Nick Hasted

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

T-Meter Title | Year
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 3, 2021
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 7, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 3, 2020
2/5 64% Hope Gap (2020) Bening and Nighy commit as best they can. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 30, 2020
3/5 73% Family Romance, LLC (2020) It's a lifelike yet flatly unconvincing simulacrum of a Herzog documentary. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 5, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 27, 2020
3/5 53% Reborn (2018) This is a horror movie about actors in which neither frights nor acting amount to much. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted May 19, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted May 13, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 24, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2020
2/5 No Score Yet The Beast (2019) Jung's burnout can't ignite threadbare ideas. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 11, 2020
3/5 72% Vivarium (2020) This trip down the housing ladder into hell, though, fails to complete its coolly hermetic concept. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 23, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 2, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2020
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 26, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 17, 2019
4/5 100% So Long, My Son (Di jiu tian chang) (2019) It's a masterful social epic. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2019
4/5 63% The Good Liar (2019) Condon's repeated dipping of the grey pound in acid remains a bracing achievement. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 8, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 3, 2019
3/5 78% Doctor Sleep (2019) Flanagan offers a humane horror Kubrick was indifferent to. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 1, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 28, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 15, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 15, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 13, 2019
3/5 95% Good Posture (2019) It's affectionately told from inside its particular world, admitting absurdities but essentially forgiving. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2019
4/5 97% The Farewell (2019) The play between suppression and sentimentality is as engrossing as that between East and West. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 20, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 12, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 2, 2019
62% The Informer (2020) The fine cast keep busily working, in a film that's rarely worth it. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 28, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 26, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 21, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2019
2/5 52% The Lion King (2019) What Disney are offering isn't art, but an expensive upgrade. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 18, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 12, 2019
2/5 70% Stockholm (2019) Falling prey to his own Stockholm syndrome, Budreau lets his crooks off their dangerous foolishness. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 20, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 7, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 3, 2019
4/5 56% Salome (1923) Salomé's reputation for practically inventing camp proves its least interesting aspect. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted May 29, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted May 11, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted May 10, 2019
3/5 81% Long Shot (2019) Much as Fred's frog turns into a prince, Long Shot becomes briefly, exhilaratingly revolutionary. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted May 2, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 26, 2019
4/5 76% Dragged Across Concrete (2019) A quarter-century after Reservoir Dogs, Zahler may have finally taken us post-Tarantino. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 12, 2019
3/5 90% Shazam! (2019) After Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman, Shazam! is even better-placed to let the fun bubble back. - The Arts Desk EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 4, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 29, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 3, 2019
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2019