Simon Miraudo

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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Quickflix
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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/5 89% Compliance (2012) " Compliance is a horror movie with no sudden frights, no gore, and not a single scream. It's a surveillance video, capturing us with all our blemishes; a reminder that how we see ourselves is so rarely in line with the truth" — Quickflix
Posted May 5, 2013
4/5 88% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " I had begun to wonder if any of these big budget monstrosities could deliver something special; something that didn't feel like a facsimile of previous successes, totally devoid of heart and humanity. Star Trek Into Darkness is... almost that." — Quickflix
Posted May 5, 2013
4.5/5 66% Spring Breakers (2013) " The message may be lost on those who only came for the bountiful breasts and booties... Spring Breakers is an immersive phantasmagoria; one of the funniest, strangest, prettiest, and flat out maddest films of the year." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 30, 2013
4/5 86% Five Easy Pieces (1970) " The feature is anchored by Nicholson's performance, in which he demonstrates his unique ability to swiftly shape-shift from a cheeky sweet-heart into a volatile beast." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 30, 2013
3/5 77% Iron Man 3 (2013) " Iron Man 3 carries that 'morning after' feeling former playboy Tony Stark is no doubt familiar with... There are plenty of great moments, but it barely hangs together as a film." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 23, 2013
4.5/5 98% Mean Streets (1973) " This marriage of indelible imagery with electric, seemingly incongruous pop songs wouldn't be bettered until, well, the next time Scorsese decided to do it." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 16, 2013
3/5 56% Oblivion (2013) " The pace is far less frenetic than other recent actioners, and the tone more thoughtful. With a lovely score and particularly nice performances from its central trio, the final cut of Oblivion suggests greatness was not entirely out of reach." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 10, 2013
3/5 70% The Loneliest Planet (2012) " Frankly, I've greatly enjoyed discussing the film, whereas I merely tolerated the experience of actually watching it." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 7, 2013
2/5 20% Identity Thief (2013) " The first thing I did after returning from the screening was take two painkillers for my throbbing headache. A man can only withstand so much shrill shrieking and faux-screwball antics." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 2, 2013
3.5/5 68% Trance (2013) " The rolling of the end credits acts like a finger-snap, after which I suggest you return to your life without giving what's transpired much further though. Easy to watch; easy to dismiss." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 2, 2013
4.5/5 85% Sleepwalk With Me (2012) " Sleepwalk With Me is implausibly appealing. The idea of someone not liking this picture is implausible. It would be without plause." — Quickflix
Posted Apr 1, 2013
1.5/5 9% The Host (2013) " Clunky, dramatically inert, ideologically repugnant, and just a plain old bore, The Host may be the worst thing anyone involved has ever been affiliated with. In some instances, that may also prove true for the audience." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 27, 2013
5/5 98% Lawrence of Arabia (1962) " How did David Lean and star Peter O'Toole achieve such perfection? If we could define and distil it, we wouldn't need a special category for those flicks we call 'classics.' Lawrence of Arabia is that, and then some." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 26, 2013
3/5 —— The Patience Stone (2013) " The only ferociousness comes from Farahani... She gives The Patience Stone its gravitas." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 24, 2013
3.5/5 28% G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) " Retaliation is easily the best film produced under the Hasbro banner, clearing the lowest cinematic bar perhaps ever known to humanity. It stars Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, and a bunch of ninjas. You'd have to work hard to not make this thing fun." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 24, 2013
4/5 98% Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) " Alex Gibney isn't casting the first stone at the Vatican with his documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. But, God willing, it will be the most effective in shattering their narrative of blissful ignorance." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 21, 2013
1.5/5 15% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " The Nakatomi Plaza has never felt so far away. Die Hard is my favourite film. I only attended AGDTDH as a sombre obligation; like a relative being asked to identify a corpse." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 19, 2013
4/5 96% Blancanieves (2013) " The final sequences - including the odd, unsettling epilogue - are truly beautiful, shot stunningly by Kiko de la Rica and scored by Alfonso de Vilallonga. And all of it is wordless. That's magic." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 17, 2013
3.5/5 38% The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) " The Incredible Burt Wonderstone gets a lot of mileage out of its stars' increasingly ridiculous hairdos. I'm not proud to say that they kept me giggling throughout, but they did, and I have to live with that." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 12, 2013
3.5/5 86% Easy Rider (1969) " Though deserving of its esteemed status on account of the cinematic revolution it spawned, the feature itself is something of a relic. But since when isn't it fascinating to reflect on the fossils of the past?" — Quickflix
Posted Mar 11, 2013
4/5 85% Side Effects (2013) " The feature evolves from an icy, haunting tale of depression and abandonment into a squalid, sordid, serpentine Alfred Hitchcock pastiche. That it can glide from these two poles with us barely realising is a testament to Soderbergh's talent." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 10, 2013
3.5/5 60% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " [Is] Oz the Great and Powerful the tale of a playboy operator being forced to deal with the consequences of his bed-hopping past? An allegorical glimpse into the home life of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening? Perhaps not. It's pretty nonetheless." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 5, 2013
