Nick Hasted

Nick Hasted's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Little White Lies
Uncut Magazine [UK]
The Arts Desk
Publications:
Little White Lies,
Uncut Magazine [UK],
The Arts Desk
Movie Reviews Only
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4/5 | 83% | Pinocchio (2020) |
Garrone's steady eye for the bizarre and ironic ensures an engrossing spectacle to spark children's imaginations, in a world adults will wearily vouch for. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Feb 3, 2021
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3/5 | 82% | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) |
In a suitably modest film, it's surprisingly cheering to have them back. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Oct 7, 2020
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4/5 | 82% | I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) |
Where previous Kaufman films were cinematic attempts at the great postmodern American novel, this is an allusive, discursive essay he trusts his collaborators to make profound. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Sep 3, 2020
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2/5 | 64% | Hope Gap (2020) |
Bening and Nighy commit as best they can. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 30, 2020
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3/5 | 73% | Family Romance, LLC (2020) |
It's a lifelike yet flatly unconvincing simulacrum of a Herzog documentary. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jul 5, 2020
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4/5 | 96% | A White, White Day (Hvítur, hvítur dagur) (2020) |
[Sigurdsson's] simmering performance promises unknowable, terrifying release, and successive passages are pregnant with violence, till blood is finally spilled. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jun 27, 2020
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3/5 | 53% | Reborn (2018) |
This is a horror movie about actors in which neither frights nor acting amount to much. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted May 19, 2020
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2/5 | 25% | Dangerous Lies (Windfall) (2020) |
Rather than the film noir suggested by the camera's opening swoop through a neon-streaked puddle towards a diner, or the sleazy erotic thriller which is the genre's latter-day debasement, it settles for simple child's play. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted May 13, 2020
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3/5 | 67% | Extraction (2020) |
Attempts to splice Rake's soulful sorrow with the carnage rarely work, in a film which largely operates in a world as unreal as Asgard. Only when the muscular momentum climaxes on a body-strewn bridge do emotion and action merge. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Apr 24, 2020
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3/5 | 97% | Why Don't You Just Die! (Papa, sdokhni) (2020) |
You could almost think that Sokolov is slipping a root-and-branch social critique into his government-subsidised, gleefully black horror comedy. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Apr 20, 2020
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2/5 | No Score Yet | The Beast (2019) |
Jung's burnout can't ignite threadbare ideas. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Apr 11, 2020
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3/5 | 72% | Vivarium (2020) |
This trip down the housing ladder into hell, though, fails to complete its coolly hermetic concept. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Mar 31, 2020
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4/5 | 92% | Fire Will Come (A Sun That Never Sets) (O Que Arde) (2020) |
This is slow cinema, smouldering with hurt but attentive to beauty and kindness. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Mar 23, 2020
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4/5 | 79% | True History of the Kelly Gang (2020) |
Kurzel's portrait of a wild colonial land where even stories are stolen is awfully convincing. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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2/5 | 63% | Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) |
It's a Sega game trapped in an old Disney flick, pleasantly modest but fossilised. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Feb 21, 2020
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3/5 | 19% | Cats (2019) |
Tom Hooper's freakily phantasmagoric visualisation of an already strange West End smash is a high-wire act... And yet it never falls, sustaining a subtly hallucinatory, wholly theatrical reality. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Dec 26, 2019
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3/5 | 95% | Citizen K (2019) |
Gibney can't get beneath Khodorkovsky's skin. Keeping his cameras on him still reveals a lot. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Dec 17, 2019
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4/5 | 100% | So Long, My Son (Di jiu tian chang) (2019) |
It's a masterful social epic. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Dec 9, 2019
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4/5 | 63% | The Good Liar (2019) |
Condon's repeated dipping of the grey pound in acid remains a bracing achievement. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Nov 8, 2019
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3/5 | 88% | Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) |
The gently funny interactions of a cast of awkward characters remain winningly truthful throughout. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Nov 3, 2019
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3/5 | 78% | Doctor Sleep (2019) |
Flanagan offers a humane horror Kubrick was indifferent to. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Nov 1, 2019
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3/5 | 92% | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) |
If it doesn't all cohere, first-time actor Fails has a hurt soulfulness deeper than his surroundings. And if it is itself a touch gentrified, this matches its characters' aspirations beyond their social boxes, leaving a sweet and kindly aftertaste. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Oct 28, 2019
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3/5 | 81% | A Hidden Life (2019) |
Malick adopts a meditative rhythm, and if he finally elevates Franz too far from regular humanity, risking saintly cliché, he lets us contemplate a rare hero. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Oct 15, 2019
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5/5 | 95% | The Irishman (2019) |
Though this three-and-a-half hour film is among Scorsese's slowest, complete with silent, ruminative pauses, it feels steadily sure-footed, never flagging. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Oct 15, 2019
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3/5 | 26% | Gemini Man (2019) |
