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Thom Hutchinson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:: Filmstar Magazine , Radio Times

Total Reviews:: 21

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/5	80%	The Boxer (1997)	" A knock-out performance by Daniel Day-Lewis is the highlight of this admirable if rather conventional drama." — Radio Times Posted May 14, 2013
4/5	67%	Cobb (1994)	" Ron Shelton, whose Bull Durham and White Men Can't Jump were jokey tales of disillusionment set in the sporting world, here redefines the life of an idol with a certain honest savagery." — Radio Times Posted Mar 19, 2013
4/5	81%	Braveheart (1995)	" It succeeds in bringing to life the reality of Scottish patriotism and brilliantly captures the spirit of revolution." — Radio Times Posted Feb 24, 2013
4/5	42%	The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)	" As usual, DeMille megaphones his direction to let us know where we've been, where we are and where we're going, but this is marvellous entertainment, nevertheless." — Radio Times Posted Feb 22, 2013
4/5	100%	Cutter's Way (1981)	" Cutter and Bone are seriously unlikeable characters, yet Czech émigré director Ivan Passer and writer Jeffrey Alan Fiskin make us see light in these hearts of darkness." — Radio Times Posted Jun 23, 2011
5/5	97%	Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955)	" This is a masterpiece that easily matches the best of Hitchcock." — Radio Times Posted Mar 17, 2011
5/5	95%	Peeping Tom (1960)	" A risk-all masterpiece from one of our greatest film-makers." — Radio Times Posted Nov 18, 2010
3/5	100%	Ulysses (1967)	" A flawed enterprise, partly salvaged by the use of genuine Dublin locations and the marvellous performances of the mainly Irish cast." — Radio Times Posted Nov 20, 2009
3/5	48%	Ong Bak 2 (2009)	" The camerawork, more so than in Ong-Bak, follows the rigid mechanics of Jaa's battles, so much so that the rhythm of the edit becomes hypnotic, the cartoon thwacks of skin-on-skin acting like a weird music in the final, 20-minute brawl." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Oct 16, 2009
4/5	64%	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)	" The film is too much of a shambles, but it is brave and courageous; not tainted by anything other than circumstance and passion." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Oct 16, 2009
3.5/5	81%	Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009)	" Chan-wook's film is as gluttonous and stylish as I'm a Cyborg, but fortunately Thirst's renewed appetite for bloodlust and self-annihilation suits the director's pyrotechnics better." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Oct 16, 2009
3.5/5	95%	Katalin Varga (2009)	" Tidy revenge tragedy that successfully resists the influence of the Romanian New Wave." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2009
2/5	40%	Nés en 68 (Born in 68) (2008)	" To have the two episodes of Born in '68 edited down and jammed together into a film of maximal length serves only to inflate its many weaknesses." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2009
2/5	56%	The Soloist (2009)	" A rich cocktail of all Hollywood's most endemic clichés, it would be easy to apply to The Soloist that rebuking tag, 'Oscar bait'. Its every move is calculated to pleasure and provoke the liberal classes, if only gently." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2009
2.5/5	67%	Away We Go (2009)	" Although Away We Go doesn't sum to the icon of loveliness that the filmmakers might have hoped for - it is too tonally fractured - the movie does suggest avenues that Sam Mendes might consider exploring in the future." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2009
2.5/5	80%	Chevolution (2008)	" Chevolution is punctuated by a few of the more irritating tics that seem to tempt documentarists, but largely remains an informative and balanced history, although it concludes badly." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2009
4/5	90%	Fish Tank (2010)	" The film gains everything when it takes on the trappings of a thriller. As the teenager takes the fight to suburbia, there is a shocking sense of spatial transgression." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Sep 11, 2009
2/5	81%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" The director's previous films...are all, in some way, about cinema - but this need is especially acute in Broken Embraces, which eats its own tail." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Aug 29, 2009
3.5/5	86%	Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch) (2009)	" The film is full of natural comedy; his women could easily have been comic harridans, but they are too fully drawn, perhaps because the director allowed them to draw themselves." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Aug 14, 2009
3.5/5	79%	The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)	" It's less a documentary than filmed performance art, barely concealing horror at capitalism's death wish." — Filmstar Magazine Posted Aug 7, 2009

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