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David Jenkins

David Jenkins's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Time Out film critic.

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Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 54% 2/5 EDIT “This rejection of basic authenticity just makes it extremely hard to care what happens to these characters, and it’s a film that ends up going through the spooky motions, albeit with sound effects turned up to eleven.” – Little White Lies Apr 16, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Where Ozon presents as an ironist in much of his work, skewering genres and retro styles, there’s a refreshing seriousness to this mad endeavour that demands attention, even when some of the choices he makes don’t feel entirely right.” – Little White Lies Apr 13, 2026 Full Review California Schemin' (2025) 96% 2/5 EDIT “Its feelgood arc is all a little predictable and soft-edged.” – Little White Lies Apr 13, 2026 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% 5/5 EDIT “What’s surprising about the film is how hopeful it is, zeroing in on human creativity and resilience during the worst of times rather than wallowing in abject misery.” – Little White Lies Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025) 89% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a slick package, but lacks for a true sense of purpose. ” – Little White Lies Apr 2, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 43% 1/5 EDIT “What’s most disappointing is that the raw talent is all there, and every single person involved here can be proud of having made quality, soulful, intelligent work in the past. ” – Little White Lies Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 83% 2/5 EDIT “The filmmaker draws some arresting audiovisual cues into the patchwork of images, but the film lacks some of the goofy wit of British documentarian Adam Curtis, whose own provocative essays at least offer some element of surprise.” – Little White Lies Mar 28, 2026 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 98% 3/5 EDIT “The film is ambling, gentle and doesn’t strain too hard to force a point, but allows you to appreciate the multifarious nature of life in a city where the spectre of destruction lurks ominously in the clouds.” – Little White Lies Mar 28, 2026 Full Review Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “There’s definitely a rousing prescience to a film like this at such a politically precarious moment, and perhaps we should take this rare happy ending with a pinch of salt.” – Little White Lies Mar 17, 2026 Full Review A Pale View of Hills (2025) 63% 2/5 EDIT “The story is not particularly forthright in articulating its themes and ideas, and while that may work in the slow-burn pages of a novel, it just feels contrived and manipulative up there on the screen.” – Little White Lies Mar 17, 2026 Full Review The Great Arch (2025) 89% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a solid, well-made culture-clash drama that does manage to provide a little more insight and emotion than would come from scanning von Spreckelsen’s Wiki bio.” – Little White Lies Mar 12, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% 5/5 EDIT “Top marks go to the composer Daniel Blumberg, whose richly cacophonous achievement here is head-spinning to say the least. ” – Little White Lies Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “With its vibrant use of colour, expressive character design and flights of expressionist fancy, Little Amélie offers a lyrical vision of early-years development and so much more.” – Little White Lies Feb 13, 2026 Full Review GOAT (2026) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Tyree Dillihay’s feature debut is a charming ode to the lil guy, but its sports movie arc and lazy plotting means that it only just scrapes a victory.” – Little White Lies Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “There’s a satisfying objectivity to the film, and both Linda and Bradley make for authentic and unapologetic products of their professional and personal lives before the crash. ” – Little White Lies Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Sweeney’s film rides on a clever concept, and there’s a level of amusement to be had from trying to find justification for Dennis’ increasingly antisocial actions.” – Little White Lies Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Kangaroo (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Kangaroo works like gangbusters as a refreshingly earnest throwback to the salad says of the animal buddy comedy.” – Little White Lies Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 65% 1/5 EDIT “Statham’s impressive physicality does little to add much juice to a film that expends much of its energy cleaving tightly to tired formula, with a script that is almost wall-to-wall cliché. ” – Little White Lies Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Thing with Feathers (2025) 46% 2/5 EDIT “Empathy and civility are cynically brushed off as performative and self-soothing, as if the film wants you only to believe in the restorative methods that it’s selling. ” – Little White Lies Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Bulk (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “The film doesn’t offer any clear revelations or insights, but it’s a fun piece of homemade cinema that definitely doesn’t outstay its welcome.” – Little White Lies Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% 5/5 EDIT “While there’s definitely an anatomical study of heterosexual relationships here that sings with a modern resonance, the film’s coup de grâce frames art itself as an arcane source of mental wellbeing. ” – Little White Lies Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Christmas, Again (2014) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a tender and warm film about missed connections and ships that, for whatever reason, end up passing in the night.” – Little White Lies Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Dreamers (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Dreamers is slight but effective, and perhaps doesn’t quite come back from a twist that occurs about two thirds of the way in when Isio’s situation suddenly changes.” – Little White Lies Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 89% 3/5 EDIT “The film is talky and stagebound, yet cinematographer Shane F Kelly manages to create pockets of intrigue within the layout of the bar. ” – Little White Lies Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Zodiac Killer Project (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “While there’s a sense that the thesis here lacks originality, there are enough audiovisual flights of fancy to keep the cheeky intellectual jiggery-pokery ticking along nicely.” – Little White Lies Dec 2, 2025 Full Review
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