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Sophie Ivan

Sophie Ivan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Home (2008) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Prepare for this one to be rattling around the grey matter long after leaving the cinema. An auteur is born.” – Little White Lies Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Lilting (2014) 82% 4/5 EDIT “A thoughtful film whose lilting tones occasionally border on the listless.” – Little White Lies Aug 7, 2014 Full Review Boyhood (2014) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Boyhood is an epic of the everyday, as uplifting as it is universal.” – Radio Times Jul 11, 2014 Full Review The Return to Homs (2013) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Provides an unflinching insider's view of the Syrian conflict which has killed thousands and forced millions from their homes since 2011.” – Total Film Jun 23, 2014 Full Review Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) 38% 2/5 EDIT “A frustrating, wasted opportunity, destined to remain in the shadow of its cinematic sibling.” – Little White Lies Jan 31, 2013 Full Review Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) 87% 4/5 EDIT “When can we watch it again?” – Little White Lies Oct 24, 2012 Full Review Take This Waltz (2011) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Committed and resonant, Take This Waltz gets under your skin - and feels a lot like the work of an auteur in the making.” – Little White Lies Aug 16, 2012 Full Review A Royal Affair (2012) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Gripping, smart, well-acted - everything you want in a period drama.” – Little White Lies Jun 14, 2012 Full Review The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Studio Ghibli has pulled it out of the bag yet again, offering a miniature corrective to the brash 3D beasts customarily trained on the Haribo demographic.” – Film4 Jul 31, 2011 Full Review Incendies (2010) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “A beautifully filmed and movingly performed drama which explores how personal motives breed political radicalism, Incendies is occasionally - but not fatally - stymied by its clever-clever narrative contrivance.” – Film4 Jun 29, 2011 Full Review Bad Teacher (2011) 46% 3/5 EDIT “Diaz's Bad Teacher might not give an F, but just about scrapes a B- herself.” – Film4 Jun 17, 2011 Full Review Honey 2 (2011) 10% 2/5 EDIT “About as emotionally profound as a tampon advert, and probably less suspenseful...” – Film4 Jun 13, 2011 Full Review Last Night (2010) 54% 3/5 EDIT “Last Night develops into a provocative (if slightly anti-climactic) tryst.” – Film4 Jun 6, 2011 Full Review Senna (2010) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “Complete ignorance of, or even indifference to, the sport won't disqualify you from being utterly gripped, moved or charmed by Asif Kapadia's film about legendary Brazilian F1 champion Ayrton Senna.” – Film4 Jun 2, 2011 Full Review Vallanzasca (2010) 52% 3/5 EDIT “Unlikely to reshape the canon but an entertaining enough retro Italian gangster romp.” – Film4 May 26, 2011 Full Review Julia's Eyes (2010) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Good fun, but featuring more twists than a double helix, Julia's Eyes could more aptly be titled 'When Blind Man's Buff Gets Out of Hand'.” – Film4 May 23, 2011 Full Review Amreeka (2009) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Enjoyable but uneven, Amreeka is an unlikely comic take on the plight of the displaced, at home and abroad.” – Film4 May 16, 2011 Full Review Love Like Poison (2010) 93% 4/5 EDIT “No one does underage sex in cinema quite like the French, and the roots of Quillivere's tale of 14-year-old Anna's sexual and emotional awakening in a sleepy Breton village spring from a time-honoured tradition of coming-of-age a la Francaise.” – Film4 May 13, 2011 Full Review Water for Elephants (2011) 60% 3/5 EDIT “For anyone who's ever longed to see Reese Witherspoon astride an elephant, this is the film for you.” – Film4 May 4, 2011 Full Review The Veteran (2011) 60% 2/5 EDIT “A thriller which strains for contemporary relevance but lacks the spark to incite or entertain.” – Film4 May 3, 2011 Full Review Red Riding Hood (2011) 10% 2.5/5 EDIT “Evokes less menace than a Teddy bear's picnic and is as disappointingly reactionary as the Bella Swan brigade.” – Film4 Apr 20, 2011 Full Review Limitless (2011) 68% 3/5 EDIT “You'll definitely regret it in the morning, and wonder what the hell you were thinking, but as hedonistic cinema trips go, Limitless's power to entertain - while it might not live up to its title - just about extends to its 105 minute running time.” – Film4 Mar 24, 2011 Full Review Ballast (2008) 92% 4/5 EDIT “A hugely impressive, distinctive directorial debut and a compellingly humanist window onto a layer of American society that mainstream cinema likes to pretend doesn't exist.” – Film4 Mar 21, 2011 Full Review Chalet Girl (2011) 74% 3.5/5 EDIT “Chalet Girl is possibly the first British rom com since Working Title's heyday that won't make you want to stick pins in your eyes, will actually make you laugh, and wasn't made by Working Title.” – Film4 Mar 16, 2011 Full Review Norwegian Wood (2010) 73% 3/5 EDIT “A bit like watching an exquisitely handcrafted candle burn down to its wick - as heavy on woozy colours and flickering sensuality as it is a sense of dramatic inevitability.” – Film4 Mar 14, 2011 Full Review
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