Ali Catterall
Ali Catterall's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
BBC.com
Total Film
Film4
Movies reviews only
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Stairway to Heaven (1946) |
An enduring classic. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 07, 2017
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Sorcerer (1977) |
Contains two of the most astounding sequences in cinema, featuring a dynamited tree and a storm-lashed truck on a splintering rope bridge ... - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 30, 2017
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Mad to Be Normal (2017) |
In this touchingly funny, quietly heartbreaking biopic, David Tennant excels as the complex and flawed Laing. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 06, 2017
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Raw (2016) |
A bracing and brilliant original, with a delicious script and meaty performances. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 06, 2017
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Richard III (1995) |
With a screenplay (co-written by McKellen) that crackles and spits like a roasting pig, it was clearly as much of a blast to make as it is to watch. - Total Film
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| Posted Jan 02, 2017
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years (2016) |
Given the subject matter, this still feels fresh thanks to rare/unseen footage. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 28, 2016
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The Land of the Enlightened (2016) |
A unique, stunning window to an extreme world. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 28, 2016
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Half Way (2015) |
Hudson's excellent fly-on-the-wall documentary, filmed while she, her mum and younger sister were between homes, is urgent, powerful, eye-opening stuff. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 01, 2016
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Gimme Danger (2016) |
A conventional music doc about an extremely unconventional group ... - Total Film
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| Posted Nov 16, 2016
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Revolution: New Art for a New World (2016) |
Eye-opening stuff, in every sense. - Total Film
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| Posted Nov 07, 2016
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A Hundred Streets (2016) |
It's not Altman, but its heart is in the right place and Drameh impresses. - Total Film
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| Posted Nov 07, 2016
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A Girl at My Door (2014) |
A soulful, shattering drama that highlights the lengths desperate people will go to survive. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 31, 2016
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In Pursuit of Silence (2015) |
In today's world, silence is a highly prized virtue, as this vital documentary exploring the philosophy, spirituality and practice of silence points out. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 19, 2016
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Tiger Raid (2016) |
Some superbly stylish flourishes make this a promising calling card for debut director Simon Dixon. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 04, 2016
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High Tide (2015) |
This Swansea-set drama barely puts a foot wrong -- featuring naturalistic dialogue and excellent lead performances, it's a sad, wise and even quietly hopeful affair. - Total Film
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| Posted Mar 04, 2015
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Naked (1993) |
There are also moments of tenderness, necessary chinks of compassion spearing the murk. It's also bitingly, appallingly funny. And it's a masterpiece. - Film4
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| Posted Mar 04, 2015
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Theatre of Blood (1973) |
Memorable for its lurid set-pieces (notably Robert Morley being forced to eat his own poodles), it also remains a favourite among critics; suggesting, perhaps, a certain guilty conscience. Punish us! - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 13, 2014
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Northern Soul (2014) |
Sporadically engrossing, its highlight is a brilliant recreation of an all-night dance-a-thon at that northern soul mecca, the legendary Wigan Casino. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 13, 2014
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My Name Is Hmmm... (2013) |
A laudable attempt, but 'Hmmm...' will likely be the most common response. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 13, 2014
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Dead of Night (1945) |
There's some genuinely skin-crawling stuff tucked away: some ghastly business with a ventriloquist's dummy, and one of the creepiest invitations from a bus conductor ever. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 12, 2014
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Night Will Fall (2014) |
The footage - discoveries made by the Allies in the liberated Nazi camps during 1945 - is graphic, terrible, unforgettable. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 15, 2014
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Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014) |
The gorgeous 3D certainly brings us nose to tail with these heavily anthropomorphised cuties, even if the actual wildlife lesson's a bit thin on the ground, owing to a very reduced running time. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 01, 2014
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Finding Fela (2014) |
It's a decent enough beginner's guide, though never quite gets a grip on its complex subject. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 01, 2014
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) |
The story of a cosmic visitation among ordinary folk-turned-obsessives, Spielberg's masterpiece is that rare blockbuster -- at once grown-up, yet full of fairytale, childlike wonder. - Total Film
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| Posted Aug 22, 2014
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A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
Of its time, sure, but eternally entertaining. - Total Film
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| Posted Jun 30, 2014
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Secret Sharer (2014) |
