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Martin Hoyle

Martin Hoyle's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Time Out film critic.

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To Have & to Hold (1996) EDIT “Not quite sure whether to opt for romantic melodrama, mystery or in-depth psychological drama -- or final Jacobean bloodbath -- the film is gripping and always beautiful to look at. ” – Financial Times Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Zero Effect (1998) 66% EDIT “Polished, ironic, enjoyable and hugely promising. ” – Financial Times Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% EDIT “The film is not half bad: a rumbustious, boys' own yarn of derring-do. ” – Financial Times Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Happy Together (1997) 85% EDIT “Beautifully photographed by Chris Doyle, the film's gently understated metaphors of searching and exploration linger on. ” – Financial Times Jan 21, 2023 Full Review U.S. Marshals (1998) 31% EDIT “Jones redeems all: he plays the ruthless pursuer with the faintest hint of send-up, the merest suggestion of camp. ” – Financial Times Jan 21, 2023 Full Review U-Turn (1997) 59% EDIT “This is a knowing, sophisticate's view of film noir: mannered, heartless, kitsch. ” – Financial Times Jan 20, 2023 Full Review John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997) 82% EDIT “The Rainmaker is a formulaic potboiler, decently acted, notably by Mickey Rourke... and Jon Voight. ” – Financial Times Jan 20, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 79% EDIT “The film's cheerful good nature scores palpable hits along the way, finely acted by a cast including some of the Coens' regulars. John Goodman is bulldozingly good as The Dude's sidekick. ” – Financial Times Jan 20, 2023 Full Review Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) 97% EDIT “Gibney's film never forgets the human side: the macho execs nearly killing themselves on boys' vacations with motorbikes, sky-diving and general risk-enhanced bonding; the suicide of one, the scapegoat imprisonment of another.” – Financial Times Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Listen to Me Marlon (2015) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Much is hinted at, then skipped over. But Brando at least leaves us feeling there were real depths there: the angst was genuine, he took his art seriously.” – Financial Times May 2, 2017 Full Review LA 92 (2017) 96% 4/5 EDIT “LA 92 is a superb slice of history, the picture of a society that didn't know what was going to hit it as seething grudges came to a head, leaving the country stunned and perhaps changed forever.” – Financial Times May 1, 2017 Full Review Jack Said (2009) 0% 1/5 EDIT “Makes Guy Ritchie look like Dostoyevsky. Awful lines, bad acting - Danny Dyer's appearances stand out as dazzlingly professional, which says it all - unredeemed by a taste of Act 2 of Mozart's Figaro, a bizarre rococo touch.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review Fame (2009) 23% 2/5 EDIT “Unconnected shreds of plot suggest severe editing at some stage and neither characters nor musical routines add up to much.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review Management (2008) 46% 2/5 EDIT “Unable to decide between being a romantic comedy, a zany farce or a thoughtful study of two emotionally repressed losers finding fulfilment, it ends up a mess; but an intriguing mess.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review Born in 68 (2008) 50% 3/5 EDIT “The problem is not length but shallowness.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (2008) 75% 4/5 EDIT “It shows a painterly eye in frame after exquisitely judged frame, not afraid of economy and balance.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review White Lightnin' (2009) 81% 4/5 EDIT “In White Lightnin', style and content meet, blend and writhe in the memory, a haunting nightmare.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review The Soloist (2009) 56% 3/5 EDIT “The revelation of poverty, squalor and mental illness in LA's underclass is horrific. But the film suffers from uncertainty of tone.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review Creation (2009) 47% 2/5 EDIT “A sub-plot features an orang-utan; it is no exaggeration to say that she is the most moving performer on screen.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2009 Full Review O'Horten (2008) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Gently surreal to quizzically observant, fully deserving that lump.” – Financial Times May 8, 2009 Full Review Blue Eyelids (2007) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Beautifully acted by Enrique Arreola and Cecilia Surez, an actress both withdrawn and hauntingly luminous.” – Financial Times May 8, 2009 Full Review Sounds Like Teen Spirit (2008) 88% 2/5 EDIT “Sounds Like Teen Spirit has its share of emotional manipulation but this documentary on the Junior Eurovision leaves one saddened by so much hope, enthusiasm, ambition and energy expended on such a tacky concept.” – Financial Times May 8, 2009 Full Review Little Ashes (2008) 25% 3/5 EDIT “Paul Morrison's evocation of the meeting in 1920s Madrid and subsequent tortuous relationship of the young Salvador Dal, Luis Buuel and Federico Garcia Lorca is such a labour of love that you forgive its incongruities.” – Financial Times May 8, 2009 Full Review Chéri (2009) 52% 3/5 EDIT “Dazzlingly designed, the film salvages recognisable humanity in Rupert Friend's Chéri, aka the unromantic (to Anglo-Saxon ears) Fred. Elsewhere the movie is as insubstantial as a soufflé, and less intellectually challenging.” – Financial Times May 8, 2009 Full Review Coraline (2009) 91% 4/5 EDIT “The vision of Henry Selick adds a darkness to this sometimes sinister fairy tale.” – Financial Times May 8, 2009 Full Review
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