May 3, 2012
1/5	75%	Damsels in Distress (2012)	" Director Whit Stillman shows with this film why he has found it so hard to find funding for the past 13 years." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 26, 2012
4/5	68%	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)	" Blunt and McGregor act beautifully and their tale is charming." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 20, 2012
4/5	94%	Marley (2012)	" It's a meticulously researched, consistently interesting documentary about superstar Bob Marley - and it makes two-and-a-half hours pass by in a flash." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 20, 2012
4/5	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" Whedon has delivered a highly commercial Hollywood product that's funny and builds to a stirring climax. Not only fanboys will love it." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 20, 2012
0/5	34%	Battleship (2012)	" Battleship is trash." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 12, 2012
2/5	58%	Delicacy (2012)	" Audrey Tautou made her name with Amelie, and 11 years on she's still pretty cute. Whether that's enough to sustain a 109-minute movie is another matter." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 12, 2012
5/5	90%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" I haven't enjoyed a film as much since The Artist, and this is easily the most fun I've ever had watching a slasher movie." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 12, 2012
2/5	50%	Mirror Mirror (2012)	" Singh's main fault is identical to the wicked queen's: he can't see the point of anything beyond prettification." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 5, 2012
4/5	88%	Titanic (in 3D) (2012)	" Its emotional impact lies in the fact it makes even the most blas� of us feel what it must have been like to be on the sinking ship. And the film's underlying themes still have potency." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 5, 2012
4/5	90%	Headhunters (2012)	" It's so gripping you won't mind the subtitles." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 5, 2012
1/5	69%	This Must Be The Place ()	" As it dragged on and on, I found myself wondering if a more accurate title might not have been another of Byrne's songs, Road To Nowhere." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Apr 5, 2012
1/5	46%	StreetDance 2 ()	" Directors Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini use too much flashy editing, which detracts from the dancing. The final showdown is particularly disappointing." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 29, 2012
1/5	25%	Wrath of the Titans (2012)	" Lieberson's direction lacks any sense of geography or light and shade. Nor does he endow the film with the slightest sense of reality." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 29, 2012
4/5	85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" It's a science-fiction action-adventure for girls, faithful to its source novel, with a fiery teenage huntress battling to overcome a corrupt, male-dominated system." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 22, 2012
3/5	85%	21 Jump Street (2012)	" 21 Jump Street is another re-hash of a largely forgotten Eighties television series - but it's surprisingly enjoyable." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 15, 2012
2/5	75%	Trishna (2012)	" While texture and local atmosphere are all very well, I wish Winterbottom had speeded up the plot and delved deeper into the characters." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 8, 2012
0/5	21%	The Raven (2012)	" An utterly dreadful attempt at a costume thriller by the flashy, heavy-handed, vacuous director James McTeigue, whose previous crimes against cinema have been V For Vendetta and Ninja Assassin." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 8, 2012
0/5	52%	John Carter (2012)	" Stanton's screenwriting skills are, on this evidence, slightly below those of George Lucas, so there's plenty of clunky exposition and such inadvertent laugh-lines as: 'I would lay down my life for Helium.'" — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 8, 2012
2/5	39%	Bel Ami (2012)	" Georges is nowhere near likeable enough to make us enjoy his successes, and by the end he's no more corrupt than he was at the start." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 8, 2012
1/5	59%	Wanderlust (2012)	" Neither perceptive nor funny, it's just a mass of unbelievable characters in a demeaning search for a feelgood finale." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 1, 2012
2/5	67%	Hunky Dory ()	" Writer Laurence Coriat fails to come up with any fresh ideas for developing characters or storylines, and the film never has enough sense of pace or direction." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Mar 1, 2012
4/5	76%	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)	" It's a treat to see a feelgood movie in which elderly heroes triumph over adversity - and their own pessimistic expectations." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 23, 2012
0/5	14%	Deviation ()	" This can only be recommended to connoisseurs of terrible acting." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 23, 2012
0/5	2%	One for the Money (2012)	" Director Julie Anne Robinson never finds a convincing tone and ruins everything with over-emphatic comedy reaction shots and a music track that keeps telling us how funny everything is (it isn't)." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 23, 2012
2/5	54%	Safe House (2012)	" This isn't so much a movie as a list of cliches." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 23, 2012
1/5	76%	Rampart (2012)	" Harrelson does everything but beg for an Oscar in a film that does little else but delve deeper and deeper into a character that has no depth." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 23, 2012
4/5	96%	The Muppets (2011)	" I hope this movie will bring these talented artistes back to the forefront of the entertainment industry. It deserves to." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 9, 2012
4/5	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" This is an unexpected treat: an intelligent, unsettling view of what could happen if three ordinary teenagers developed super powers." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 2, 2012
3/5	42%	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)	" This turns out to be an excuse for outlandish special effects, including Michael Caine (right) riding bareback on an oversized bee." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 2, 2012
1/5	3%	Jack and Jill (2011)	" Amazingly, Jack And Jill is even lousier than I feared it would be." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 2, 2012
2/5	80%	Young Adult (2011)	" Every successful film-maker has one flop in him, and Young Adult is Jason Reitman's." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 2, 2012
1/5	31%	Man on a Ledge (2012)	" Most audience members will be rolling their eyes in disbelief. That's if they haven't already leapt from their seats and left the cinema." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Feb 2, 2012
3/5	79%	The Grey (2012)	" At its best it's a gripping action movie about the thin line between death and survival, reminiscent of Walter Hill's Southern Comfort." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Jan 26, 2012
2/5	81%	A Monster in Paris ()	" You'd think fun could be had with the idea of fleeing a flea, but gags are few and far between." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Jan 26, 2012
	73%	Like Crazy (2011)	" Worth seeing for a luminous performance by Felicity Jones, who's even more impressive than she was in Chalet Girl." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Jan 26, 2012
2/5	65%	The Woman in Black (2012)	" It's an uninspired compendium of haunted house clich�s, with a twist that barely deserves to be called one. " — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Jan 25, 2012
	12%	W.E. (2012)	" There's no way to overlook the ineptitude of the screenplay by Madonna and long-time collaborator Alex Keshishian." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Jan 19, 2012
3/5	44%	J. Edgar (2011)	" Hoover has been portrayed for so long by the Left as a monster that it's refreshing to see Eastwood illuminate his achievements..." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Jan 19, 2012
3/5	93%	Coriolanus (2011)	" Coriolanus is such a proud, cold-hearted swine that spending more than two hours with him is a long, hard slog." — Daily Mail [UK] Posted Jan 19, 2012

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