Trevor Johnston

Trevor Johnston

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography:
Time Out film critic.
Publications:
Film4 , Radio Times , Time Out , Time Out New York , Times [UK]
Total Reviews:
524

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
5/5 100% Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954) " Rossellini stealthily ushers us towards a sense of heady affirmation so primal that 'romance' isn't a strong enough word for it." — Time Out
Posted May 8, 2013
2/5 36% Dead Man Down (2013) " A way-too-leisurely thriller whose destination is fairly obvious from early on, but to which the talented cast apply themselves with effortful seriousness." — Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
4/5 74% Love Is All You Need (2013) " The cliché-averse will doubtless resist, but the laughter and tears here are never less than fully earned. A lovely film." — Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2013
2/5 33% Home (Yurt) () " The story is too vague and episodic, though it is told with sincerity and passion." — Radio Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
3/5 94% First Position (2012) " Undeniably effective as drama, as we ponder the varying degrees of ambition and talent driving these young people to push their bodies beyond the limit in the hope of grasping a future in the spotlight." — Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2013
2/5 34% The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) " Odd indeed." — Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
2/5 29% All Things To All Men () " The spiralling plot becomes increasingly academic while it seems to think it's being terribly clever." — Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
4/5 87% In the House (2013) " A witty, naughty, insight-packed provocation which never takes its seriousness too seriously." — Time Out
Posted Mar 26, 2013
3/5 51% Post Tenebras Lux (2013) " The film does come across as an evidently sincere attempt to create a new kind of cinema, but opinion will certainly vary on whether Reygadas really does offer, as his title suggests, light after darkness." — Radio Times
Posted Mar 22, 2013
1/5 20% Identity Thief (2013) " It saddles Bateman with a thankless uptight straight-man role while heaping serial slapstick ignominies on his co-star, who gamely bounds through everything the script throws at her." — Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2013
100% Bab el hadid (Cairo Station) (The Iron Gate) (1958) " It's a strikingly controlled, confident, bitingly effective display, which leaves you wondering where this film has been all our lives." — Time Out
Posted Mar 18, 2013
3/5 40% Parker (2013) " Overall, it gets by, but bets are hedged when single-minded efficiency and ice in the veins would have been enough." — Time Out
Posted Mar 5, 2013
2/5 67% Stoker (2013) " A drab, mannered horror-melodrama, potentially interesting in execution but relentlessly tedious in outcome." — Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
2/5 13% Safe Haven (2013) " [The] final reel ... descends into the Vortex of Bonkers, delivering fits of unexpected laughter." — Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
4/5 50% Hi-so () " Some will find it a bit muted, but those attuned to the quiet desolation of an Antonioni or Hou Hsiao-Hsien will find much to admire. A welcome discovery." — Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
3/5 100% Fire In The Blood () " If the film sags a little under the weight of information, it never loses sight of the individual suffering and courage which makes the story so significant." — Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
3/5 73% Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) (2013) " Even though we know where the film's going, it still manages to give the tear-ducts a workout." — Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
4/5 66% For Ellen (2012) " It's uncomfortably funny, achingly true - and the work of an absolutely genuine artist." — Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
3/5 63% Hitchcock (2012) " Scatty, intriguing but slightly undercooked ..." — Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2013
2/5 47% Bullet to the Head (2013) " Residual affection for the talent and a certain '80s nostalgia will make this amenable to some, but, in all honesty, it's not up to much." — Time Out
Posted Jan 30, 2013
3/5 75% Dwae-ji-ui wang (The King of Pigs) () " Visually, it goes for etched simplicity, bolstered by appropriately shouty performances: the result is forthrightly in-your-face, culturally fascinating, but a tough watch." — Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
3/5 77% Aurora (2011) Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
3/5 99% Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) " The exquisite nigiri slices gleam with freshness, and you do learn about the component parts to the perfect serving of sea eel or gizzard shad." — Time Out
