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Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: Birmingham Mail , Birmingham Post

Total Reviews:: 626

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3/5	74%	Chimpanzee (2012)	" With no sign of Tarzan there's little genuine drama in Chimpanzee and this film probably won't save any rainforests, but it's heartfelt, beautifully shot and you'll never use a nutcracker without thinking of little Oscar." — Birmingham Mail Posted May 4, 2013
1/5	26%	21 And Over (2013)	" ( ... ) this flatlines so often it's impossible to tell where the actual low point is. Is it the slow motion vomiting shot from multiple angles? Or a grown man standing on a bar ready to relieve himself over everyone else?" — Birmingham Mail Posted May 4, 2013
3/5	60%	I'm So Excited! (2013)	" To help prevent a riot, the economy passengers are sent to the land of nod. So much for the idea of finding your inner self at moments of great danger!" — Birmingham Mail Posted May 4, 2013
3/5	36%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" As with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Oplev uses darkness to convey atmosphere despite the overt crispness of the movie's digital look. Some old-fashioned celluloid grain would have done it the world of good." — Birmingham Mail Posted May 4, 2013
3/5	90%	Bernie (2012)	" Based on a true story, Black offers a surprising degree of depth as an assistant funeral director with secrets in a town where 'all of the widows had a crush on Bernie'." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/5	71%	The Look of Love ()	" The net result might be an over-stretched story lacking in drama and tension, but it's also a good period study with a fine central performance from the maturing Coogan." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 26, 2013
4/5	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Iron Man 3 is like taking a helter skelter ride through a kaleidoscope of visual effects and emotions - bumpy, bright, dazzling and confusing in equal measure ..." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 26, 2013
1/5	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" If Hollywood is having trouble with deciding who its 'war and terror' enemies are, that's nothing compared with its crisis in horror." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 25, 2013
3/5	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" 'You can't make natural gas from shale without fracking' doesn't quite have the same ring to it as 'You can't start a fire without a spark'. " — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 25, 2013
3/5	22%	The Words (2012)	" In a relevant study of plagiarism, influences and lifetime experiences, The Words chiefly reminds us that the past is indelible." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 25, 2013
3/5	89%	Shell ()	" The deer-skinning scene will have everyone worshipping their supermarket packets more than ever." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 24, 2013
4/5	75%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" ( ... ) serious as well as being equally fun at the same time. Trine Dyrholm is a brilliant actress ( ... )." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 19, 2013
3/5	48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Whether Hollywood is right to keep prodding North Korea simply because it's not a valuable trading partner, only time will tell." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 19, 2013
5/5	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" Some eye-popping cinematography by Life of Pi's Oscar-winning Claudio Miranda highlights the wondrous landscapes, with the frequent recourse to a shallow depth of field often resembling a new kind of extreme, indoor sport. Blink and be blurred!" — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 12, 2013
4/5	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" [Ryan] Gosling duly burns up the screen during every wonderful second he's on it ( ... ) the film's first half is truly mesmerising. You can't take your eyes off its leading man." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 12, 2013
4/5	82%	Papadopoulos & Sons ()	" Just like Arnold Schwarzenegger was told his name was too big for movie posters, Marcus Markou's inspirational debut feature film has an impossible title on purpose." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 12, 2013
4/5	90%	Good Vibrations ()	" The undercurrent mixture of aggression and delirium is helped by the fact that Terri Hooley's bearded visage at times mixes the psycho side of some of Robert De Niro's characters with comical Robin Williams." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 12, 2013
2/5	35%	Dark Skies (2013)	" Expectations of originality soon cloud over, leading towards the kind of quick ending at 97 minutes which kills any sign of blue sky thinking." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 12, 2013
2/5	9%	The Host (2013)	" Just like her Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer's 2008 novel The Host becomes another feature in which people are standing around and brooding ( ... ) Proof that it's not easy to make thoughts seem riveting when little is happening. " — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 12, 2013
2/5	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" ( ... ) for anyone refusing to acquiesce that this degree of 'girl power' is less a rite of passage and more like a collective suicide plunge onto a bed of six inch nails, perhaps Korine is right to be so provocative." — Birmingham Mail Posted Apr 12, 2013
4/5	90%	Caesar Must Die (2013)	" As they find issues and themes they can relate to, the action is never remotely static despite the frequent nature of the close-ups and the plastic sword." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 27, 2013
5/5	99%	Finding Nemo 3D (2012)	" Re-releasing Nemo in 3D gives a whole new generation the chance to enjoy it in cinemas for the first time - as well as adding extra depth to the wonderful scenes from the ocean deep." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 27, 2013
