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Neil Smith

Neil Smith

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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BBC , Film4 , Heat Magazine , Independent , Popcorn , rec.arts.movies.reviews , SFX Magazine , thelondonpaper , Total Film , Uncut Magazine [UK] , ViewLondon
Total Reviews:
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3/5 58% Cold Comes The Night () " Twists pile as high as corpses before an overcooked ending sends things spiraling into silliness." — Total Film
Posted Sep 15, 2013
1/5 8% Justin and the Knights of Valour () " It may have Antonio Banderas and Rupert Everett on board, but this 3D cartoon about a would-be knight is more dreck than Shrek." — Total Film
Posted Sep 9, 2013
3/5 50% White House Down (2013) " Makes for [an] entertaining watch before succumbing to the same bombastic overkill." — Total Film
Posted Sep 2, 2013
3/5 63% 2 Guns (2013) " Washington and Wahlberg are an effective double act in an intermittently exciting thriller with more twists than it needs." — Total Film
Posted Aug 18, 2013
2/5 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " Divine inspiration's in short supply in the sophomore outing for the teenage demigod, here afflicted with a crisis of confidence Thor Freudenthal's so-so sequel seems to share." — Total Film
Posted Aug 8, 2013
1/5 15% Top Cat:The Movie (UK) () " What really raises the hackles are its tatty attempts to update the character to a modern New York filled with mobile phones, surveillance cameras and robot cops." — Total Film
Posted Aug 2, 2013
1/5 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " It's the same sappy drivel as before ..." — Total Film
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/5 69% The Wolverine (2013) " Though it doesn't have the vibrant wit and zip of an Avengers Assemble, or the allegorical grandeur of a Dark Knight, it's a step up from the garbled silliness of Wolverine's first solo outing." — Total Film
Posted Jul 17, 2013
2/5 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " Can't decide if it's a broad farce or a poignant portrait." — Total Film
Posted Jul 16, 2013
4/5 93% Frances Ha (2013) " A joyous portrait of an unformed personality that should strike chords of recognition in all who watch it." — Total Film
Posted Jul 16, 2013
3/5 72% Renoir (2013) " A film of lazy days, sleepless nights and mellow moments that will likely test the patience of those unwilling to resign to its unhurried pace." — Total Film
Posted Jun 17, 2013
3/5 11% After Earth (2013) " For all its mealymouthed dialogue and often comical solemnity After Earth at least delivers consistently diverting entertainment ..." — Total Film
Posted Jun 3, 2013
3/5 38% The Purge (2013) " James DeMonaco's blood-splattered thriller begins well before expiring slowly from multiple improbabilities." — Total Film
Posted May 30, 2013
4/5 53% The Comedian () " Mike Leigh in miniature, without the caricature." — Total Film
Posted May 29, 2013
1/5 2% Battlefield Earth (2000) " The emphasis placed on indoctrination, enslavement and superior alien intelligence brings the film troublingly close to subliminal propaganda, while the script is so banal you'd have to be brainwashed to enjoy it." — Radio Times
Posted May 28, 2013
1/5 7% The Big Wedding (2013) " Wedding isn't telling a story so much as selling a lifestyle - one that, rather like Heigl's morning sickness, makes you want to vomit." — Total Film
Posted May 15, 2013
3/5 61% Byzantium (2013) " A stylish and moody mood piece infused with an intriguing feminist slant." — Total Film
Posted May 10, 2013
4/5 91% Scandal (1989) " While Bridget Fonda fails to nail Mandy Rice-Davies' accent as effectively as she depicts her cheeky brio, it's made up for by quality extras and the restoration of orgy footage considered too racy by the American censors." — Total Film
Posted May 8, 2013
1/5 54% All Stars () " Some day, God willing, there will be a moratorium on films about plucky kids putting on talent shows to save their schools/parks/yoof centres from predatory developers." — Total Film
Posted Apr 22, 2013
3/5 58% The Eye of the Storm (2012) " Had Merchant Ivory ever gone Down Under, they'd probably have fashioned something in the vein of this mannered chamber piece." — Total Film
Posted Apr 22, 2013
1/5 4% Scary Movie 5 (2013) " A laughter vacuum whose race to parody the likes of Mama and the new Evil Dead remake didn't stretch to writing actual jokes." — Total Film
Posted Apr 15, 2013
3/5 74% Love Is All You Need (2013) " It's a frothy affair ... albeit one that still manges to be rueful and sombre when occasion demands." — Total Film
Posted Apr 12, 2013
3/5 42% Flying Blind () " Sex, suspicion and unmanned drones make for an intriguing mix ..." — Total Film
Posted Apr 9, 2013
4/5 78% A Late Quartet (2012) " The leads make sweet music in an affecting four-piece that, if not note perfect, plays well to their individual strengths." — Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
