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Stephen Puddicombe

Stephen Puddicombe's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Judy & Punch (2019) 77% EDIT “Judy and Punch gives mixed messages as to whether the film wants us to consider its violence as a slapstick laughing matter or as an earnest critique.” – Seventh Row Aug 29, 2020 Full Review Babyteeth (2019) 94% EDIT “Babyteeth is a quirky, surprising, and ultimately very moving film about teenage terminal illness that is less a wistful tearjerker than it is a coming-of-age drama.” – Seventh Row Aug 29, 2020 Full Review Menashe (2017) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Performed in Yiddish and shot in Brooklyn's Borough Park, this is a rare insight into Orthodox Jewish culture.” – Total Film Dec 7, 2017 Full Review Unrest (2017) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Researching others' experiences as well as recording her own, Brea turns an unflinching eye on the distressing details of those left bed-ridden.” – Total Film Oct 23, 2017 Full Review The Shack (2017) 20% 1/5 EDIT “Not even Octavia Spencer can redeem this one.” – Total Film Jun 5, 2017 Full Review A Moving Image (2016) 83% 3/5 EDIT “The complexity of the topic is well handled, and Brixton itself is full of vibrancy, but the film prompts more questions than it manages to answer.” – Total Film Apr 25, 2017 Full Review Another Mother's Son (2017) 53% 4/5 EDIT “The solemn score, plucky Brits and nasty Nazis are all familiar, but there's a lived-in feel that transcends clich.” – Total Film Mar 20, 2017 Full Review Arsenal (2017) 3% 2/5 EDIT “The kind of film that serves only to add to YouTube supercuts of Cage freaking out.” – Total Film Feb 20, 2017 Full Review Love of My Life (2017) 17% 3/5 EDIT “This comedy-drama elicits chortles aplenty with its gently caustic humour despite the dark subject matter.” – Total Film Feb 13, 2017 Full Review Lost in France (2016) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Likeable, but low-stakes.” – Total Film Feb 13, 2017 Full Review Summertime (2015) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Catherine Corsini's film highlights the successes of second-wave feminism, but it's when the lovers move to the countryside that the film really finds its theme: the difficulties of growing up gay in a conservative community.” – Total Film Jan 2, 2017 Full Review The Darkness (2016) 3% 2/5 EDIT “[The Darkness] favours generic mumbo-jumbo about inter-dimensional demons.” – Total Film Jan 2, 2017 Full Review Uzumasa Limelight (2014) 91% 3/5 EDIT “The film struggles to flesh out its running time, but such is its sincerity in honouring Fukumotos profession that witnessing him perform his samurai sword skills is genuinely touching.” – Total Film Jan 2, 2017 Full Review Noble (2014) 82% 2/5 EDIT “It moves from one traumatic event to another with the swiftness of a biopic thats trying to squeeze in all the major events of its subjects life so much so that none carry the weight they ought to.” – Total Film Jan 2, 2017 Full Review Notes on Blindness (2016) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Hull's observations -- an audio diary -- provide plenty of insight and engagement.” – Total Film Jan 2, 2017 Full Review Songs for Amy (2012) 17% 2/5 EDIT “There's an undeniable sweetness to the songs our hero pens in an attempt to win Amy (Lorna Anderson) back -- but his cause isn't helped by stock characters, leisurely pacing and crude contrivances.” – Total Film Jan 1, 2017 Full Review The Son of Joseph (2016) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Earns its uplifting ending.” – Total Film Dec 14, 2016 Full Review Patience, Patience, You'll Go to Paradise! (2015) 4/5 EDIT “A group of middle-Aged Belgian Muslim women of north African descent form a friendship attending a French writing class in this gently heartwarming doc.” – Total Film Dec 12, 2016 Full Review The Ardennes (2015) 58% 3/5 EDIT “A bleak crime drama.” – Total Film Dec 5, 2016 Full Review The Weekend (2016) 3/5 EDIT “The jokes frequently land and Wade and his co-stars (Percelle Ascott, Dee Kaate) are amusingly hyperactive.” – Total Film Dec 1, 2016 Full Review The Messenger (2015) 33% 3/5 EDIT “Everything's held together by an authoritative performance from Sheehan, who does fine work keeping open the question of whether the ghosts are really there or just figments of his troubled imagination.” – Total Film Oct 31, 2016 Full Review The First Monday in May (2016) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Aesthetics go out the window with the opening night's self-absorbed celebrity fundraiser.” – Total Film Sep 27, 2016 Full Review Baden Baden (2016) 95% 3/5 EDIT “It feels somewhat apt that the story is as directionless as its protagonist. On the other hand, writer/director Rachel Lang's film lacks cumulative dramatic punch, its appeal rooted mainly in its easy humour.” – Total Film Sep 27, 2016 Full Review Tickled (2016) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Farrier doesn't overlook the amusing oddness of such a strange corner of the internet, but treats the subjects of the videos respectfully.” – Total Film Aug 18, 2016 Full Review A Haunting in Cawdor (2015) 13% 2/5 EDIT “Protagonist Vivian (Shelby Young) may evoke memories of Natalie Portman in Black Swan or Suspirias Jessica harper. But shes a comparatively underwritten character, failing to convince as a trauma victim.” – Total Film Mar 8, 2016 Full Review
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