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Simon Crook

Simon Crook's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Empire film critic.

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Crimes of the Future (2022) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Hypnotic, maddening, pervy and disturbing. In other words, vintage Cronenberg. The doomy slow-burn won’t be to all tastes, but its abstract, feverish images are pure nightmare fuel.” – Empire Magazine Sep 6, 2022 Full Review Mom and Dad (2017) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Granted, the delivery's as shrill as a banshee stepping on a Lego brick, but here's a film with something to say.” – Time Out Mar 5, 2018 Full Review Lover for a Day (2017) 82% 4/5 EDIT “That luminous monochrome cinematography is undoubtedly nostalgic, but the characters within it are full-colour, 21st century and utterly alive.” – Empire Magazine Jan 17, 2018 Full Review Conor McGregor: Notorious (2017) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Fans will get a brutal blood rush from the fight footage, but this brand hagiography is mercilessly one-sided.” – Time Out Nov 1, 2017 Full Review Bushwick (2017) 49% 4/5 EDIT “Delivering knockout action and political punch, this blazing siren of a B movie imagines America at civil war with vicious force. Sequel, please.” – Empire Magazine Aug 31, 2017 Full Review Detroit (2017) 82% 4/5 EDIT “A gruelling, nightmarish, ferociously vivid riot epic that recreates one of the darkest chapters in American history. Unflinching, unmissable and terrifyingly pertinent.” – Empire Magazine Jul 27, 2017 Full Review The Death of Louis XIV (2016) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Serra's sad, stately, haunting addition to the slow-cinema genre doubles up as both an intimate study of the Sun King's death and a requiem for Europe's fading arthouse scene.” – Empire Magazine Jul 17, 2017 Full Review Wilson (2017) 47% 3/5 EDIT “Gifted a bulldozing comic creation, Woody Harrelson's stomping Grumpzilla performance powers this fitfully funny git-com that, after a bracingly acidic opening, dilutes into sugary feelgood.” – Empire Magazine Jun 5, 2017 Full Review Office Christmas Party (2016) 41% 2/5 EDIT “In a year of Bad Moms, Bad Santas and Bad Neighbours, this is, essentially, Bad Employees: another irresponsible-adults comedy, another great cast, and another erratic script.” – Empire Magazine Dec 8, 2016 Full Review Lights Out (2016) 74% 4/5 EDIT “A lean, mean scare-machine, and a surprise contender for horror of the year. Seek it out. Then, for God's sake, buy a bedside lamp.” – Empire Magazine Aug 15, 2016 Full Review Meru (2015) 88% 4/5 EDIT “As a spectacle, it offers a vertiginous, first person view of events, but it's equally immersive as candid psycho-drama of survival.” – Empire Magazine Feb 11, 2016 Full Review Daddy's Home (2015) 30% 3/5 EDIT “If it all ends in cornball reconciliation, the dumb, fuzzy smile it leaves suggests it's well earned.” – Empire Magazine Dec 26, 2015 Full Review Hector (2015) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Mullan's exceptional, the film warm, unfussy and moving.” – Empire Magazine Dec 10, 2015 Full Review Mr Calzaghe (2015) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The fight footage is belting, but it's the unique, deep father-son connection that really makes the heart pound.” – Empire Magazine Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) 44% 3/5 EDIT “A likable horror-comedy with a satisfyingly high splatter count.” – Empire Magazine Nov 5, 2015 Full Review 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (2015) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Silver remains exceptionally clear-eyed. The result is a powerful, gripping and deeply shocking film, and a contemptuous critique of Florida's stand-your-ground law.” – Empire Magazine Oct 1, 2015 Full Review No Escape (2015) 47% 2/5 EDIT “At times the tone becomes so apocalyptic you swear you're watching a zombie movie in flip-flops, as if the mob's been infected by an anti-American rage virus.” – Empire Magazine Sep 3, 2015 Full Review Vacation (2015) 27% 2/5 EDIT “Less a reboot, more a hit-and-miss cover-version. The cast are game, Applegate especially, but the laughs flatten like a deflated tyre.” – Empire Magazine Aug 20, 2015 Full Review The Seven Five (2014) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Told in a rush of talking heads and archive footage, this is a siren-flash of a film, charged up in the edit like a true-crime GoodFellas.” – Empire Magazine Aug 13, 2015 Full Review The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015) 62% 3/5 EDIT “Merrily gruesome black comedy.” – Empire Magazine Jul 23, 2015 Full Review Everyone's Going to Die (2013) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Deadpan Indie with terrific lead performances.” – Empire Magazine Jun 28, 2015 Full Review Shooting for Socrates (2015) 29% 2/5 EDIT “The story's crying out for underdog grit.” – Empire Magazine Jun 7, 2015 Full Review Second Coming (2014) 79% 3/5 EDIT “A soulful drama that heralds the arrival of a new voice in British cinema.” – Empire Magazine Jun 1, 2015 Full Review We Are Many (2014) 83% 4/5 EDIT “A work of beautiful rage.” – Empire Magazine May 18, 2015 Full Review Lambert & Stamp (2014) 89% 4/5 EDIT “At two hours, things get flabby around the rock-opera era, but the film fizzes and clatters with anecdotes.” – Empire Magazine May 10, 2015 Full Review
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