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Guy Lodge

Guy Lodge

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Publications:
Film4 , Heat Magazine , HitFix , In Contention , This is London , Time Out , Variety
Critics' Group:
Broadcast Film Critics Association, London Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
167
Location:
UK

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/5 91% The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (2013) " It's exhilarating, even exhausting stuff, though Fiennes lightens the weight of iek's dense discourse with a welcome scattering of sight gags." — Time Out
Posted Oct 1, 2013
—— Vi är bäst! (We Are the Best!) () " Lukas Moodysson makes a sweet, spirited return to form with this utterly delightful evocation of early teenage life." — Variety
Posted Sep 14, 2013
c 75% Jigoku de naze warui (Why Don't You Play in Hell?) () " Weird and woolly and sporadically amusing." — HitFix
Posted Sep 13, 2013
C 75% Pieta (2013) " Nasty is as nasty does, and this lurid if aspirational potboiler does its thing, but the camera could have been let in on the joke." — HitFix
Posted Sep 11, 2013
96% Mother Of George (2013) " Simply relating the narrative of Andrew Dosunmu's seductive immigrant drama Mother of George would do little to convey the film's stark, poetic power, much less its extraordinary visual and sonic acumen." — Variety
Posted Sep 10, 2013
91% Stray Dogs () " Spends an inordinate amount of time watching its characters sleep onscreen - which is just as well, since unsuspecting viewers may spend an inordinate amount of time sleeping in front of it." — Variety
Posted Sep 7, 2013
—— We Are the Best! () " Audiences who responded to the light touch and warm communality of Moodysson's breakthrough features Show Me Love and Together will thrill to this sweet, spirited return to form." — Variety
Posted Sep 6, 2013
86% Miss Violence () " Committed tone and immaculate craft should ensure ample fest exposure for the pic's predictable perversions." — Variety
Posted Sep 6, 2013
70% Tom à la ferme (Tom at the Farm) () " An improbably exciting match of knife-edge storytelling and a florid vintage aesthetic best represented by Gabriel Yared's glorious orchestral score. " — Variety
Posted Sep 6, 2013
D 46% Parkland (2013) " Structured a little like a hypothetical 1963 Twitter timeline, narrowed by the hashtag #JFKRIP: none of the participants have much to say about the man or his absence, but they're appropriately sad about it." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
D 58% The Zero Theorem () " Gilliam's claustrophobic, maximal brand of futurism is so rigidly stuck in 1995 ... that The Zero Theorem plays practically as a period piece." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
C+ 69% The Unknown Known () " That enigma -- whether Rumsfeld has ever doubted his public frontage, whether his most contentious war strategies were born of profound belief or tactical stopgapping -- is one Errol Morris doesn't really come close to penetrating." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
B- 100% The Armstrong Lie (2013) " At once one of Gibney's most humanly compelling works, and one of his more rhetorically inconsistent." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
B+ 78% Night Moves () " Night Moves is a pretty slow burner while it's on the screen; off it, it's stubbornly inextinguishable, the trick birthday candle of this year's Venice fest." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
B 81% The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) (2014) " Even the simplest aesthetic choices here inspire sharp intakes of breath." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
B- 93% Philomena (2013) " Repeatedly chastises Sixsmith and his kind for packaging human tragedy ... the irony is that Frears' entertaining but thoroughly unchallenging film isn't doing anything remotely different." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
C- 76% Joe () " Before you can say it's a dog-eat-dog world out there, Green serves us with a tawdrily obvious scene in which one dog does indeed eat another." — HitFix
Posted Sep 6, 2013
58% The Sacrament () " Purists might insist isn't horror in the strictest sense, though this slow-burning investigation of unseemly goings-on at a rural Christian commune is frightening in any genre language." — Variety
Posted Sep 4, 2013
91% Fire In The Blood (2013) " A basically constructed but rivetingly researched examination of the global fight for affordable antiretroviral therapy against Western pharamaceutical companies." — Variety
Posted Sep 3, 2013
3/5 91% The Great Beauty () " Sumptuous and self-indulgent, Sorrentino's latest is a Fellini-like feast for the eyes." — Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2013
B+ 79% Tracks () " Honors its subject's stoic reserve, but allows a strain of warm calico romanticism into her remarkable story." — HitFix
Posted Aug 29, 2013
A 98% Gravity (2013) " For sheer transference of experience upon the audience, I can think of no film quite like it." — HitFix
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2/5 50% When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2012) " You needn't disagree with the film's cause to feel oppressed by its propagandistic approach - not to mention Philip Glass's relentlessly mournful score." — This is London
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3/5 93% Kuma () " It's soap, but finely scented." — This is London
Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/5 27% Planes (2013) " For "international", read "packed with wince-worthy ethnic stereotyping" - it's the only way the writers know how to define character in a universe this soulless." — This is London
Posted Aug 16, 2013
4/5 80% Call Girl () " Even the good guys have a vampiric air about them." — This is London
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3/5 63% 2 Guns (2013) " Wahlberg gives Washington levity; Washington gives Wahlberg resolve." — This is London
Posted Aug 16, 2013
4/5 56% Bachelorette (2012) " Bachelorette is very much its own bitter brew, using the comic framework of a botched, coke-fuelled hen night to examine the stinging self-loathing exposed in three women by another's happiest day." — This is London
Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/5 42% Red 2 (2013) " The Expendables meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel isn't an obviously winning formula." — This is London
Posted Aug 12, 2013
3/5 83% From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) " A gently lyrical diversion for Ghibli die-hards ... a gentle snooze for others." — This is London
Posted Aug 12, 2013
4/5 93% Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope) () " Even if Paradise is lost, this remains the trilogy's best film." — This is London
Posted Aug 12, 2013
2/5 61% My Father and the Man in Black (2013) " In-the-family documentaries are often more emotionally rewarding for their makers than their viewers." — This is London
Posted Aug 12, 2013
2/5 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " In this obnoxiously peppy 3D sequel, "smurf" is an all-purpose prefix that the anaemic script uses when words fail. Which is often." — This is London
Posted Aug 12, 2013
4/5 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " The first genuinely characterful action blockbuster of the summer: both a big, beautifully realised throwback to Hollywood Boy's Own storytelling and an intelligent revision of Old West history." — This is London
Posted Aug 12, 2013
2/5 50% Looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense) () " Bonitzer is a lithe, literate writer who has penned screenplays for greats such as Jacques Rivette and André Téchiné but it seems he doesn't save his best ideas for himself." — This is London
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/5 90% Silence () " It's a film in which the mere arrival of birdsong on the soundtrack is as a narrative event but there are rewards for the patient; even those easily bored should leave the cinema feeling soothed." — This is London
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/5 79% Foxfire () " Individual performances range from striking to self-aware, with interaction often hesitant - a drawback in a story predicated on female unity." — This is London
Posted Aug 9, 2013
2/5 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " Scrappy and kind-hearted, with odd flashes of high camp - even if its universe of patchworked Greek mythological elements still makes little sense." — This is London
Posted Aug 9, 2013
4/5 87% The Conjuring (2013) " The film may flaunt its true-story credentials for the sake of lurid immediacy but, like the best of its variety, it has a healthy understanding of its own silliness." — This is London
Posted Aug 2, 2013
4/5 65% The Heat (2013) " This terrific vehicle for the perfectly mismatched comic stylings of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy isn't a hilarious girl-power trip. It's simply hilarious." — This is London
Posted Aug 2, 2013
A- 93% Our Children (2013) " Aware that a story of such grave human weight and consequence demands to be told exactingly if it is to be told at all, Lafosse's film succeeds most profoundly by refusing to phrase the inevitable question -- how could she? -- as a rhetorical one." — HitFix
Posted Jul 31, 2013
B+ 92% This Is Martin Bonner (2013) " The rare contemporary film about Christian behavior that doesn't go out of its way to announce its secularity, it's equally unpatronizing in its sharp articulation of loneliness in middle age and beyond." — HitFix
Posted Jul 31, 2013
B 50% At Any Price (2013) " As is implicit in the title, the destructiveness of competition is a rippling concern in Bahrani and co-writer Hallie Elizabeth Newton's unpredictably expansive script." — HitFix
Posted Jul 24, 2013
2/5 69% The Wolverine (2013) " It's the stuff of Saturday-morning cartoons, but Mangold - who, as in the appalling 'Knight and Day', edits all action sequences on the shaky frappé setting - hasn't the visual pop or lightness of touch to make it bounce." — Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
—— We Are The Freaks () " Edgar's script allows ample room for his young stars to exert their considerable goofball charisma." — Variety
Posted Jul 12, 2013
75% uwantme2killhim? () " Walden's structurally elaborate script can't quite conjure the social and environmental detail necessary to make the belief-defying believable on a dramatic level. " — Variety
Posted Jul 12, 2013
C- 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Many will respond to the film as a gut-level human interest piece, but it's as curtailed and nuance-free a character study as it is a political polemic. " — HitFix
Posted Jul 12, 2013
83% Mister John () " It's ultimately the film's avoidance of mystery that proves so effective and unnerving." — Variety
Posted Jul 5, 2013
—— The Sea () " This good, middlebrow adaptation ... sacrifices much of the novel's structural intricacy for Masterpiece-style emotional accessibility. " — Variety
Posted Jul 4, 2013
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