Nigel Floyd

Nigel Floyd's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Film4
Time Out
Time Out Sydney
Filmstar Magazine
Publications:
Film4,
Time Out,
Time Out Sydney,
Filmstar Magazine
Movie Reviews Only
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50% | Night Passage (1957) |
Neilson wades through the good brother/bad brother plot like an ox through mud, Stewart whiling away the time by playing accordion. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 17, 2020
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17% | Knight Moves (1993) |
Despite an absurdly convoluted plot predicated on the idea that the hero might be a serial killer, this over-heated and over-stylised thriller is devoid of any real suspense... - Sight and Sound
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| Posted Feb 5, 2020
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3/5 | 79% | Red Eye (2005) |
The psychological mind-games are played to the hilt and the flight time is gratifyingly short. - The List
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| Posted Apr 26, 2019
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4/5 | 91% | Head-On (2005) |
From its stunning opening sequence to its merciless fatalistic conclusion, this is directed with extraordinary confidence and maturity by the 32-year-old Fatih Akin. - The List
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| Posted Apr 23, 2019
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1/5 | 10% | Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) |
Leaving aside the folly of making a prequel to William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic, this fails on every level. Ninety minutes of tedious exposition give way to a random jumble of horror clichés that rise to a shrill pitch of hysteria. - The List
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| Posted Apr 22, 2019
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86% | Sharky's Machine (1981) |
Unfortunately, Reynolds the director is as uncertain about the tone of the picture as Reynolds the star is about his screen persona - Time Out
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| Posted Dec 10, 2018
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39% | Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) |
Forget the disastrous Hellbound: Hellraiser II; this is adult horror to die for. - Time Out
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| Posted Nov 7, 2017
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2/5 | 25% | The Divide (2012) |
Its nihilism feels cynical rather than authentically bleak, and the increasingly histrionic scenes start to resemble an indulgent actors' workshop that has spun out of control. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 9, 2015
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81% | Kon Tiki (2013) |
The inspiring story of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition makes for an exciting, if slightly old fashioned, maritime adventure movie. - Film4
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| Posted Dec 19, 2014
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92% | Stations of the Cross (2015) |
Pared down images and intense, polemical dialogue capture a young girl's struggle to reconcile her personal belief in God with her community's blinkered religious values. - Film4
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| Posted Nov 28, 2014
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3/5 | 76% | Honeymoon (2014) |
Leslie and Treadaway extract plenty of existential doubt and distressing emotion from what is essentially a claustrophobic two-hander. - Time Out
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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2/5 | 50% | White Settlers (The Blood Lands) (2014) |
This rural 'home invasion' movie is gussied up with topical nods to the Scottish independence debate - but horror fans on both sides of the border are likely to vote no. - Time Out
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| Posted Sep 3, 2014
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2/5 | 29% | Deliver Us from Evil (2014) |
An impressively staged climactic exorcism compensates in part for the random, far-fetched storytelling that precedes it. - Time Out
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| Posted Aug 19, 2014
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4/5 | 88% | Cheap Thrills (2014) |
There are satisfying echoes of Stephen King's sly black humour in this deliciously nasty comedy thriller. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 3, 2014
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19% | Transcendence (2014) |
An ambitious, old fashioned, ideas-driven science fiction film that is never as mind-expanding as its futuristic images and topical, dystopian ideas seem to promise. - Film4
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| Posted Apr 25, 2014
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2/5 | 51% | The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2014) |
If you make it as far as the obvious, disappointing denouement, you might be left asking yourself if the filmmakers' abstract style is better suited to short films. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 9, 2014
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49% | The Zero Theorem (2014) |
It's dystopia all over again, in an under-funded Terry Gilliam film stuffed with over-familiar ideas and trapped in a claustrophobic, ecclesiastical set. - Film4
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| Posted Mar 14, 2014
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75% | Lone Survivor (2014) |
Authentic military detail, generic storytelling and manly patriotism battle it out in a gut-wrenching war movie that celebrates heroism under fire. - Film4
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| Posted Jan 31, 2014
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46% | Last Vegas (2013) |
A funny, touching and surprisingly fleet-footed comedy about a quartet of 60-plus male friends who are determined to grow old (dis)gracefully. - Film4
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| Posted Jan 10, 2014
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66% | The Railway Man (2014) |
Despite its stodgy storytelling, this respectful cinematic version of ex-POW Eric Lomax's true story succeeds because of Colin Firth's perfect, understated performance. - Film4
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| Posted Jan 10, 2014
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43% | Homefront (2013) |
Think a Sly Stallone-scripted action movie starring The Stath is a sure-fire winner? Think again. - Film4
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| Posted Dec 6, 2013
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4/5 | 76% | Big Bad Wolves (2014) |
Delivering on the promise of 2010's 'Rabies', this is a bleakly funny mash-up comedy about child murder, corruption, torture and the siege mentality - Time Out
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| Posted Dec 2, 2013
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73% | Young & Beautiful (Jeune Et Jolie) (2014) |
In this tale of sexual awakening, the adolescent Isabelle is often naked and exposed; but we never once get under her skin. - Film4
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| Posted Nov 29, 2013
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4/5 | 81% | In Fear (2014) |
Grips like a 4x4, even as the escalating tension threatens to spin out of control. - Time Out
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| Posted Nov 12, 2013
