Terry Staunton
Terry Staunton's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Radio Times
Movies reviews only
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On the Line (2022) |
The acting is across-the-board woeful, with Gibson all-but sleepwalking through his role, and the preposterous denouement serves only to compound viewers' suspicions that the whole affair has been a waste of their time. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 23, 2023
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Scream VI (2023) |
While the killings aren't as inventive as in previous instalments, the focus on character works in the film's favour, and there are reassuring indications of a new lease of life for this belatedly prolific horror franchise. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) |
Dreadful script and appalling performances. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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80 for Brady (2023) |
The high-powered leads are uniformly terrific, with spiky Tomlin sailing through the emotional material and Fonda having fun with her character's second career as a saucy fan-fiction author. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) |
Carl Anderson's conflicted Judas Iscariot makes the greatest dramatic impact, while Yvonne Elliman, as Mary Magdalene, has the affecting vocal power to give the production its emotional heart - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Die Hart the Movie (2023) |
The movie lacks the savagery and bite of the shorter, more focused episodes of the small-screen series that spawned it. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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The Middle Man (2021) |
The sadness is leavened by occasional deadpan humour and the touching subplot of a burgeoning romance between Frank and a fellow office worker. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Murder in Reverse (1945) |
It is undermined by a succession of credulity-stretching coincidences and supporting characters whose behavior borders on the stupid. - Radio Times
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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Confess, Fletch (2022) |
Hamm's portrayal is more roguish with a sharper wit, and the plot is less reliant on the broad humour and wacky high jinks of its predecessors. - Radio Times
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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You People (2023) |
Clumsy and cliché-ridden. - Radio Times
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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The Shed (2019) |
The teen-angst angle isn't explored nearly enough, making it hard to root for the young leads, but some of the bloodthirsty special effects are impressive. - Radio Times
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| Posted Oct 06, 2022
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The Forgiven (2021) |
The film flits between tragedy, vengeance yarn and morality tale with an occasionally uneven tone, as if trying to weave two or three disparate stories into one. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Moonage Daydream (2022) |
The result is as inventive as Bowie's many hit singles and albums, a richly layered cinematic offering that utterly captivates. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Georgetown (2019) |
Annette Bening in particular sorely underused as Redgrave's disapproving daughter. Waltz is the exception... he delivers a masterclass of charm with an undercurrent of evil. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise (2022) |
Detours into slapstick add little to the proceedings... but Clooney and Roberts are terrific value, - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Hog Wild (1930) |
Hog Wild escalates into one of Laurel and Hardy's most audacious and imaginatively choreographed slapstick shorts. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 01, 2022
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Last Seen Alive (2022) |
Frustratingly generic thriller. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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Hunt the Man Down (1950) |
May have fared better as a theatrical play, but it's full of quotable lines and skilfully dispenses its plot twists. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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Grand Ole Opry (1940) |
Intended as a vehicle for music stars of the day... the film features simplistic hoedowns and two-steps while also providing a snapshot of the post-Depression era. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) |
This is less a traditional road movie than the tale of one man's frustrated attempt to hit the road, all helped enormously by the enigmatic intensity of Paul's performance. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 30, 2022
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Lansky (2021) |
Much of the violence features in a series of well-staged if perfunctory flashbacks, but Keitel's menacing portrayal suggests a man still capable of intimidation. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 30, 2022
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Warn That Man (1943) |
The succession of unlikely coincidences and logic-defying twists are far from sophisticated, but this is nonetheless a cheery little piece of feel-good wartime propaganda. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 30, 2022
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Firestarter (2022) |
Director Keith Thomas uses ominous music and moody lighting in an attempt to crank up the tension, but that fails entirely in the face of uniformly wooden performances, unconvincing special effects and a plot that fails to engage. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 30, 2022
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Lightyear (2022) |
A joyful romp packed with the kind of gags and emotion that Pixar does so well. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Blacklight (2022) |
Neeson's default setting of furrowed brow and steely-eyed determination are present and correct, and the action sequences are well choreographed, if unsurprising. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 08, 2022
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All My Friends Hate Me (2021) |
Billed as a comedy horror, the film falls frustratingly between both stools in its attempts to serve up a psychological thriller examining alienation. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 08, 2022
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Benediction (2021) |
Blends sadness with subtle wit... blessed with a layered central performance by [Jack] Lowden. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 08, 2022
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The Phantom of the Open (2021) |
