Wally Hammond
Wally Hammond's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Time Out,
Time Out Sydney
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Time Out film critic.
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| Publications: | Time Out, Time Out Sydney |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 5/5 | 94% | Contempt (1964) |
A knowing, tragic-comic aria for love and moviemaking.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Dec 29, 2015
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| 4/5 | 97% | Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir Les Enfants) (1987) |
Not the director's best work, but far, far from being his worst either.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Jan 29, 2015
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| 2/5 | 67% | A Magnificent Haunting (Magnifica presenza) (2012) |
In the Ozpetek canon, this one is non-essential.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Oct 24, 2013
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| 5/5 | 83% | Something in the Air (2013) |
This might just be Assayas' masterpiece.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted May 23, 2013
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| 4/5 | 81% | De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday) (2012) |
What distinguishes Castillo's film is the facility and accuracy with which she understands, remembers and recreates the fish-bowl vistas and claustrophobic intimacy of a long car-bound journey.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Apr 4, 2013
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| 4/5 | 68% | Keyhole (2012) |
A bravura journey into a noirish nightmare world and a lock that even paid-up Maddinites won't be able to pick on a single viewing.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Sep 13, 2012
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| 5/5 | 96% | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1928) |
One for Hitch fans, one for thriller fans, one for cinema fans. Do not miss.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2012
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| 4/5 | 93% | The Apartment (1960) |
Directed by Wilder with attention to detail and emotional reticence that belie its inherent darkness and melodramatic core, it's lifted considerably by the performances.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jun 8, 2012
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| 5/5 | 96% | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) |
Staggering and heartbreaking. Still.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted May 17, 2012
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| 3/5 | 84% | Angel & Tony (Angèle et Tony) (2010) |
This is a sprightly and economical debut from French former journalist and writer-director Alix Delaporte.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted May 3, 2012
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| 2/5 | 69% | Hadewijch (2010) |
Quote not available.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Feb 16, 2012
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| 3/5 | 90% | Waitress (2007) |
Funny, gentle, unpatronising, if occasionally naive and quirky.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
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| 5/5 | 87% | I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2007) |
Quote not available.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
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| 3/5 | 67% | The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
A more satisfactory adaptation of the spirit of Stan Lee's Marvel character.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
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| 4/5 | 78% | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set-pieces.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
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| 3/5 | 84% | Frownland (2007) |
Quote not available.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 16, 2011
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet |
Quote not available.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 16, 2011
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| 3/5 | 80% | I Served the King of England (2008) |
Quote not available.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 16, 2011
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| 93% | Drive (2011) |
A more or less conventional Los Angeles-set hot-rod/getaway-driver movie with neo-noir decoration -- albeit satisfying enough on its own terms.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Sep 27, 2011
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| 4/5 | 84% | Post Mortem (2012) |
Larraín's clever use of almost humorously unconventional framings, expressively washed-out colour tones and mysterious low-key performances brings together human comedy and historical tragedy to unique, and surprisingly emotional, effect.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Sep 7, 2011
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| 4/5 | 84% | Gianni e le donne (The Salt of Life) (2012) |
Wittily observed, humorously understood and keenly felt.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2011
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| 2/5 | 86% | Kill The Referee (les Arbitres) (2010) |
Even for footy fans, the film's a game of guesswork.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Aug 3, 2011
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| 3/5 | 91% | Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009) |
No, not a Toho creature feature, but a diverting, slightly meandering, mini- DV-shot documentary on the Japanese love for insects.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2011
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| 95% | Animal Kingdom (2010) |
An ambitious and effective thriller.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Mar 1, 2011
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| 3/5 | 50% | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) |
Provides rousing enough young family entertainment - though there's less to engage maturer Lewis fans and possible disappointment for older teenagers.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2010
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| 2/5 | 65% | Tamara Drewe (2010) |
The dullness of British mainstream cinema is epitomised by this Stephen Frears -- didn't he used to be an auteur? -- adaptation of Posy Simmonds's gently teasing 2005-2007 Guardian comic strip about rural goings-on.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Sep 8, 2010
