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Graham Young

Graham Young

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Birmingham Mail , Birmingham Post
Total Reviews:
732

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5/5 100% Sunshine on Leith () " As the drama builds up to I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) you'll know exactly what's coming, but will be swept along regardless by what is surely one of the greatest pop songs ever written." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
2/5 29% Emperor (2013) " The climax, when MacArthur finally meets Hirohito, is fascinating - and validated by the end-credit, picture-led round-up of what happened to the leading characters." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
3/5 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " An occasionally by turns dull, moving, funny, sobering and oddly explicit drama which feels a bit like Mike Leigh deflating Sex And The City." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
3/5 76% How I Live Now (2013) " How scary this film is will depend on your age, cinematic experience and self-confidence of the precarious world we live in." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
3/5 79% Filth () " While Sunshine On Leith will make you feel like floating away, Filth is cinema's equivalent of experiencing a heavy Scottish downpour - without your coat on." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
2/5 85% Upstream Color (2013) " Upstream Colour appears to have been made by a Terrence Malick fan injected with a David Cronenberg parasite." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
4/5 80% Prisoners (2013) " In his first film since Skyfall, the cinematography by Torquay-born Roger Deakins is as stunning as you'd expect from a true craftsman with ten unfulfilled Oscar nominations since The Shawshank Redemption in 1995." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 27, 2013
3/5 8% Runner Runner (2013) " A 50-50 bet for anyone fancying a Saturday night popcorn punt." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 27, 2013
1/5 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " The 'exoskeleton' subplot is as clunky a metaphorical experience as you will ever endure." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 27, 2013
4/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " [Woody Allen has] captured an Oscar-contending, tour de force performance from the great Cate Blanchett." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 27, 2013
3/5 60% InRealLife () " Arguably the most important documentary about our rapidly-changing lifestyles since Super Size Me ( ... ) food for thought for parents and media students alike. " — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
3/5 20% A Belfast Story () " With lines like 'Nobody is ever happy until they are grieving again', [Colm] Meaney is at his best simply talking to himself, trying to make sense of a generation of madness." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
3/5 44% The Call (2013) " While plausibility is often stretched to the limit, the sense of threat will keep you on the edge of your seat, even during a ridiculously gratuitous denouement." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
2/5 14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " The Oscar-winning Bridges sounds like he's chewing marbles and suddenly looks 10 years older than 63." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
5/5 88% Rush (2013) " There's no mistaking Thor star Chris Hemsworth as the dashing, boozing, vomiting, smoking, blond god of the track, James Hunt. If he ever becomes James Bond - as he should - he'll make Daniel Craig look like an over-developed hamster." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 13, 2013
4/5 50% White House Down (2013) " One of the most violent films I've seen from a female cinematographer. But Anna Foerster adds lots of lovely, brilliantly-lit visual touches and handles the Die Hard-style action as well as any man." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 13, 2013
3/5 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Wan reintroduces the 21st century curse of digital sound effects overkill. By the end, you'll be watching "Din-sidious"." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 13, 2013
2/5 8% Justin and the Knights of Valour () " A strong cast on paper, but you wonder if this is a collective sales pitch to make up for the lack of energy on the screen." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 13, 2013
4/5 80% Call Girl () " Grey hair, hedonism and exploitation are colliding at every turn." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 13, 2013
3/5 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " If you're in the mood to pay homage to the 'new wave' of directors of the 1970s, instead of sitting through the latest in a long line of superhero movie sequels, this should be richly rewarding." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 80% Any Day Now (2012) " Marco's age sidesteps conception arguments, leaving us to judge for ourselves the paths that caring people can take compared with an unfit natural parent. " — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/5 60% Riddick (2013) " Gratuitous nudity involving the appropriately-named actress Katee Sackhoff (Dahl) fails to distract from the clunky dialogue and the film's climax is, frankly, Riddickulous." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 62% About Time (2013) " Do you love the idea of time travel but hate the science fiction? Then close your eyes, clench your fists and wake up in front of this new romantic comedy." