Adam White
Adam White's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Independent (UK)
Little White Lies
Movies reviews only
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Close (2022) |
Dhont’s visuals are strong and sumptuous and he coaxes spellbindingly naturalistic performances from first-time actors Dambrine and De Waele, but a gulf in tone separates both halves of his film. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Causeway (2022) |
Lawrence seems to have found her footing again. Her performance marks a return to the kind of textured naturalism that won her so much acclaim in the first place; it gestures not only to her past but where she is likely headed next. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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Bros (2022) |
Bobby isn’t so much a character as a living newspaper op-ed by the most exhausting columnist in the world. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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The Bubble (2022) |
There are occasional flashes of barbed, satirical wit here. Generally, though, The Bubble resembles a flutter of loose ideas, to which a vast ensemble of reliably funny actors have been tasked with adding colour. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Apr 01, 2022
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Turning Red (2022) |
Turning Red is a charming coming-of-age story with lovely pops of imagination and a refreshing lack of queasiness when it comes to its themes of puberty and adolescent sexuality. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Mar 10, 2022
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Marry Me (2022) |
In an era in which many of Lopez’s romcom peers have pivoted to dark dramas, it’s lovely to see her still banging the drum for a genre that’s never earned the respect it’s deserved. Then again, she knows what that feels like. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Feb 10, 2022
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The Souvenir Part II (2021) |
Think of it as The Godfather Part II of posh misery, a film built upon the emotional wreckage left behind from the original, yet wider in scope, smoother in execution, and with warmth where a freezer used to be. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Feb 04, 2022
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Memoria (2021) |
If anything, it's a living deja vu. Or the closest cinema can get to that disquieting sensation of meeting someone you're convinced you've encountered before. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Jan 14, 2022
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The Hand of God (2021) |
Matching the dazzling maximalism of The Great Beauty, his Oscar-winning 2013 tribute to the city of Rome, the film is bawdy and wistful, with a rich vein of melancholy running through it. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Dec 06, 2021
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Britney Vs Spears (2021) |
A kind of compassionate exploitation, one that retains the same tawdry voyeurism as before, only wrapped in an illusion of sensitivity. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Sep 28, 2021
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Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace (2021) |
This is drinking-game catnip, a feast of bizarre and dubious choices played with irresistible sincerity. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2021
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Censor (2021) |
Censor feels lovingly worked-at, slathered in period detail and aesthetic beauty. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Aug 20, 2021
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Friends: The Reunion (2021) |
Did we need a Friends reunion? Not really... Was this 100-minute tribute to the world's biggest sitcom as pointless as it was a total joy? Absolutely. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted May 27, 2021
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Music (2021) |
A baffling inspirational drama plagued by bad directorial choices... Let's toss a huge wig over this thing and pretend it never happened. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Feb 16, 2021
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Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020) |
Roald & Beatrix is gentle, handsome and well-acted family viewing, yet substantial Christmas-driven obliviousness is needed to overlook the factual sourness of its hero. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Dec 28, 2020
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Possessor: Uncut (2020) |
An entertaining techno thriller... led by actors whose mere presence does the leg work whenever Cronenberg's script falters. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Dec 01, 2020
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Hubie Halloween (2020) |
More unexpectedly, it's generally bearable - a light, sweet and nostalgic comedy that is pleasantly devoid of high stakes. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Oct 09, 2020
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Pinocchio (2019) |
It results in a film that is moving, tender and sumptuous, but bears a sticky queasiness that some may find unbearable. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Aug 17, 2020
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Greyhound (2020) |
What's here is fleetingly thrilling. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Jul 09, 2020
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The King of Staten Island (2020) |
Scott is both adorable and unpleasant, his trajectory believably scattershot... with his marvellously sloppy face and soft aimlessness, he's a pleasure to spend a couple of hours with. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Jun 10, 2020
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Rebel in the Rye (2017) |
For the film's UK release, nearly three years after its limited theatrical unveiling in the US, Spacey has unsurprisingly been scrubbed from its cover art. The same treatment should have been extended to the film itself. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted May 19, 2020
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(undefined) |
Overflowing with eerie profundity. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted May 18, 2020
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The Photograph (2020) |
What luck, then, that Stella Meghie's film returns to its stronger elements so often. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Mar 04, 2020
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Queen & Slim (2019) |
Simultaneously beautiful and troubling. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Jan 31, 2020
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Waves (2019) |
Shults has proven himself to be a brilliant filmmaker already... But Waves gets away from him, the film far more captivated by sound and spectacle than it is character and story. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Jan 16, 2020
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The Beach Bum (2019) |
It feels especially singular - as dizzying, baffling and heartfelt as something from one of our last scuzzy enfants-terribles could ever be. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Oct 23, 2019
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Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) |
By the time the film reaches its abrupt conclusion, complete with vast CGI zombie horde, Double Tap has long abandoned any sense of explicitly needing to exist. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Oct 17, 2019
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J.T. LeRoy (2018) |
Yet despite the presence of two of our very best female actors, the story has lost much of its power and intrigue. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Aug 14, 2019
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Gloria Bell (2018) |
Gloria Bell is somewhat exhausting - both unbearably intimate and at a constant remove - but it is endlessly pulled back into focus by Moore. - Independent (UK)
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| Posted Jun 11, 2019
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Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (2019) |
Homecoming, in all its inspiring and mythologizing glory, doesn't just cement her legacy as a musical force,... but as a woman eager to ensure that others like her will follow in her footsteps, too. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Apr 19, 2019
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Guava Island (2019) |
As a film it is slight, but not unsatisfying, instead existing as a thoughtful, dreamy tribute to art, love and people power. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Apr 14, 2019
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Unicorn Store (2017) |
It's more often than not something of a slog, its insights shrug-worthy and its tone jarring in its shifts from candy-coloured whimsy to weepy dramatics. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Tulip Fever (2017) |
Such a fascinating moment in Dutch history is deserving of a far better vehicle than an episode of Hollyoaks produced by Harvey Weinstein. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Dec 07, 2018
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Tag (2018) |
It's all a bit more sad than what you'd expect from a film with an extended set piece discussing the horrors of punches to the butt. It's a feeling that is unfortunately replicated in the film's cast. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jun 29, 2018
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Patrick the Pug (2018) |
The film struggles to congeal, falling back on laboured gags set up with mechanical lack-of-ease. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jun 28, 2018
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Mom and Dad (2017) |
Both a torrid exploitation cinema throwback, and a metaphor for a generation of kids screwed over by their elders. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Mar 12, 2018
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The Commuter (2018) |
We don't see movies like The Commuter for logical plots or quality acting, we see them because Neeson is shorthand for popcorn and 90-minute roller coaster rides. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2018
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Ingrid Goes West (2017) |
By the time the film builds to a conclusion full of forced conflict, the subtle insight of its early scenes feel as forgotten as a Facebook message you haven't replied to in a month. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 19, 2017
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Secret in Their Eyes (2015) |
Two great performances squandered in a silly misfire. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 26, 2016
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