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David Jenkins

David Jenkins

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography:
Time Out film critic.
Publications:
Film4 , Little White Lies , thelondonpaper , Time Out , Time Out New York , Time Out Sydney , Total Film
Total Reviews:
594

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
2/5 93% For Those In Peril () " This glum, grim British drama picks through the remains of a seafaring disaster." — Little White Lies
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/5 91% The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (2013) " Slavoj iek returns to play yet more intellectual hopscotch with classic movies." — Little White Lies
Posted Oct 3, 2013
2/5 52% The To Do List (2013) " The great Audrey Plaza is let down by weak material in this mirthless female-centric gross-out comedy." — Little White Lies
Posted Oct 3, 2013
1/5 80% Folie à Deux - madness made of two () " Misguided and bubble-headed documentary which frames a trifling first world problem as a tragic symptom of the banking crisis." — Little White Lies
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 76% How I Live Now (2013) " The harsh beauty of the English countryside shines through in Kevin Macdonald's harrowing teen survival yarn." — Little White Lies
Posted Oct 3, 2013
5/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " A career-best Cate Blanchett dazzles in Woody Allen's heartbreaking missive." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 26, 2013
5/5 83% Mister John () " You'd do well to seek out this exceptional and haunting British drama which boasts a career-best turn from Aidan Gillen." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/5 80% Prisoners (2013) " A hulking gothic whodunit which sadly falls to pieces in its final act." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 26, 2013
1/5 8% Runner Runner (2013) " An insipid, incoherent thriller which trades solely in slick one liners." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 26, 2013
1/5 50% Mademoiselle C (2013) " It's a film which treats its audience like beggars wallowing in the gutter." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/5 44% The Call (2013) " The story and set-up feel conceptually flawed from the get-go. This was never going to end well." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 19, 2013
86% Young & Beautiful (Jeune Et Jolie) () " Ozon delivers an erotic odyssey with a social conscience, but it's all a little dull and impenetrable." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 14, 2013
62% Les salauds (The Bastards) () " Put simply, Bastards offers confirmation were it needed that Denis remains one of the most exciting and innovative directors working today." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 14, 2013
20% Die Frau des Polizisten (The Police Officer's Wife) () " It's main problem is that Gröning promises surprises which he then fails to deliver." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 14, 2013
95% Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) " It is a lovely movie, albeit one which is so thorough and single-minded in intent, that it doesn't really leave anything much to ponder after the lights have gone up." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 13, 2013
69% The Unknown Known () " "A failure of imagination," is how Rumsfeld chalks up not foreseeing the many and varied political blunders that littered his career. The same, alas, could be said of Morris' movie." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 13, 2013
70% Tom à la ferme (Tom at the Farm) () " His most mature, complex and strangely romantic film to date." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 13, 2013
93% Philomena (2013) " A return to form for Stephen Frears in this amusing and inquisitive road movie." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 13, 2013
76% Joe () " The fluency of the storytelling isn't always up to snuff, and Green is prone to inserting in spurious single-serving scenes which feel like they're there to artificially bolster the character motivations." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 13, 2013
98% Gravity (2013) " Alfonso Cuarón's disaster movie set in space is one of the year's best." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 13, 2013
4/5 100% The Big Risk (Classe tous risques) (1960) " A splendid showcase for the great Lino Ventura." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 12, 2013
81% The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) (2014) " A melodrama so earnest, rousing and robustly built that you'd swear it could have come out of Hollywood in the 1940s. " — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 8, 2013
78% Night Moves () " With Night Moves, American director Kelly Reichardt makes it five for five." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 8, 2013
88% Under the Skin () " It's hard to instantly come down on either side of the fence for this film. It's so defiantly clinical and furtive that, even though it's clearly a work of great substance and mystery, it lacks a basic sense of tenderness." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 8, 2013
58% The Zero Theorem () " He has created a kind of visual, aural and intellectual trove of Gilliamiana." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 8, 2013
89% Locke () " It's something of a miracle that Knight manages to protract the material to feature length, though that's more down to Hardy's powerhouse presence as opposed to repetitious lattice of lens-flared motorway lights..." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 8, 2013
86% Miss Violence () " It's a somewhat blunt and righteously angry admonishment of the Greek state, but its shocking exploration of economic debasement helps retain the momentum right up to it's shocking double denouement." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 7, 2013
91% Stray Dogs () " Every shot in this film instantly etches itself on the memory, but you'll have to find a special place for the last three which are some of the most extraordinary ever committed to film." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 7, 2013
50% Sacro GRA () " t's passible, inconsequential and amusing entertainment, lacking any kind of intellectual conviction and instead offering mild, insight-neural tall tales of quotidian struggles and dippy suburbanites in its place." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 7, 2013
4/5 60% Riddick (2013) " Bow down before Riddick as he is our new god." — Little White Lies
Posted Sep 4, 2013
4/5 100% Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1996) " Alain Delon excels as gentleman psychopath Tom Ripley in René Clément's beautifully restored classic." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2/5 54% Lovelace (2013) " Moralising anti-porn tract rather than ambiguous life story of a true enigma." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2/5 —— El Sheita Elli Fat (Winter of Discontent) () " Admirable, but nothing you couldn't get from scouring a news website for a few hours." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 22, 2013
5/5 89% Mahanagar (The Big City) (The Great City) (1967) " Incredibly rich and satisfying. Would easily stand up to multiple viewings." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 15, 2013
1/5 37% Aftershock (2013) " Very, very ordinary." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 15, 2013
1/5 56% Bachelorette (2012) " Not good." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 15, 2013
1/5 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " We wish this left a sour taste in the mouth, instead it leaves nothing." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/5 79% Foxfire () " A big miss. Cantet can and should do better than this." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/5 83% From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) " Not up there with the Ghibli masterworks of yore, but still a bounty of ideas and emotions." — Little White Lies
Posted Aug 1, 2013
2/5 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " No fun whatsoever." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 31, 2013
2/5 69% The Wolverine (2013) " If the makers had had the courage of their convictions and gone full-Bond on this one, they might have had something. As it is... no, not really." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2/5 58% Viramundo () " Hard to know what the film says. Or what it even wanted to say." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2/5 69% Days Of Grace (Dias De Gracia) (2011) " So we think Mexico is an extremely violent place, but are a bit confused to be frank." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3/5 98% Roman Holiday (1953) " Hepburn represents all western cinema, finally allowed out to play on the cobbled streets of postwar Europe." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3/5 88% Springsteen And I (2013) " As much as this is a film about extreme fandom and joys of getting close and personal with a music legend, Walsh's film also offers a neat examination into the art of stage banter." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 18, 2013
4/5 87% Akira (2001) " While its typically convoluted sci-fi plotting and sprawling ensemble of characters occasionally lead it to border on the incoherent, it's hard not to be in awe of the giant hand-drawn cityscapes that make up the backdrop for the eye-popping action." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 18, 2013
1/5 14% Suspension Of Disbelief () " This noir-referencing drama from Brit digi-alchemist Mike Figgis is a didactic and haughty bore." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3/5 82% Eden (2013) " Props to Griffiths for proving that it only takes a very slight shift in tone and focus to give a gory old bike a set of shiny new wheels." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3/5 100% Les Invisibles () " Passionate people speaking openly about their lives and loves, it's stirring stuff." — Little White Lies
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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