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Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: Birmingham Mail , Birmingham Post

Total Reviews:: 590

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	40%	Parker (2013)	" If Statham harbours ambitions of making a career-defining action thriller, Parker has to be seen as another opportunity lost." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
5/5	95%	Side by Side (2012)	" Side By Side is a riveting, under-the-hood distillation of 100 years of Hollywood experimentation, innovation and expensive bravery." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
3/5	71%	The Spirit of '45 ()	" The unspoken, underlying truth beneath Loach's tenor is that every government has successes and failures, while all enduring issues of fairness surely ought to be seen as non-political." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
2/5	60%	Maniac (2013)	" Much of the film feels graphically real but I was never convinced that some of the girls would ever have trusted him in the first place." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 13, 2013
	62%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" A mixture of fairy tale, romance, adventure, suspense and magic in an overlong spectacular that will in turn amuse, delight, bore, amaze and occasionally shock young children." — Birmingham Mail Posted Mar 8, 2013
3/5	87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" Frank Langella plays former cat burglar Frank and the 75-year-old actor holds the entire film together with his screen integrity." — Birmingham Post Posted Mar 6, 2013
3/5	68%	Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) (2013)	" It's a very British, predictable film with its heart in the right place." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
3/5	67%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" In many respects, it's exceptional - both in concept and execution." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/5	41%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Some viewers will find this deep and meaningful; others will leave scratching their heads." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
3/5	65%	Mama (2013)	" It's an original concept but still uses horror clich�s to signal shocks - loud noises, slamming doors and flickering lights." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/5	16%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" To add your own entertainment value, one game you can play during the film is to guess how many minutes will have gone by before Willis ends up with a single mark on his white top." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 15, 2013
3/5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" ( ... ) underneath the brashness, there's a tender heart, with the children just being themselves amid adults who are still in love yet in danger of losing their way." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 15, 2013
3/5	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" Lena's curse is ladled on with a bulldozer, the heavy need for repeated exposition always making the film feel like an adaptation rather than a pure movie." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 15, 2013
4/5	79%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" ( ... ) think of it not as a zombie horror movie, but more of a sweet-natured reinterpretation of the romantic comedy genre... with added flesh creeps." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 15, 2013
3/5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" The Judd-ernaut is back to make you shudder with another comedy that sometimes aims below the belt... but which survives on fair degrees of charm and hilarity, too." — Birmingham Post Posted Feb 14, 2013
4/5	63%	I Give It a Year ()	" ( ... ) not one I'd recommend you take your mother-in-law to see for a treat - and you won't be buying her a digital photo frame any time soon either." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 8, 2013
4/5	86%	Wreck-it Ralph (2012)	" Just like the camera gave us the heads of Frankenstein and Hellboy, so we always get Ralph's giant hands first here." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 8, 2013
4/5	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" Here's a film fact you should tell your friends: Alfred Hitchcock was given his first directing job by... a Brummie." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 8, 2013
3/5	37%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" FDR's story is strikingly relevant to how Paralympians strive so hard today to correct our perception of 'disability'." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 7, 2013
4/5	78%	Flight (2012)	" If you've got the nerve, buckle up." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 7, 2013
3/5	48%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" Thanks to Hill's directorial brio and some hot-wired one liners, Stallone can still put bad folks out of their misery real fast." — Birmingham Mail Posted Feb 7, 2013
4/5	63%	I Give It a Year ()	" This is a bit like the twin-track Grand National rollercoaster - there are times when it fairly rattles along." — Birmingham Post Posted Feb 6, 2013
5/5	86%	Wreck-it Ralph (2012)	" It's arguably the best Pixar-style feature from Disney that hasn't actually been made directly by its acquired, multi-Oscar winning arm." — Birmingham Post Posted Feb 6, 2013
4/5	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" A surprisingly bright-and-breezy affair in which the action moves briskly and with no little humour." — Birmingham Post Posted Feb 6, 2013
3/5	——	Small Creatures ()	" Promising director Martin Wallace delivers a series of adolescent dilemmas where loyalty and self-preservation clash head on, with the availability of friends' sisters providing light relief from the more aggressive scenes." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 31, 2013
