Dan Jolin

Dan Jolin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography:
Empire Magazine film critic
Publications:
Empire Magazine
Total Reviews:
116

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/5 100% Le Week-End (2013) " Writer / director team Kureishi and Michell add to their partnership with an insightful look at a life-long commitment." — Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2013
2/5 25% Machete Kills (2013) " Violent, silly, embarrassing, clumsy, confusing, juvenile, occasionally offensive, occasionally a little bit fun." — Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3/5 80% Prisoners (2013) " A decent, cogent, greyly atmospheric thriller with something to say about War-On-Terror America." — Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2013
4/5 84% Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () " Ruddy hilarious. Just what big-screen comedy needed." — Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 5, 2013
3/5 94% The Deep (Djúpið) (2013) " Kormákur has made a suitably dramatic recreation of a remarkable episode." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2013
3/5 100% The Deep () " Back on home turf, Contraband director Kormákur has made a suitably dramatic recreation of a remarkable episode. " — Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2013
5/5 95% Stories We Tell (2013) " Polley's fearless personal journey is a huge achievement, a genuine revelation - but the less detail you know beforehand, the better. Go in cold, come out warmed." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2013
3/5 41% Spike Island () " Following Made Of Stone, this is another slice of nostalgia for baggies of a certain age." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2013
4/5 56% Man of Steel (2013) " It feels the right Superman origin story for our era, and teases what would be a welcome new superfranchise." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 11, 2013
4/5 95% Behind the Candelabra (2013) " Who'd have thought Michael Douglas and Matt Damon would make such an astonishing, convincing on-screen couple? Steven Soderbergh, that's who..." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2013
5/5 92% My Neighbor Totoro (1988) " An otherworldly tale of childhood and a definitive work of imagination." — Empire Magazine
Posted May 20, 2013
4/5 98% Mud (2013) " A bold, intelligent, 21st century take on Mark Twain - with added occult tendencies." — Empire Magazine
Posted May 5, 2013
3/5 56% The Look of Love (2013) " A solid, straightforward biopic about a fascinating individual and his destructive relationships, with strong performances and a healthy sense of naffness." — Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 22, 2013
4/5 50% Welcome to the Punch (2013) " A confident, ambitious and action-rich Brit thriller, albeit one whose characters and clarity suffer from the frantic intensity of its pacing." — Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 10, 2013
2/5 15% Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) " A lurching misstep from the Dead Snow director." — Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 25, 2013
4/5 88% Django Unchained (2012) " Another strong, sparky and bloody entry in the QT canon." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 14, 2013
4/5 65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " The Hobbit plays younger and lighter than Fellowship and its follow-ups, but does right by the faithful and has a strength in Martin Freeman's Bilbo that may yet see this trilogy measure up to the last one. There is treasure here." — Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
4/5 85% The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) " An honest, affection-hooking, coming-of-age drama which proves that there is life beyond Hogwarts for Emma Watson." — Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2012
3/5 88% Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012) " A great concert movie framed around a substantially less enthralling interview." — Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2012
4/5 81% Shadow Dancer (2013) " As beige as an old PC, but beneath the surface the blood pumps bright scarlet. An intelligent and emotionally charged spy drama." — Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2012
2/5 35% Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) " The grave tone makes it stiff and leaden, the digi-saturated look is a turn-off. Damnable and disordered." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012
3/5 47% Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) " A strong visual style tussles with flaccid storytelling in this ambitious retelling of Grimm." — Empire Magazine
Posted May 28, 2012
3/5 80% Get the Gringo (2012) " The closest Mel Gibson's come to playing Martin Riggs since the last Lethal Weapon." — Empire Magazine
Posted May 6, 2012
3/5 92% The Cabin in the Woods (2012) " For horror hounds who love a larf, and those of us who always wondered exactly what that dry-ice stuff that rises out of the forest-floor moss is." — Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 8, 2012
3/5 51% John Carter (2012) " Just about every sci-fi/fantasy/superhero adventure you ever loved is in here somewhere." — Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 4, 2012
