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Nick Setchfield

Nick Setchfield's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Space Station 76 (2014) 67% 3/5 EDIT “The script never quite matches the laser-sighted wit of the visuals.” – SFX Magazine Oct 3, 2014 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Freewheeling, endlessly engaging, funny as hell, Guardians Of The Galaxy is a relentless crossfire of zingers and crazy visuals.” – SFX Magazine Jul 25, 2014 Full Review Willow Creek (2013) 81% 4/5 EDIT “If the waking scream of an ending doesn't shred your ganglia you may have no functioning nervous system.” – SFX Magazine May 23, 2014 Full Review Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “Fundamentally, this is a superhero movie with something to say. In fact it's the first Marvel entry with a truly topical sting.” – SFX Magazine Mar 25, 2014 Full Review Thor: The Dark World (2013) 67% 4/5 EDIT “A prime piece of pop candy, a witty, flashy, unflaggingly entertaining addition to the Marvel canon, light on its feet in spite of its cosmic sprawl.” – SFX Magazine Oct 22, 2013 Full Review The Wolverine (2013) 71% 4/5 EDIT “A movie that tries hard to carve a smarter, fresher niche in the superhero canon.” – SFX Magazine Jul 18, 2013 Full Review Doctor Who - Spearhead From Space (1970) 4/5 EDIT “An odd, chilly resetting of Doctor Who that plunders body parts from Quatermass and The Avengers, it feels like a pilot for a series that never quite came.” – SFX Magazine Jul 12, 2013 Full Review Man of Steel (2013) 57% 4.5/5 EDIT “There are moments where Man Of Steel feels too earnest, too in thrall to the gravity of its own mythology. And then Superman punches Zod through a city block and all is forgiven.” – SFX Magazine Jun 11, 2013 Full Review Skyfall (2012) 92% 4/5 EDIT “For all the pre-release chatter of Skyfall being 'Bond with a capital B', steeped in 'a magical Goldfinger feel', it's a film that fights surprisingly shy of the franchise's time-honoured rites.” – SFX Magazine Oct 17, 2012 Full Review The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 87% 4.5/5 EDIT “Faced with the Curse of the Threes - the ancient jinx that sabotages quality control in the final chapter of any big screen superhero trilogy, Christopher Nolan arms himself with the power of myth.” – SFX Magazine Jul 23, 2012 Full Review Doctor Who - The Krotons (1969) 3/5 EDIT “Fittingly for a tale where chemistry saves the day, it's the chemistry of the TARDIS crew that saves it.” – SFX Magazine Jun 29, 2012 Full Review Marvel's the Avengers (2012) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Motors on quips and star charm and the primal Top Trumps thrill of assembling its protagonists. But there's no compelling reason for it to exist, no burning tale it needs to tell.” – SFX Magazine Apr 24, 2012 Full Review Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 80% 4.5/5 EDIT “Captain America is a medal-worthy joy, the best Marvel movie in years. Top that Joss.” – SFX Magazine Jul 22, 2011 Full Review X-Men: First Class (2011) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A droplet of vintage Bond DNA, a molecule of Mad Men cool, fused with the vibrant, adrenalised spin on superheroics he injected into Kick-Ass” – SFX Magazine May 26, 2011 Full Review Battle: Los Angeles (2011) 37% 3.5/5 EDIT “Packs enough firm-jawed, flag-rippling machismo to make Michael Bay look like some mumbling pinko pussy.” – SFX Magazine Mar 9, 2011 Full Review The Green Hornet (2011) 45% 4/5 EDIT “The choice of Seth Rogen to topline this crimebusting bromedy proves an unlikely but ultimately shrewd one, plugging the void at the heart of the character with an outsize comic persona.” – SFX Magazine Jan 13, 2011 Full Review Devil (2010) 49% 3.5/5 EDIT “A modestly entertaining chiller, one that momentarily halts M Night Shyamalan's career tailspin.” – SFX Magazine Sep 20, 2010 Full Review Piranha (2010) 76% 1.5/5 EDIT “Relying on gross-out and shock in place of smarts or suspense, it's a film that reeks of talented people deliberately miring themselves in low-rent schlock.” – SFX Magazine Aug 24, 2010 Full Review Inception (2010) 87% 4/5 EDIT “A film erupting with ideas, ambition and intelligence, one that credits the viewer with the capacity for some mental heavy lifting.” – SFX Magazine Jul 10, 2010 Full Review Clash of the Titans (2010) 27% 2.5/5 EDIT “The first Clash Of The Titans had considerably more charm than this. Money can buy you technology but it can't buy you magic.” – SFX Magazine Apr 1, 2010 Full Review Solomon Kane (2009) 70% 4/5 EDIT “An effective slice of occult high adventure, a sombre swashbuckler that pays its pulp source material a flinty, tight-lipped respect.” – SFX Magazine Feb 19, 2010 Full Review 2012 (2009) 40% 3/5 EDIT “Each CGI blow-out feels progressively more synthetic and wearing.” – SFX Magazine Nov 11, 2009 Full Review Surrogates (2009) 37% 3/5 EDIT “Wasting the chance to be a great, resonant SF metaphor, Surrogates ultimately proves as bland and empty as its pretty mechanical protagonists.” – SFX Magazine Sep 25, 2009 Full Review Dorian Gray (2009) 43% 4/5 EDIT “A sturdy piece of heritage horror, as tasteful and handsome as any Brit movie with bustles and frock-coats on its agenda.” – SFX Magazine Sep 14, 2009 Full Review District 9 (2009) 90% 4/5 EDIT “While the viral campaign and mockumentary style primed us for something in the vein of Cloverfield, District 9 ultimately proves to be in a much older tradition. This is pure body horror in the lineage of Alien, The Thing and The Fly.” – SFX Magazine Sep 1, 2009 Full Review
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