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Simon Foster

Simon Foster

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:
Digital Retribution , sbs.com.au , Screen-Space
Total Reviews:
432

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0.5/5 18% Valentine's Day (2010) " It shares much in common with producer Irwin Allen's disaster pics of the 1970s (The Swarm; Beyond The Poseidon Adventure), which also featured a lot of stars in really bad films." — sbs.com.au
Posted Feb 15, 2010
47% The A-Team (2010) " Where The A-Team falters so resoundingly is in its belief that spectacle equals suspense. " — sbs.com.au
Posted Jun 10, 2010
2/5 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " It is in writer/director Shyamalan's dialogue that the film grinds to a halt. His words have grown increasingly pompous and stilted since his concise, crisp, Oscar-nominated script for The Sixth Sense." — sbs.com.au
Posted Sep 16, 2010
2/5 4% Vampires Suck (2010) " The greatest achievement of Vampires Suck is an entirely unintentional one -- in condensing the key story elements of the three Twilight films into less than 90 minutes, it pinpoints what bloated melodramas Meyers' films really are." — sbs.com.au
Posted Aug 26, 2010
2/5 49% The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) " 124 minutes of listening to teenagers melodramatically espouse the depth of their convoluted passions for each other makes for a pretty dire trip to the movies." — sbs.com.au
Posted Jul 2, 2010
2.5/5 73% Iron Man 2 (2010) " All this extra effort drains the inherent sense of what was fun about the original, darkening it with issues and complexities that unnecessarily muddy the crisp, clearly commercial premise." — sbs.com.au
Posted Apr 29, 2010
3/5 50% The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010) " A well-staged but exceedingly conventional payoff highlights the fact that the film, despite being based on a perversely scatological and quite horrific premise, is actually rather palatable in its execution. " — sbs.com.au
Posted Sep 8, 2010
3/5 74% Splice (2010) " Offers just enough moral and emotional ambiguity to make for an engaging if occasionally icky movie-going experience. " — sbs.com.au
Posted Aug 2, 2010
3/5 68% Leaving (Partir) (2010) " Yet, despite its many shortcomings, the film remains watchable and entertaining. " — sbs.com.au
Posted Jul 21, 2010
3/5 52% Knight & Day (2010) " Though it sells itself as a free-wheeling adventure, Knight and Day is a precisely-constructed and strategically vital opening salvo in the restoration of the 'Tom Cruise' brand." — sbs.com.au
Posted Jul 15, 2010
3/5 74% Cold Souls (2009) " Barthes' first film indicates a fearless, imaginative writer/director with a great deal more to offer audiences with her future projects; if Cold Souls isn't always easy to warm to, it certainly lights the fire of a talent worth watching."
Posted Nov 26, 2009
3.5/5 44% Habibi Rasak Kharban (Habibi) (2012) " It is an impressive first effort by Yousef." — sbs.com.au
Posted Dec 5, 2012
3.5/5 90% Face to Face (2013) " The strengths of Face to Face far outweigh its shortcomings. A smart blend of social satire and moral think piece, it's resonant Australian movie-making best suited to a mature audience." — sbs.com.au
Posted Sep 8, 2011
3.5/5 81% The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010) " Though The Disappearance of Alice Creed doesn't quite play out to the end, it is still a fine thriller and an exciting calling-card film for J Blakeson. " — sbs.com.au
Posted Sep 9, 2010
3.5/5 78% The End of the Line (2009) " Revelations about the tonnes of wasted sealife caught and discarded annually and the destructive effects of practices such as bottom-trawling, are head-spinning in their immensity." — sbs.com.au
Posted May 14, 2010
3.5/5 82% Triangle (2009) " A surprisingly satisfying white-knuckler." — sbs.com.au
Posted Apr 29, 2010
3.5/5 67% Date Night (2010) " Levy and writer Josh Klausner wisely decide to remain in the background and let their stars do their thing." — sbs.com.au
Posted Apr 8, 2010
4/5 80% Life in a Day (2011) " It's best to simply ignore its corporate branding and accept the spirit of deeper understanding and celebration of the project's intention. " — sbs.com.au
Posted Sep 2, 2011
4/5 88% The Hedgehog (2011) " Making her feature-length film debut, Mona Achache displays a fearlessness in her approach to a multi-tiered character study with psychological and existential overtones, all set within the confines of what amounts to a single-setting chamber piece." — sbs.com.au
Posted Jul 8, 2010
4/5 70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " Ritchie, Downey Jr and Law have done just about as good a job at reimagining the great sleuth for the modern audiences as one could have hoped." — sbs.com.au
Posted Dec 15, 2009
4/5 83% Paranormal Activity (2009) " The young couple's (and our) exposure to the demonic forces at play in suburban San Diego is entirely believable and chillingly unforgettable." — sbs.com.au
Posted Dec 2, 2009
4/5 87% Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) " If Pixar are the modern equivalent of the sweet artistry of Walt Disney's best, then Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is the slightly-skewy offspring of Chuck Jones and his Warner Bros. cartoons." — sbs.com.au
Posted Nov 26, 2009
4.5/5 90% Fish Tank (2010) " The profound essence of British cinema's roots in social realism is taken to another level in Andrea Arnold's chest-tightening Fish Tank, a coming-of-age drama of searing immediacy and heart-breaking intimacy." — sbs.com.au
Posted May 21, 2010
4.5/5 48% Antichrist (2009) " We deride the lack of bold visions and confronting themes in world cinema today, yet a film like Antichrist comes along and there is a backlash against its artistry, complexity, ambition and ambiguity just because it contains moments that deeply shock." — sbs.com.au
Posted Nov 26, 2009
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