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Roger Clarke

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

Film critic, Sight and Sound

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 2/5 EDIT “Unfortunately, so many of these plot standards have been looted over the years that everything feels tired and familiar. There are unforgivably dull patches, and, McKellen's Gandalf aside, the characterisation is decidedly thin.” – Independent (UK) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% 3/5 EDIT “In all, impressively assembled with excellent locations, and even Bronson manages the odd well-acted grunt.” – Independent (UK) Sep 27, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “Danny Glover is outstanding in this taut story.” – Independent (UK) Sep 23, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Very funny.” – Independent (UK) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Final Destination (2000) 50% 3/5 EDIT “Wong directs smoothly but without conviction. Not frightening, but oddly glum.” – Independent (UK) May 22, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% 2/5 EDIT “Cruise's amoral spy, hires to save the world from a flu virus, is no Bond however...” – Independent (UK) May 8, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% EDIT “The exclusively digital design of the film is rather beautiful, and the battle and chase scenes are vivid and exciting.” – Independent (UK) Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) 96% EDIT “Never has human folly seemed so vivid, rapacious and primeval.” – Independent (UK) Apr 30, 2024 Full Review A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) 86% EDIT “It's hard to criticise a movie with such a laudable humanitarian agenda, or its impoverished director, who virtually stopped eating to make it. Occasionally, though, I felt the story relied a little too heavily on that grim tug at the heartstrings.” – Independent (UK) Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% 2/5 EDIT “This is a movie of woeful, overproduced inadequacy, immature politics and shallow intent.” – Independent (UK) Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Benjamin Smoke (2000) 70% 3/5 EDIT “Smoke's life had not been an easy one in the rural Deep South, but this moving tribute comes across as vindication of his "folk-noir" music and unquenchable individuality.” – Independent (UK) Mar 26, 2024 Full Review The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) 42% 2/5 EDIT “It's quite clever and quite cute, in a 10-minute-joke-stretched-into-a-feature kind of way.” – Independent (UK) Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) 16% 2/5 EDIT “Childish, but you might find yourself giggling.” – Independent (UK) Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Remember the Titans (2000) 72% 2/5 EDIT “This is certainly full of worthy thoughts and intentions; but, in the end, Americans just don't seem to understand that American football seems as bizarre to most of the world as Eton Fives.” – Independent (UK) Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Faithless (2000) 85% 2/5 EDIT “A suffocating, anachronistic piece of film-making. ” – Independent (UK) Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% 2/5 EDIT “Certain nostalgic types may be happy enough with the flimsy plot and lack of serious dramatic conflict: I found its conviction that the audience would acquiesce to certain cultural givens to be, frankly, a bit of a bore.” – Independent (UK) Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Nightshift (2001) 3/5 EDIT “Well-made industrial melodrama. ” – Independent (UK) Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Shallow Hal (2001) 49% 2/5 EDIT “Unexpectedly rather sweet and underplayed, given that it comes from the gross-out kings. ” – Independent (UK) Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Training Day (2001) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Superior buddy cop movie. ” – Independent (UK) Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Gosford Park (2001) 87% 5/5 EDIT “I don't think I've ever seen the British class system of the 1930s so artfully dissected. It's all the more remarkable when you consider that Altman is a 76-year-old American -- albeit a Southern gent. A huge, huge treat. ” – Independent (UK) Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Running close to three hours, it's a long film but also one of those movies that almost physically transports you to another place.” – Independent (UK) Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% 5/5 EDIT “This is Hollywood filmmaking at its best: an enjoyable, inventive, and clever 147-minute bounce on the puffy, coke-white underbelly of American executive power. ” – Independent (UK) Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% EDIT “A sensational piece of moviemaking -- a wild folly dripping with a sour nectar of cinematic bravado.” – Independent (UK) Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Ridley Scott does a creditable job re-inventing a long neglected genre, helped in the main by Russell Crowe's brooding presence as the brilliant Roman general, done away with by the dastardly heir to the Imperial throne.” – Independent (UK) Nov 1, 2022 Full Review By the Grace of God (2018) 96% EDIT “Ozon is not someone you would normally expect to eschew his usual gothic to make public-service announcements in the manner of this film, but what it shares with his other works is a deep understanding of the way trauma endures in the world.” – Sight & Sound Oct 29, 2019 Full Review
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