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Nick Hilditch

Nick Hilditch's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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12 Monkeys (1995) 88% 5/5 EDIT “Terry Gilliam's most mature film to date demands rigorous analysis from the viewer. Add to this the director's grotesquely comic hallmarks, and the resulting film is a complex and rewarding fantasy.” – BBC.com Nov 4, 2002 Full Review Metropolis (1927) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Essential viewing.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2002 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% 5/5 EDIT “The Conversation is an intricate and unsettlingly subtle character study, with a very strong performance from Hackman.” – BBC.com Mar 4, 2002 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Shot through with an exuberant and enviable sense of its own brilliance, Toy Story will continue to impress long after its technical virtuosity has been upstaged.” – BBC.com Dec 10, 2001 Full Review Toy Story 2 (1999) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Much work has gone into the 'story' as into the 'toy', making this a rewarding return to an indisputable visual treat.” – BBC.com Dec 10, 2001 Full Review For Your Eyes Only (1981) 69% 3/5 EDIT “Director John Glen took care of Bond for most of the 80s, arguably the agent's weakest decade. That said, his debut showed promise in its restraint.” – BBC.com Sep 11, 2001 Full Review Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) 78% 3/5 EDIT “All the old Enterprise personnel carry the film, as it is more concerned with character re-animation than development.” – BBC.com Sep 11, 2001 Full Review Point Break (1991) 68% 4/5 EDIT “The hinted spirituality of the film is plainly silly, but it's quickly swallowed by the undertow of crashing spectacle.” – BBC.com Sep 10, 2001 Full Review GoldenEye (1995) 80% 4/5 EDIT “A bold attempt to reinvent the character itself, one that tied in with the post-cold war era.” – BBC.com Sep 10, 2001 Full Review The World Is Not Enough (1999) 51% 3/5 EDIT “Has all the makings of a classic Bond film plus a more original plot than usual.” – BBC.com Sep 10, 2001 Full Review Moonraker (1979) 59% 2/5 EDIT “Frivolous, yes, but never dull.” – BBC.com Aug 1, 2001 Full Review Thunderball (1965) 85% 4/5 EDIT “In this, the fourth instalment in the series from the original team, you have a classic Bond film that wants for nothing but a trim.” – BBC.com Jun 27, 2001 Full Review Con Air (1997) 59% 4/5 EDIT “It's silly, but it's also free from pretensions to be anything else.” – BBC.com Jun 12, 2001 Full Review The Day of the Jackal (1973) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Zinnemann's tale of an extremist faction's plot to kill the celebrated French leader and the authorities' efforts to capture the mercenary assassin hired for the job achieves a dignified tone and compelling pace seldom seen in latter-day thrillers.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) 96% 5/5 EDIT “It is difficult to imagine the film done better with the benefit of sound, colour, or any innovation since.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Brief Encounter (1945) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Less cynical souls will weep buckets.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Ben-Hur (1959) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Opening with a full overture played against Michelangelo's ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, you know that you're in for something unembarrassed by its own grandiosity.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Scarface (1983) 78% 4/5 EDIT “This is very much a film of the 80s in its portrayal not of moral decline (there is little declining left to do) but of unstoppable ego-centrism. With guns.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Rain Man (1988) 88% 4/5 EDIT “The film's greatest achievement is successfully framing the plot around a character incapable of emotional development.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Battleship Potemkin (1925) 100% 5/5 EDIT “If you are at all interested in the history of cinema, or the influence of 20th century politics on the medium, then this film is a must-see, although over an hour of Soviet propaganda is likely to test the patience of modern viewers.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% 3/5 EDIT “A magnificently indignant Heston ... wrestles with the imponderables of a topsy-turvy world in which apes reign over humankind.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Parenthood (1989) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Director Ron Howard combines this multi-generational suburban soap almost effortlessly, considering the number of parents or would be parents we're expected to care about.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Army of Darkness (1992) 68% 2/5 EDIT “Nonsense is no bad thing, but here it's poorly executed and from Raimi we've come to expect something better.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Heat (1995) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Taken altogether, Mann doesn't do anything particularly new, but with a subtly used supporting cast he combines everything into an unusually articulate action thriller.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain (1995) 69% 3/5 EDIT “... The enduring romance in this film is the pleasantly photographed hill in question. Or mountain, depending how you look at it.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review
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