Kate Muir
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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His Girl Friday (1940) |
The zingers don’t stop... - Times (UK)
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| Posted Nov 15, 2022
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) |
WTF also describes my reaction to the way the film swings between comedy and warfare. That said, the film grows on you... - Times (UK)
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| Posted Sep 06, 2022
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The Territory (2022) |
The result is something more than just another documentary about logging. It's a war film, deep in the Amazon, complete with fire and murder. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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Wildhood (2021) |
The three central performances by Phillip Lewitski, Avery Winters-Anthony and Joshua Odjick, are — like the script and photography — so natural and understated that they elevate this one considerably. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) |
The problem with this Byzantine package of whimsy is that it throws all possible spectacle on the screen, without truly engaging us in the characters. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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The Forgiven (2021) |
Do you like your humour wickedly dark, bordering on the unpleasant? Then The Forgiven could be the film for you. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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Her Way (2021) |
The plot lacks oomph but Calamy shoulders the film, furious in her fishnets, and makes every scene watchable. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Official Competition (2021) |
Official Competition is a wicked satire on the art of fine filmmaking, which allows three great actors to have a hoot — along with the audience. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Mr. Malcolm's List (2022) |
The romantic froth is topped by the gorgeousness of the costumes, from sumptuous structured silks to plain linens, all delicate indicators of class and wealth. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Beast (2022) |
While Beast might have been fun if it had gone for full B-movie camp, it takes itself too seriously. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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In the Heart of the Sea (2015) |
As the tale unfolds, told within another tale, it becomes clear that this is also about narration and narrators, unreliable and otherwise. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Aug 17, 2022
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Moonage Daydream (2022) |
Moonage Daydream is an immersive ride into David Bowie's sound and vision, and leaves you gobsmacked by his creative genius over the course of his 50-year career. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jun 29, 2022
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The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) |
This may be cartoon fast food, but there's a great voice cast including Zach Galifianakis and Kevin Kline. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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Firestarter (2022) |
This damp squib film... has a clunky, lumbering script which some-how never engages the audience’s emotions. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted May 20, 2022
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The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021) |
This turns the Outback back to front, from a woman's point of view, and while occasionally a modern phrase creeps in, the film reveals late 19th-century Australia at its most brutal — and poetic. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted May 20, 2022
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Herself (2020) |
Ultimately uplifting in every sense... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 17, 2021
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Respect (2021) |
Franklin's rise from childhood gospel singer in her father's church in Detroit to international diva is a story of extraordinary resilience, alongside extraordinary events. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 17, 2021
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French Exit (2020) |
Based on a waspish book by Patrick deWitt, the quirky story works on the page but not on screen. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 06, 2021
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The Tomorrow War (2021) |
The future is carnage, and the fights with alien monsters in an abandoned city are predictably stupid and messy. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 06, 2021
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Another Round (2020) |
Made by Hollywood, this would have been a comedy. But in the hands of brilliant Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, it's a more subtle tragedy and revelation. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 06, 2021
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Freaky (2020) |
Vaughn is terrific at projecting femininity and self-doubt from his hulking male body, and bullied teenager Millie (Kathryn Newton) perks up once she gets that killer instinct. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 06, 2021
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Black Widow (2021) |
Compared to the clunking, overblown efforts in some previous Avengers films, Black Widow has shape, coherence and emotional heft, thanks to Australian director Cate Shortland. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Jul 06, 2021
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Coup 53 (2019) |
Coup 53 is a gripping documentary... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 03, 2020
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Get Duked! (2019) |
This is a teen comedy pitched somewhere between The Inbetweeners and Trainspotting as four 16-year-old misfits are sent on a Duke of Edinburgh's Award expedition into the Scottish Highlands. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 28, 2020
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She Dies Tomorrow (2020) |