3/5 74% Rampart (2012) " A familiar story oddly presented, but with a powerful central performance from Woody Harrelson." — Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2012
4/5 89% The Descendants (2011) " A marvellous follow-up to 2004's Sideways - well worth the wait." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2012
3/5 51% The Iron Lady (2012) " One of Streep's finest-ever performances." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 2, 2012
4/5 84% Contagion (2011) " A starkly effective ensemble drama which could well do for the sniffles what Jaws did for great whites." — Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2011
3/5 24% The Three Musketeers (2011) " Stupid, with three o's. But also fun, never boring, and never insulting (to anyone other than Dumas) - unlike certain of the summer's A-pics..." — Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2011
5/5 83% Warrior (2011) " It hardly rewrites the rulebook, but Warrior is a powerful, moving and brilliant sports-pic-cum-family drama. Like The Fighter, but with kicking." — Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2011
4/5 44% Cowboys & Aliens (2011) " A simple entertainment in a summer of overcomplicated disappointments. Also much harder-edged than you may have expected." — Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2011
4/5 98% Project Nim (2011) " Gripping, heart-wrenching, powerful and a sad indictment of scientific practice, which shows that 'human' and 'humane' are all-too-often mutually exclusive." — Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2011
4/5 94% The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) " A beautifully crafted, intimate adventure movie and - presented in hand-drawn 2D - one of the most visually arresting you'll enjoy all year." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2011
4/5 92% Senna (2011) " A worthy paean to a true talent." — Empire Magazine
Posted May 30, 2011
3/5 87% X-Men: First Class (2011) " All you'd expect from an X-Men film (or spin-off, or prequel), but not all you'd hope for. It smacks of rush and compromise, but there's thankfully enough to make you feel optimistic about the series' future once more. " — Empire Magazine
Posted May 25, 2011
3/5 23% Sucker Punch (2011) " Ambitious and visually impressive as a pop-video mash-up, but, lacking a strong emotional core, it doesn't quite cohere as a fully satisfying movie." — Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 28, 2011
4/5 87% Submarine (2011) " A perfect blend of cool, quirky comedy and warm-hearted drama, crafted with such poise that it should see the transcendence of Ayoade from TV nerd-comic to true big-screen talent." — Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2011
3/5 46% You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) " Still no signs of the master re-living past glories, but more than worthwhile for Allen diehards." — Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2011
4/5 71% Never Let Me Go (2010) " A beautifully realised adaptation of a profoundly affecting novel." — Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2011
3/5 55% Mr. Nice (2011) " A solid, often entertaining life-of-crimer which benefits from some stylistic touches and a faithful, convincing central performance." — Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2011
4/5 87% Black Swan (2010) " An extraordinary, intoxicating movie. Its hard, twisted edges may turn off some, but there's no faulting either Aronofsky's technical mastery or Portman's flawless performance." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2011
5/5 72% Monsters (2010) " An amazing achievement for a 'first-time' filmmaker, which measures up to the finest indies for performance and character-work, and the biggest blockbusters for jaw-dropping effects." — Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2010
4/5 89% Let Me In (2010) " Not as deep as the original, but certainly more of a crowdpleaser -- and it's hard to imagine a more intelligent and well-crafted American horror being released this year." — Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2010
3/5 50% Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) " This is unlikely to win Kathryn Lansky's antipodean owl fantasy any new fans, but even the bemused (and confused) can luxuriate in some grand-scale visual storytelling." — Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 20, 2010
3/5 55% Mr. Nice (2011) " A solid, often entertaining life-of-crimer which benefits from some stylistic touches and a faithful, convincing central performance." — Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2010
3/5 89% World's Greatest Dad (2009) " Odd, confident, challenging, and featuring a brilliant turn by Williams. If only there was just a little more to it." — Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2010
2/5 67% Black Death (2011) " An encouraging set-up soon descends into a grubby muddle, leaving you wishing you were just rewatching The Name Of The Rose instead." — Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 9, 2010
4/5 82% American: The Bill Hicks Story (2011) " Tells the story of comedian Bill Hicks' tragically short life through the eyes of those who lived it with him." — Empire Magazine
Posted May 13, 2010
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