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Wally Hammond

Wally Hammond's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Time Out film critic.

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Home (2008) 93% 3/5 EDIT “A first film of laudable ambition and Meier's directorial confidence suggests promise for the future.” – Time Out Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Mississippi Masala (1991) 92% EDIT “An interesting if poorly constructed and self-contradicting drama, directed with something less than assurance, but given some appeal by the honesty of its performances.” – Time Out Apr 15, 2022 Full Review Pandora's Box (1929) 93% EDIT “GW Pabst's extraordinary, erotic and tragic adaptation/conflation of two Wedekind plays, 'Pandora's Box', owes to the electrifying, photogenic and iconic presence of Louise Brooks” – Time Out Jun 16, 2020 Full Review Handsworth Songs (1986) 100% EDIT “An essay that is as full of subtle, rich and allusive argument as it is devoid of empty didacticism and stridency.” – Time Out Jun 5, 2020 Full Review Tongues Untied - The Black Gay Male Experience (1989) 100% EDIT “At heart, it's a celebratory film which buzzes with intelligence, unashamed emotion, adrenalin, and that strange tenderness forged in suffering.” – Time Out May 20, 2020 Full Review Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989) 100% EDIT “It's a gentle, sensitive film, the fierce anger felt by its makers evident only in the use of statistics and media snippets which build up to a damning indictment of the social and political response to the AIDS crisis.” – Time Out May 18, 2020 Full Review The Craft (1996) 57% 4/5 EDIT “... deliciously dangerous excursions into adolescent self-discovery.” – Time Out Dec 6, 2018 Full Review Van Helsing (2004) 24% EDIT “What's left is a world of industrial Gothicism, nightmare morphing effects, ahistoric gadgetry and Breughel-lite grotesquerie.” – Time Out Nov 1, 2018 Full Review We Went to War (2012) 100% EDIT “Something of an exemplary documentary on the effects of combat on three individuals with experience of one specific war.” – Sight & Sound Jul 31, 2018 Full Review You've Been Trumped (2011) 88% EDIT “The very smallness, independence and even parochialism of Baxter's film seems suitable and never detracts from its considerable ability to inform and, surprisingly, move.” – Sight & Sound Jul 31, 2018 Full Review Contempt (1963) 92% 5/5 EDIT “A knowing, tragic-comic aria for love and moviemaking.” – Little White Lies Dec 29, 2015 Full Review Au Revoir, les enfants (1987) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Not the director's best work, but far, far from being his worst either.” – Little White Lies Jan 29, 2015 Full Review Magnificent Presence (2012) 67% 2/5 EDIT “In the Ozpetek canon, this one is non-essential.” – Little White Lies Oct 24, 2013 Full Review Something in the Air (2012) 81% 5/5 EDIT “This might just be Assayas' masterpiece.” – Little White Lies May 23, 2013 Full Review Thursday Till Sunday (2012) 88% 4/5 EDIT “What distinguishes Castillo's film is the facility and accuracy with which she understands, remembers and recreates the fish-bowl vistas and claustrophobic intimacy of a long car-bound journey.” – Time Out Apr 4, 2013 Full Review Keyhole (2011) 70% 4/5 EDIT “A bravura journey into a noirish nightmare world and a lock that even paid-up Maddinites won't be able to pick on a single viewing.” – Little White Lies Sep 13, 2012 Full Review The Lodger (1927) 96% 5/5 EDIT “One for Hitch fans, one for thriller fans, one for cinema fans. Do not miss.” – Little White Lies Aug 9, 2012 Full Review The Apartment (1960) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Directed by Wilder with attention to detail and emotional reticence that belie its inherent darkness and melodramatic core, it's lifted considerably by the performances.” – Time Out Jun 8, 2012 Full Review The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Staggering and heartbreaking. Still.” – Little White Lies May 17, 2012 Full Review Angel and Tony (2010) 85% 3/5 EDIT “This is a sprightly and economical debut from French former journalist and writer-director Alix Delaporte.” – Time Out May 3, 2012 Full Review Hadewijch (2009) 73% 2/5 EDIT “” – Time Out Feb 16, 2012 Full Review Waitress (2007) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Funny, gentle, unpatronising, if occasionally naive and quirky.” – Time Out Nov 18, 2011 Full Review I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) 87% 5/5 EDIT “” – Time Out Nov 18, 2011 Full Review The Incredible Hulk (2008) 68% 3/5 EDIT “A more satisfactory adaptation of the spirit of Stan Lee's Marvel character.” – Time Out Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set-pieces.” – Time Out Nov 17, 2011 Full Review
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