Graeme Tuckett
Graeme Tuckett's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
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Movies reviews only
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) |
I can watch and re-watch the first three series of Luther endlessly, but Fallen Sun is a fine reminder of why I stopped. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023) |
Hillinger is a documentary veteran and she brings sharp instincts to Moneyshot. There are no bombshells here, but the truth is told. Recommended. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) |
A really well-assembled account of the people and the music they made. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) |
[Fury of the Gods] is a rushed, ugly and pointless film. Two hours after I saw it, I have forgotten almost everything about it, except for the things that irritated me. I certainly can't think of a single reason why anyone would want to sit through it. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Paradise Highway (2022) |
Binoche, Grillo and – especially – Freeman, all act as though they can't wait for the ordeal to be over. After two hours of Paradise Highway, you will sympathise. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023) |
Selective Outrage seems mostly recycled, dated and by-the-numbers for Rock. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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65 (2023) |
65 is a mostly diabolically bad film. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Broker (2022) |
Broker is a gentle, often funny and deeply human piece of work. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
If you have the stomach for it, Triangle of Sadness is the comedy of the year so far. No contest. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 02, 2023
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Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022) |
Like a not-bad second album, there's plenty of filler here -- and a few minutes that could have been left out completely, but Fisherman's Friends 2: One And All probably has just enough decent moments to repeat some of the success of the first film. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Aftersun (2022) |
Aftersun is a bright, funny, immensely likeable and touching film. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
In Cocaine Bear, Banks absolutely nails the mid-1980s B-grade horror vibe and then mashes it with a goofball high-school teen comedy. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
Marvel today is an amusement park, expanding, building new rides and attractions, trying, flailing and failing to recapture the magic of the past decade. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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True Spirit (2023) |
It's a decent film of an exceptionally inspiring event. Recommended. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
A very young Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif all appear in great supporting roles. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Sissy (2022) |
Sissy is a smart, sassy and unafraid wee film that knows its audience and yet never panders to our expectations. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
Magic Mike's Last Dance is a pile of fun. It wasn't the film I was expecting to see. But in many ways it was a better film than I was hoping for. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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We Are Still Here (2022) |
If you have any interest at all in the ways in which films can be made, even without millions of dollars to burn, then watching We Are Still Here is pretty much compulsory. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
The film looks and sound like a multi-million dollar movie should. But even by Shyamalan's wildly uneven standards, this one is a misfire. It's terrible, naturally. But Knock At The Cabin is also dull. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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Pathaan (2023) |
Pathaan is a blast. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017) |
Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution is a horror film, in the guise of a socially conscious documentary. It also slips far too often into exactly the objectifying and leering behaviour it pretends to be condemning. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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Devotion (2022) |
This is a solid and unflashy movie about a little-understood war and some genuine American heroes who were a part of it. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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Jung_E (2023) |
Perhaps all of that over-familiar backdrop and world-building is only Yeon's way of lulling us into thinking we are watching a genre actioner, when in fact Jung-E is a sly satire of a class war and the attitudes that led to an environmental catastrophe. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Tár (2022) |
Tár is dense, scabrous, chilling, occasionally very, very funny and absolutely hypnotic. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023) |
The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker is a really well put together account of the tragedy that unfolded and the too-unlikely-to-fiction trajectory of Kai's life. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 23, 2023
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My Old School (2022) |
McLeod reveals some astonishing discrepancies between how the former classmates collectively remember events -- and what actually happened. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
If this is what failure looks like, then let's have more of it. I'd rather see a film that fails this boldly, than one that succeeds meekly, any day at all. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
There are nods and winks here at everything from RoboCop and A.I. to The Shining -- as there should be -- but M3gan succeeds by putting a smart and funny spin on some old ideas, and by making them feel nearly credible and contemporary again. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
Operation Fortune just sputters where it needs to explode and never gets any wind under its wings. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%! (2023) |
The Subtle Art -- the film -- is a brisk, often very funny and always likeable trip through the key points of the book. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 10, 2023
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Pulp Fiction (1994) |
Pulp Fiction is a moment in the zeitgeist. It is a brash, brattish and unprecedented film that changed everyone who touched it. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 09, 2023
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A Man Called Otto (2022) |
For all its sop, it does have a few things to say, about the things that actually make us human. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 05, 2023
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Blueback (2022) |
The acting is mostly great, the underwater cinematography is superb and the selection of songs on the soundtrack suggest that Robert Connolly's record collection would be an agreeable place to spend a couple of hours. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 05, 2023
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) |
Despite the script ticking all the boxes it needs to and the leading role being quite brilliantly played, the film just hardly ever entertains or impresses us. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 28, 2022
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Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022) |
Another of Kennedy's true-life documentaries, this is equally sturdy, factual and engrossing.
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| Posted Dec 22, 2022
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The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari (2022) |
The Volcano does its job well. You'll be impressed by the film and by the integrity and kaupapa that got it here. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 22, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
By waiting 13 years, James Cameron really does have a new story to tell us, new characters to work with -- and whole box of new film-making wizardry to unpack, out there in Miramar and beyond. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 15, 2022
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The Swimmers (2022) |
This is a strong film, of an almost unbelievable true story. Very recommended. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Troll (2022) |
Troll does exactly what you are hoping for. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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The Lost King (2022) |
The Lost King is a breezy, enjoyable and very watchable film. Frears, as always, sets his stages simply and perfectly -- and then lets his cast do their work without much interference or attention grabbing from behind the camera. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich (2022) |
Stripped of its gossipy tone and occasional awe at the circles she moved in, [it's] just another portrait of a monster. But, at 101 minutes long and all over in a single instalment, it is a watchable and mostly informative trawl through the filth. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 01, 2022
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The Road Dance (2021) |
The Road Dance is a sweeping epic of a type we don't see much of any more. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 01, 2022
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Reservoir Dogs (1992) |
I still think this lean, merciless and hellishly funny debut might be the best thing he ever made... - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 30, 2022
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Strange World (2022) |
The spectacle, warmth, fun and love that has gone into every frame of Strange World is more than enough to power it past a few narrative problems. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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Seriously Red (2021) |
Seriously Red unfolds as neat wee story about the importance of being yourself. And of how hard that lesson might be to learn when you have your heart set on being a professional impersonator of someone else. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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Bones and All (2022) |
Bones and All got under my skin and followed me around for days. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) |
Bardo [is] a film that is being marketed as a comedy – and which made me laugh out loud many times, but which is also one of the most affecting films I've seen in years. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) |
Essential viewing for anyone who cares about movies. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Waterman (2021) |
Go and see Waterman, even if you think you're not interested in a film about a surfing legend. There is so much more here to see. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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The American (2010) |
If you're a fan of Jim Jarmusch and Nic Roeg, you might enjoy what Corbijn is trying to do here. Otherwise, don't bother. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Nov 11, 2022
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