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Tim Evans

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Publications:: One People's Project , Sky Movies

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	——	Vehicle 19 (2013)	" It's pure formula...but will give Fast and Furious fans something to drool over until the next F&F instalment comes skidding around the corner." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
4/5	100%	A Hijacking (2013)	" Eschewing hard boiled action for an authentically gritty approach, director Tobias Lindholm creates a fuggy atmosphere of claustrophobic dread aboard the ship juxtaposed with the airy hi-tech steel and glass HQ of the shipping line." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
4/5	98%	Mud (2013)	" This richly rewarding work lightly wears influences as disparate as Huckleberry Finn and The Hustler but ultimately emerges as the unmistakeable work of Nichols, one of the rare breed of genuinely exciting directors working in Hollywood today." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
4/5	89%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" Ultimately, it's a blockbuster that pretty much follows the story-telling arc of its compadres in the superhero world...yet Star Trek's not just living well. It's prospering." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
3/5	50%	All Stars ()	" It's a well-worn formula - a gang of youngsters have to form a dance troupe to put on a show that will save their local youth club - but what it lacks in budget it makes up for in bravado." — Sky Movies Posted May 2, 2013
3/5	36%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" A disappointingly by-the-numbers revenge yarn unspieled at great length ..." — Sky Movies Posted May 2, 2013
	26%	21 And Over (2013)	" Simply put, with friends like these, who needs enemas?" — Sky Movies Posted May 2, 2013
3/5	77%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" All in all, it's an enjoyable third instalment that keeps the Marvel juggernaut on the road...and also underlines who's the real (metal) star." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 24, 2013
	62%	Me and You (Io e te) ()	" Benissimo." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 17, 2013
3/5	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" A compelling glimpse into a world of corporate chicanery where unscrupulous business giants casually toss decent chaps like Butler into the fray to take the, er, frack." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 17, 2013
2/5	48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" A gung-ho flag waver that would give even the most ardent American neocon repetitive strain injury." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 17, 2013
4/5	74%	Simon Killer (2013)	" A refreshing departure from the current glut of slasher movies that make the mistake of thinking more gore can ever replace the feeling of icy dread that you've been played by a madman." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 10, 2013
4/5	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" Cast yourself into oblivion." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 10, 2013
2/5	9%	The Host (2013)	" This is a flaccid affair ..." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 4, 2013
3/5	34%	The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)	" It's not afraid to deal with darker issues - that childhood isn't forever - and Adams plays it just the right side of mawkish while Hedges makes sure it's anything but a smooth ride." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 4, 2013
2/5	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" As a director, Korine certainly has visual style (most of it seemingly knocked off from MTV Beach Party) but doesn't seem overly concerned with fleshing out any his buff bodies with character let alone dialogue." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 4, 2013
3/5	35%	Dark Skies (2013)	" A psychological thriller aiming to avoid the straitjacket of formula." — Sky Movies Posted Apr 4, 2013
3/5	68%	Trance (2013)	" Ultimately, it's only Boyle's supremely assured style that saves it imploding into a overcooked stew of half-memories and untrustworthy recollections." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 27, 2013
3/5	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" It's big and noisy...but it's also fun." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 27, 2013
3/5	69%	The Croods (2013)	" It may literally be an old story...but it's a good one." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 20, 2013
2/5	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" [A] laugh-free affair despite the presence of the ever-reliable Jason Bateman and a supporting cast including Jon Favreau." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 20, 2013
4/5	89%	Compliance (2012)	" [It] leaves you in a dark moral place you'd really rather not be." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 20, 2013
3/5	68%	The Spirit of '45 ()	" This is at its strongest when celebrating the simple fairness and basic decency of the welfare state and ends on an optimistic note." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 13, 2013
2/5	59%	Maniac (2013)	" One for fans at the nastier end of the slasher spectrum." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 13, 2013
3/5	52%	Broken (2013)	" A bleak vision of modern Britain that just escapes slipping into a slough of miserabalism by virtue of some light-hearted segments ..." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 6, 2013