Posted Jan 8, 2013
4/5 100% Underground () " An utterly splendid achievement all round." — Time Out
Posted Jan 8, 2013
4/5 100% McCullin () " Here's a man who has witnessed what he terms "the price of humanity": his pictures and this compelling documentary are eloquent testimony to the darkness and light inherent in those words." — Radio Times
Posted Jan 3, 2013
4/5 76% Hors Satan (2013) " The result is mesmerising, beatific, disturbing, and leaves us pondering our own beliefs in a way few films do." — Time Out
Posted Dec 26, 2012
3/5 66% Love Crime (2011) " The interplay between the two very different leads and the involving, increasingly dark story keep things moving along nicely." — Radio Times
Posted Dec 14, 2012
4/5 95% Chasing Ice (2012) " Still an eco-sceptic? Clap your eyes on this lot. Awe-inspiring, terrifying, transcendently beautiful, and absolutely weighted with significance for the future of the planet." — Time Out
Posted Dec 11, 2012
2/5 17% Gambit () " 'Gambit' is like drinking cheap, warm champagne from a plastic cup." — Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2012
2/5 —— Bienvenue parmi nous (Welcome Abroad) () " [Looks] no further than the usual odd-couple clichés and opting for trite story beats rather than believable characterisation." — Time Out
Posted Oct 23, 2012
4/5 93% The Sapphires (2013) " A gem, no less." — Time Out
Posted Oct 16, 2012
4/5 100% BB King: The Life of Riley () " In the music business, 'legend' is an over-used word: see this and understand what it means." — Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2012
3/5 65% Private Peaceful () " O'Connor shows his old-school expertise in the charming country childhood sequences, where the film feels most individual and alive." — Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2012
2/5 63% Sinister (2012) " This so-so, occasionally effective horror film combines found-footage creepiness and haunted-house scares - but is stronger on mood than story." — Time Out
Posted Oct 2, 2012
4/5 80% The Prophet () " Tarn's expansive, intimate, lovely film lets us share the connectedness of humanity, as we see lovers, workers, families all over the world getting on with the business of being alive." — Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2012
2/5 43% To Rome with Love (2012) " Allen's creative revival comes to a juddering halt with a foursome of would-be amusing vignettes that barely muster a laugh between them." — Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2012
2/5 67% Lawless (2012) " Hardy is a fierce anti-hero, well matched against the manic, leather-gloved Pearce, but Hillcoat just cannot bring order to the chaos." — Radio Times
Posted Sep 7, 2012
2/5 77% Samsara (2012) " Fricke's film reminds us there's an inspiring world out there, but his approach is badly in need of creative rebirth." — Time Out
Posted Aug 28, 2012
4/5 95% The Imposter (2012) " You couldn't make this stuff up - and no one would buy it as fiction. But as a documentary, it's a different matter." — Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2012
2/5 63% The Wedding Video () " This homegrown romcom is pretty much doomed from the start." — Time Out
Posted Aug 14, 2012
3/5 78% Brave (2012) " No, not another Pixar classic, but for full-on family fun it's a brave effort." — Time Out
Posted Aug 7, 2012
2/5 21% 360 (2012) " '360' is classy but utterly amorphous, and that seemingly benign title gives far too much away." — Time Out
Posted Aug 7, 2012
4/5 92% A Simple Life (2012) " An exquisite and wise moment of celluloid portraiture." — Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2012
2/5 41% The Flowers of War (2011) " Zhang's flamboyant camera choreography and diva-ish flounces of melodrama are vivid but misplaced." — Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2012
4/5 96% Searching for Sugar Man (2012) " All you really have to know about this surprising and emotive music doc is that you should see it." — Time Out
Posted Jul 24, 2012
2/5 55% Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) " Though it's clear we're meant to be moved by the big finale, the sight of these two together is so unsettling it's hard not to start rooting for the asteroid." — Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2012
2/5 77% Killer Joe (2012) " Friedkin remains an expert technician to this day, but it's difficult to understand his enthusiasm for this seemingly juvenile exercise in trailer-trash excess." — Radio Times
Posted Jun 29, 2012
3/5 92% The Fairy (2012) " The story cuts corners, so it's not the masterpiece these filmmakers may yet create - but when they're on, this is jolly and so cute you'll sigh." — Time Out
Posted Jun 26, 2012
2/5 52% Where Do We Go Now? (2012) " This is energetic, bursting with sincerity, yet also frustrating and disappointing." — Time Out
Posted Jun 19, 2012
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