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Brian Viner
Brian Viner's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Daily Mail (UK)
Movies reviews only
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Fallen Leaves (2023) |
It’s a quiet, sweet, witty, moving Finnish-language drama about a relationship that slowly develops... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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There's Something in the Barn (2023) |
If you don’t mind your Christmas spirit curdled by murder and mayhem, there’s plenty here to put you in the festive mood... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Eileen (2023) |
Hathaway, a movie star whose rom-com past sometimes denies her the stature she deserves as an actress of real heft, is terrific as the sophisticated Rebecca. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Leave the World Behind (2023) |
Sam Esmail presents some spectacular images but the film is at least 25 minutes too long. A Quiet Place (2018) covered broadly similar territory much more deftly. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Wish (2023) |
With lacklustre animation and forgettable songs, it tries desperately to be a new Frozen but falls many snowballs short, despite a decent voice cast... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Maestro (2023) |
Bradley Cooper's Maestro is a searingly intelligent drama... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Driving Madeleine (2022) |
The acting is delightful, the Paris landmarks evocative, the writing at times a bit clunky, but on the whole, Christian Carion's film is a pleasure. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 17, 2023
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) |
If you bought into the first four instalments, then you will doubtless have fun, but it seemed to me to go on for ever... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 17, 2023
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Napoleon (2023) |
The film is sumptuously watchable but also inherently flawed. Phoenix mumbles his way through it... and David Scarpa's script doesn't allow Napoleon to express himself much beyond the battlefield and the bedroom. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 15, 2023
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Nyad (2023) |
Stirring stuff. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 03, 2023
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Nobody Has to Know (2021) |
Lanners has made a soulful, poignant, quiet film. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 03, 2023
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How to Have Sex (2023) |
What a powerful film this is about teenage behaviour, the more so because it doesn't preach, it just tells. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 03, 2023
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Bottoms (2023) |
Just occasionally the parody falls flat, making Bottoms a hit-and-miss comedy, but the hits more than compensate for the misses... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 03, 2023
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The Royal Hotel (2023) |
Kitty Green adroitly constructs a narrative of mounting tension and dread. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 03, 2023
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Typist Artist Pirate King (2022) |
It's whimsical, funny and sad. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023) |
For anyone interested in that golden era of Hollywood, it's compelling stuff. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) |
Five Nights At Freddy's is four nights too many. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Doctor Jekyll (2023) |
Izzard works hard enough but always seems to be play-acting, and even the fine actress Lindsay Duncan is more than a little hammy as a forbidding, Mrs Danvers-style estate manager. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Cat Person (2023) |
[Cat Person] has its moments and boasts a classy performance by Britain's own Emilia Jones... but it's a story of sex and sexual politics that falls over itself trying to be a thriller, and ultimately isn't a particularly plausible one. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2023
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One Life (2023) |
I was glad that the lights didn't go up too soon afterwards. It gave my cheeks time to dry. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 24, 2023
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Sumotherhood (2023) |
I didn't enjoy Sumotherhood one bit. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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The Miracle Club (2023) |
Thaddeus O'Sullivan's patchy comedy is a predictable ragbag of Irish Catholic cliches and sentimentality, albeit greatly enriched by a whopper of a cast. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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The Holdovers (2023) |
The laughs are carried along, though, by a strong undercurrent of sadness as this trio of misfits try to find their way. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Saltburn (2023) |
At its funniest it's a proper hoot, and at its darkest, it's still strangely compelling. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
I loved The Bikeriders, an absorbing drama with echoes of great mob pictures such as Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Golda (2023) |
... The screenplay gets terribly bogged down in dialogue between politicians in smoke-filled rooms. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 09, 2023
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The Burial (2023) |
It's a tremendously satisfying film... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 09, 2023
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The Exorcist: Believer (2023) |
That depiction of a particular kind of horror story is extremely well done, but actually, the film loses its way as the supernatural dimension builds, culminating in an extravagantly overwrought exorcism scene. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 09, 2023
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The Great Escaper (2023) |
The Great Escaper never lurches into clunky sentimentality, and whenever it looks as if it might, Caine and Jackson pull it back. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Oct 04, 2023
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The Nettle Dress (2023) |
I'm not sure that 'hedgerow couture' will catch on, but this lyrical film offers a beguiling introduction. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex (2022) |
Since the first record I bought as a kid was Telegram Sam in 1972, I lapped all this up. And if you’re of similar vintage, so will you. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Strange Way of Life (2023) |
A sweet, mournful, exquisitely acted story... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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The Lesson (2023) |
Troughton’s film is an overheated, overly theatrical melodrama... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Dumb Money (2023) |
Director Craig Gillespie treats a serious true story with an appealingly light touch... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Expend4bles (2023) |
... Lament4bly predict4ble stuff. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Bolan's Shoes (2023) |
Hats off to him [Ian Puleston-Davies] for a film that is dark in many ways but, ultimately, if you'll forgive my own oblique glam-rock reference, positively sweet. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) |
Branagh tries so hard with those scares — doors banging, chandeliers plummeting, parrots screeching, ghosts looming — that they swiftly become about as chilling as your average caffe latte. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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The Killer (2023) |
It's moody, stylish, and pretty preposterous, but thoroughly watchable... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Coup de Chance (2023) |
Woody Allen's Coup de Chance is fun. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Hit Man (2023) |
It's a rom-com, a thriller and a black comedy, all marvellously rolled into one, with a delightful turn by Linklater's co-writer Glen Powell in the title role of a mild philosophy professor... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Poor Things (2023) |
It's a remarkable film, shot in Lanthimos's trademark wacky style, with an uproarious performance from Mark Ruffalo as the bounder who tries to exploit Bella's childlike naivety... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) |
... An engaging drama about the lies we tell to those we love, to avoid hurting them or to boost their confidence. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Heart of Stone (2023) |
Tom Harper's film could only be more of a Mission Impossible rip-off if it were called Mission Unbelievable. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) |
... The film, trying both to be a comedy and a proud LGBTQ statement, falls splat between two thrones. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) |
It's a relief, after almost two hours of this silliness, to come up for air. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Haunted Mansion (2023) |
This remake, with a heavyweight, largely African-American cast, does a pretty decent job of blending supernatural horror with comedy and aiming it principally at children. But as popcorn entertainment it is hit-and-miss stuff... mostly miss. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) |
Gran Turismo isn't nonsense, but it might have been more honest simply to call it Product Placement. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Barbie (2023) |
Their thunderous feminist message is leavened by plenty of sharp gags and, following her acclaimed 2017 film Lady Bird and the wonderful Little Women (2019), Gerwig further burnishes her reputation as a director of terrific flair. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 24, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
Oppenheimer unfolds like a thriller, while not swerving profound questions about the morality of laying Hiroshima and Nagasaki to nuclear waste. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 24, 2023
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Sweet Charity (1969) |
It’s thoroughly dated, but that’s part of its enduring charm — as is Shirley MacLaine! - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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