3/5	87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" Frank Langella subtly provides the heart and soul as the crafty Frank, a game retiree whose disreputable inclinations take the story in a pleasingly unsentimental direction - think Wall-e meets The Thomas Crown Affair." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 6, 2013
3/5	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" This final (apparently) film from Steven Soderbergh presses all the buttons." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 6, 2013
2/5	38%	The Guilt Trip (2012)	" It's been more than fifteen years since Barbra Streisand has taken a lead role in a movie...and after suffering this you can see why." — Sky Movies Posted Mar 6, 2013
2/5	13%	Safe Haven (2013)	" It's compelling stuff, for all the wrong reasons. and reaches a barking apex of doolally tapness when one of the minor characters reveals herself to be a charitable ghost." — Sky Movies Posted Feb 27, 2013
3/5	14%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)	" Gore hounds will relish the sliced appendages count but - with a sharper script - you can't help thinking this could really have cast a spell." — Sky Movies Posted Feb 27, 2013
3/5	66%	For Ellen (2012)	" It's a challenging watch - Yong Kim allows plenty of time for the scenes to breathe - but it's genuinely touching, ending on a note that says all too much about the nature of the ultimate commitment-phobe." — Sky Movies Posted Feb 14, 2013
3/5	79%	Flight (2012)	" It's never less than watchable and confidently made...but you get the impression there is a bigger, better story waiting to take off." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 30, 2013
3/5	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" OK, it's like Bourne never happened but surely there's a place for a retro-fest that delivers knowing smiles as well as thumping action." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 30, 2013
3/5	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" A proficient exercise in re-creating the key events...but little insight into the wider implications of the assassination of America's greatest bogeyman." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 23, 2013
4/5	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Shows Tarantino is on winning creative streak, able to engage viewers with a sharply honed script while authentically presenting unpleasant episodes from American history." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 16, 2013
4/5	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" A touching gem of a movie largely thanks to subtly dynamic performances from Helen Hunt and John Hawkes." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 16, 2013
4/5	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" It might not be much easier to buy than a 1950s True Detective comic, but this is as slick and explosive as a barrel of high-octane hair oil." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 9, 2013
4/5	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Spectacular to look at and often poignantly beautiful to listen to, this won't disappoint the millions who have sighed at the stage play." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 9, 2013
2/5	68%	American Mary (2013)	" There have been some fatuous claims to girl empowerment here...but this is really on a feminist level with The Spice Girls wielding a surgical bone cutter." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 9, 2013
3/5	79%	Quartet (2013)	" It may appear undemanding...but there are deeper themes swirling beneath the surface to which Hoffman shows a sympathetic ear in this pleasing debut." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 1, 2013
4/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" The Orphanage director JA Barona deals in a different sort of horror in this wrenching account of the lethal tsunami which struck the Thai coast at Christmas 2004." — Sky Movies Posted Jan 1, 2013
2/5	18%	Parental Guidance (2012)	" Face it Billy, this isn't that funny." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 26, 2012
3/5	91%	Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)	" See it...then travel back in time and see it again." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 26, 2012
4/5	81%	Pitch Perfect (2012)	" Kendrick's alt-girl good-naturedly holds it all together, leaving room for Australian star Wilson to really shine with some inspired improv while comedy nuggets are strewn elsewhere ..." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 20, 2012
3/5	44%	Code Name: Geronimo ()	" It's a workmanlike account of events that acted as a sort of universal closure for a gung-ho America which convinced itself that you really could wage a war against terrorism." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 12, 2012
3/5	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" It's a promising start...but where it's going to in the two remaining movies is anybody's guess." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 11, 2012
2/5	58%	I, Anna ()	" The London locations are well-used but this has the dabs of a first attempt all over it." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 5, 2012
3/5	6%	So Undercover (2013)	" Its target audience will lap it up...but the rest of us will be searching for deep cover." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 5, 2012
3/5	32%	The Oranges (2012)	" An honest look into stale relationships and an ultimately optimistic view of how things can change even if they initially appear slightly ikky." — Sky Movies Posted Dec 5, 2012

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