Kevin Harley
Kevin Harley's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Total Film,
Screen International,
The List
| Publications: | Total Film, Screen International, The List |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 3/5 | 55% | Generation Wealth (2018) |
Despite Greenfield's gripping ambition, rich detail and careful structuring, a struggle for focus leads to awkward judgements and ill-placed autobiographical details, neither enough to pull her multiple story strands tight.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 16, 2018
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| 2/5 | 54% | Tag (2018) |
Renner's affectless front and Batman-lite skill-set hint at Tag's core problem: aiming to be grounded and ludicrous simultaneously is a losing strategy.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2018
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| 4/5 | 82% | Deadpool 2 (2018) |
As with the original, Deadpool 2 thrives on tone over narrative.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted May 15, 2018
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| 4/5 | 82% | Deadpool 2 (2018) |
Filthy, ferocious and funny to a near-indecent degree, Deadpool 2 bests its predecessor by doubling down on the gleefully self-aware source comics' idea that anything worth doing is worth overdoing: excess and escalation are, essentially, in its DNA.‐ The List
Read More | Posted May 14, 2018
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| 4/5 | 64% | The Cured (2018) |
Over-ambitious perhaps, but Freyne's intensely executed 'infected' fable packs tension, resonance, and clout.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted May 7, 2018
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| No Score Yet | 51 Degrees North (2014) |
You learn a bit about asteroids from Grigorij Richters inventive DIY genre-spinner, but like bigger disaster-blasters its human drama lands with a thud.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted May 2, 2018
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| 4/5 | 88% | All American High Revisited (2014) |
As they look back in wistfulness, a tale of change, American excess and pre-internet teenage innocence becomes almost exotic: to them and to us.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted May 2, 2018
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| 3/5 | 40% | A Wrinkle in Time (2018) |
DuVernay tackles a difficult adaptation with heart. But her gaudier distractions could have used a bypass or two.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Mar 25, 2018
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| 3/5 | 49% | Tomb Raider (2018) |
It's good enough to leave you contemplating something rare: the prospect of a video-game movie sequel you wouldn't mind seeing.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Mar 19, 2018
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| 2/5 | 10% | Monster Family (2018) |
Good-looking but erratically plotted and unfunny, director Holger Tappe's adaptation of David Safier's book Happy Family lands with a thud more deadening than the footsteps of Frankenstein's Monster.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Feb 27, 2018
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| 4/5 | 89% | The Nile Hilton Incident (2017) |
Haggard cops, hotel homicides, endless ciggies... Helmer Tarik Saleh makes 2011 Cairo noir-ish in a stylishly pungent, politically loaded procedural.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Feb 27, 2018
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| 5/5 | 94% | A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) (2018) |
Defiant, determined, Vega delivers a star-making performance in a drama of embattled grief, directed with heart.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Feb 26, 2018
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| 5/5 | 92% | The Shape of Water (2017) |
Del Toro's Valentine to boundary-crossing love pours from the screen in ravishing torrents of feeling and style. And Hawkins is sublime.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Feb 12, 2018
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| 2/5 | 14% | Winchester (2018) |
Themes of guns, guilt and grief mount, setting equally perfect conditions for a resonant mystery. Somehow, though, the Spierigs run low on ideas.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2018
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| 5/5 | 91% | Phantom Thread (2018) |
Anderson crafts another classic of obsession and strange love, played by dynamite leads: Day-Lewis retires in style, Krieps is revelatory.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2018
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| 4/5 | 82% | Early Man (2018) |
Viewed alongside animation's CGI-slickened evolution, it's the human touches applied to plasticine and pummelled actors that make Early Man so winning.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jan 22, 2018
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| 3/5 | 69% | Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars (2017) |
The 'Layla' era is over-indulged while the stodgier later work rushed over, resulting in a portrait that's several bars short of the full riff.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jan 9, 2018
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| 4/5 | 82% | Brad's Status (2017) |
Tender and truthful in equal measure, this is a heartfelt cringe comedy with a bittersweet ache at its core, which might even merit a tear or two at the climax.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jan 3, 2018
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| 3/5 | 50% | Jupiter's Moon (Jupiter holdja) (2017) |
Is it a superhero riff, a religious allegory, a political parable?‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jan 2, 2018
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| 4/5 | 77% | All the Money in the World (2017) |
His actor issues resolved remarkably, Scott steers his ideas-rich, character-based thriller with brisk authority. Plummer and Williams bring their all.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jan 2, 2018
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| 3/5 | 71% | Ferdinand (2017) |
While only McDonald's junkies could fail to warm to Ferdinand himself, the story around him could have used more finesse.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Dec 11, 2017
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| 3/5 | 76% | Lu Over the Wall (Yoake tsugeru Rû no uta) (2018) |
The end-stretch is overlong, but the Flash animation style pops with colour, the music is fun, and off-the-scale creature cuteness abounds.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Dec 6, 2017
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| 4/5 | 86% | Better Watch Out (2017) |
A Christmas cult classic is born: and it's going straight to Santa's naughty list.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Dec 4, 2017
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| 5/5 | 100% | The Big Heat (1953) |
Extremes of light/shade are tight-focused in ace turns from a malignant Lee Marvin and vivacious Gloria Grahame, while Lang's direction kicks hard: just like a shot of hot, black coffee.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Nov 24, 2017
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| 4/5 | 89% | Marjorie Prime (2017) |