She Dies Tomorrow is a woozy, pretentious drama... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 28, 2020
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Hope Gap (2019) |
What's somehow radical here, however, is the way the film mostly follows Grace's point of view, and she is a difficult creature, hard to empathise with. But she is both magnificent and awful in a scene in a solicitor's office. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 28, 2020
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Matthias & Maxime (2019) |
Sometimes tender, sometimes unexpectedly brutal... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 28, 2020
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Tenet (2020) |
Christopher Nolan's spy thriller Tenet is a mind-boggling and time-bending spectacle. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 25, 2020
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All Stars (2013) |
All Stars is a 3-D tweenie dance movie set in London, with some iffy acting and a script that seems to have been written by a committee of concerned parents. - Times (UK)
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| Posted May 07, 2020
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Moon Man (2012) |
This has the curious semi-adult tone of many European animations and the story moves too slowly for childish appetites. - Times (UK)
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| Posted May 01, 2020
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An Officer and a Spy (2019) |
Polanski has made, at the age of 86, an absolutely terrific picture. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 12, 2019
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The Laundromat (2019) |
Also, the scenery-chewing performance by Gary Oldman as a German conman, yelling in a cod-Teutonic accent at the camera, might be the most annoying turn I've seen in the cinema all year. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Marriage Story (2019) |
Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, is another funny, beautifully-observed film about family relationships, focusing on a couple trying to get divorced. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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It: Chapter Two (2019) |
And as the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock once said: 'The length of a film should be directly related to endurance of the human bladder' - and It: Chapter Two just goes too far. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Joker (2019) |
They do not disguise their debt to Martin Scorsese in a film that has clear echoes of The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver, yet Joker is also thrillingly original, with an extraordinary performance by Phoenix at its dark heart. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Rojo (2018) |
Every polite sentence is a metaphor for something worse, and the magnificent plains of Argentina make the human action seem disturbingly small. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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The Shiny Shrimps (2019) |
It's a fun outing, but no old-fashioned queer cliché is left unturned, and despite the fact the story is based on the real-life Shiny Shrimps, it often feels like this film is years behind the times. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Babyteeth (2019) |
It's quirky, with a whip-smart script, and pulled off the double-whammy of making me, and everyone around me, laugh and then cry. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) |
[T]he director André Øvredal reveals too much, and the ghoulish atmosphere just drains away. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019) |
The film will appeal to longtime fans of his, but it also stands alone as a memoir of a poverty-stricken, sun-drenched Catholic childhood, reflected upon by a man whose powers are waning. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2019
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Crawl (2019) |
Here, however, what could be a stupid screamfest is more convincing thanks to Scodelario, who seesaws realistically between fear and ferocity. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2019
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Angel Has Fallen (2019) |
Where is this leading? Will the next Banning film be Vegan Has Fallen? - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2019
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MacGruber (2010) |
An action-comedy-thriller (although the term "dud" is better), MacGruber is based on a recurring American Saturday Night Live sketch -- a joke funny for 20 seconds, but not 99 minutes. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Mar 30, 2019
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Minding the Gap (2018) |
The documentary is riveting in its intimacy. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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Sorry Angel (2018) |
[A] baggy, irritating drama where everything is sacrificed for art. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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Cradle of Champions (2017) |
Boxing fans will enjoy the brutal training and moving stories before the final clash. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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The White Crow (2018) |
Ivenko has the dashing handsomeness of Nureyev, and makes a fine stab at some of the performances. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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Us (2019) |
Us takes us on a deeply weird journey into the conflicted heart of America, but it begins in traditional horror-movie territory. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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Five Feet Apart (2019) |
While the film is doubtless well intentioned, there is no forgiving the atrocious dialogue, tacky ballads, and cheesy exploitation of the situation... - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018) |
The film is a sweetly funny tale with less edge than Jim Carrey's green-faced, psychotic mayhem in the 2000 live action comedy How The Grinch Stole Christmas. - Daily Mail (UK)
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| Posted Nov 09, 2018
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