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Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
BBC Radio Five Live , Guardian [UK] , New Statesman , Observer [UK] , Sight and Sound
Total Reviews:
302

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
96% Psycho (1960) " After half a century of terror, Psycho is still ensuring that no one feels safe in the shower." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3/5 79% Filth () " McAvoy's powerhouse performance [lifts] the entire venture shoulder high, making this a solid silver medal winner in the Welsh-on-screen adaptation stakes." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
100% Sunshine on Leith () " I shed a tear within the first 10 minutes, and spent the rest of the movie beaming like a gibbering, love-struck fool." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
4/5 93% For Those In Peril () " A full week after first viewing, I find myself still sifting through montage images that linger in the mind like a half-remembered dream." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
2/5 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " This self-conscious oddity can't decide whether it wants to be an indie-earnest reappraisal of the rigours of chronic dependency, or a slightly racy romcom with a saucy topical edge." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
2/5 29% Emperor (2013) " Hokey monologues about the finger of historical blame are interspersed with perfume-ad flashbacks to idyllic days of love; you half expect Andrew Lloyd Webber to descend from on high to provide a few touching show tunes." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3/5 76% How I Live Now (2013) " An uncertain affair, powerfully played and sporadically affecting, but lacking the singular clarity of vision that becomes Daisy's survivalist mantra." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
1/5 52% The To Do List (2013) " Writer/director Maggie Carey's clodhopping coming-of-age yarn merely proves that terrible teen movies are now a source of equal-ops embarrassment for both genders." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
4/5 100% The Wicker Man - Final Cut (2013) " The strengths are overpowering; Edward Woodward's towering performance, Anthony Shaffer's brilliantly nasty script, Paul Giovanni's weirdie folk music, and that matchlessly horrifying ending." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
1/5 31% Austenland (2013) " What might have made a five-minute skit becomes an extended exercise in taking a joke for a walk round a country house before allowing it to crap on the terrace and then stamping it to death on the manicured lawn." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 88% Hannah Arendt (2013) " The banality of evil is examined in this solid and intelligent account of Arendt's controversial conclusions on the trial of Adolf Eichmann." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " Incidental at best, and a touch irksome at worst." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
2/5 8% Runner Runner (2013) " Odds are you'll have forgotten most of the film before the end credits finish rolling." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 83% Mister John () " That the whole should not quite add up to the sum of its parts is no great tragedy; there is enough magic in these meanderings to carry us over the flaws." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 80% Prisoners (2013) " It's a tense and engaging thriller with some big ideas, only some of which it is able to carry." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
4/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " While the film may hold some viewers at arm's length, the performances are worthy of stand-up-and-cheer ovations all round." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 60% InRealLife () " It's unsettling viewing, and smartly sidesteps allegations of parental paranoia by talking directly to those "digital natives" whose lives are being transformed (for better and worse) by the web." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2/5 3% Diana (2013) " Watts employs a number of iconic head tilts, hairdos and stick-on noses, but fights a losing battle against a film which has neither backbone nor teeth ..." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2/5 14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " Overall, it's a directionless mess: too expensive for a B-movie, too grown-up for a kids' movie (funerals, bereavement and jokes about Steely Dan) and too infantile for everyone else." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/5 77% Kelly + Victor () " Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Julian Morris are impressively raw and unguarded as the doomed lovers, their nerves exposed for all to see as the roots of their angst are increasingly laid bare." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/5 100% Metro Manila (2013) " There's a tenderness in the depiction of the central family which was notably lacking from Ellis's earlier work, and the nuts and bolts of the heist narrative are handled with slow-burn dexterity." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
4/5 91% In a World... (2013) " This snappy treat tickles up belly laughs from the golden larynx of the entertainment industry, as it delves into the strangely competitive world of the voiceover artist." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
100% Tarnished Angels (1958) " One of Douglas Sirk's masterworks." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
1/5 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Boo, indeed." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
3/5 50% White House Down (2013) " At least has the good grace to laugh at itself as it rolls out the dingbat-daft action-movie cliches." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
3/5 68% The Artist and the Model (2013) " A whimsical black-and-white meditation upon the nature of art, set in rural southern France during the second world war." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
2/5 8% Justin and the Knights of Valour () " This disappointing CG animation fails to capture the sense of fairytale wonder that its narrative requires." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
4/5 88% Rush (2013) " Bright, brash and unashamedly formulaic, this is thrillingly accessible fare ..." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
3/5 91% The Great Beauty () " As always, Sorrentino has an architectural eye, his cameras panning over crumbling buildings, unclothed bodies and (most importantly) Servillo's face with enraptured awe." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
4/5 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " The astute use of folk and bluegrass defines the palette of this film as much as the acting or the cinematography." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
3/5 45% No One Lives (2013) " Splashes of gore and evisceration combine with a nicely nasty psycho-killer turn from Luke Evans to enliven this grindy slasher from Midnight Meat Train director Ryuhei Kitamura." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
2/5 60% Riddick (2013) " The script promptly shoots itself in the equal-ops foot with some repellently ill-judged rapey "humour", promptly undermining any residual goodwill." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
3/5 75% Pieta (2013) " Oedipal metaphysics give way to something altogether more mundane, but Jo and Lee are committed leads, the former carrying the burden of the movie with motherly care and attention." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
3/5 62% About Time (2013) " As I stood outside the preview screening watching middle-aged men and women alike wiping away a tear, it was evident that, for all its flaws, the film had indeed delivered." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
75% The East (2013) " It all adds up to an intelligent romp which keeps one eye on timely issues (activists or terrorists?) and the other on entertainment." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 3, 2013
38% Stand Up Guys (2013) " Viagra is consumed, erections wrestled, old scores settled - blah blah blah." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2013
84% This Is the End (2013) " [A] bloated and only sporadically chucklesome vanity project from Hollywood's new generation of superannuated frat boys." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2013
97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Unspeakable horror and utterly mundane madness are thrown together in the existential equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider - fact and fiction meeting head on with quietly earth-shattering results." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2013
75% Despicable Me 2 (2013) " Having laughed my way through pretty much the entire film (including an ace end-credits sequence that will delight aspect ratio nerds), I left the cinema to the sound of a child announcing; "That was the best movie ever!"" — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2013
95% Stories We Tell (2013) " Polley's portrait of modern family life is a playfully profound discussion of narrative forms - the way in which we each construct our own reality through stories, part truth, part invention." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2013
88% The Battle Of The Sexes () " Anyone watching Wimbledon will only have their enjoyment of the game enhanced by this vibrant history lesson. Game, set and match." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2013
49% Redemption (2013) " [A] flawed but ambitious (and rather peculiar) London-set thriller ..." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2013
48% Black Rock (2013) " [An] earthy, woodsy throwback thriller ..." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2013
41% Spike Island () " Whitecross clearly has both an eye and ear for the rarefied nuances of pop culture ..." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2013
55% Snitch (2013) " Teeth are gritted, shaven-heads stroked, families hugged, moist-eyes blinked - but it's the sight of big things getting smashed to pieces that endures, and ultimately bores." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2013
94% Shun LI And The Poet (2013) " This is haunting and affecting with visual poetry to spare." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2013
81% Like Someone in Love (2013) " This is an intriguing, elliptical affair, the emphasis on reflective surfaces (and off-screen voices) reminding us that we are only ever seeing an opaque refraction of the whole picture." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " A raggedy assortment of body parts; expensively assembled, but lacking a sustaining pulse." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2013
98% Before Midnight (2013) " As before, it's often very funny, with Jesse and Celine swapping Woody Allen-esque one-liners - nicely snarky, appealingly abrasive." — Observer [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2013
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