4/5	87%	In the House (2013)	" An ambitious, beautiful looking movie with the underlying theme that if you want to get on in life sooner or later you have to start to experience it for good or bad." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 27, 2013
1/5	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" Identity Thief features the kind of 'humour' which says you don't just hit a person once, you should do it repeatedly to make it funnier." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 27, 2013
3/5	73%	One Mile Away ()	" If One Mile Away can foster a sense of whole-city community within certain factions, a 7 Up style sequel would be a good thing for everyone to aim for." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 27, 2013
4/5	68%	Trance (2013)	" Trance is a bold statement that after dabbling in the theatre and sport, Boyle is still a confident force to be reckoned with." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 27, 2013
2/5	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" Johnson deserves far better material than a non-stop confusing orgy of violence, somehow directed by Jon M Chu on the back of two Step Up dance movies." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 27, 2013
3/5	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" Jack the Giant Slayer is watchable enough, but seriously overlong at 114 minutes with only the extended, second ending offering full-throttle action." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 20, 2013
2/5	13%	Stolen (2012)	" A film that feels too close to Liam Neeson's 2009-hit Taken for comfort ..." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 20, 2013
4/5	89%	Compliance (2012)	" It might make you a tougher person after watching it." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 20, 2013
5/5	69%	The Croods (2013)	" A funny, spectacular comedy animation with the added dimension of being deep-rooted in our biggest 21st Century fears." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 20, 2013
2/5	51%	Welcome to the Punch (2013)	" ( ... ) the unrelenting darkness made me wonder if the post-production crew were living off carrots, carrot juice and carrot cake in the editing suite." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 19, 2013
2/5	40%	Parker (2013)	" Even adding Jennifer Lopez to the mix in time for her to strip and show off her infamous rear doesn't add much in the way of silver screen sizzle." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 19, 2013
3/5	44%	The Paperboy (2012)	" ( ... ) a film that captivates, puzzles and loses its own sense of direction in equal measure" — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 19, 2013
1/5	38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" Try as you might to magic up Bill Bixby from the 70s' TV series The Magician, it just ain't going to happen." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 19, 2013
2/5	13%	Red Dawn (2012)	" Ridiculously violent for the certificate and wholly implausible in its set up, Red Dawn is the kind of gung-ho action thriller for people with sawdust for brains." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 19, 2013
3/5	——	Vinyl ()	" A curiosity piece which, on its own, will not be enough to spawn a punk revival." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 19, 2013
3/5	67%	Stoker (2013)	" By the end, I didn't really mind either way how it was going to climax - I wasn't rootin', I wasn't tootin'." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 19, 2013
2/5	40%	Parker (2013)	" If Statham harbours ambitions of making a career-defining action thriller, Parker has to be seen as another opportunity lost." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
5/5	95%	Side by Side (2012)	" Side By Side is a riveting, under-the-hood distillation of 100 years of Hollywood experimentation, innovation and expensive bravery." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
3/5	68%	The Spirit of '45 ()	" The unspoken, underlying truth beneath Loach's tenor is that every government has successes and failures, while all enduring issues of fairness surely ought to be seen as non-political." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
2/5	59%	Maniac (2013)	" Much of the film feels graphically real but I was never convinced that some of the girls would ever have trusted him in the first place." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" A mixture of fairy tale, romance, adventure, suspense and magic in an overlong spectacular that will in turn amuse, delight, bore, amaze and occasionally shock young children." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 8, 2013
3/5	87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" Frank Langella plays former cat burglar Frank and the 75-year-old actor holds the entire film together with his screen integrity." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 6, 2013
3/5	73%	Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) (2013)	" It's a very British, predictable film with its heart in the right place." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
3/5	68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" In many respects, it's exceptional - both in concept and execution." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/5	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Some viewers will find this deep and meaningful; others will leave scratching their heads." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
3/5	65%	Mama (2013)	" It's an original concept but still uses horror clichés to signal shocks - loud noises, slamming doors and flickering lights." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/5	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" To add your own entertainment value, one game you can play during the film is to guess how many minutes will have gone by before Willis ends up with a single mark on his white top." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 15, 2013

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