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| 3/5 | 83% | Black Dynamite (2009) |
The portentous dialogue, two-track-recorded soundtrack (by Adrian Younge) and eager performances are all highly diverting.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Aug 12, 2010
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| 4/5 | 97% | Rapt (2011) |
A tense hostage-thriller with a difference.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jul 15, 2010
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| 3/5 | 91% | London River (2011) |
In the film's latter stages, Blethyn's heart-on-the-sleeve acting style finally combines with the marvellous Kouyaté's watchful intelligence and frail dignity to moving effect.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jul 8, 2010
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| 4/5 | 90% | Colossal Youth (Juventude Em Marcha) (2006) |
You need a bit of patience with director Pedro Costa.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jul 6, 2010
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| 4/5 | 55% | The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest. ‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jun 2, 2010
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| 4/5 | 40% | The Killer Inside Me (1976) |
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom, the genre-swapping director of A Mighty Heart, Genova and The Road to Guantanamo, is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jun 2, 2010
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| 2/5 | 27% | Remember Me (2010) |
Be warned, if you're vulnerable to outrageous, cringe-inducing implausibilities -- not least the ludicrous stand-up row between Tyler and his father in the latter's Twin Towers boardroom -- you'd best give this one a miss.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2010
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| 3/5 | 75% | Tony (2009) |
Not a reassuring vision, for sure, and no tourist plug for Dalston, Hackney or Haggerston, but the film's a fair calling card for Johnson's talent.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Feb 5, 2010
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| 2/5 | 56% | Edge of Darkness (2010) |
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2010
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| 3/5 | 78% | OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Lost in Rio) (2010) |
It's the grooving to composer Ludovic Bource's fab xylophone beats and Dujardin's hyena laugh and heroic self-regard you'll remember.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jan 15, 2010
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| 2/5 | 40% | 44 Inch Chest (2010) |
Aiming for black comedy and a redemptive satire on self-deluding male machismo, ham fisted debut director Malcolm Venville instead gives his cast enough rope to hang themselves rather than the characters they play.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jan 15, 2010
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| 4/5 | 95% | Hofshat Kaits (My Father My Lord) (2008) |
You could say this film is at once a secular fable on a religious dilemma and an almost religious parable about an all-too-human tragedy.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jan 5, 2010
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| 5/5 | 100% | Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
This remains one of the most approachable and moving of all cinema's masterpieces.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jan 5, 2010
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| 3/5 | 54% | Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
Cinematographer Robert Presley and the design team provide many instances of graphical triumph, influenced by silent cinema.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 6, 2009
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| 4/5 | 96% | BirdWatchers - La terra degli uomini rossi (2008) |
Writer-director-producer Marco Bechis's absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2009
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| 3/5 | 63% | Chiko (2008) |
Impressive directorial skills, if a trite plotline, are on offer in Turkish-German writer-director Özgür Yildirim's occasionally violent debut feature.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Aug 21, 2009
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| 3/5 | 94% | Home (2009) |
A first film of laudable ambition and Meier's directorial confidence suggests promise for the future.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Aug 7, 2009
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| 2/5 | 29% | Mad, Sad & Bad (2009) |
A disconcerting fluctuation in tone - from sorrowful satire to cheesy sitcom - proves the film's fatal flaw.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jul 31, 2009
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| 3/5 | 73% | Kærlighed på Film (Just Another Love Story) (2007) |
Ambitious cross-cutting and occasional bursts of strident music hint at psychologically complex parallels and readings that the film fails to deliver.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2009
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| 5/5 | 97% | 35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008) |
Denis magically evokes a liberal meditation on family, harmony, loyalty and belonging and their corollaries - loss, transgression, loneliness and separation - and achieves a sweet unity.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jul 10, 2009
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| 3/5 | 84% | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
Longer than the last, the sixth episode of the adventures of the increasingly burdened magic warrior of Privet Drive is a more human affair than its predecessors.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jul 10, 2009
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| 1/5 | 45% | New Town Killers (2008) |
A seemingly self-mocking jumble of sour literary, cinematic, class and genre affectations.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jun 12, 2009
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| 3/5 | 86% | Accident (1967) |
'Accident' now seems a little self-conscious in its modernist, 'quality' art-cinema pretensions.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted Jun 5, 2009
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| 4/6 | 68% | Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
One of the most delicate, approachable and rewarding Holocaust movies of recent years.‐ Time Out
Read More | Posted May 29, 2009
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