The combination of a fine director, untried technology, clunky script and relaxed cast make Gemini Man a very odd film indeed. The more Lee tries to fit in, the further out he gets. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Oct 13, 2019
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3/5 | 95% | Good Posture (2019) |
It's affectionately told from inside its particular world, admitting absurdities but essentially forgiving. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Oct 6, 2019
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4/5 | 97% | The Farewell (2019) |
The play between suppression and sentimentality is as engrossing as that between East and West. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Sep 20, 2019
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3/5 | 87% | Hustlers (2019) |
Lopez's tough carapace, of a piece with her broad New York accent, defines a steely performance. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Sep 12, 2019
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3/5 | 27% | A Million Little Pieces (2019) |
This close character study in an extreme social setting shuns exploitation, but lacks compensatory power of its own. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Sep 2, 2019
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62% | The Informer (2020) |
The fine cast keep busily working, in a film that's rarely worth it. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 28, 2019
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3/5 | 78% | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) |
An atmospheric world surrounds thoughtful but half-hearted horrors. As The Shape of Water also suggested, del Toro is sometimes too soft-hearted to equal the horror traditions he loves. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 26, 2019
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4/5 | 96% | Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) (2019) |
This auteur on the verge of a nervous breakdown is his masterfully understated summation of how it feels to outlive your notoriety, health and maybe times, and still make art from the memories. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 21, 2019
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3/5 | 18% | Playmobil: The Movie (2019) |
Playmobil is a breezy B-movie in a genre aspiring to Mad comic satire and grand opera. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 9, 2019
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4/5 | 100% | The Edge (2019) |
Douglas sympathetically balances this team's huge, proud achievement with its pitiless toll, in a sports film of rare intimacy and insight. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jul 28, 2019
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2/5 | 52% | The Lion King (2019) |
What Disney are offering isn't art, but an expensive upgrade. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jul 18, 2019
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3/5 | 65% | Annabelle Comes Home (2019) |
It's like a pre-teen Dazed and Confused or, as Annabelle awakes, The Brady Bunch Goes To Hell. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jul 12, 2019
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2/5 | 70% | Stockholm (2019) |
Falling prey to his own Stockholm syndrome, Budreau lets his crooks off their dangerous foolishness. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jun 20, 2019
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4/5 | 22% | Dark Phoenix (2019) |
One day, when superhero films are as rare as westerns, we will appreciate the brilliant talent applied to the best of them. X-Men: Dark Phoenix moves with a classic's smooth conviction from its very first scenes. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jun 7, 2019
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3/5 | 42% | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) |
This Godzilla is at its best when casually obliterating lost underwater cities and holding forth on Hollow Earths. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jun 3, 2019
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4/5 | 56% | Salome (1923) |
Salomé's reputation for practically inventing camp proves its least interesting aspect. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted May 29, 2019
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2/5 | 13% | The Hustle (2019) |
The idea that there are moral lessons lurking in this quagmire is the biggest con of all. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted May 11, 2019
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2/5 | 67% | Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) |
Pikachu's hologram flashbacks to imperishable, buried memories have also strayed in from some phantom, Philip K. Dick-scripted Pokémon film. Then it goes back to subliminally selling you games, and it all seems a bit offensive. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted May 10, 2019
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3/5 | 81% | Long Shot (2019) |
Much as Fred's frog turns into a prince, Long Shot becomes briefly, exhilaratingly revolutionary. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted May 2, 2019
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4/5 | 93% | Styx (2019) |
If the metaphors for current refugee policies are sometimes heavy-handed, this response's angry despair is powerfully put. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Apr 26, 2019
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4/5 | 76% | Dragged Across Concrete (2019) |
A quarter-century after Reservoir Dogs, Zahler may have finally taken us post-Tarantino. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Apr 17, 2019
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4/5 | 18% | Hellboy (2019) |
This is a sort of were-film, with full-blooded horror set to tear through its superhero skin. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Apr 12, 2019
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3/5 | 90% | Shazam! (2019) |
After Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman, Shazam! is even better-placed to let the fun bubble back. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Apr 4, 2019
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4/5 | 96% | Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2019) |
Steve Sullivan's revelatory documentary finally unveils Chris Sievey, who only averted a pauper's funeral in 2010 thanks to an outpouring of public support, but left 100 boxes of art in a damp cellar which are in their way priceless. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Mar 29, 2019
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3/5 | 83% | The Hole in the Ground (2019) |
It's a pretty good one, but deeper disturbance stays in the ground. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Mar 3, 2019
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4/5 | 89% | The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) |
It's the sort of film Cornish would have wanted to see, and make, when he was 12. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Feb 15, 2019
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