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Tim Martain

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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) 70% 3.5/5 EDIT “This franchise's timeline seriously needed straightening out. Simply ignoring the last 3 movies and starting again from the end of T2 is kinda harsh, but it needed to be done.” – The Mercury (Australia) Nov 4, 2019 Full Review Ready or Not (2019) 89% 3/5 EDIT “A lively horror/thriller with a great grindhouse feel but it comes perilously close to forgetting to just have fun. Once it finally lets its hair down, it's a damn good time.” – The Mercury (Australia) Oct 27, 2019 Full Review Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) 85% 4/5 EDIT “A shameless crowd-pleaser delivered with such panache and disarming charm that it's pretty much impossible to do anything other than smile and enjoy it.” – The Mercury (Australia) Sep 23, 2019 Full Review It: Chapter Two (2019) 62% 4/5 EDIT “With a little less Pennywise and a bit more character-depth and focus on the fear associated with the protagonists' everyday lives, IT: Chapter 2 got the balance just right.” – The Mercury (Australia) Sep 9, 2019 Full Review Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) 86% 4/5 EDIT “In a space dominated by massive studio franchises, it is so nice to be able to watch a film that feels like a real work of art, crafted by a person, not a committee.” – The Mercury (Australia) Aug 18, 2019 Full Review Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “By focusing a bit more on its titular characters and a lot less on the series' usual mindless car-porn, Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw is a great action flick.” – The Mercury (Australia) Aug 6, 2019 Full Review The Lion King (2019) 52% 3/5 EDIT “This remake is likeable enough but where the cartoon animals were exquisitely drawn and expressive, their CGI counterparts are too lifelike to be truly endearing.” – The Mercury (Australia) Jul 22, 2019 Full Review Yesterday (2019) 63% 3.5/5 EDIT “There is much to love about Yesterday, from the acting to the cinematography to the music of The Beatles, but one gaping plot hole intrudes on the fun: that blackout.” – The Mercury (Australia) Jul 2, 2019 Full Review Men in Black: International (2019) 23% 1/5 EDIT “There is a mole inside MIB, so M and H must race to uncover the traitor's identity while the audience tries to pretend it wasn't completely obvious about half an hour in.” – The Mercury (Australia) Jun 17, 2019 Full Review Dark Phoenix (2019) 22% 1/5 EDIT “Turner manages to make you feel some kind of connection with Jean Grey, despite a total lack of anything in the script to make you care.” – The Mercury (Australia) Jun 10, 2019 Full Review Brightburn (2019) 57% 1/5 EDIT “Even as a metaphor for puberty, Brightburn is heavy-handed and uninteresting. And the plot so unoriginal that I predicted the finale halfway through.” – The Mercury (Australia) May 27, 2019 Full Review Fighting With My Family (2019) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Much like the WWE, is damn fine entertainment, not to be taken too seriously, and full of laughs, cheers and some surprisingly heartfelt moments.” – The Mercury (Australia) Mar 24, 2019 Full Review Captain Marvel (2019) 79% 4/5 EDIT “This superhero movie probably does have something to prove but proves it by not really seeming to care whether it does so or not, which I think is a fantastic kind of protest.” – The Mercury (Australia) Mar 11, 2019 Full Review Stan & Ollie (2018) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Perfectly cast, sharply written, beautifully shot and full of some of the best slapstick and comedic timing since Laurel and Hardy themselves graced the silver screen.” – The Mercury (Australia) Feb 25, 2019 Full Review Glass (2019) 37% 2/5 EDIT “Glass doesn't end at the climax. It rolls over, goes to sleep and snores for 30 minutes before the credits roll.” – The Mercury (Australia) Jan 20, 2019 Full Review Aquaman (2018) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “Kinda fun, mostly due to Momoa's charisma and presence, and the underlying sense of levity. Aquaman doesn't suck any more, but he definitely needs a better vehicle than this.” – The Mercury (Australia) Jan 7, 2019 Full Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018) 79% 4.5/5 EDIT “The delirious, unapologetic lunacy of this film is so completely charming that even my inner cynic just shrugged his shoulders and asked me to pass the popcorn.” – The Mercury (Australia) Jan 7, 2019 Full Review Mortal Engines (2018) 25% 3/5 EDIT “Somewhere in all of the thrilling spectacle, the storytelling and characterisation have been pushed to one side. But despite some thin writing, it's a very fun ride.” – The Mercury (Australia) Dec 11, 2018 Full Review Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) 60% 3/5 EDIT “An Oscar-worthy performance stuck in a mediocre script, basically a great Freddie Mercury impersonator lip-syncing Queen's greatest hits for 2 hours. Entertaining but hollow.” – The Mercury (Australia) Nov 5, 2018 Full Review A Star Is Born (2018) 90% 5/5 EDIT “In one scene, in which Ally (Gaga) is dragged on stage to sing at a stadium concert, the churn of emotions crossing her face is simply astonishing and so very, very real.” – The Mercury (Australia) Oct 24, 2018 Full Review First Man (2018) 87% 5/5 EDIT “Even the first man on the Moon experienced more suffering in this world than he ever wanted to talk about. Touching, carefully paced, visually stunning, simply beautiful.” – The Mercury (Australia) Oct 24, 2018 Full Review Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) 37% 0/5 EDIT “A lazily written and neglectfully directed mess that is clearly nothing more than fulfilment of the need to round out a trilogy. Totally uncalled for. A waste.” – The Mercury (Australia) Sep 25, 2018 Full Review Crazy Rich Asians (2018) 91% 4/5 EDIT “A society rom-com with all the dazzle of Sex and the City, but without the pornography of label-worship. Rather than fawning over the excess, we feel almost offended by it.” – The Mercury (Australia) Sep 4, 2018 Full Review The Happytime Murders (2018) 23% 2.5/5 EDIT “The Happytime Murders takes its great premise and plays it so safe it becomes dull. Meet The Feebles, Team America and Roger Rabbit did all this before, and did it better.” – The Mercury (Australia) Aug 27, 2018 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) 98% 4/5 EDIT “It pays not to think too much about the plot, and the film actively distracts you from doing so. But it all looks fantastic, is great fun and two and a half hours roars by.” – The Mercury (Australia) Aug 6, 2018 Full Review
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