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      James Jackson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Times (UK) Sunday Times (UK)
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      Rating T-Meter Title | Year Review
      3/5
      Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023) The extravaganza works through good cheer and the sheer force of Waddinghamness, and at 45 minutes it mercifully doesn’t outstay its welcome... though, should be warned: it really is as cheesy as a baked stilton soufflé. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Nov 28, 2023
      Curse of the Demon (1957) ... 66 years on the demon will still send chills through you. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Oct 30, 2023
      Richard III (1955) [Laurence Olivier's] Richard remains one of the most full-blooded movie villains — a performance done with, surely, a nod and a wink. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Oct 19, 2023
      4/5
      Partygate (2023) You couldn’t say this was a drama that didn’t make its point, twisting it firmly with a screwdriver then bashing it home with a sledgehammer. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Oct 06, 2023
      Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) [Bridges'] handsome, effortless charisma is on full beam as Preston Tucker, an American car entrepreneur during the 1940s. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Sep 27, 2023
      4/5
      8 Bar: The Evolution of Grime (2021) But this film’s exhaustive, and perhaps a bit exhausting, document of a uniquely British sound — black culture’s answer to punk — was a reminder of just how astonishing it is when youth culture creates a new musical language. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Aug 22, 2023
      Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) As souped-up matinee fare this has heaps of bugs, humour and chases, topped by Harrison Ford at his charismatic peak. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Jun 27, 2023
      4/5
      Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021) Vonnegut remains such contradictory company. His harrowing observations of inhumanity, most famously in Slaughterhouse-Five’s first-hand descriptions of the bombing of Dresden, seemed to render him ever more goofy. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Apr 26, 2023
      Stand by Me (1986) [The boys] petty bickering and self-revelations unfold convincingly and with great humour, bottling that uncertain moment in life between childhood and adolescence. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Apr 25, 2023
      The Pink Panther (1963) It’s chic in an early-1960s kind of way. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Apr 25, 2023
      City Slickers (1991) Between gentle one-liners and bucketloads of schmaltzy sentiment, the director Ron Underwood captures some of the rugged beauty of the American southwest. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Apr 25, 2023
      4/5
      The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023) The slight irony with the fable of Kai the hitchhiker is that, while the film seems to be making a valid point about how the reality media is all too vulturine in its race to exploit individuals, here is Kai, still part of the pop-cultural cycle. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Jan 11, 2023
      4/5
      A Bunch of Amateurs (2022) A warm, funny-sad celebration of community and friendship as it followed a group of northern friends chasing their quixotic dreams of making (very cheap) movies. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Dec 14, 2022
      Meatballs (1979) Along with the set pieces of comic disaster there’s also a touching (sort of) subplot as Tripper brings the shy boy Rudy (Chris Makepeace) out of his shell and makes him realise his true worth. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2022
      The Firm (1993) Cruise’s toothy heroics are ill-suited to moral complexity, but he is elevated by a stellar supporting cast... - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Nov 15, 2022
      Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee (2022) ... As the story then unspools over several years, McAfee’s behaviour becomes even more wayward, his story even weirder. The fact that this multmillionaire is a madman makes him all the more compelling. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Sep 12, 2022
      Some Like It Hot (1959) Nobody’s perfect, as the film’s immortal closing line has it, but some comedies are. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Aug 04, 2022
      Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Monroe sparkles like the diamonds she worships. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Aug 04, 2022
      Ranveer vs. Wild with Bear Grylls (2022) These interactive Bear Grylls shows are good fun to watch as a family, allowing "you the viewer" to make decisions using your remote control to help Grylls to get through some perilous wilderness. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Jul 08, 2022
      4/5
      Kate Garraway: Caring for Derek (2022) Showing the challenges that so many people are facing in caring for the chronically ill at home is something that cannot be shown enough. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Feb 28, 2022
      4/5
      Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend (2020) Good, ingenious fun until the sheer endlessness of it all starts to feel like being trapped in a disturbing cheese dream. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Aug 09, 2021
      4/5
      Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History (2020) Lenny Henry, presenting alongside Suzy Klein, was certainly on ebullient form, screaming with laughter when his hat blew off, ruining his take. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Oct 07, 2020
      4/5
      (undefined) Reminded you of mankind's capacity for true evil, it was enough to put even a pandemic in some sort of perspective. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
      4/5
      (undefined) [Sunny] Hundal's regret becomes a valuable lesson to us all about the importance of seeking to understand each other simply through dialogue - it felt an apposite message. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2020
      4/5
      (undefined) This was the kind of enjoyable, quantum-science-for-dummies programme populated by the species of professor who revels in finding hyper-complex maths equations "beautiful" and "elegant". - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Jan 17, 2020
      4/5
      (undefined) The grand unveiling of the ghost, held back until the end (in the classic fashion), was rather less memorable than a fruity performance from the living. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Dec 26, 2019
      4/5
      (undefined) Anna Hall's film had a sense of tact, with something important to say about how a child victim of abuse can be unequipped to speak up. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Dec 09, 2019
      3/5
      (undefined) Takaya is indeed a loveable beast. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Dec 04, 2019
      4/5
      (undefined) The Trouble with Naipaul was a thoughtful hour that essentially boiled down the increasingly ubiquitous question: can you separate the art from the artist? - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Nov 27, 2019
      4/5
      What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019) It's great entertainment and a reminder that Ali came at just the right time. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Nov 20, 2019
      4/5
      Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me (2019) Campbell was commendably self-exposing throughout, although I found his personal recollections more intriguing than his TV journey through the latest therapies, now the standard form for such documentaries. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Jun 11, 2019
      3/5
      (undefined) Being absurd, inexplicable, even surreal, Berry's mad half-hour made total sense. Unlike Brexit, on the other hand, it was over all too swiftly. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2019
      4/5
      (undefined) At times felt almost like a live-action version of one of Brigg's stories. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Mar 07, 2019
      4/5
      The Dead Room (2018) While it didn't hold a candle to the masterpiece of the series, The Signalman from 1976, it put Simon Callow's fruity, orotund voice to very fine use as Aubrey Judd. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Dec 27, 2018
      4/5
      Car Crash: Who's Lying? (2018) Particularly striking was the way it pitched you right there on the crash scene through the replaying of police bodycam footage. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Nov 26, 2018
      4/5
      Becoming Cary Grant (2016) A "window into his inner world" that was quietly superb throughout. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Oct 31, 2018
      5/5
      The Fires that Foretold Grenfell (2018) Truly, the descriptions were ghastly in their vividness. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Oct 31, 2018
      4/5
      The Bank That Almost Broke Britain (2018) This crisis cost the British taxpayer 1 trillion - this film should be repeated every month. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Oct 03, 2018
      3/5
      British Sitcom - 60 Years Of Laughing At Ourselves (2016) This retrospective at least gazed a bit harder, reminding you that, at its best, the sitcom can be an even sharper tool than drama. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Aug 21, 2018
      4/5
      Manchester: The Night of the Bomb (2018) This film's greatest achievement was in showcasing dignity. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2018
      4/5
      Can You Rebuild My Brain? (2018) [Lotje] Sodderland's film was nothing if not (no pun intended) thought-provoking. - Times (UK)
      Read More | Posted Feb 20, 2018
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