2.5/5 68% Great Expectations (2013) " You know what you're getting with this movie. Perhaps some will appreciate a nicely decorated, predictable take on a beloved book. I'd rather something riskier." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 4, 2013
1.5/5 —— Le prénom () " If I found any one of these five relatable, I wouldn't be wondering what to call my son, but rather inquiring into an operation that would make procreation an impossibility." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 4, 2013
2/5 30% Broken City (2013) " Broken City may break new ground when it comes to pioneering cinematic scowls, but that's the only area where the cast is able to elevate the banal material." — Quickflix
Posted Mar 4, 2013
4/5 68% Cloud Atlas (2012) " A compelling, uncynical, often thrilling package, the likes of which we've never seen before, and will perhaps never see replicated. I will watch Cloud Atlas more than once." — Quickflix
Posted Feb 26, 2013
3.5/5 44% The Paperboy (2012) " On their first meeting in prison, [Hillary] demands [Charlotte] put on a sex show of sorts in front of everyone. She obliges. Look, dating is tough." — Quickflix
Posted Feb 25, 2013
2.5/5 38% Save Your Legs () " [Stephen Curry] manages to put a few runs on the board for the Aussie cricket flick Save Your Legs, elevating Boyd Hicklin's spritely if not particularly funny flick to the realm of 'watchable.' " — Quickflix
Posted Feb 24, 2013
3/5 59% The Last Stand (2013) " The Last Stand sees bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger return to the big screen following an eight-year term as Governor of California, because that is the reality we now occupy... A fun, dumb, enjoyable, dumb, mostly well performed, super dumb film. " — Quickflix
Posted Feb 21, 2013
4.5/5 92% No (2013) " Larraín's script is punctuated by dark bursts of humour, and the filmmaker knowingly navigates his audience to a nail-biting - though never cloying, and fully warranted - climax." — Quickflix
Posted Feb 17, 2013
5/5 100% On the Waterfront (1954) " Allow me to suggest On the Waterfront is one such 'classic' that holds up; a declaration that deserves only one, dismissive response: "No duh."" — Quickflix
Posted Feb 12, 2013
4/5 90% Caesar Must Die (2013) " In just 76 minutes, the Taviani brothers treat us to a deeply affecting adaptation of this ancient play, embedded with even deeper meaning on account of its unconventional stars." — Quickflix
Posted Feb 10, 2013
4.5/5 89% Lincoln (2012) " A focused, remarkably human production, anchored by Day-Lewis' understated performance as the softly spoken, long winded, devilishly funny Abraham" — Quickflix
Posted Feb 5, 2013
2/5 14% Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) " A half-heartedly conceived, boringly executed, and instantly forgettable feathered-fish for absolutely no one... just bad enough to incite an existential, soul-searching journey wherein we wonder if we are even capable of experiencing joy" — Quickflix
Posted Feb 3, 2013
3.5/5 84% Smashed (2012) " In under eighty minutes, Smashed succeeds in so many ways." — Quickflix
Posted Feb 3, 2013
3.5/5 92% Silver Linings Playbook (2012) " Silver Linings Playbook is a fine, funny film, and one that should charm viewers who haven't been tricked by all those Oscar nominations into anticipating it as some kind of world-changing work of art for the ages." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 28, 2013
3.5/5 79% Flight (2012) " Denzel Washington and Robert Zemeckis jettison their bad habits like so much frozen human waste from the back of a soaring airliner with their collaboration Flight." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 28, 2013
3.5/5 93% Barbara (2012) " A well-observed, compelling, and evocative character piece, haunted by the ghosts of Germany's recent past." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 28, 2013
5/5 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " This thing is an embarrassment of riches; the jewel in director Kathryn Bigelow's crown." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 20, 2013
2.5/5 95% Sister (2012) " Slow-moving to the point of being glacial, Meier's icy endeavour is just barely rewarding enough to warrant the effort required to sit through it." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 20, 2013
4/5 92% Charade (1963) " A novel, auteur-driven film populated with reliably charismatic stars; even at the age of 50 it leaves most modern produce in the dust. It was also a hit. Five decades later, why has Hollywood not learnt their lesson?" — Quickflix
Posted Jan 14, 2013
3.5/5 90% The Hunt (2013) " Humans do terrible things to one another. In The Hunt, Vinterberg believes we can do right too." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 14, 2013
4.5/5 88% Django Unchained (2012) " Tarantino often reminds us that film can be used as a weapon. Here he purges all that racial ugliness from the past not by asking its left-leaning audience to whoop and cheer at whitey's demise, but by having our hero do battle with screen history itself." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 14, 2013
3.5/5 91% Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) " If you like your science-fiction lo-fi, and your coming of age parables with a handy technological metaphor at their core, Colin Trevorrow's Safety Not Guaranteed is the movie you've been waiting for." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 13, 2013
2/5 32% Gangster Squad (2013) " The final product elicits little more than a shrug. Made it, ma. Top of the world..." — Quickflix
Posted Jan 8, 2013
4/5 52% This is 40 (2012) " Feels even more personal than his previous works, and considering Funny People spent many minutes showing us a video of his daughter Maude's singing Memories at a high school play, that's mighty impressive. " — Quickflix
Posted Jan 7, 2013
2/5 18% Parental Guidance (2012) " It is with deep regret that the last film I review for 2012 be Andy Fickman's Parental Guidance, wherein Billy Crystal is struck in the testicles with a baseball bat, and then proceeds to vomit on a child out of agony." — Quickflix
Posted Dec 20, 2012
2/5 66% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " Peter Jackson didn't particularly want to direct The Hobbit, and I didn't particularly want to be bored to tears, but there we both were, fulfilling what could only be described as some sort of cinematic murder-suicide pact." — Quickflix
Posted Dec 18, 2012
3.5/5 61% Jack Reacher (2012) " Jack Reacher is trash, but since when is that a bad thing? If this should kick off a franchise, there are far worse signatures than a knowing sense of humour. It might just be what's missing from all those other deathly grim series out there." — Quickflix
Posted Dec 17, 2012
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