David Gritten

David Gritten

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
Daily Telegraph , Independent
Total Reviews:
163

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/5 98% Mud (2013) " It's a lovely, coherent piece of storytelling, with a unique sense of place. Nichols has carved out a niche as a distinctive film-maker." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 28, 2013
4/5 —— Muscle Shoals () " Overall, it's joyous, uplifting - and as funky as the music at its heart." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 25, 2013
4/5 87% Upstream Color (2013) " My immediate desire when it ended was to stay in my seat and watch it all the way through again." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 25, 2013
3/5 87% Robot & Frank (2012) " Here's a film with a premise that could have played horrendously in the wrong hands." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 7, 2013
2/5 52% Broken (2013) " It feels relentlessly miserable and shocking - as if all the most lurid events in two decades of Brookside had been squeezed into 90 minutes." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5 76% The Bay (2012) " Gruesome but oddly riveting." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 1, 2013
3/5 93% Sleep Tight (2012) " Wildly malevolent, but shrewdly executed and creepily watchable." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 1, 2013
1/5 13% Safe Haven (2013) " Almost nothing happens for long stretches before a plot "twist" so obvious that only the dull-witted could fail to see it coming." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 28, 2013
2/5 14% Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) " It takes a fairy tale and plays it for laughs, without being remotely funny." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/5 45% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " There's just enough here to make the inevitable sequels a not-entirely-unwelcome prospect." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 14, 2013
4/5 95% The Queen of Versailles (2012) " The temptation to be moralistic must have been overpowering, yet Greenfield finally manages to summon sympathy for people who at first seem vain, selfish and greedy." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 6, 2012
3/5 67% Lawless (2012) " You may be laughing out loud at the very moment you're also feeling appalled." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 6, 2012
4/5 64% Anna Karenina (2012) " Even on the rare occasions it falters, you have to applaud the ambition." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 3, 2012
4/5 82% Rust and Bone (2012) " These are two towering performances in a film of genuine power. Rust and Bone may not be for everyone; but it's a complex, assured, demanding work. " — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 17, 2012
4/5 94% Moonrise Kingdom (2012) " A worthy addition to Anderson's canon -- his deadpan wit meshes nicely with a generous view of human imperfections." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 16, 2012
2/5 55% Beloved (2012) " It feels like a vanity project, and it doesn't help that the songs - tremulous, world-weary and melancholy - sound much the same despite the changing times." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 11, 2012
3/5 65% All In Good Time () " None of this quite adds up to great filmmaking, but its populist appeal is undeniable. You'd need a hard heart not to empathise with the young couple's plight." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 11, 2012
3/5 78% The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) " Good intentions alone do not make a great film, and it's certainly not: but it's sweet-natured, good-hearted and decent." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 23, 2012
4/5 63% The Woman in the Fifth (2012) " It's a rare film that leaves you wondering where it's going, how it may end - and afterwards, even questioning what actually happened. It's an intriguing enigma." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 17, 2012
2/5 69% Hadewijch (2010) " Though Dumont sets a painstakingly slow pace, Céline's story feels maddeningly incomplete, and vague both in theological and psychological terms" — Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 16, 2012
4/5 94% Hugo (2011) " Scorsese films the action with immense brio, his cameras swooping and dashing along platforms and tracks, ladders and walkways, snaking round the clock's intricate gears." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 23, 2011
52% The Iron Lady (2012) " One can think of a few talented British actresses who might have acquitted themselves well in the role, but it's hard to imagine them doing it better than Streep." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 15, 2011
2/5 67% Trishna (2012) " As usual with Winterbottom's work, Trishna evokes its locations vividly; as a story with a tragic arc it's less effective." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 23, 2011
4/5 89% The Descendants (2011) " Few films have captured so perfectly our awkward reactions to grieving that may be inappropriate - or merely human." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 20, 2011
3/5 99% Le Havre (2011) " It has immense, minor-key charm, and Kaurismaki's understated deadpan wit is never far from the surface." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 18, 2011
4/5 94% Coriolanus (2011) " This is a strikingly imaginative adaptation." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 17, 2011
5/5 83% Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) " A superb adaptation of John le Carré's brilliant, intricate Cold War spy novel, the film is a triumph." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2011
4/5 85% Contagion (2011) " It's a cut above most Hollywood thrillers, and I'll certainly remember it the next time I use the Tube." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2011
3/5 78% A Dangerous Method (2011) " It's Knightley that one remembers, for a full-on portrayal that is gutsy and potentially divisive in equal parts." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2011
3/5 72% Carnage (2011) " It's well-acted and giddily enjoyable, if slightly less so once the characters start to analyse their descent into barbarism." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 1, 2011
3/5 13% W.E. (2012) " W.E. is rather better than expected; it's bold, confident and not without amusing moments." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 1, 2011
4/5 85% The Ides of March (2011) " A political thriller exploring themes of loyalty, ambition and the gap between public ideals and private fallibility, it engages the brain within the context of a solid entertainment." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2011
0/5 14% Zookeeper (2011) " Kevin James is the hero of this "comedy", which boasts five screenwriters and not a single amusing moment." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 28, 2011
2/5 10% Horrid Henry: The Movie (2013) " Shrill, over-eager and frankly disappointing." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 28, 2011
4/5 94% The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) " Mostly, Arrietty is simply gorgeous, embracing the ravishing colour of garden flowers, wildly sprouting vines, the perfection of a raindrop on a leaf." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 28, 2011
4/5 84% Beginners (2011) " An oddly charming concoction." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 21, 2011
3/5 70% Horrible Bosses (2011) " Overall, a pleasant surprise." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 21, 2011
4/5 100% Cutter's Way (1981) " An underrated classic." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 23, 2011
4/5 92% Incendies (2011) " Incendies is in essence a family drama, astonishingly intense but impressively poised." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 23, 2011
4/5 81% Countdown to Zero (2010) " Countdown to Zero leaves you uneasy enough about the threat from nukes, but also amazed that to date, at least, no blunder has ended in annihilation. " — Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 23, 2011
2/5 48% Angel of Evil (2011) " Angels of Evil is just one damned thing after another." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 26, 2011
84% The Tree of Life (2011) " We were still discussing the film 45 minutes later, when the lobby had to be cleared. This is what Malick does." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 23, 2011
4/5 81% The Skin I Live In (2011) " Almodóvar's story-telling is nowhere near as shrill as it once was: as a mature artist, he has refined his skills to a point where these soap-opera tropes assimilate smoothly into a complex whole." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 19, 2011
3/5 90% Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) " Durkin's film is calm and restrained - but it maintains its atmosphere of escalating dread." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 19, 2011
3/5 61% The Beaver (2011) " The refusal of Foster and screenwriter Kyle Killen to conform to familiar narrative rhythms makes The Beaver curiously intriguing." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 17, 2011
3/5 82% The Way (2011) " A sincere, well-intentioned story about grief and faith, it feels almost daringly old-fashioned." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 12, 2011
2/5 90% Attack the Block (2011) " Attack the Block's attempts to straddle horror and comedy are doomed: it's neither scary nor funny enough." — Daily Telegraph
Posted May 12, 2011
2/5 36% New York, I Love You (2009) " This sequel to the superior Paris Je T'Aime is pleasant but inconsequential." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 3, 2011
5/5 87% Submarine (2011) " Submarine feels like the most refreshing, urgent and original debut the British film industry has seen in years." — Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 27, 2010
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