3/5 84% Dragon (2012) " Peter Ho-Sun Chan's frenetic, high-kicking thriller runs a full 20 minutes shorter than it did at Cannes in 2011 and feels all the better for it." — Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
2/5 12% Red Dawn (2012) " The doltish, messy and frequently incoherent result bears all the hallmarks of a botched and compromised endeavour." — Total Film
Posted Mar 7, 2013
4/5 100% Michael H. Profession: Director () " An insightful portrait of the Austrian auteur that combines footage of him piecing together scenes from Amour, The White Ribbon and Code Unknown with typically brusque interviews." — Total Film
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5 59% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " Chances are that a younger audience with little knowledge of the '39 The Wizard Of Oz will find much to captivate them - and if it makes them curious enough to check out the original (or the books), then that can only be for the good." — Total Film
Posted Mar 4, 2013
3/5 —— Acoustic Routes () " There's enough artistry on display here to leave even the uninitiated grudgingly impressed." — Total Film
Posted Mar 4, 2013
3/5 62% Broken (2013) " The result believably charts a girl's coming of age but is eventually capsized by lurid melodrama even Brookside would have found excessive." — Total Film
Posted Feb 25, 2013
2/5 11% Sammy's Adventures 2 (Sammy's avonturen 2) () " Turtley average." — Total Film
Posted Feb 22, 2013
3/5 87% Arbitrage (2012) " Gere's charm offsets his character's amorality in what's both slick entertainment and cautionary fable." — Total Film
Posted Feb 18, 2013
5/5 97% Casablanca (1943) " Whether you return to Casablanca for a nostalgia fix, a guilty pleasure or for the waters, you can be certain there'll be something you didn't notice last time out." — Total Film
Posted Feb 16, 2013
4/5 84% Side Effects (2013) " Starting off in one place and ending somewhere else entirely, Soderbergh's sleek mystery takes pot-shots at Big Pharma while still delivering a polished genre product that's rarely hard to swallow." — Total Film
Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/5 14% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " Good Day in a nutshell? Father-son bonding with heavy artillery, a lot of big bangs, a triple-figure body count and little else." — Total Film
Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/5 38% The Guilt Trip (2012) " Only comes to life during a Texan steak-eating contest that has Babs ingest a mountain of meat." — Total Film
Posted Feb 4, 2013
2/5 —— U.F.O. () " No amount of fiscal ingenuity can excuse the wooden acting and crummy dialogue in what is a feeble offering." — Total Film
Posted Feb 4, 2013
1/5 0% Run For Your Wife () " Doesn't even count as a missed opportunity." — Total Film
Posted Jan 25, 2013
3/5 66% For Ellen (2012) " [A] glacially paced indie from Treeless Mountain director So Yong Kim, a Sundance special whose muted emotions take a while to access." — Total Film
Posted Jan 25, 2013
4/5 63% The Liability (2013) " Craig Viveiros' witty, grisly Brit flick about a weary assassin reluctantly mentoring a cocky upstart." — Total Film
Posted Jan 21, 2013
4/5 93% No (2013) " "We have to find a product that's appealing to people!" says Garcia Bernal at one point. And that's just what Larraín's created with this Latin spin on Mad Men." — Total Film
Posted Jan 21, 2013
4/5 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " Breathlessly tense, thrillingly orchestrated and intellectually complex, this damn fine piece of rigorous, meticulous filmmaking enhances Kathryn Bigelow's status as one of her generation's most accomplished directors." — Total Film
Posted Jan 11, 2013
3/5 42% Zaytoun (2013) " Eran Riklis' road movie - its title means 'olive' - neatly juxtaposes the beauty of the landscape with the enmities it engenders, locating an optimism in the central relationship that subsequent history ... would cruelly dash." — Total Film
Posted Jan 11, 2013
5/5 98% Chinatown (1974) " Unforgettable." — Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
4/5 96% Monsters, Inc. (2001) " [A] sparkling cartoon ..." — Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
3/5 80% Quartet (2013) " Hoffman's film couldn't offend if it tried. Age, however, has yet to wither its veterans' undimmed star appeal." — Total Film
Posted Dec 11, 2012
4/5 70% Les Misérables (2012) " Will send the devoted home happy and likely demonstrate to the few uninitiated what all the fuss is about." — Total Film
Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/5 81% Boxing Day () " Bleak as it is, its rigour proves darkly compelling." — Total Film
Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/5 100% False Trail (Jägarna 2) () " A film stocked with more atmosphere than action." — Total Film
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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