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Ed Whitfield

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Publications:: Starburst , The Ooh Tray , What Culture

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
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
93%	Looper (2012)	" Do make time for it. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 30, 2012
93%	Barbara (2012)	" We're told this was a Soviet outcrop with constraints on all forms of expression - and low and behold, with the upmost reverence, here's the artistic homage." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 27, 2012
65%	The Campaign (2012)	" Ferrell's fans know the score: subtlety isn't welcome here." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 23, 2012
21%	Taken 2 (2012)	" Christmas dinner won't be boring this year." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 19, 2012
46%	The Sweeney (2013)	" It's alright so 'ave a look." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 16, 2012
64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" High time this play closed." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 14, 2012
67%	Lawless (2012)	" Measured performances from the leading triumvirate of LaBeouf, Hardy and Pearce wet the whistle but there's no long finish." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 13, 2012
78%	Dredd (2012)	" Justice for Dredd." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 9, 2012
21%	That's My Boy (2012)	" It may be the worst film, in any genre, ever made." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 9, 2012
75%	Berberian Sound Studio (2013)	" Peter Strickland's crafted the perfect metaphor for film spectatorship: essentially, how sound functions to augment the moving image, induce psychological effects and suture you into its immaterial world. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 6, 2012
31%	Total Recall (2012)	" It's funny it's a movie about old memories, because Wiseman's remake plays like a film half-remembered." — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 3, 2012
93%	Shadow Dancer (2013)	" Marsh's film brilliantly evokes the fearful, morbid undercurrent to Belfast in the last years of the conflict - a place where life and death could pivot on a wrong answer." — The Ooh Tray Posted Aug 31, 2012
88%	F for Fake (1974)	" It tells us that what we like is just fine and that the value is art is measured in something other than currency, though in this case the price of a cinema ticket will do nicely." — The Ooh Tray Posted Aug 24, 2012
56%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" Lacks the tight plotting that characterised the first three movies." — The Ooh Tray Posted Aug 17, 2012
65%	The Expendables 2 (2012)	" There's simply too much 21st century glaze on the old meat." — The Ooh Tray Posted Aug 16, 2012
78%	Take This Waltz (2012)	" Sarah Polley's romance, gilded with comic touches, has both an ear and eye for life's ambiguities." — The Ooh Tray Posted Aug 14, 2012
69%	Ted (2012)	" Less a movie, more a ragbag of 80's pop cultural references hung on a storyline." — The Ooh Tray Posted Aug 2, 2012
87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" Nolan's dour realism has turned the Batman experience into something like a sexless Eyes Wide Shut party. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Jul 22, 2012
85%	Chariots of Fire (1981)	" Vangelis was the secret weapon that Riefenstahl didn't have." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jul 15, 2012
70%	The Hunter (2012)	" There's little to gird the loins or ply the grey matter." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jul 11, 2012
73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" The finished film is like a repeat of the chicken dinner you had the night before but with different seasoning." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jul 8, 2012
77%	Killer Joe (2012)	" It's the audience's compact with the author that makes Killer Joe, for all its wry depravity, one of Friedkin's safest efforts." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jul 5, 2012
43%	Storage 24 (2013)	" An Open Letter to Young British Filmmakers..." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jul 3, 2012
29%	Red Lights (2012)	" With its final reel contortion, a film that wears its intelligence like a full body disguise, unzips, to reveal something like Sloth Fratelli from The Goonies." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jun 29, 2012
35%	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)	" There are moments in this mound of historic mash, where you rub your peepers until they look like glacé cherries." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jun 26, 2012
100%	Jaws (1975)	" You think of the excess that followed in Jaws' wake and realise how well judged that first blockbuster is." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jun 19, 2012
39%	Red Tails (2012)	" The finished product makes a great case, perhaps the best yet filmed, for remaining anonymous and achieving nothing." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jun 10, 2012
48%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" It's porn for pagans; the kind of movie that will play well at The Corn Exchange." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jun 6, 2012
74%	Prometheus (2012)	" It's all a bit woolly-minded. Shock horror indeed." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jun 2, 2012
94%	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	" If you can meet with realism and surrealism and treat those two impostors just the same, then yours are the movies and everything in them. I'm paraphrasing Emilio Estevez but I think you get the idea." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 31, 2012
70%	Men in Black III (2012)	" Lackadaisically conceived splooge." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 28, 2012
36%	Iron Sky (2012)	" A space-ploitation brain fart." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 25, 2012
58%	The Dictator (2012)	" Borat cut deep, The Dictator couldn't incise bread." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 23, 2012