1/5	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" This is nothing more than a chance to watch many of your favourite stars embarrassing themselves like 13-year-olds high on illicit booze." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 31, 2013
3/5	48%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" Stallone remains a growling star you can't take your eyes off - for all of the right and wrong reasons which put him on Hollywood's pedestal in the first place." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 31, 2013
3/5	37%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" Hyde Park is of fleeting interesting to a degree, but always feels like it is missing more exciting historical opportunities at the same time." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 31, 2013
4/5	78%	Flight (2012)	" It proves that Washington is the greatest black actor of them all." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 31, 2013
4/5	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Lincoln reminds you how little has actually changed in one-and-a-half centuries - presidents still have to worry about the war dead while trying to create a better life for the fractured living." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 24, 2013
4/5	91%	The Hunt (Jagten) (2013)	" Its genius is the way that it uses the most horrendous of subject matters to explore the gravest issues of trust." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 20, 2013
4/5	96%	Monsters, Inc. 3D (2012)	" [I] really don't see the point of paying extra for children under eight. Their eyes are still developing, their noses are still small for slippery glasses, and... isn't a trip to the pictures enough for them in any case?" — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 20, 2013
4/5	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" (... ) a remarkable film about disability, incapacity and the joy of freedom in the most impossible of situations." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 20, 2013
4/5	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Waltz anchors this film brilliantly so that Jamie Foxx as Django and the rest of the all-star cast can fit into Tarantino's latest heady mix of styles." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/5	96%	Monsters, Inc. 3D (2012)	" Despite its eternal message about physical differences and the importance of love over fear of the unknown, Monsters, Inc primarily remains an ambitious concept film." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 16, 2013
4/5	91%	The Hunt (Jagten) (2013)	" This is a deeply intelligent, profoundly moving and often harrowing illustration of why reports of - and investigations into - sex abuse, need to be handled with the sort of care afforded to genuine victims." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 16, 2013
4/5	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" The Sessions finally proves that Hollywood can take physical incapacity and/or sex far more seriously than it does the potential side effects of shooting so many people on screen so often." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 16, 2013
1/5	19%	Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)	" ( ... ) you might want to imagine I'm wielding a chainsaw that's making the noise rrrrrrrrrrrLLLLLLLLL! And that, as I write, I'm chopping up the three scriptwriters and three story writers on the grounds of over-manning (ditto, nine producers)." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 13, 2013
4/5	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" ( ... ) a more watchable thriller than Michael Mann's Public Enemies (2009), with lots of Tommy guns blazing in the old fashioned way." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 13, 2013
4/5	70%	Les Mis�rables (2012)	" Les Mis�rables has enough genuinely emotive power in its tank to guarantee a lot of people enormous pleasure." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 13, 2013
0/5	19%	Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)	" It feels more like a non-scary 'Scary Movie' spoof than the real deal, such is its lack of genuine tension." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 9, 2013
4/5	79%	Quartet (2013)	" [Quartet] shows that even in 'November' there are days when the weather can still be wonderful. And the end-credits picture montage of what some of the cast used to do at their peak, cleverly illustrates how spring and summer pass quickly enough." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 4, 2013
2/5	4%	Playing for Keeps (2012)	" If this was a biscuit, it would be an own-label digestive, full of sugar and trans fats - but suited and booted in a glistening wrapper." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 4, 2013
3/5	19%	Parental Guidance (2012)	" I don't know if it's reassuring or scary that in such an American film the kids seems to be UK-style victims of both health and safety rules and political correctness at the same time." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 4, 2013
4/5	95%	Chasing Ice (2012)	" Chasing Ice will open your eyes to a world you've never seen before and it will make you think. But whether any of us can change anything is a different matter altogether." — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 4, 2013
4/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" Ewan McGregor is much better than usual, though it's odd how Watts becomes the latest in a long line of lovelies who takes off her top in a movie in which he is starring. Perhaps it's written into his contracts!" — Birmingham Mail Posted Jan 4, 2013
2/5	4%	Playing for Keeps (2012)	" Even an actor as capable as Dennis Quaid is incapable of wading in to save it." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 3, 2013
3/5	19%	Parental Guidance (2012)	" The underlying issues make for a surprisingly relevant film." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 3, 2013
4/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" Their physical and emotional journey will pin you back in your seat." — Birmingham Post Posted Jan 3, 2013

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