Couching universal themes in achingly human specifics, Almereyda's adaptation of Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play locks in on four veteran leads to pinpoint every nuance.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Nov 6, 2017
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| 4/5 | 93% | Thelma (2017) |
A meditation on repressed desire with deep secrets, Thelma throbs with hypnotic intensity: it burns slow, but its magnetism holds right up to the teasing climax.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Oct 30, 2017
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| 4/5 | 89% | 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017) |
Does for Norman's place what Room 237 did for the Overlook: reopens old haunts for welcome re-investigation.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Oct 30, 2017
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| 2/5 | No Score Yet | Property of the State (2016) |
Director Kit Ryan plods through Brendan's story of abuse, but the narrative flails.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Oct 24, 2017
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| 3/5 | 86% | Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2018) |
Shot over several years, the entertaining but meandering off-stage material seems too dazzled by Jones' mega-watt persona. The real action happens on stage, where Jones is a one-woman riot.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Oct 24, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 92% | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) |
You never have to wait more than five minutes for a joke or well-placed wisecrack. Anytime there's a danger of someone giving a cliched, worthy speech about power and responsibility there's a one liner delivered like a slap to the back of the head.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Oct 19, 2017
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| 3/5 | 71% | The Ritual (2017) |
... has the atmosphere, style and sturdy characterisation needed to tempt you along for the jaunt. But it doesn't have enough fresh scares or potent revelations to stick, much less soften the sense that we've been lost in trees like these before.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Oct 9, 2017
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | Black Sabbath: The End Of The End (2017) |
Between Ozzy Osbourne's cracked clown persona and the bluff address of some genuinely moving material, the veterans present winningly earthy faces.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 4/5 | 92% | The Road to Mandalay (2016) |
Taiwanese director Midi Z pins docu-style heft to a resonant character drama about Burmese migrants in Bangkok.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 4/5 | 50% | On the Road (2016) |
The blistering live Wolf footage offers a thrilling snapshot of a ripping group's rocket-fired blast-off, uniting band and fans in tight, sweaty moshpit communion.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 5/5 | 100% | Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D (2017) |
A benchmark sequel withstands judgement. Cameron's spectacle and storytelling remain laser-sharp.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Aug 28, 2017
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| 4/5 | 94% | Prick Up Your Ears (1987) |
Saucy, smart, deliciously snarky.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jul 31, 2017
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| 3/5 | 51% | England Is Mine (2017) |
Lowden and Findlay excel in their roles, but Mark Gill's Moz-movie needed more: both more music and more "people who are young and alive".‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jul 31, 2017
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| 1/5 | 8% | The Emoji Movie (2017) |
Unfunny and unengaging, The Emoji Movie combines product placement, ingratiating voice-work and barrel-scraping studio desperation, all while having the gall to peddle a 'be yourself' message.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 31, 2017
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| 4/5 | 90% | Hounds of Love (2017) |
A ferocious debut, charged with depth and dread. Set alongside Snowtown as a must-watch you can barely watch.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2017
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| 4/5 | 93% | Logan Lucky (2017) |
Soderbergh executes his cine-comeback with élan, aided by winning A-team work from Tatum, Driver and Craig.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2017
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| 3/5 | 86% | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (Captain Underpants) (2017) |
If the story is strictly one-ply thin, the pre-tween perspective is upheld with infectious exuberance.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2017
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| 2/5 | 50% | A Change in the Weather (2017) |
It's bold, yet the emphases on reality and acting divisions, plus midlife torpor, get old fast.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2017
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| 3/5 | 17% | All Eyez on Me (2017) |
Plotting stutters through incidents and walk-ons, and although the climax hits hard, the sketchy build-up clouds fresh insight. Boom strains to pack a lot in: in doing so, he stretches his key beats thin.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jun 26, 2017
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| 2/5 | 16% | Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) |
Even by Bay's incoherent standards, it's one deadening pile-up.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jun 21, 2017
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| 4/5 | 87% | Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017) |
Fame eats its own: Broomfield deepens an archetypal tale with the aches of human loss and talent wasted.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jun 13, 2017
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| 3/5 | 73% | Berlin Syndrome (2017) |
Shortland has things to say about toxic relationships, but the ties to bind her themes need tightening.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted Jun 5, 2017
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| 4/5 | 92% | Wonder Woman (2017) |
The DCEU's game gets raised. Gadot is a godsend, Pine charms, and Jenkins delivers old-school thrills with heart and conviction.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted May 30, 2017
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| 4/5 | 94% | The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge) (2017) |
Dudok de Wit and Ghibli have birthed a pan-continental marvel: a fable-cum-fantasy of a life adrift, aching with tender beauty and awed by nature's extremes.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted May 23, 2017
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| 3/5 | 30% | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) |
Little wonder the plot wobbles like Sparrow negotiating a crumbling rooftop, but its transparent purpose helps keep the footing fleet.‐ The List
Read More | Posted May 22, 2017
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| 4/5 | 53% | Spaceship (2016) |
The plot gets shaggy, but there's heart and punk-art style in the mix, all synced to a suitably dazed 'n' confused dream-pop soundtrack.‐ Total Film
Read More | Posted May 15, 2017
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