Rylance's unassuming and twinkly eyed performance goes a long way to imbuing the film with a charm that elevates it above most crowd-pleasing fare. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 08, 2022
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Deep Water (2022) |
In the end, both Vic and Melinda come across as so unlikeable that it's difficult to care about what happens to either of them. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 03, 2022
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Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2021) |
[An] evocative if unsurprising documentary... - Radio Times
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| Posted Feb 18, 2022
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The King's Man (2021) |
It's all great fun, full of sly humour, snappy action and dapper dressing. - Radio Times
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| Posted Feb 18, 2022
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Flag Day (2021) |
Sean Penn and his daughter Dylan impress in the lead roles in this grim true-life drama, based on Jennifer Vogel's 2001 book about her uneasy relationship with her conman father. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jan 20, 2022
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Bessie (2015) |
This gritty biography... celebrates the singer's extraordinary talent and confronts the prejudices of the era that stood in her way. - Radio Times
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| Posted Nov 09, 2021
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Respect (2021) |
In her feature debut, theatre director Liesl Tommy fares best when bringing the music to life. - Radio Times
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| Posted Oct 07, 2021
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No Time to Die (2021) |
Daniel Craig's last hurrah as 007 ticks every hoped-for Bond-shaped box in a smart, absorbing thriller with some surprising twists. - Radio Times
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| Posted Oct 07, 2021
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The Many Saints of Newark (2021) |
An atmospheric, visually spellbinding origin story that, although peppered with familiar characters from the small-screen hit, is robust enough to stand on its own merits and doesn't alienate viewers new to the saga. - Radio Times
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| Posted Oct 07, 2021
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Free Guy (2021) |
Reynolds is perfectly cast as the computer-code construct with a heart more human than the real-life players who invade his world, but it's hard to care about the other, more thinly sketched characters. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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Pig (2021) |
Given the leading man's CV, it comes as a surprise that Pig eschews action-packed showdowns and instead paints a mournful, thought-provoking portrait of a figure haunted by an unspoken past he'd rather not revisit. - Radio Times
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| Posted Aug 26, 2021
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Reminiscence (2021) |
The multilayered memory playbacks owe a debt to the dream worlds of Christopher Nolan's Inception, although this is ultimately a much more accessible movie. - Radio Times
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| Posted Aug 26, 2021
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Jungle Cruise (2021) |
Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft is the obvious, and largely accurate, shorthand, but with a richer seam of humour, the jeopardy laced with a healthy helping of jokes. - Radio Times
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| Posted Aug 12, 2021
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The Suicide Squad (2021) |
Sidestepping the silliness of the plot, it's joyous fun throughout; the entire cast is a blast, not least Peter Capaldi's mad-scientist baddie, the Thinker. - Radio Times
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| Posted Aug 12, 2021
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Vicious Fun (2020) |
While the gruesome set pieces tend to be signposted and predictable they're dispatched with stylish glee, as if celebrating scares we've seen before, rather than inventing new ones. - Radio Times
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| Posted Aug 12, 2021
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Killerman (2019) |
Hemsworth does well with the sparse tools the narrative gives him, making a genuinely charismatic anti-hero. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jul 23, 2021
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The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) |
Everything hangs together without being especially memorable - with the exception of the fiery, laugh-out-loud, one-woman riot Hayek. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 24, 2021
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Luca (2021) |
In less subtle hands the messages of respect, loyalty and decency might have a preachy tone, but Pixar never condescends to its audience, and proves once again a mastery of moral storytelling wrapped in mirth. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 17, 2021
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The Ice Road (2021) |
The result is a disappointingly by-the-book movie that offers few thrills or surprises. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 17, 2021
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Dreamland (2019) |
Director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's film contains familiar tropes from such outlaw classics as Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands, but Dreamland flips the notion on its head by having the female as the chief manipulator. - Radio Times
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| Posted Jun 03, 2021
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My Octopus Teacher (2020) |
An octopus may have three hearts to confront life's challenges, but a single human heart would have to be very cold indeed not to be charmed by this unconventional spin on buddy-movie tropes. - Radio Times
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| Posted Apr 21, 2021
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Voyagers (2021) |
The lab-rat nature of the characters' very existence means the performances of the movie's leads remain rooted in the cold and clinical, making it difficult for the viewer to engage with them or care about their plight. - Radio Times
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| Posted Apr 21, 2021
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Silk Road (2021) |
But Russell's stilted dialogue and overly preachy tone has a habit of slamming on the brakes, resulting in a film that suffers from numerous frustrating interruptions. - Radio Times
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| Posted Mar 24, 2021
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