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36% | The Fifth Estate (2013) |
Like WikiLeaks itself, The Fifth Estate collapses under the sheer weight of information and political import bearing down upon it, its human drama crushed by documentary data overload. - Film4
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| Posted Oct 11, 2013
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81% | Prisoners (2013) |
A disturbing crime thriller, elevated by subtle storytelling, challenging ideas and fine performances, but let down by some lazy generic tropes and jarring implausibilities. - Film4
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| Posted Sep 27, 2013
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13% | R.I.P.D. (2013) |
A patchy attempt to wrangle quirky, other-worldly comic-book mythology into a mainstream 3D blockbuster format, but one which lacks the oddball imagination to pull it off. - Film4
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| Posted Sep 20, 2013
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1/5 | 39% | Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
For all but the most forgiving horror fans, this is a lazy, stupid and incoherent failure. - Time Out
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| Posted Sep 10, 2013
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91% | The Great Beauty (2013) |
An eye-ravishing meditation on first love, squandered talent, the eternal beauty of Rome and a life wasted on hedonistic excess. - Film4
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| Posted Sep 6, 2013
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57% | Riddick (2013) |
Stripped-down survivalist sci-fi showcases Vin Diesel's laconic anti-hero, retina-scorching planetary vistas and fearsome creature designs. - Film4
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| Posted Sep 6, 2013
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65% | 2 Guns (2013) |
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg are perfectly matched as mis-matched buddies in a violent, funny and entertaining action-comedy. - Film4
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| Posted Aug 14, 2013
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66% | The Heat (2013) |
Engagingly acted character comedy takes precedence over the nominal action-comedy plot, which involves the usual mysterious crime kingpin and the whereabouts of a big shipment of drugs. - Film4
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| Posted Jul 31, 2013
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3/5 | 25% | Trap For Cinderella (2013) |
Softley negotiates layers of deceit with skill, but an uncharacteristic visual and narrative tightness leaves one wondering what might have been. - Time Out
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| Posted Jul 9, 2013
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2/5 | 21% | The Seasoning House (2013) |
The film's downbeat switchback ending is neither convincing nor earned. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 25, 2013
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2/5 | 15% | The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
By the time the kamikaze crows start dive-bombing the church windows, and the shape-shifting demon appears in a hoody and a Venetian carnival mask, the whole thing has degenerated into a mumbo jumbo gumbo. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 7, 2013
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2/5 | 39% | The Purge (2013) |
The film's would-be subversive ideas about the kneejerk appeal of social violence get lost in the mix. - Time Out
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| Posted May 29, 2013
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57% | The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
A provocative political thriller which, despite Riz Ahmed's electrifying central performance, is too uneven and over-stated to realise its dramatic and polemical ambitions. - Film4
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| Posted May 9, 2013
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2/5 | 34% | Deadfall (2012) |
Like all over-ambitious B-movies, this features solid performances by a mix of seasoned talent and promising young actors, all of whom deserve better. - Time Out
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| Posted May 8, 2013
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41% | Dead Man Down (2013) |
A lifeless attempt to fuse a taut crime thriller and a complex psychological drama. - Film4
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| Posted May 2, 2013
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2/5 | 37% | The ABCs of Death (2013) |
Gives a sense of horror movie making learned by rote - at a boy's school where girls have been admitted under sufferance. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 24, 2013
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3/5 | 63% | Evil Dead (2013) |
Despite much old-school splatter, it's seldom frightening and oddly unfunny. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 17, 2013
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94% | Good Vibrations (2012) |
An engaging portrait of a lovable, shambolic music fan turned reluctant impresario. - Film4
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| Posted Mar 28, 2013
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2/5 | 52% | Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
A mash-up of old-school heroism, pantomime villainy, starstruck lovers and post-'Shrek' archness, it's more exhausting than exhilarating. - Time Out
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| Posted Mar 19, 2013
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81% | Warm Bodies (2013) |
Despite its stumbling storyline, lack of logic and sparse comedy, this ZomRomCom has a beating romantic heart. - Film4
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| Posted Mar 4, 2013
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3/5 | 76% | The Bay (2012) |
More coherent and thought-provoking than most 'found-footage' horror movies, this should appeal to genre fans and eco-activists alike. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 26, 2013
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3/5 | 63% | Mama (2013) |
By splitting the action between several different characters and locations, the plot dissipates the suspense and lacks focus, as if it has been bolted together from disparate, ill-fitting pieces. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 20, 2013
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2/5 | 66% | Antiviral (2013) |
'Antiviral' never wholly succeeds as either a surgical satire or a medical conspiracy thriller, and its tedious last third is like a diseased body dragging itself slowly to the grave. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 30, 2013
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1/5 | 20% | Hollow (2012) |
The post-'Blair Witch' shaky-cam horror movie, already teetering on the edge of oblivion, drops off a cliff with this micro-budget British effort ... - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 22, 2013
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2/5 | 94% | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
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| Posted Jan 22, 2013
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3/5 | 33% | Night of the Demons (2010) |
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| Posted Jan 22, 2013
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