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Henry Barnes

Henry Barnes's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Paddleton (2019) 89% 3/5 EDIT “It doesn't maintain... balance, but at the same time it does movingly convey what it might feel like to see the inconsequential things - the kitschy movies, the made-up ball games, the stove-burnt pizzas - endure while your best friend trundles to a stop.” – Guardian Feb 20, 2019 Full Review High Flying Bird (2019) 91% 4/5 EDIT “High Flying Bird is a classic Soderbergh construct. Throughout his career - from Sex, Lies and Videotape to Erin Brockovich to Che to Magic Mike - he's revelled in telling stories of the individual chipping away at the status quo.” – Guardian Feb 7, 2019 Full Review Death in Sarajevo (2016) 76% 4/5 EDIT “Written and directed by Danis Tanovic, the Oscar-winning Bosnian director of No Man's Land, Death in Sarajevo presents a damning allegory for modern Europe.” – Guardian Mar 1, 2017 Full Review London Fields (2018) 0% 2/5 EDIT “Novelistic, rich and awfully silly.” – Guardian Sep 14, 2016 Full Review Bleed for This (2016) 70% 2/5 EDIT “It's a story of strength that crumples; a portrait of vitality that plays awfully flat.” – Guardian Sep 2, 2016 Full Review David Brent: Life on the Road (2016) 57% 2/5 EDIT “There were braver things that Gervais could have done with the character. The bravest being leaving him where he was.” – Guardian Aug 10, 2016 Full Review Pete's Dragon (2016) 88% 3/5 EDIT “The result is part ET, part Jungle Book, part Peanuts. It's sweet and soulful and Spielberg-ish, but with a bitter streak.” – Guardian Aug 1, 2016 Full Review The Killing$ of Tony Blair (2016) 73% 3/5 EDIT “An entertaining ramble through well-publicised allegations and a slick run down the rap sheet for those who need a reminder of Tony's avarice.” – Guardian Jul 7, 2016 Full Review The World's End (2013) 89% 4/5 EDIT “The World's End marks the third part of Pegg and Wright's self-described "Cornetto trilogy." It's an appropriate moniker. With this final film they've slowed down a bit, grown up a lot. And saved the richest bite until last.” – Guardian Jun 14, 2016 Full Review From the Land of the Moon (2016) 32% 2/5 EDIT “The film takes on Gabrielle's listlessness, slumps into an opiated fug. The malady is mysterious and not easily treatable. It just exhausts you.” – Guardian May 15, 2016 Full Review The Last Man on the Moon (2014) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Craig's film deals with the fallout of the era - and how the returning heroes kept their feet on the ground - but he can't help but get swept up in the romance of the effort.” – Guardian Apr 7, 2016 Full Review Martyrs (2015) 9% 2/5 EDIT “What's left after the gore is stripped away is a mildly bloody, meatless horror.” – Guardian Mar 31, 2016 Full Review Fifty Shades of Black (2016) 4% 1/5 EDIT “A spoof of the franchise that started out as Twilight fan fiction offers up another barrel for Marlon Wayans to scrape.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2016 Full Review The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016) 11% 2/5 EDIT “Big but boring, expansive but cheap-looking, Allegiant spins in place, waiting for next year's Ascendent to come along and offer resolution. In all candour: you can do without it.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2016 Full Review Genius (2016) 51% 2/5 EDIT “Red pencils at the ready. This one needs a going over.” – Guardian Feb 16, 2016 Full Review Shepherds and Butchers (2016) 60% 2/5 EDIT “Shepherds and Butchers doesn't know which it is: the twisty legal drama that's going to herd us through the issue or the ferocious expose, laying out the quotidian grimness of systemic death.” – Guardian Feb 14, 2016 Full Review The Patriarch (2016) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Mahana is a touch simplistic and very romantic. But it does what it does with skill.” – Guardian Feb 14, 2016 Full Review Things to Come (2016) 99% 4/5 EDIT “Things to Come is a smart, earnest undertaking: an exploration of the insecurity that can hit any of us, at any age, when we start to question the life we've built.” – Guardian Feb 14, 2016 Full Review War on Everyone (2016) 61% 2/5 EDIT “There's fun to be had in the shtick, but the point? It's missing, presumed dead.” – Guardian Feb 12, 2016 Full Review Meru (2015) 88% 2/5 EDIT “Likely to appeal to the extreme sports market and leave the rest of us stranded.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2016 Full Review Lee Scratch Perry's Vision of Paradise (2015) 40% 3/5 EDIT “Be he space traveller, madman and/or fish, Perry (and the film) are certifiably original.” – Guardian Feb 4, 2016 Full Review We Come as Friends (2014) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Sauper and his two-man crew fly over a land that's becoming as alien to its indigenous population as it was (and still is) to those who fancy exploiting it.” – Guardian Jan 28, 2016 Full Review Sherpa (2015) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Smart, genuine, thoughtful film-making.” – Guardian Dec 17, 2015 Full Review Hector (2015) 94% 3/5 EDIT “It's refreshing that not every film need be so desperate about homelessness, but Hector is social realism that often feels unrelated to reality.” – Guardian Dec 10, 2015 Full Review Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014) 82% 3/5 EDIT “Everything from the post-apocalyptic ballyhoo of Mad Max: Fury Road to the Fallout video game series owe its gleefully violent tone a debt. But 2000AD did it originally with bold, brutal style.” – Guardian Dec 3, 2015 Full Review
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