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Richard James Havis

Richard James Havis's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Farewell My Concubine (1993) 90% EDIT “A complex examination of both China's political history and sexual identity. It's also about art.” – South China Morning Post Jun 5, 2023 Full Review The Outsiders (1983) 71% 4.5/5 EDIT “The movie has aged well, and today impresses on all counts. The story and characterisation are intelligent and play-like, the camerawork is interesting, and the acting is sensitive and involving.” – South China Morning Post Aug 23, 2022 Full Review Seance (2021) 47% 3/5 EDIT “Seance does compensate for its lack of frights in other ways, and it's evident that Barrett worked hard on the script to make the story stand out from the usual low-budget horror schlock.” – South China Morning Post Oct 11, 2021 Full Review The Addams Family 2 (2021) 28% 2/5 EDIT “The humour is lame, and the spooky bunch are mere shadows of their former selves.” – South China Morning Post Oct 4, 2021 Full Review Worth (2020) 81% 4/5 EDIT “It is Keaton's deep and realistic performance, as a man who is trying hard to do the right thing the wrong way, that elevates the film from a legal outing into a touching drama.” – South China Morning Post Sep 6, 2021 Full Review Botero (2018) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “Those searching out a full picture of Botero and his work will be delighted by director Don Millar's no-stone-left-unturned approach.” – South China Morning Post Aug 30, 2021 Full Review The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) 46% 3/5 EDIT “Parents watching with their children should find the craziness diverting enough.” – South China Morning Post Jul 20, 2021 Full Review The Secrets We Keep (2020) 62% 3.5/5 EDIT “Rapace, in a dark performance worthy of Isabelle Huppert, gives the film a lift, ensuring that it's a bit more than a competent run-of-the-mill thriller.” – South China Morning Post Jun 29, 2021 Full Review Endangered Species (2021) 19% 1.5/5 EDIT “The landscape of Kenya, where the film was shot, looks magnificent, and benefits from some grandiose aerial cinematography, but the story is so bad it's almost off the scale.” – South China Morning Post Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Minari (2020) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Chung's gaze remains on his characters, and the film engages because the viewer becomes party to his gentle observations of life in motion.” – South China Morning Post Apr 21, 2021 Full Review Tom & Jerry (2021) 29% 1.5/5 EDIT “This live action/animated update of the famed television cartoon series Tom & Jerry fails on all levels, featuring nothing to interest kids, their guardians, or animation buffs.” – South China Morning Post Mar 1, 2021 Full Review Earwig and the Witch (2020) 28% 4/5 EDIT “Like other Ghibli films, Earwig and the Witch treats childhood in a more adult way than most children's animations, with the emphasis being on gentle manipulation rather than innocence.” – South China Morning Post Feb 11, 2021 Full Review Be Water (2020) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Certainly a valid take, but Hongkongers may find it strange that only three members of the Hong Kong film industry, including film critic Sam Ho and the late producer Raymond Chow, are among its long list of interviewees.” – South China Morning Post Dec 30, 2020 Full Review Misbehaviour (2020) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Politics and humour rarely make an entertaining mix outside of satire, but Misbehaviour manages cleverly to weld observations about sexism and racism to a lightly comedic storyline.” – South China Morning Post Oct 12, 2020 Full Review Upgrade (2018) 88% 4/5 EDIT “It's unusual to find a movie this thrilling, up-to-date, and intellectually provocative in equal parts.” – South China Morning Post Jul 7, 2020 Full Review Inheritance (2020) 24% 2/5 EDIT “Most will find the denouement leaves a bad taste in the mouth, although fans of the genre might be more concerned with the film's lack of excitement than its skewed morality.” – South China Morning Post Jun 15, 2020 Full Review Only Cloud Knows (2019) 75% 2.5/5 EDIT “The film lacks dramatic depth and often seems like a promo extolling the beauties of its attractive setting, New Zealand.” – South China Morning Post Jun 8, 2020 Full Review Brahms: The Boy II (2020) 11% 1.5/5 EDIT “Most of the budget seem to have gone on Holmes' salary, as Brahms may have the least special effects of any horror film ever made.” – South China Morning Post May 19, 2020 Full Review Marnie (1964) 78% EDIT “Marnie is Hitchcock's darkest work. The director's vicious trip through the mind of a disturbed woman offers little in the way of respite, but captures the attention through intrigue, and the sheer filmmaking abilities of the master of suspense.” – South China Morning Post Apr 28, 2020 Full Review The Turning (2020) 12% 2/5 EDIT “This pedestrian ghost story plods along in a vaguely competent manner until a thoroughly muddled ending makes the whole experience pointless.” – South China Morning Post Feb 11, 2020 Full Review A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “Hanks is the film's strength, and Vogel's scenes of self-absorption and analysis narrowly avoid veering into cliché.” – South China Morning Post Feb 5, 2020 Full Review Dolittle (2020) 15% 1/5 EDIT “A mushy disaster of a children's movie that might even bore kids as much as adults.” – South China Morning Post Jan 20, 2020 Full Review Judy (2019) 82% 4/5 EDIT “A Golden Globe-winning performance from Renée Zellweger as the titular star avoids wallowing in despair, but still manages to convey the very real misery of the embattled entertainer.” – South China Morning Post Jan 13, 2020 Full Review Little Women (2019) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Gerwig's reading of the book is bang up to date, and she gently bends the narrative to focus on the ways that women can be excluded from careers because of their gender.” – South China Morning Post Jan 7, 2020 Full Review Richard Jewell (2019) 77% 2.5/5 EDIT “An anti-media, anti-FBI diatribe that shows the biases of the US right wing.” – South China Morning Post Dec 31, 2019 Full Review
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