80%	Get the Gringo (2012)	" It hardly matters that Mel, rigid as a dried out cadaver, has but a hint of his former on-screen confidence; no one is going to see it." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 22, 2012
84%	The Raid: Redemption (2012)	" That the action is vivid and for the most part, unrelenting, is indisputable, but the brain, consistently pummelled as it witnesses bloody orgy after bloody orgy, is undernourished in all other respects. " — The Ooh Tray Posted May 22, 2012
38%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" A mirthless monster mash that just manages to remember what it's about, a minute before the end - all concerned praying it's not too late. It is." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 12, 2012
57%	Safe (2012)	" In any language this is exhilarating stuff." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 10, 2012
41%	Silent House (2012)	" The gap between technological fetishism and story craft now has a name: Olsen's Cleavage." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 6, 2012
——	Lawrence Of Belgravia ()	" The singer's confusion and despondency at the close is the only real thing about this journey - the rest, you feel, is pizza and fairytales." — The Ooh Tray Posted May 4, 2012
38%	Lockout (Unrated) (2012)	" What surprises is how much guilty pleasure directors Mather and St.Leger, who sound like islands off the coast of France, rather than filmmakers, wring from Lockout's 95 minutes." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 30, 2012
93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" It gets the job done, but there's more to good movies than joining the dots." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 28, 2012
67%	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)	" These are scrunched script pages from Armando Iannucci's waste bin." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 25, 2012
11%	Gone (2012)	" It's all very well giving Amanda the power to vicariously avenge sex attacks, but it doesn't do much for gender relations." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 23, 2012
92%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" The first movie in a genre often known for its meathead simplicity, that's nearly undone by the scale of its ambition." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 16, 2012
34%	Battleship (2012)	" Loud, ridiculous and US Navy propaganda it may be, but Battleship transcends its inauspicious origins to become a dumb actioner with a sense of fun. You could ask for more but you wouldn't get it." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 16, 2012
5%	The Cold Light of Day (2012)	" An occasionally involving, always brusque chase movie that doubles as a whirlwind tour of Madrid." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 13, 2012
88%	Titanic (2012)	" Forget women and children, what about truth and realism first?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 6, 2012
86%	The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)	" Pirates and Scientists alike should enjoy it, even if the young Darwin is reincarnated as a humourless, prestige seeking weasel. Remember, he wasn't really like that, kids. He was probably a hell of a lot worse." — The Ooh Tray Posted Apr 3, 2012
26%	The Divide (2012)	" There's plenty of septic green and bilious brown in this basement, but fortunately no black and white." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 28, 2012
85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" Pulls its punches, content to be a glossy entertainment." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 25, 2012
13%	Inbred ()	" The row behind me had the night of their lives. They roared with laughter. They clapped. They shouted "get in!", as characters were brutalised. This, however, was the row reserved for the cast and their friends." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 21, 2012
85%	21 Jump Street (2012)	" A conscious two fingers to the old show's baby po-face." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 18, 2012
51%	John Carter (2012)	" Fails to transcend the generic." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 13, 2012
74%	Rampart (2012)	" A movie with a literary heartbeat." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 2, 2012
53%	Safe House (2012)	" It moves like a thoroughbred. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 2, 2012
80%	Young Adult (2011)	" Anthropological rather than aspirational." — The Ooh Tray Posted Mar 2, 2012
2%	One for the Money (2012)	" Heigl deserves better than this." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 28, 2012
17%	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)	" Ghost Rider is a multi-million dollar franchise and consequently the two directors have been obliged to tone down their act; a vintage example of the catch-all mentality that makes many of these movies mechanical, joyless affairs." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 20, 2012
65%	The Woman in Black (2012)	" There's a lifeless vacuum at the heart of this ghost story. Radcliffe be thy name." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 16, 2012
78%	A Dangerous Method (2011)	" In one scene, Freud turns to Jung and says, "do you realise we've been talking for 13 hours?". He could just as easily be referring to the film itself." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 14, 2012
96%	The Muppets (2011)	" Henson's Muppets had a nice line in dry wit. They were anarchic. Segel's are corporate stooges. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 13, 2012
57%	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)	" Oh George, why?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 10, 2012
90%	Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)	" This could have been retitled "Cognitive Dissonance: The Movie"." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 8, 2012
3%	Jack and Jill (2011)	" The worst representation of Jews on screen since Jud Süß." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 6, 2012
85%	Chronicle (2012)	" Half a brain trumps a hollow skull." — The Ooh Tray Posted Feb 2, 2012
79%	The Grey (2012)	" Getting Neesoned means being up against it in unenviable circumstances. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 31, 2012
