Eddie Harrison
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
Eddie Harrison is a BAFTA-winning screenwriter, producer and jounalist with several decades of experience writing for Associated Press, The List, and broadcasting on the BBC.
Publications:
BBC.com,
The List,
film-authority.com
Location:
UK
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| 1/5 | 14% | Over Her Dead Body (2008) |
the audience are acquainted in no uncertain terms with the environs of hell... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 7, 2021
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| 3/5 | 35% | Battlestar Galactica (1978) |
...delivered the high-concept space-action required at the time... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 7, 2021
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| 3/5 | 52% | Coming 2 America (2021) |
Coming 2 America is very much a reprise of the first film, but struggling for laughs with Murphy cast as the straight man rather than the comic... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 6, 2021
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| 4/5 | 88% | American Woman (2019) |
...(Sienna) Miller digs deep to light up the screen and make the role her own, showing a woman forced to mature by circumstances, but refusing to give in to bitterness or isolation... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 5, 2021
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| 4/5 | 76% | Wander Darkly (2020) |
...somewhere between Ghost and Jacob's Ladder, but more blurred, adult and agonising than either... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 5, 2021
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| 4/5 | 93% | About Endlessness (Om det Oändliga) (2020) |
...a perfect coda to a storied career... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | 11 Harrowhouse (1974) |
...this whole film has wit, panache, and bonhomie to spare; the surprising thing is that critics and audiences didn't take to this romp... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 3/5 | 40% | The Manitou (1978) |
...sets up one strange scene after another to deliver a battered package of horror goods... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 3/5 | 53% | Audrey Rose (1977) |
...a fairly weedy entry in the demonology cycle... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 4/5 | 85% | Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) |
...lazer focused on exposing the divided, race-baiting, intolerant canvas of today's America... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 4/5 | 90% | The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) |
...builds tension through a series of finely-tuned arguments and monologues en route to a big, sweeping, rousing Hollywood pay-off... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 3/5 | No Score Yet | The Bridge at Remagen (1969) |
...those still living WWII in their heads will find much to enjoy; with Segal, Gazzara and other in lockstep with the tough-guy, 'war makes a man of you' theme, this is one for aging boys to savour - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 3, 2021
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| 3/5 | 59% | Raising Cain (1992) |
...feels like the final scene of Psycho, expanded to feature length, with cod-psychology constantly used to provide context for crazy, disturbing visuals... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 2, 2021
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| 4/5 | 32% | Holy Lands (Les terres saintes) (2018) |
...whenever Caan and Hollander are on-screen, they show a great chemistry, ideal for the philosophical ruminations of the script... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 1, 2021
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| 4/5 | 88% | Standing Up, Falling Down (2020) |
...Matt Ratner's debut film is an enjoyable star vehicle for old favourite Billy Crystal... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 1, 2021
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| 4/5 | 80% | Restless Natives (1986) |
...one of the better examples of the brief rush of Scottish movies in the 80's... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Mar 1, 2021
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| 1/5 | 23% | Leap Year (2010) |
...so painfully contrived that it drains the spirit and disturbs the soul; rarely has a film strived for laughs to so little effect... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 28, 2021
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | The Medusa Touch (1978) |
...fondly remembered for it's cheesy, wayward quality, there's a surprisingly outré film buried within... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 27, 2021
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| 4/5 | 88% | The Dig (2021) |
...this well-acted, carefully constructed film is a pleasant, crowd-pleasing, word-of-mouth surprise... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 26, 2021
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| 3/5 | No Score Yet | Ordeal by Innocence (1985) |
Ordeal by Jazz would be a better title for this wintery Agatha Christie adaptation... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 54% | Heartbreakers (2001) |
...a better genre film that Ocean's 8, and shows that Weaver really has what it takes to hold a comedy together... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 80% | The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) |
...racist in the same way as referring to 'the China virus', picking up on decades of distrust and disinformation, attitudes that seem to still be with us today... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | 66% | Solomon Kane (2012) |
...action is ferocious and bloody, but light on CGI...the film looks spectacular without over-doing the fantasy worlds... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) |
...demonstrates an identifiable political and feminist slant that's highly persuasive... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | 37% | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
...all Fast and Furious films deliver the goods to their spiralling core audience, Tokyo Drift is the best stand-alone film in the franchise... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 68% | Morgan! (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment) (1966) |
...there's always something going on here, and the politics are often confounding... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | 93% | Village of the Damned (1960) |
...raw nightmare fuel in its believable depiction of normality collapsing... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 40% | Irresistible (2020) |
...something of a time-waster, with an absurd 'money-solves-everything' motif... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | No Score Yet | Man at the Top (1973) |
...an Aga saga, with foxes, hounds, diaphanous negligees and plenty of "Dammit Marjorie' dialogue... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 26% | The Doorman (2020) |
...will certainly do the business for a late-night, undemanding, satisfying watch... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 32% | Looker (1981) |
...Finney looks uncomfortable running around with an accessorised time-stopping gun and glasses combo... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | 71% | Silent Running (1972) |
...a sombre, often pompous story, but it's also got offbeat charm... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | 78% | Dark Star (1974) |
...a must-watch for anyone who dug Star Wars, Alien, Halloween or The Thing... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair (1973) |
...a stone-cold history lesson, and one of the most neglected British films of all time... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | 86% | Lilo & Stitch (2002) |
...a great moral, fun gags, and a slew of Elvis songs to keep the mood sky high from soup to nuts... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | No Score Yet | Privates on Parade (1982) |
...a faithful record of a play which was something of a time-capsule, and has some merit as a historical document... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 4/5 | 87% | The Lookout (2007) |
...unexpectedly menacing and with a palpable tension throughout... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 68% | Code of Silence (1985) |
...a good cop movie about a good cop... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 5/5 | 88% | The Masque of the Red Death (1964) |
...a revelation in this restoration... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 2/5 | No Score Yet | Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980) |
...astonishing in all the wrong ways... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 28% | Blithe Spirit (2021) |
...a screwball revival with a good cast, which might work for older audiences keen to see a bit of Olde English farce... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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| 3/5 | 71% | Jack's Back (1988) |
...an odd, amusingly hokey film that offers a few points of interest, namely the lead performance by James Spader as identical twins... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 23, 2021
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| 3/5 | No Score Yet | The History of Time Travel (2014) |
...the budget isn't there for a big pay-off, but if you can handle your sci-fi in the form of pure ideas... has some mind-blowing twists and turns to enjoy - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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| 4/5 | 76% | Audrey (2020) |
...a film made with reverence and love, and likely to connect with a wide audience who remember Hepburn as one of the great film-stars of the 20th century... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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| 3/5 | 42% | Proximity (2020) |
...wide-eyed credulous attitude, ingenious effects and home-spun values make for some fun family fare... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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| 4/5 | 77% | Sunday Girl (2019) |
...a warm and caring insight into a distant and yet easily accessible character... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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| 4/5 | 57% | Emma Peeters (2018) |
...not only deals with suicide, but getting old and feeling lonely; to turn such subjects into an assured comedy is alchemy of the highest order... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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| 5/5 | No Score Yet | Cronofobia (2018) |
... the gleaming visuals, choice musical cuts and edgy mood have an energy all of their own, and the central performances are striking... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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| 4/5 | 75% | The Last Photograph (2017) |
...Huston is immense in this role, angry, grieving, but without an outlet; as a director, he's sensitive to the portrayal of a complex, nuanced character... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | The Best of Dorien B (2019) |
...this kind of careful, observational film is increasingly rare; watch ...and ask yourself when you last saw a British or American film so in tune to a female central character... - film-authority.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2021
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