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David 'Mad Dog' Bradley

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:: Rip It Up

Total Reviews:: 29

Location:: AU

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	88%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" English actor Cumberbatch is strikingly malevolent as the villain here, but he's matched by Quinto (who again almost out-Spocks Spock), Zoë Saldana's Uhura, Simon Pegg's near-OTT Scotty and even Pine, whose Kirk is tougher here than in the first flick." — Rip It Up Posted May 8, 2013
3.5/5	73%	Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) (2013)	" Director Paul Andrew Williams has until now concentrated on low-budget pics about drugs, crime and blackly comic bloodthirsty horror, but with this superior character piece he also demonstrates an amiable knack for the old-fashioned tear-jerker too." — Rip It Up Posted May 2, 2013
3.5/5	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" With a few good jokes, another committed performance by Downey and a fine one by Kingsley, this is still great fun, regardless of sequelitis and whether you're a freak-flag fanboy or not." — Rip It Up Posted May 2, 2013
3.5/5	44%	The Paperboy (2012)	" While there's much here about family loyalty and a 'don't mess with the swamp' aspect, Daniels' film has nevertheless been most discussed for its sex stuff, with every character having some sleazy secret or a scene devoted to their raunchy pleasure." — Rip It Up Posted May 2, 2013
2.5/5	35%	Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012)	" ..this costume drama set in the lull between World Wars is drawn from Julia Strachey's 1932 novella (apparently much-loved by Virginia Woolf) and proves to be almost impossibly English." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 29, 2013
3.5/5	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" Whether RR's too old, as many have suggested, for the more thriller-ish elements here, there's no doubt that he's very fine and still seriously charismatic, and that Lem Dobbs' screenplay tackles weighty issues in a compellingly 'grey area' fashion." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 26, 2013
3.5/5	79%	The Other Son (2012)	" Some have accused Levy's pic of naïvete, and yet this isn't trying to make bold, heavy political statements, as the director is more interested in the human side of a perhaps unlikely but intriguing plot set-up. " — Rip It Up Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/5	48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" With guns blazing and spouting one-liners, Gerard Butler revels in being the tough guy and leads a decent cast, with all-American Aaron Eckhart a worthy addition to the hallowed list of movie presidents." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 26, 2013
3.5/5	92%	No (2013)	" ... features a fine performance by Gael García Bernal as young ad exec René Saavedra, who didn't, at first, quite realise what he was in for when he decided to assist in the bringing down of military dictator Augusto Pinochet." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 26, 2013
3.5/5	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" Quietly powerful, this has a fine cast and yet it's very much Damon's movie, as he delivers his finest, most subtly nuanced performance yet and, remarkably, actually allows himself to look, ahem, older." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 14, 2013
2/5	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" ...a yawner plot set-up that leads to lots of wannabe off-colour gags, a small army of pursuing villains and an expected final act in which Jason's icky-sticky niceness might perhaps stop McCarthy from being a shrieking psychopath." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 14, 2013
3.5/5	85%	Sleepwalk With Me (2012)	" Walking a fine line between darkly compassionate comedy, biting reality, striking low-budget fantasy and harsh psychological honesty, this modest but most disarming offering from funnyman Birbiglia is one of those pics that unexpectedly grows on you." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 14, 2013
3/5	80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" Not too horrific, despite a few early attacks and munchings, this is worth it for the music, the genre joking, Palmer's cool performance and Hoult's committed turn as 'R', easily the sweetest zombie in all cinema." — Rip It Up Posted Apr 14, 2013
2/5	70%	The Loneliest Planet (2012)	" This load of tediously existential nonsense from writer/director Julia Loktev has been bizarrely celebrated as a profound artistic and feminist (?) statement, but make no mistake: it's ridiculously wannabe-cerebral codswallop. " — Rip It Up Posted Mar 21, 2013
3/5	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" You've got to love any movie that features an army of rollicking Munchkins getting halfway through a Danny Elfman song before, basically, they're told to shut up." — Rip It Up Posted Mar 17, 2013
3/5	68%	Great Expectations (2013)	" Suitably grimy (if not as filthy as last year's Wuthering Heights), this is notable for its performances." — Rip It Up Posted Mar 7, 2013
2.5/5	0%	Blinder ()	" What's meant to be ploddingly glum drama ostensibly about Aussie Rules footy proves to be a humourless study of forgiveness, redemption and so forth, with plenty of agonising along the way." — Rip It Up Posted Mar 7, 2013
3.5/5	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" As Burns' screenplay takes yet another dark alternate route, our heavily-medicated contemporary society is fearlessly placed under the microscope." — Rip It Up Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5	64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" While there are suitably glorious elements, there's also a frankly bizarre and much-debated aspect added by playwright Tom Stoppard, so that the whole thing is full of 'Brechtian Alienation Devices' and narrative-splintering tricks." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 28, 2013
2.5/5	38%	Save Your Legs ()	" What seriously irks about Ocker cinema is that when movies aren't about 'kitchen sink' agonisers following the depressing plight of Croatian immigrants, they're, instead, painfully contrived, calculatedly 'feel-good' outings like this." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/5	59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" The film, though underdeveloped, is rife with big guns, flippant one-liners, improbable battles, high-octane car chases and way too much testosterone - all the hallmarks of a classic Schwarzenegger film." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 28, 2013
3.5/5	63%	I Give It a Year (2013)	" Given the propensity here for being 'outrageous', it's nice that the central foursome of players are so appealing." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 28, 2013
4/5	93%	Amour (2012)	" This beautifully-handled, deeply devastating work is all about the most human issue of all: we're all headed for the scrap-heap." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 28, 2013
3.5/5	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" Director Richard LaGravenese helms this dark-magic romantic fantasy, and it's surprisingly better than the unfair label with which it's been slapped (yep, you know the one: it just wants to be another damn Twilight)" — Rip It Up Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" Yet for every witty line or cool cameo there's a most Apatowian artificiality, especially considering he's cast his actual family members in these sometimes unflattering roles. This Is what? Some kind of cruel therapy?" — Rip It Up Posted Feb 4, 2013
3.5/5	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Whereas Locker was less about war than what it is to have a death wish, ZDT is less about the suspenseful true-life search for Osama bin Laden than the red tape one woman must wade through to prove that a mean old bastard is living in suburban Pakistan." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 4, 2013
3.5/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" Perhaps the biggest problem is its labelling as a 'Disaster Movie', as this is in fact intended as a study of the power - and the stubbornness - of the human spirit." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 4, 2013
3.5/5	79%	Flight (2012)	" There's no doubt that audiences used to him as Malcolm X or 'Hurricane' Carter will be appalled by the sight of him completely off his face." — Rip It Up Posted Feb 4, 2013

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