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

Movies

	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
2/5	15%	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	66%	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	94%	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	73%	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	16%	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	88%	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	90%	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
2/5	50%	Crucible of the Vampire (2017)	Style, scares and audacious ideas are all finally much too thin on the ground to elevate this film beyond its budget. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 2, 2019
2/5	38%	Glass (2019)	Glass finally cracks due to Shyamalan's declining powers of plot and dialogue, falling far short of Mr Glass's deviousness. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 20, 2019
4/5	84%	Disobedience (2018)	It's a liberated film, leaving us, too, time and space to feel and think. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 2, 2018
4/5	72%	Assassination Nation (2018)	This funny, exhilarating film's teenage heroines do, though, represent a better future. Unlike the often imprisoned, regularly showering tough chicks of the exploitation pics Levinson channels, these women have prospects. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 26, 2018
4/5	66%	Suspiria (2018)	Guadagnino seems too earthbound for his subject's magic, until he suffuses it with emotion. There was a shimmer in the light when I left the cinema, a little extra leaking into reality, like an after-image, or a spell. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 15, 2018
5/5	96%	BlacKkKlansman (2018)	The ironic, almost campy tone sugars the racist language to make you swallow more than you might otherwise stomach... - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 27, 2018
4/5	97%	Apostasy (2017)	The director's sonic austerity and sensual attention to people, moorland vistas and rustling canopies of leaves conjures a rich world around the Whitlings. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 29, 2018
4/5	93%	First Reformed (2018)	First Reformed is [Paul Schrader's] first screenplay to reach the screen unscathed in a decade, and shows an artist strengthened by the fight. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 15, 2018
4/5	53%	Ismael's Ghosts (Les fantômes d'Ismaël) (2018)	Gregoire Hetzel's urgent score, pared-down editing and these mandarins' characterful faces promise a byzantine, satisfying tale. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 1, 2018
2/5	70%	Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)	This is franchise film-making at its worst. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted May 29, 2018
4/5	45%	Mary Magdalene (2019)	Phoenix's Jesus is softly, tactilely loving. Davis brings you close enough to almost feel the weave of his clothes. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 22, 2018
	79%	Dark River (2018)	For a former conceptual artist and documentarian, Barnard is strong on characterisation and narrative, as well as the social pressures and landscapes which shape lives. Like her previous films, Dark River also sees her taking the long view of a life. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 23, 2018
3/5	84%	Darkest Hour (2017)	Oldman's performance is the sole, sufficient reason to see a film in which little else finally lingers. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 11, 2018
4/5	100%	The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015)	It's a strange, thought-provoking tale. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 21, 2017
4/5	84%	Listen Up Philip (2014)	The many laughs come in disbelieving gasps, but the film also has more heart than its hero. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 20, 2017
4/5	80%	The New Girlfriend (2015)	The reason this is one of Ozon's most approachable and soft-centred films is that it is one of his most radically activist. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 20, 2017
3/5	54%	Stonehearst Asylum (2014)	This is a faithful adaptation of the obscure Edgar Allan Poe tale "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", a story short enough to, as with the Sixties Roger Corman Poe cycle, leave its adapters ample room to extrapolate as they please. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 20, 2017
3/5	59%	Murder On The Orient Express (2017)	Nothing has really changed in Christieworld since the last time you heard this tale. But Branagh's conservative, classicist instincts let him tell it with vigour. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 9, 2017
4/5	96%	The Death of Stalin (2018)	Actual quantities of laughter are diluted by the difficult satiric point, but the acting and the farce's whirring clockwork occupy you anyway. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 20, 2017
3/5	92%	The Shape of Water (2017)	More than the scaly, expressive beauty of the creature, Sally Hawkins is the marvel here. Her flutter of sign-language and the sly wit and open ache of her eyes make her silence seem immaterial. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 11, 2017
2/5	69%	mother! (2017)	You can do all things right, and fail. Mother!'s irritations are an itch its virtues can't scratch. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 15, 2017
3/5	85%	It (2017)	This is a handsome, diligently respectful adaptation. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 7, 2017
4/5	78%	Atomic Blonde (2017)	Atomic Blonde is eventually a lot of fun. Theron's conviction makes what could be sexist fluff into some kind of feminist, personal statement, and a franchise which should thrive. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 10, 2017
4/5	77%	The Ghoul (2017)	The Ghoul is an occult British thriller about depression, with a bleakly poetic view of London, and a seedy sadness at its core. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 3, 2017
3/5	81%	Risk (2017)	Assange is a gift to cinema. Poitras provides gripping evidence of who he has become, but flinches from it. She abandons Risk as a tangle of suggestive loose ends. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 30, 2017
4/5	93%	Baby Driver (2017)	Some of this film is a classic, and some of it's heartlessly superficial. Wright's obsessive cinephilia fuels both. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 30, 2017
3/5	89%	Lady Macbeth (2017)	Pugh, aged 19 during Lady Macbeth's shoot, powerfully conjures a woman who, having escaped her trap, pulses with heedless, consuming sex and violence, and underlying, unrelenting desperation. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 28, 2017
4/5	95%	The Handmaiden (Ah-ga-ssi) (2016)	The claustrophobic richness of the world he (Park Chan-wook) creates... lingers in the mind more even than the plot. His film presents a cloistered, colonial system, burned down by women's lust and love. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 14, 2017
4/5	42%	Aftermath (2017)	Lester has composed a quiet, sometimes near-silent canvas for his naturalistic drama. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 14, 2017
4/5	69%	Free Fire (2017)	The budget's bigger now, but Down Terrace, too, was filmed in an enclosed space on Brighton's edge. Wheatley's territory hasn't changed so much. Free Fire is his most simply entertaining riff on it yet. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 31, 2017
3/5	57%	Trespass Against Us (2017)	The appeal of this outlaw life speeds through your veins then. Its Gloucestershire subculture, caught in the characters' accents, also fascinates. But the powder-keg lit by Fassbender and Gleeson's performances putters out. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 2, 2017
4/5	84%	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)	Gareth Edwards has expanded his story to its maximum while keeping it lean, raw and morally murky, outdoing The Force Awakens in the most satisfying installment since The Empire Strikes Back. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 15, 2016
3/5	86%	Sully (2016)	[Eastwood has] found a true story which demonstrates his beliefs, and tells it faithfully. Aged 86, he's made one of his most symptomatic films. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 2, 2016
3/5	21%	American Pastoral (2016)	Ewan McGregor has been judged unworthy of adapting Philip Roth in the US. But his directorial debut is finely crafted, and powered by visceral emotion embodied in one of his best performances. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 11, 2016
4/5	92%	I, Daniel Blake (2017)	Comedian Dave Johns is perfect for the dry, canny wit and foul-mouthed invective Loach's usual writer Paul Laverty gives Daniel. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 21, 2016
3/5	48%	Souvenir (2018)	It's a breezy romcom, full of gauzy romance, wish-fulfilment, a great faux-Eurovision soundtrack by Pink Martini, and a May-December romance that reverses genders to little comment. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 14, 2016
5/5	96%	Paterson (2016)	This is a sublime film about the democratic consolation of art, and of one another. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 14, 2016
4/5	91%	Elle (2016)	Funny and tense, it's a film that grows in the mind. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 14, 2016
4/5	99%	Under The Shadow (2016)	Its mixture of detailed realism and supernatural dread shows all the ways a society can drag a woman to hell. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 30, 2016
2/5	37%	Blair Witch (2016)	If unzipping a tent to brave whatever's making that horrible noise just outside isn't scary, then Blair Witch has fundamentally failed. - The Arts Desk EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 16, 2016