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Nick Funnell

Nick Funnell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Time Out film critic.

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Reviews

Movies TV Shows
My Best Friend (2006) 75% 2/5 EDIT “” – Time Out Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Broken Embraces (2009) 82% EDIT “The sense is of an ageing director taking stock: exploring his cinematic roots, imagining his future and working through it all to emerge counting his blessings at the end.” – Time Out May 19, 2009 Full Review Princesas (2005) 74% EDIT “Compelling, frequently funny and, commendably, resists wrapping things up sentimentally. Nice Manu Chao soundtrack, too.” – Time Out Dec 28, 2007 Full Review Caramel (2007) 93% EDIT “A lovely little comedy-drama.” – Time Out Oct 11, 2007 Full Review Private Fears in Public Places (2006) 76% EDIT “Not one he'll be remembered for, but a cut above.” – Little White Lies Jul 20, 2007 Full Review Deep Water (2006) 96% EDIT “Charting the thin line between courage and foolhardiness, it's a poignant portrayal of the excruciating emotional odyssey of all involved.” – Time Out Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Goya's Ghosts (2006) 30% 2/5 EDIT “With its riffs on art, its split-in-half story and Goya-esque production design, you can see it reaching for grand ideas about actions and their reverberations, but it merely rumbles on, illuminating neither the artist nor his tumultuous times.” – Time Out May 3, 2007 Full Review The Illusionist (2006) 74% EDIT “With exquisite performances (Giamatti's, in particular), it leaves you thrillingly hovering, happily uncommitted to any one interpretation.” – Time Out Feb 28, 2007 Full Review In the Pit (2006) 73% EDIT “You long for more context on both workers and project, though a breathtaking five-minute-plus helicopter shot along the snaking concrete-and-iron colossus at the close helps distract from any moans.” – Time Out Feb 3, 2007 Full Review The Heart of the Game (2005) 87% EDIT “The intrusive narration, from hip hopper Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, offers little sense of real lives unfolding, more of a way being paved to an, admittedly tense, all-American triumph-over-adversity climax.” – Time Out Dec 30, 2006 Full Review We Shall Overcome (2006) 88% EDIT “It's enjoyably rousing, and cinematographer Lars Vestergard works miracles turning the Danish countryside into bright slices of Americana.” – Time Out Nov 16, 2006 Full Review Born and Bred (2006) 80% 3/6 EDIT “An existential nightmare of grief, guilt and penance, with Guillermo Nieto's sublime photography of the frozen, otherworldly landscape a correlative to Santiago's suspended state.” – Time Out Oct 28, 2006 Full Review March of the Penguins (2005) 94% EDIT “Morgan Freeman's slick voice-over compounds a slightly plodding structure, but the dedication of the penguins -- and the cameramen -- assure your wonderment.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Poseidon (2006) 33% EDIT “Petersen's expert direction ensures it remains gripping, keeping the tension ratcheted right up and commendably steering it all home within 100 minutes.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Serenity (2005) 82% EDIT “The settings and tone are hyper-real, yet the human behaviour is grounded and credible, the moral conflicts complex and involving. Shiny, intelligent fun.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Young and the Damned (1950) 91% EDIT “It's a masterpiece that tangles individual and social ills into a knot, which, as we're warned in an opening voiceover, it offers no easy way to untie, rousing a sickening sense of injustice.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Frequency (2000) 70% EDIT “This ambitious but frustrating timeshift thriller never quite manages to jam together two distinct stories.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Nowhere to Run (1993) 36% EDIT “When Van Damme is doing what he does best -- narcissistically displaying his body and thumping the bad guys -- the film works reasonably well.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review
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