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Simon Miraudo

Simon Miraudo

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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1.5/5 3% Diana (2013) " At least it's not quite as disastrous a political biopic as The Iron Lady, which is a horrendously awful portrait of an interesting, divisive individual. Dear reader, that is as faint as praise gets." — Quickflix
Posted Oct 6, 2013
5/5 98% Gravity (2013) " The old adage goes, 'They just don't make 'em like they used to.' Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity should inspire a rephrasing: 'They've never made anything like this before.' " — Quickflix
Posted Oct 1, 2013
2/5 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " When Blumberg's film heads into more melodramatic territory, and attempts to impart lessons about what it means to live and love, it feels - and apologies for the phrasing - masturbatory." — Quickflix
Posted Sep 30, 2013
2.5/5 8% Runner Runner (2013) " One day, our kids will ask where we were when we first saw Runner Runner. That, or it'll get lost in the annals of time; caught between the metaphorical couch-cushions of The Firm and Boiler Room." — Quickflix
Posted Sep 25, 2013
3/5 88% Rush (2013) " Unpredictability, originality, ingenuity, and a little bit of personality elevates the great from the good. ... Without those elements, Rush feels more like a Walk. It's conventional. It's safe. It's the Ron Howard of movies." — Quickflix
Posted Sep 24, 2013
2/5 57% Cruising (1980) " What an odd relic of the 1980s Cruising is. Controversial enough at the time to derail director William Friedkin's career, thirty years later it's considered totally benign when a Disney star films a reconstruction of its X-rated scenes." — Quickflix
Posted Sep 23, 2013
1.5/5 79% Sharknado (2013) " Sharknado was born to suck, but I'm hesitant to accuse its enthusiastic viewers of being rubes. The prime reason: I'm an enthusiastic viewer of it too. " — Quickflix
Posted Sep 23, 2013
4/5 37% Southland Tales (2007) " Writer-director Richard Kelly throws a lot at the wall. The problem, if that's what we should call it, is that everything sticks. That's bad news for those who like some narrative clarity, and great news for those who enjoy bonkers wall art." — Quickflix
Posted Sep 16, 2013
4/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " What a relief it must be for an actor to realise they're in one of Woody Allen's good movies; a biennial event!The darkly comic class nightmare Blue Jasmine, is one of the good ones. The very good ones." — Quickflix
Posted Sep 13, 2013
4/5 86% The Turning () " The magical thing about Tim Winton's The Turning is how consistently good it is. That it occasionally touches greatness makes it miraculous." — Quickflix
Posted Sep 11, 2013
4/5 88% What Maisie Knew (2013) " What Maisie Knew runs its titular, newly-orphaned moppet through so many heartbreaking scenarios and encounters, I was stirred to start drawing up the adoption papers myself. " — Quickflix
Posted Aug 27, 2013
4/5 75% You're Next (2013) " You're Next [is] a damn good time at the pictures. If you're looking for filmmakers about to blow up, big time, they're next." — Quickflix
Posted Aug 26, 2013
2.5/5 26% Jobs (2013) " It's not at all flattering, yet it still adheres to the most tired elements of similar projects that have come before it. jOBS is the Apple III of biopics." — Quickflix
Posted Aug 25, 2013
3/5 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " So long as Chloë Grace Moretz's murderous Mindy Macready - aka Hit Girl - remains in the limelight, I'll take little umbrage with the bastardisation of the comics upon which these movies are based. " — Quickflix
Posted Aug 20, 2013
1/5 4% Scary Movie 5 (2013) " Railing against Scary Movie V for diminishing the series' standards would be as effective as criticising Brooke Hogan for disgracing her proud family name. And yet, the fifth instalment of the Scary Movie franchise does do that. " — Quickflix
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/5 68% Elysium (2013) " Elysium has many of the ingredients one would think required to replicate [District 9's] artistic success. So perhaps the only lingering question worth answering is, 'Why isn't it quite as good?'" — Quickflix
Posted Aug 11, 2013
4/5 49% Pain & Gain (2013) " Michael Bay, burdened with glorious purpose, pours his everything into Pain & Gain; the closest thing to an indie-spirited passion project he will likely ever make... It works. I can't believe this thing actually works. " — Quickflix
Posted Aug 7, 2013
3/5 69% Greetings From Tim Buckley (2013) " It's a fittingly understated turn [from Badgley], complemented by on-stage performances of Tim Buckley's music that feels - and sounds - like real emotional catharsis. No small feat." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 29, 2013
3.5 87% 100 Bloody Acres (2013) " A highly amusing little horror movie, elevated by uncommonly layered performances, not to mention the voluminous amount of fake blood spewed, limbs torn apart, oddball sex scenes, and one particularly amusing drug trip." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 28, 2013
1.5/5 16% The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) " What do you call those guys who paint themselves silver and then stand still like statues? This has one of those. A threatening one. So, if that sounds up your alley..." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 28, 2013
2.5/5 34% Passion (2013) " It's not De Palma's over-the-top direction that undoes Passion; rather, the terminal miscasting of its two leads. " — Quickflix
Posted Jul 25, 2013
4.5/5 94% The Silence of the Lambs (1991) " Has any horror movie equalled it in the past 22 years? Perhaps. But if only one super-gory flick is ever considered worthy enough for the Academy's top prize, I'm fine with this being it." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 23, 2013
4/5 89% The World's End (2013) " Besides closing on a downbeat final note - as opposed to Shaun and Fuzz's ebullient endings - this is a good old time at the movies, the kind only a born filmmaker can provide. " — Quickflix
Posted Jul 21, 2013
3.5/5 69% The Wolverine (2013) " The Wolverine is by far the best of the series; a compliment that comes with a massive caveat: I'm not a fan of what's come before. " — Quickflix
Posted Jul 21, 2013