94%	Coriolanus (2011)	" A sombre, serious update." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 31, 2012
26%	Underworld Awakening (2012)	" There's even an Evanescence track to close proceedings, for God's sake." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 31, 2012
44%	J. Edgar (2011)	" Isn't it high time that Eastwood cut loose and made that third Orangutan movie?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 31, 2012
80%	Haywire (2012)	" The story's been done to death but not since the days of Harry Palmer has it been told with this much style." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 31, 2012
88%	Margin Call (2011)	" A commendably sober and even handed drama, that gives the much loathed bankers human faces (tethered to animal metaphors, notably fat cats and dead dogs), while noting the culture of profligacy and flippancy within which they operate." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 31, 2012
22%	The Sitter (2011)	" 81 joyless minutes." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 25, 2012
13%	W.E. (2012)	" It is to royal biography what those commemorative plates are to royal weddings." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 20, 2012
77%	War Horse (2011)	" The movie's pastoral values bypass the head to massage the heart. The cracker-barrel philosophy, the piety, the unreconstructed belief in heroism and gallantry, it's all so reassuring; it's like the second half of the 20th century never happened." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 15, 2012
98%	The Artist (2011)	" See it, but remember: no talking." — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 9, 2012
52%	The Iron Lady (2012)	" Lloyd and Morgan fix their gaze on Thatcher as a daughter, wife and mother - that's the thread that's pulled. The film duly unravels. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Jan 8, 2012
86%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)	" The logic of a Hollywood adaptation, for the benefit of a largely untapped domestic market, is clear, not least for the film's corporate sponsors: step forward McDonalds and Apple; two brave companies who've tethered their brands to incest and murder." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 28, 2011
93%	Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)	" Welcome to the post-Pixar action movie." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 26, 2011
60%	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)	" Made for those with a limited mental faculty." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 20, 2011
36%	The Thing (2011)	" A slow hand clap for all concerned, please." — The Ooh Tray Posted Dec 7, 2011
25%	Seeking Justice (2012)	" Cage looks like a sex partner whose mind is on someone else. It's worse for knowing that someone is his accountant." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 25, 2011
24%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)	" A story about an abusive boyfriend's attempts at wrestling a girl from her friends, family and one prospective healthy love interest, and her burgeoning realisation that her man is a monster." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 18, 2011
36%	In Time (2011)	" This Bonnie and Clyde couldn't have less on screen chemistry if Clyde was the orangutan from Every Which Way but Loose." — The Ooh Tray Posted Nov 13, 2011
75%	The Adventures of Tintin (2011)	" It's an unusual way to bring a childhood thing to life, to make a movie that contains no life." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 29, 2011
89%	The Descendants (2011)	" Mahalo, Alexander." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 27, 2011
68%	This Must Be The Place (2012)	" A charming oddity." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 26, 2011
47%	Anonymous (2011)	" The defenestration of one of England's greatest dramatists by one of Germany's poorest." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 25, 2011
90%	Bernie (2012)	" Linklater has used witnesses to the truth to tell a lie. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 20, 2011
85%	The Ides of March (2011)	" Ides of March throws up the question of whether America is, despite its progressive rhetoric, an immature democracy in hoc to monstrous priggishness." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 19, 2011
76%	We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)	" This is the most malevolent movie in years." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 17, 2011
73%	Dark Horse (2012)	" Hollywood's reluctance to ridicule this cohort may stem from its near total reliance on them to fund its business model since the mid-70s...Solondz, who makes movies for an adult audience, has no such qualms" — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 16, 2011
73%	Like Crazy (2011)	" Credibly performed and rich with an understanding of the potential pitfalls that accompany such couplings, Like Crazy will strike a cord with anyone who's been lucky, or maybe unlucky enough, to meet someone settled elsewhere." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 16, 2011
24%	The Three Musketeers (2011)	" It wouldn't be the end of the world if these sword-fighting ciphers returned. It would just feel like it." — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 15, 2011
80%	Shame (2011)	" Shame is artistic film making in the best tradition; a carefully crafted curiosity that gives a grateful audience the opportunity to get involved, rather than merely observe. Fassbender and Mulligan are mesmerising. What more do you want?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 14, 2011
21%	360 (2012)	" There's the sense that the filmmakers are more interested in the formal connections between the characters than the characters themselves. This is a movie in love with its own architecture despite said design venting drama, like a house that loses heat. " — The Ooh Tray Posted Oct 12, 2011
85%	Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011)	" Who couldn't love a man who awkwardly approaches a girl, hoping to strike up a conversation, with a scythe in his hand? How can a guy who washes his wounds with beer not be endearing?" — The Ooh Tray Posted Sep 19, 2011

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