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Michael Bonner

Agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

Publications:: Uncut Magazine [UK]

Total Reviews:: 41

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
7/10	62%	I'm So Excited! (2013)	" A minor - but exuberantly funny - piece from the Spanish master." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted May 9, 2013
8/10	71%	The Look of Love ()	" As per previous Winterbottom/Coogan collaborations, the vibe here is loose and episodic." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Apr 24, 2013
7/10	90%	Good Vibrations ()	" For much of the time, Hooley's tale is, while enjoyably ramshackle, a familiar one of skanky pubs, transit vans, snooty major label executives and poorly attended gigs." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Mar 28, 2013
8/10	67%	Stoker (2013)	" The play between the three leads is terrific - a bit bonkers, quite creepy, often over-the-top." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Mar 1, 2013
7/10	79%	Flight (2012)	" Zemeckis - who hasn't directed a live action film since 2000's Cast Away - shoots the film as straight as possible. But that's not to say it's without wit." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Feb 6, 2013
9/10	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" For much of its three hour running time, Zero Dark Thirty moves like a police procedural: it is rigorous, pared-back and analytical." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jan 24, 2013
9/10	100%	McCullin ()	" Mixes recent interviews with McCullin with contemporaneous news footage and McCullin's own photographs, which have lost none of their power." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jan 11, 2013
10/10	93%	Amour (2012)	" Both a poignant love story and a typically rigorous attempt to dismantle one of the last great taboos in cinema." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Dec 12, 2012
6/10	86%	The Master (2012)	" This is more character study than story. Yet, it feels as shallow as The Cause itself, as maddeningly opaque as Dodd's motivations." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Nov 8, 2012
7/10	85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" The idea of a future society where the state controls the population through lethal games is familiar from films like Rollerball, The Running Man and even Doctor Who, but retooled in the era of Simon Cowell gives it some fresh purpose." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Mar 21, 2012
	80%	Shame (2011)	" [A] bracing and unsettling film about sex addiction in New York that features a powerful central performance from Michael Fassbender." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jan 18, 2012
	90%	Attack the Block (2011)	" Cornish has made a very accomplished debut; an exuberant genre mash-up, part sci-fi, part action movie, part comedy, executed with tremendous energy and flair." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted May 18, 2011
	33%	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)	" It's alright. But you could probably have more fun with a Pirates Of The Caribbean Lego set." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted May 18, 2011
	77%	Thor (2011)	" Hiddleston does sly and manipulative with relative restraint, that balances out Hemsworth's shouty braggadocio." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Apr 27, 2011
	87%	Submarine (2011)	" Ayoade lets the film move at a gentle pace, while its idiosyncratic charms often brings to mind Rushmore, Harold And Maude, or perhaps the youthful exploits of Adrian Mole." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Mar 16, 2011
	71%	Never Let Me Go (2010)	" Despite the grinding bleakness, it's a tremendous film." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Feb 23, 2011
	96%	True Grit (2010)	" When we see Cogburn in full flight - riding against four armed men - this is rousing stuff. You'd like to think the Duke himself would be applauding the Dude from afar." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Feb 2, 2011
	94%	The King's Speech (2010)	" The players are as good as you'd expect and while this is clearly positioned as high-end heritage drama, it shows a keen wit." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jan 5, 2011
	89%	Let Me In (2010)	" To his credit, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves makes a good fist of this." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Nov 15, 2010
	55%	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)	" Gekko's resurrection is disappointing. This isn't a savage satire on corrupt business practices. No. It's a relationship drama." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Oct 13, 2010
	52%	I'm Still Here (2010)	" Neither a verite portrait of an actor in decline, nor simply a hoax, but instead a diverting piece of Method-inspired performance art." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Sep 22, 2010
	41%	The Expendables (2010)	" The action sequences are terrific, the violence excessive. The guiltiest of guilty pleasures, then." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Aug 25, 2010
	86%	Inception (2010)	" Nolan clearly has great fun with the action stuff - zero gravity fights in a hotel corridor, an assault on an artic fortress and a car chase through a dreamed city are all cracking - and it all looks as spectacular as you'd hope." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jul 21, 2010
	74%	Greenberg (2010)	" Greenberg is a groundbreaking performance for Stiller who's unafraid, it seems, to risk alienating fans of his more mainstream movies like Meet The Fockers." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jun 9, 2010
	88%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" Certainly, it's not a stretch to suggest that Herzog has in Cage found his most simpático lead since the great Klaus Kinski." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted May 19, 2010
	84%	Whip It (2009)	" Slight narrative arc notwithstanding, there's a lot of warmth here." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Apr 21, 2010
	68%	Shutter Island (2010)	" Crucially, what Scorsese understands about horror movies is that the right location is everything." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Mar 15, 2010
3/5	93%	Blur: No Distance Left to Run (2010)	" A solid enough document of the band's history, then. But one very much made on their own terms." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jan 22, 2010
4/5	91%	Up in the Air (2009)	" While, certainly, capable of a dark humour and moments of extraordinary bleakness, it's also commendable for another superb performance from Clooney." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jan 15, 2010
4/5	73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" In some respects, Jonze is the geek who never grew up: and with Where The Wild Things Are, he reminds us that the simple pleasure of childhood is running around and screaming with abandon." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Dec 11, 2009
5/5	89%	A Serious Man (2009)	" A Serious Man feels - initially, at least - like a return to an earlier kind of filmmaking for the Coens." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Nov 20, 2009
3/5	57%	9 (2009)	" Pretty exciting in its Sturm-und-Drang. And, aww, really, the little sack puppets really were the cutest poppets." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009
4/5	86%	Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)	" It's the dynamic between the crass, artless Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee, his quiet, overweight partner who's capable of delivering brilliant raps, that wins here." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Oct 9, 2009
4/5	86%	White Lightnin' (2009)	" Not your conventional music biopic. In fact, it's increasingly hard to know what's fact or fiction about White's life as Murphy's film unfolds." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Sep 25, 2009
3/5	91%	District 9 (2009)	" The originality of the first hour is squandered as Blomkamp unmasks corporate villainy and resorts to an increasingly programmatic series of action set-pieces that pit Wikus and a friendly alien against the multi-national's private army." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Sep 4, 2009
3/5	68%	Public Enemies (2009)	" This crisp digital look affords Public Enemies an incredible sense of immediacy. Mann, too, has a strong eye for forensic detail that ramps up the vividness of the film." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2009
3/5	33%	Awaydays (2009)	" To the music fans, it's watching Echo & The Bunnymen gigs at nightclubs; to The Pack, Awaydays contingent of football hooligans, it's fighting in car parks." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted May 22, 2009
3/5	89%	Coraline (2009)	" Admirably, it never condescends, and the subtexts about child abduction and the nature of maternal love identify Coraline as something measurably apart from what traditionally passes for "kids" films these days." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted May 8, 2009
3/5	94%	In the Loop (2009)	" In this department, In The Loop commendably resembles a Howard Hawks-style screwball comedy enhanced with the furious profanities of a David Mamet play." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Apr 17, 2009
3/5	60%	Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009)	" But Curtis tries to juggle too many storylines, giving none of them enough time to develop. A final act swerve into disaster movie territory is also ill-advised. Still, Bill Nighy is superb, here playing Bill Nighy as the station's rakish boss." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Apr 3, 2009

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