Antonia Quirke
Antonia Quirke's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Financial Times
London Evening Standard
Independent on Sunday
Movies reviews only
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Very Bad Things (1998) |
It's as thought writer and director Peter Berg couldn't face following through what he suggests in the early moments of the film. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Apr 01, 2019
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Two Girls and a Guy (1997) |
Tobak is fascinated with Downey, and spends most of the time following him about, like someone with a crush. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Apr 01, 2019
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Stepmom (1998) |
It's a film about a woman who lives for other people and who wears the requisite hunted expression. If this woman wasn't Sarandon, then Stepmom would be altogether hopeless. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Apr 01, 2019
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Touch of Evil (1958) |
What a film this is. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Bride of Chucky (1998) |
Bride of Chucky is easily the best of the four-film Chucky franchise, and it's a barmy, witty horror movie full of Scream-like ironies. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Venus Beauty Institute (1999) |
Tonie Marshall's quiet, unremarkable film has little real emotional pull. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Gloria (1999) |
An unnecessary remake. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Just the Ticket (1999) |
The film works well when it is down on the street, spying on Gary doing his off-the-cuff stuff with real commuters, and Garcia is physically perfect for this kind of role. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Croupier (1998) |
Croupier is fascinating, mercilessly compact, adamant. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Cruel Intentions (1999) |
Cruel Intentions is a surprisingly winning update of Choderlos De Laclos's 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangeureuses. - Independent on Sunday
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Something's Gotta Give (2003) |
It pays homage to the great pulse of warmth still, 27 years later, being given off by Annie Hall, and Keaton basks in the attention. You can hear the beat of her triumphant heart. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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The School of Rock (2003) |
School of Rock just doesn't rock. It has no appetite for destruction. No raw power. It's like late Whitesnake. Tidied-up, over-produced. Jack Black is not, sad to say, Jack White. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Pieces of April (2003) |
It's interesting to see [Katie] Holmes in something like this, which gives an edge to her usual cute and cloying persona. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) |
Spade doesn't look to have the confidence to flourish in such a mainstream film. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004) |
The film is mirthless, worthless, toothless, useless. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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It's All About Love (2003) |
In Vinterberg's hands, the unusual become usual and It's All About Love lulls you into trusting everything it shows. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Man Dancin' (2003) |
A batty film: harsh and grim, then madly thespy. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Sunrise (1927) |
The film is electric: overwhelmingly passionate and sexual. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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House of Sand and Fog (2003) |
While the book reads as tragedy, the film feels like melodrama, and really hasn't the guts for Connolly's natural spirit and warmth, or Kingsley's beautiful canniness. They both feel completely throttled, done in by the film's over-calculated heaviness. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003) |
Just what we need: a pyjama party posing as a movie. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Starsky & Hutch (2004) |
At a time when the Hollywood studios seem locked in a competition to see who can make and distribute the most witless spoofs, pastiches and tributes, along comes one that is genuinely funny. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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The Perfect Score (2004) |
It makes The Breakfast Club look like one of the smartest experiences of your life. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Ash Wednesday (2002) |
This might have been a good film if Burns (writer, director, producer) had tried harder. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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Zatoichi (2003) |
This film is a shebang, a full-scale show, complete with everything you would happily pay to see: costumes, tattoos, scratchy folk music, gambling in saki dens. You will eat it up. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 20, 2017
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The Station Agent (2003) |
Dinklage is a star, for sure, but the film is hypnotic because of its unusually certain and constantly delicate tone. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
It is ferocious and young and exciting. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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The Fog of War (2003) |
Although Errol Morris's film takes us through the nasty dramas behind various wars, few of McNamara's clarifications come as a surprise. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
The Cat in the Hat is dog food. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Hidalgo (2004) |
Sharif grounds the silliness a little. When he looks across the desert with those eyes that have always hinted that hard weather is coming, everybody else rushing around the set looks overdressed for a costume party. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Gothika (2003) |
The most interesting thing about this clunky, foolish horror flick -- in which everybody but the audience is constantly caught off-guard -- is Berry's scrappy wig. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
Shaun of the Dead is a cute, successful zombie spoof built on a central joke: if the undead actually came to London, supposedly turned-on town of nattering youth, no one would really notice. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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The Agronomist (2003) |
The hero of free speech, his voice so musical, cuts a memorable figure. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Qissa Panjab (2015) |
It is a sometimes impressive and very personal bit of craftwomanship. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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The Girl Next Door (2004) |
This is not entirely your average greasy teen movie, and frequently manages to be quite funny, and ambivalent, about vicious competitiveness at US high schools and sickly, sex-saturated modern life. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Taking Lives (2004) |
Taking Lives is a foolish thriller full of actors who deserve better. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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The Honeymooners (2003) |
We have seen this kind of thing before, of course, but rarely with the obvious thought that has gone into this film's pace and tone. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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Imagining Argentina (2003) |
It is not a good film; it is, moreover, a very earnest one, and our popular culture despises earnestness above almost anything else. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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Wondrous Oblivion (2003) |
This competitive atmosphere of unease moves the film along, but it is full of forebodings that it does not follow through. Something for socially alert, gentle 12-year olds. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) |
Hodges films London restlessly, as though searching for some kind of relief. We are taken from cafs to flats to streets to houses to morgues to garages, in short unsentimental scenes while he drums up an odd, powerful mood of apprehensiveness. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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Secret Window (2004) |
Actually, there isn't much of a movie here at all. But there is always Depp... By far the director David Koepp's best decision was to indulge in a riveted idolatry of his star. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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The Company (2003) |
This is Altman at his easiest, his most unruffled, and complete. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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Wonderland (2003) |
From a distance, Val Kilmer still passes as beautiful... But close up, his is the face of corruption: an intense mass of beforehis-time lines. There is certainly a great role out there for him, but reallife former porn star John C Holmes isn't it. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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Laws of Attraction (2004) |
Surely the first law of attraction is that Pierce Brosnan isn't. This is the man who turned James Bond into the kind of guy who owns a juicer. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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The Football Factory (2004) |
Football Factory isn't self-consciously cool; it has a base, wild energy that will stay with you. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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Shattered Glass (2003) |
Being a film about fibs, it is desperate not to tell any. Big mistake. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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Against the Ropes (2004) |
This is pulpy, unforgivable stuff, as ungainly as Ryan's walk in her black high heels. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring (2003) |
There are moments here that you will love and remember. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn is the good king of the title, and while the actor may look fetching in a crown and cloak, he doesn't have half of the gravitas of Sean Bean's Boromir in the first film. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) |
Little happens -- save for several family arguments and the artist worrying about money and the integrity of his ambition -- yet it is unforgettable, and, shot to look like a moving Vermeer painting, effortlessly profound. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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Connie and Carla (2004) |
It's not really that complicated. Connie and Carla flounders because while men dressing up as women is funny, women dressing up as men is not. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 14, 2017
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