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Matthew Thrift

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Matthew Thrift is a freelance film writer and actor. He contributes to Little White Lies, The Guardian, bfi.org.uk and So Film.

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Iron Mask (2019) 21% 1/5 EDIT “An unremitting horror show.” – Little White Lies Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Marriage Story (2019) 95% 5/5 EDIT “It's a film of devastating cumulative power, even-handed and empathetic in its approach to two characters whose relationship has broken down, but who still want the best for their child and each other.” – Little White Lies Nov 14, 2019 Full Review Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) 70% 2/5 EDIT “A film that, while returning to the founding, chase-picture premise of the franchise, appears to have been algorithmically conceived and directed by an AI filmmaking-chip that somehow made it out of the Skynet lab back in 1991.” – Little White Lies Oct 24, 2019 Full Review The Flower (La flor) (2016) 95% 5/5 EDIT “An endlessly playful and playfully endless riot. Wildly, staggeringly entertaining.” – Little White Lies Sep 11, 2019 Full Review A Rainy Day in New York (2019) 47% 3/5 EDIT “A funny, amiable riff on 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Catcher in the Rye'.” – Little White Lies Jul 29, 2019 Full Review Never Look Away (2018) 77% 1/5 EDIT “"Never look away," we're told for the umpteenth time. But with von Donnersmarck serving as a dubious Virgil through the circles of 20th century history, you're better off just looking elsewhere.” – Little White Lies Jul 9, 2019 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum (2019) 89% 3/5 EDIT “An astonishing spectacle of action and staging.” – Little White Lies May 16, 2019 Full Review Tolkien (2019) 51% 1/5 EDIT “Tolkien follows the well-worn path of the literary biopic, steadfast in its refusal to even consider the separation of art from artist.” – Little White Lies Apr 29, 2019 Full Review The White Crow (2018) 68% 2/5 EDIT “An explicatory exercise in dot-joining, the ultimate goal being to plot a psychological course from point A to point B.” – Little White Lies Mar 20, 2019 Full Review An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) 94% 5/5 EDIT “An uncompromising masterpiece. One of the films of the year.” – Little White Lies Dec 10, 2018 Full Review Dead Souls (2018) 100% 5/5 EDIT “An essential document of survivor testimony that stands as China's answer to Shoah.” – Little White Lies Nov 29, 2018 Full Review The Wild Pear Tree (2018) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Verbose. Riveting. Extraordinary.” – Little White Lies Nov 28, 2018 Full Review Unsane (2018) 80% 2/5 EDIT “Soderbergh phones it in.” – Little White Lies Mar 23, 2018 Full Review Mute (2017) 20% 1/5 EDIT “Mute possesses so little sense of style, of directorial muscularity, that it fizzles out long before its 125 minutes are up.” – Little White Lies Feb 23, 2018 Full Review The Shape of Water (2017) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Del Toro's greatest work. Simply magnificent.” – Little White Lies Feb 14, 2018 Full Review Loving Vincent (2017) 84% 2/5 EDIT “A sensationalist approach to the artist's final days which ultimately illuminates little.” – Little White Lies Oct 13, 2017 Full Review Atomic Blonde (2017) 79% 2/5 EDIT “Leitch's across-the-board approach is purely cosmetic, ever-ready to eschew shades of detail when crass shorthand will suffice.” – Little White Lies Jul 28, 2017 Full Review Miss Sloane (2016) 76% 2/5 EDIT “The film's unwillingness to engage in any meaningful sense with the issues it purports to raise feels like an opportunity squandered.” – Little White Lies May 12, 2017 Full Review The Lost City of Z (2016) 85% 3/5 EDIT “The notion of 'home' is central to Gray's back catalogue, and affords Z its primary thematic conflict, albeit one painted in overtly literal terms.” – Little White Lies Mar 21, 2017 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Bigger isn't always better, but Chad Stahelski proves himself an action force to be reckoned with.” – Little White Lies Feb 6, 2017 Full Review Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 97% 4/5 EDIT “An exquisitely rendered study of colonialism, memory and cultural erasure.” – Little White Lies Jun 8, 2016 Full Review Dirty Grandpa (2016) 10% 1/5 EDIT “The ugliest film in recent memory - in every sense of the word - we can only hope it meets the fate it deserves.” – Little White Lies Jan 28, 2016 Full Review In the Heart of the Sea (2015) 42% 2/5 EDIT “What remains is an opportunity for an intense, Jaws-like thalassophobic nightmare, squandered.” – Little White Lies Dec 21, 2015 Full Review Hard to Be a God (2013) 95% 5/5 EDIT “A monumental work from a monumental talent. Unmissable.” – Little White Lies Aug 7, 2015 Full Review Iris (2014) 98% 4/5 EDIT “A love letter to individualism, and the love that fuels it.” – Little White Lies Jul 31, 2015 Full Review
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