4/5 84% This Is the End (2013) " Never reaches the heights of earlier collaborations Superbad and Pineapple Express. However, it has a belligerent, depraved, coked-up Michael Cera, and that is a treat unique to this film and this film only, so it's certainly worth your time." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 15, 2013
3.5/5 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " Bankrolled to the tune of $180 million ... del Toro finally gets to crack open his biggest toy box yet. I'm ecstatic for him. I'm only mildly happy for myself, as a viewer." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 8, 2013
4/5 —— La cinquième saison () " The pastoral setting, giant wicker men, ridiculous masks, and insurgent animals are familiar elements to classic fables. Brosens and Woodworth combine them into something new, and far more frightening." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 8, 2013
3/5 —— Pictures of Superheroes () " With his debut feature film, Pictures of Superheroes, writer-director Don Swaynos emerges with a fully formed comedic voice, if not a fully formed screenplay." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 8, 2013
4.5/5 —— White Reindeer (2013) " Clark's singularly unique, visually inventive, emotionally complex dramedy ... is a rich, rewarding treat, at any time of year." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 8, 2013
4/5 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is, at the very least, unlike anything we've seen before. Gruelling, harrowing, and weirdly funny." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 4, 2013
3.5/5 80% Casino (1995) " Casino is Scorsese's 'messy drawer' of a movie; disconnected scenes and stylistic odds and sods... it might be his most idiosyncratic. " — Quickflix
Posted Jul 1, 2013
2/5 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " They worked so hard to make a movie out of The Lone Ranger, responding to the pleas of absolutely no one. Calls for a sequel will be even less thunderous." — Quickflix
Posted Jul 1, 2013
4/5 56% Man of Steel (2013) " Parental drama is Man of Steel's most potent weapon. For all of the film's issues - and they will be discussed - it resonated on a deeply emotional level. That alone helps it to stand tall above the pack." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 25, 2013
2.5/5 67% World War Z (2013) " Totally uninvolving. Certainly the least scary zombie film I've ever seen." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 20, 2013
4.5/5 85% Upstream Color (2013) " Shane Carruth's Upstream Color might even be better than his previous effort, Primer... [It's] a marvel of sci-fi storytelling." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 15, 2013
4.5/5 94% The Past (2013) " Saying it's not a better work than A Separation serves only to compliment A Separation. The Past is note-perfect." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 15, 2013
2.5/5 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " As significant to Refn's previous successes the technical achievements are, they alone do not make a movie. You need something to hang your hat on, more tangible than light and sound and that vague feeling of cool." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 15, 2013
5/5 95% Stories We Tell (2013) " This is simply a gorgeously realised and warmly compiled family album, which lingers with us not because its subjects are so unusual and alien, but because they feel so close to home. What a success." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 15, 2013
4/5 93% Frances Ha (2013) " Frances Ha is a sympathetic but not uncritical depiction of a girl's gradual evolution into a woman; one that never condescends by forcing her to abandon all her quirks and impish qualities in the final act... An absolute delight, this is." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 14, 2013
2/5 57% Borgman () " How do you solve a problem like Borgman? A puzzle movie from the Netherlands with seemingly no key, it frustrates and intrigues in equal measure. Well, maybe not equal measure. Much more of the first thing." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 14, 2013
2.5/5 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " If it was Sofia Coppola's intention to portray Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Audrina Patridge as the unfortunate, sympathetic victims of teens run rampant in The Bling Ring, then, great work?" — Quickflix
Posted Jun 13, 2013
4.5/5 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " What a lovely, lyrical wonder David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche is... This is a triumph. We often reserve that word for grand spectacles and epic achievements. Little wonders can be triumphs too." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 13, 2013
3/5 93% For Those In Peril () " The last few shots are beautifully executed. A perfect finale to an imperfect film." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 13, 2013
4/5 64% Mood Indigo () " Everything wilts, but not Michel Gondry's talents as an imaginative, inimitable, and incisive storyteller." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 13, 2013
2/5 —— Monsoon Shootout () " Once, twice, three times a disappointment, Amit Kumar's Monsoon Shootout offers us three variations on the same cataclysmic event in the life of a rookie homicide detective. " — Quickflix
Posted Jun 12, 2013
4.5/5 95% Behind the Candelabra (2013) " It's the best skewering and celebration of celebrity I've seen in some time. Televisual origins be damned: this is one of the year's best movies." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 12, 2013
2.5/5 54% Lovelace (2013) " Call it Rashoporn if you like; it still feels like a superficial examination of an interesting time and subject." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 10, 2013
3.5/5 78% Monsters University (2013) " One of the funnier films the studio has ever produced. Once upon a time, however, Pixar could also be relied upon for drawing a tear or two...[and] this is basically an animated spoof of Animal House." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 10, 2013
4/5 100% The Rocket (2013) " Crowd-pleasers come in many mysterious packages, and there might not be a bigger crowd-pleaser this year than The Rocket; a disarming fable about a makeshift family desperately seeking a place to live in a ravaged Laos." — Quickflix
Posted Jun 9, 2013
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