A Vaseline-lenses romance plonked rudely into what looks like an infinitely more interesting and gritty study of Chinese sailors. - Total Film
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| Posted Jun 23, 2014
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Common People (2013) |
There's some incredibly good (and very funny) dialogue here, and an innate sweetness and charm that offsets its air of post-recessional malaise one anti-bankers rant, in particular, will have you cheering. - Total Film
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| Posted Jun 09, 2014
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An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) |
Played out with agonising matter-of-factness against a wintry backdrop of chimneys and tips, it's a grim, if quietly compelling affair. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 21, 2014
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You & Me Forever (2012) |
This blisteringly realistic Danish coming-of-age drama is smarter than most and superbly performed - parental bust-ups, excruciating seductions and all. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 21, 2014
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Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus (2013) |
Vivid and vital. - Total Film
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| Posted Mar 24, 2014
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Betsy & Leonard (2012) |
Some nicely dry comic touches aside, this mostly half-baked romcom would probably have worked better as a half-hour TV skit. - Total Film
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| Posted Mar 24, 2014
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013) |
A highly entertaining musical history lesson that could (and should) just boost a few careers into the bargain. - Total Film
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| Posted Mar 24, 2014
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Plot for Peace (2013) |
Quietly heroic in every way. - Total Film
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| Posted Mar 10, 2014
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Unforgiven (2013) |
Not as redundant as it sounds ... - Total Film
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| Posted Feb 24, 2014
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Bette Bourne: It Goes With the Shoes (2013) |
Actor, (legendary) drag queen and gay rights activist, Bette Bourne is the deserving subject of this docu-portrait, which is part history lesson, part stand-up set. - Total Film
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| Posted Feb 12, 2014
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Teenage (2013) |
Mesmerising. - Total Film
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| Posted Jan 20, 2014
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Devil's Due (2014) |
The Devil may have all the best tunes, but this really is the worst sort of cinematic karaoke. - Total Film
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| Posted Jan 19, 2014
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) |
One final course of Europudding that may leave audiences feeling less satisfied than simply tired and bloated. - Film4
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| Posted Nov 29, 2010
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Saw: The Final Chapter (2010) |
One Jigsaw that should never be put back together. - Film4
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| Posted Nov 03, 2010
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Let Me In (2010) |
A remake that in no way soils its source and stands on its own two bare feet as a classy, nerve-jangling slice of horror. - Film4
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| Posted Nov 03, 2010
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Black Death (2010) |
Released into an era of poverty, pestilence and bad religion, Christopher Smiths historical horror-thriller Black Death fits the new Dark Ages like an bloodied iron gauntlet. - Film4
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| Posted Jun 09, 2010
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) |
The real problem with A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 is: it's really unbelievably dull. - Film4
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| Posted May 06, 2010
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) |
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a truly life-affirming and brilliantly unsentimental celebration of the Mockney and his music. Serkis was born to play this role. - Film4
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| Posted Jan 08, 2010
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Nowhere Boy (2009) |
Hardly a cold turkey, but not a (Number 9) Dream of a biopic either. - Film4
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| Posted Dec 18, 2009
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009) |
It delivers the goods as they say. A third film is surely on the cards, no doubt in 3D. But in order to retain any good will, this series is going to have to do the one thing our Crawler friends have demonstrably failed to do. Evolve. - Film4
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| Posted Dec 04, 2009
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Bunny and the Bull (2009) |
A wildly inventive debut. - Film4
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| Posted Nov 27, 2009
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1 Day (2009) |
You could call this a 'hip-hopera', a mix of filmmaking and social work, or a shot in the arm for British independent cinema. Just don't call it Bugsy Malone with real bullets. - Film4
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| Posted Nov 06, 2009
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The Horseman (2008) |
Despite some good performances and technical flair, The Horseman remains stuck in the paddock. - Film4
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| Posted Oct 30, 2009
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
Honestly, this really isn't some kind of Transatlantic stand-off on our part. But how much longer are we expected to stand impotently by while Hollywood arrogantly Americanises our every British children's icon? - Film4
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| Posted Oct 23, 2009
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Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) |
Jaw-bustingly funny stuff, uproarious, delightful and unexpectedly touching, containing more laugh-out-loud moments than most Hollywood comedies twice the length. - Film4
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| Posted Oct 09, 2009
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