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Ed Whitfield

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Publications:: Starburst , The Ooh Tray , What Culture

Total Reviews:: 218

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
71%	The Look of Love ()	" The unedifying spectacle is cut with sadness." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 29, 2013
78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Marvel's employed a core vote strategy with this movie: it's about keeping the audience they have rather than building on the one they've got." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 26, 2013
48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" There's a single line of dialogue that interrogates America's sanctions against some of the poorest people in the world. And who said this kind of thing couldn't be thought provoking?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 21, 2013
62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" The result is something less than the sum of its parts; in other words, the diametric opposite of that beloved original." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 21, 2013
35%	Dark Skies (2013)	" It could be a test case for copyright law." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 19, 2013
81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" Duck out at the 110 minute mark and don't look back." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 15, 2013
56%	Oblivion (2013)	" We must hope that the women don't get younger as Cruise gets older as the result could be illegal by the time he hits his seventies." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 14, 2013
28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" The self-deprecating humour, including what sounds like an in-production bet to place lyrics from Tears for Fears and Queen songs in the mouths of the bad guys, means the film plays like a Bond movie written by Russell T Davis." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 29, 2013
68%	Trance (2013)	" Boyle's film is barking: the kind of story that could only have been dreamt up under hypnosis. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 28, 2013
89%	Compliance (2012)	" The perfect companion piece to your copy of Fast Food Nation. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 25, 2013
51%	Welcome to the Punch (2013)	" A thriller fashioned as the British Heat. Not too distinctive then but at least the cockney version dazzles as it regurgitates." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 17, 2013
40%	Parker (2013)	" Statham puts the fun back into discriminate, pornographic violence." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 14, 2013
60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Did anyone watch the 1939 movie and say, "it was good but I'm not satisfied that I know enough about the Wicked Witch of the West's early years"?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 14, 2013
87%	Arbitrage (2012)	" An absorbing character study that teases some vicarious revenge on a perfidious member of the billionaire's club." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 7, 2013
14%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)	" What will Terra Firma's new overlords think of us if, by some freak set of circumstances, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is all that remains of our once proud hominid civilisation? " — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 3, 2013
67%	Stoker (2013)	" It's tempting to call this pure cinema but pure seems like the wrong word for a film that gleefully despoils its audience." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 3, 2013
65%	Mama (2013)	" It seems churlish to admonish Andrés Muschietti for pushing our buttons so effectively for much of the running time, but one wonders how many variations on this increasingly well-worn theme remain. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 25, 2013
15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" All concerned should be dropped from the 30th floor of a high rise." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 14, 2013
63%	I Give It a Year (2013)	" I only wish this review could have had a happier ending." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 13, 2013
63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" "A nice, clean, nasty piece of work" is how Hopkins' stand-in describes the superior film within the film. Gervasi's movie is just nice and clean and that's not nearly Hitchcockian enough for a film that carries the name." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 8, 2013
89%	Lincoln (2012)	" One never feels alive or inspired watching this history, merely intrigued, as if watching a film made for a museum exhibit." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 1, 2013
79%	Flight (2012)	" "God help me" cries Denzel, as he contemplates his ruinous addiction but it might have been better if he'd helped us by instructing Zemeckis and Gatins not to be so heavy handed in the religious symbolism department. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 1, 2013
93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" In the absence of cinematic grandeur and didacticism, we're left as empty and as lost as Chastain's agent as she boards a symbolically empty plane for an uncertain future. Just what are we to think of the so-called War on Terror?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 31, 2013
59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" The last stand? Poor Arnie looks as though he can barely stand." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 28, 2013
88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Tarantino's made a great movie but an underwhelming film." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 19, 2013
70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" This is a Sing-A-Long Review. Press play on the backing track to "I dreamed a dream" before reading." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 12, 2013
19%	Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)	" Texas Chainsaw 3D is the sort of movie that makes you wish they made kevler contact lenses. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 10, 2013
81%	The Impossible (2012)	" Nothing beats God's eye for scale and perspective." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 8, 2013
4%	Playing for Keeps (2012)	" Did Gerard really leave the UK and a guaranteed pundit spot on Match of the Day for an automatous son and callous wife? Playing for Keeps asks difficult questions like these but provides no satisfying answers." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 6, 2013
61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" What's missing? Chutzpah." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 26, 2012
88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" I thought of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the King of Swamp Castle's determination to build on that sodden earth. It stayed up in the end but it wouldn't take much for it to fall over." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 20, 2012
66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" This is hobbit cordial, one part juice to nine parts water." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 15, 2012
86%	Sightseers (2013)	" The result is something like a heterosexual Carry On film." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 2, 2012
92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" It's honest you see; and honestly, as any fule no, is the bedrock of any successful relationship whether it be between two homo fictives or an audience and their movies." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 29, 2012
85%	End of Watch (2012)	" Planning on shooting your next movie handheld? Hoping for that realism dividend? Please read this first. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 27, 2012
17%	Gambit ()	" It's mirthless, languid and obvious. Well, you can relate." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 27, 2012
48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" Let's forget that any of this ever happened." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 17, 2012
56%	For a Good Time, Call... (2012)	" For a Good Time, Call... is one of those pleasant surprises sometimes experienced in the cinema when the Gods of Celluloid, reading your attendance as a sign of defeat, take pity and alchemise the material you'd braced yourself to despise." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 5, 2012
86%	The Master (2012)	" Anderson operates within the only industry to give institutional cover to Hubbard's nefarious clique... The Master then, is a braver piece of work than it may appear; it's like a critique of clerical fascism smuggled out of wartime Vatican City." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 4, 2012
92%	Skyfall (2012)	" Skyfall doesn't have the layers it needs to strut so casually for so long. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 27, 2012
82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" Further evidence that dog owners are mentally ill people hiding in plain sight." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 26, 2012
92%	Lore (2013)	" A reminder that not every young victim of Hitler's struggle was an enemy of the state." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 25, 2012
44%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" Rather more virtuosity behind the camera was required to induce the desired hypnotic effect. Deepa Mehta just isn't up to it." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 19, 2012
68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" What was ornate on the page becomes doggerel in translation." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 17, 2012
64%	Antiviral (2013)	" Like his progenitor, Brandon likes a bad taste burlesque but so do you, so let's not rush to judgement." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 16, 2012
——	Blood (2013)	" A morbid melodrama." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 12, 2012
87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" It's a benign abomination." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 11, 2012
85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" What exactly are the perks of being a wallflower? Chbosky's as short on answers as he is on vowels." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 7, 2012
30%	Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)	" The ending threatens yet more. Let's hope the fates intervene and put Paul and Milla in divorce court before then." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 30, 2012

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