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Gareth Simms

Gareth Simms's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
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Pompeii (2014) 27% 5/5 EDIT “By positioning CGI, meticulously rendered with veritable 3D textures, inside elegant, spatial compositions, W.S distinguishes Pompeii amongst the current trend of garish blockbusters: obsessed with vapid, digitized carnage.” – Platform May 3, 2014 Full Review The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “The meticulous compositions and systematically arranged mise-en-scene remain the primary draw but after six films of the same thing, the recycled stylistics and thematics impress increasingly less.” – Platform Mar 21, 2014 Full Review The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 79% 4.5/5 EDIT “This iconoclastic, black with a capital b comedy is the best Hollywood satire since Showgirls. A jocular epic that bitingly indicts excess” – Platform Jan 18, 2014 Full Review Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) 28% 5/5 EDIT “Anderson is often mistakenly dismissed as a hack but the artist is actually working within the confines of Hollywood genre cinema, constantly transcending and elevating it through the triumph of his avant-garde visual sensibility.” – Platform Dec 29, 2013 Full Review Only God Forgives (2013) 41% 3/5 EDIT “Baffling and hypnotic, Only God Forgives boasts an aesthetically assured composition but its flagrant dismissal of pacing and plot serve to undermine not beguile.” – Platform Aug 5, 2013 Full Review The Great Gatsby (2013) 49% 9/10 EDIT “No one should feel profoundly disappointed that Luhrmann has shed the author's incisive social commentary in favour of a melange of garishness because he hasn't, as almost all of the film's idiosyncrasies are perfectly pitched.” – Platform May 30, 2013 Full Review The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 87% 4/10 EDIT “The Dark Knight Rises is a tonally confused entity at its core. Simultaneously po-faced and ridiculous.” – Platform Jul 23, 2012 Full Review Drive (2011) 93% 8/10 EDIT “The film then, with its elegant style evoking an eighties neon-drenched aesthetic, succeeds effortlessly at blending striking ultra-violence with the screenplays more ponderous sequences of blossoming romance.” – Platform Oct 26, 2011 Full Review The Hangover Part II (2011) 35% 7.0/10 EDIT “The implausibility of this happening again and to the same guys is balanced out by the chemistry of the Wolfpack and the unexpected edginess of Phillips who strives for the outrageous and for the most part really hits the mark.” – Platform Jun 2, 2011 Full Review The Adjustment Bureau (2011) 71% 6.5/10 EDIT “Despite the profoundly unsexy title the film managed to land two fine-ass leads, whose chemistry essentially saves the film from its existentialist pretensions.” – Platform Mar 8, 2011 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (2010) 51% 2/10 EDIT “Lewis Carroll is bent over a table, tears filling beneath his eyes. Something in your heart breaks. Your childhood, perhaps?” – Platform Mar 1, 2011 Full Review No Strings Attached (2011) 47% 4/10 EDIT “The script has an annoying tendency to alternate between snappy one liners and tedious sex based ROLFs.” – Platform Feb 28, 2011 Full Review Inception (2010) 87% EDIT “A film trying feverishly to spin your head whilst feverishly trying to explain how it's spinning it.” – Platform Feb 13, 2011 Full Review The King's Speech (2010) 94% 5/10 EDIT “A conventional over-hyped picture lifted by unconventional fairly-hyped performances. Truly the m - m - most British movie ever made.” – Platform Feb 12, 2011 Full Review Black Swan (2010) 85% EDIT “Despite its wildly over the top approach to creating tension, parts of it are genius. In fact I'm sure it's genius. But I will have to double check.” – Platform Jan 28, 2011 Full Review Socialism (2010) 58% EDIT “It was like Sympathy for the Devil on a cruise ship. Totally impenetrable.” – Platform Jan 27, 2011 Full Review Season of the Witch (2011) 11% EDIT “A Nicolas Cage movie where Nicolas Cage doesn't lose his shit. Avoid.” – Platform Jan 26, 2011 Full Review
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