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 3% Diana (2013) " Of the three people who could tell it as it was, only one has been left alive to do so. Unfortunately for this film, and despite his best intentions, his name is not Oliver Hirschbiegel." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 50% Jadoo () " You can see where it's all heading right from the off, but even in the predictable resolve you'll be hard-pressed to keep your eyes bone dry." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 50% Looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense) () " Though beautifully filmed and impeccably acted, the story is just too French, domestic and dull to light the fires of conflict." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " This is Us plays out like a love letter to the cardboard cutouts we frequently see in the background." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 30, 2013
3/5 49% Pain & Gain (2013) " This is Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson straining every sinew to deliver the heavy duty performance of his career." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 30, 2013
4/5 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " The most inspiring example of how to nurture confident responsibility in the young since Clint Eastwood's seminal Gran Torino (2009)." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 30, 2013
2/5 75% You're Next (2013) " Although the set-up remains distinctly stupid - the plot exists purely to service its own excesses - those who like to laugh at moments of gross violence should find their ribs are involuntarily tickled." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 30, 2013
4/5 88% What Maisie Knew (2013) " [Onata Aprile's] tremendously-believable on-screen spirit reminds us how resilient children can be." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 30, 2013
4/5 68% Elysium (2013) " The best parts of this 'parallel universe' experience are aesthetic." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
3/5 47% We're The Millers (2013) " A very rude road movie prone to too many second-gear kangaroo jumps ( ... ) but [Will Poulter] is sure to be dining out on the fun of his kissing education for years." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
2/5 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " The 130-minute running time is 40 minutes too long - but then there's enough repetitive plot exposition and 'who-is- really-related-to-who?' nonsense to cure insomnia." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
3/5 54% Lovelace (2013) " An explicit, depressing study of human sadness that goes beyond the melancholy." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
3/5 56% Morrissey 25: Live (2013) " A frustratingly one-dimensional film." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
4/5 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " Kick-Ass 2 by name - and Kick-Ass too by nature." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 17, 2013
4/5 63% 2 Guns (2013) " There's plenty of hot spice in this enjoyably silly graphic novel adaptation about two undercover agents unwittingly working together." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 17, 2013
2/5 27% Planes (2013) " Many youngsters in a packed charity screening I attended were fidgeting and talking." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 17, 2013
4/5 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " It's at times the most exciting live action film for years. " — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/5 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " While Percy didn't give me a day-long headache like The Wolverine, accepting the extra [3D] dimension distracts from concentrating on who's who." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
4/5 84% Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () " A roaring, razor-sharp study of dinosaurs held captive by their headphones." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
2/5 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " It's easy to be critical of films which have no aim other than to entertain, but if you're half way to Sandler's juvenile, rather sexist mentality you will find more comedy highlights than you'll be expecting." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
4/5 94% The Deep (Djúpið) (2013) " Dedicated as it is to 'Icelandic fishermen', you'll never look at a fillet of prime cod in the same light again." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/5 73% Breathe In () " After chosing her roles wisely, brilliant Felicity [Jones] is right at the point where her film career is set to really take off." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
5/5 98% Wadjda (2013) " The moment Wadjda's heart leaps when she spots a bicycle on the roof of a moving car that's hidden by a wall is the scene of the year." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 2, 2013
4/5 42% Red 2 (2013) " The plot might not add up to much, but there's plenty of fire-fights, punch-ups and bristling one-liners to go round a cast so vast they could have called this The Extendables." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 2, 2013
4/5 83% From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) " An interesting way of tackling everything from understanding parentage to the atomic bomb which devastated Nagasaki." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 2, 2013
2/5 86% The Conjuring (2013) " The sound effects are the aural equivalent of a 21st century form of digital diarrhoea, guaranteed to leave the hairs on the back of your neck suffering from erectile dysfunction." — Birmingham Mail
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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