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Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
BBC Radio Five Live , Guardian [UK] , New Statesman , Observer [UK] , Sight and Sound
Total Reviews:
324

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/5 67% Magnifica presenza (Magnificent Presence) " There's real pleasure to be had watching the worlds of the living and the dead intermingle, and Ozpetek handles the supernatural elements with ease, balancing the magic and the mundane to rewarding effect." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
1/5 61% Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) " Secondhand gags, third-rate execution, fourth-rate results." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
3/5 62% Ender's Game (2013) " The Last Starfighter meets Heart of Darkness." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
3/5 70% Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) " For anyone wishing to tickle the tummy-buns of a Double Bacon Cheespider, there's a menagerie of colourful mutants to distract your attention from the absence of anything more substantial." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
2/5 40% Closed Circuit (2013) " Some moody night-time London location work from cinematographer Rob Hardy almost saves the day, but overall it's a losing battle." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
4/5 97% The Selfish Giant " An affectingly truthful movie that touches the heart as it holds a fabulist mirror up to reality, enriching the traditions of homegrown drama, and confirming Barnard as a major voice of modern British cinema." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
4/5 97% Muscle Shoals (2013) " A galaxy of stars recall the magic of it all, although a little less boring Bono would have been a bonus." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
3/5 60% One Chance (2013) " [The] "feel-good-or-die" story of Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts's rise from Carphone Warehouse obscurity to opera-belting fame." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
3/5 29% The Taste of Money (2013) " Sex, death, greed, corruption: they're all here in handsomely mounted and highly polished cases. Taste the money - smell the glove." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 28, 2013
83% Prince Avalanche (2013) " A patience-testing two-hander about a pair of bickering oddballs spending an irritable summer painting traffic lines in the middle of fire-ravaged woodland." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 21, 2013
49% Escape Plan (2013) " This functional thumper generally gets the job done, plodding merrily, if unremarkably, through the generic set pieces, making a passable fist of well-worn material." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 21, 2013
67% Turbo (2013) " The graphics are colourful and kinetic in a souped-up computer game sort of way, and there's pleasure to be had in watching the racetrack zoom by at full throttle." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 21, 2013
4/5 79% The Broken Circle Breakdown (2013) " A powerful and haunting tale of love, death and bluegrass - a mournful song played on a broken instrument, with striking visual accompaniment." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 21, 2013
4/5 95% Enough Said (2013) " A typically astute and funny reading of the foibles of human relationships, spiced up with a forgivably contrived comedic plot twist." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 21, 2013
4/5 79% Like Father, Like Son (2013) " The result is a deceptively rich and rewarding drama, small of gesture, huge of heart." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 21, 2013
4/5 94% Captain Phillips (2013) " For all its action aesthetics and nail-biting, gut-wrenching tension, this is on some level a film about globalisation, about what happens when the paths of the very poor and the very rich intersect in the crossfire of world economics." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 21, 2013
2/5 15% Baggage Claim (2013) " An utterly anodyne romcom with nothing to surprise and less to offend." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
2/5 22% Romeo and Juliet (2013) " I half expected Holly Hunter to turn up in a bonnet and throw herself speechlessly into the raging sea." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
4/5 92% Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Hae-Won) " Haewon emerges as a complex character in whose foolishly open company we would happily spend more time, her understated manner speaking volumes, her gestures gently telling their own story." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
2/5 31% Machete Kills (2013) " This ignores the first rule of proper B-movie exploitation cinema - that anything over 89 minutes is just excess baggage, of which Machete Kills has plenty. Still, at least it's authentic in one respect - the trailer is better than the film." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
3/5 37% The Fifth Estate (2013) " In the end we're left with an enjoyable but rather empty ride; easy on the eye, kinetic in construction, but undone by indecision about its still unfolding history." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
4/5 100% Le Week-End (2013) " It all adds up to a surprisingly honest and entertaining affair that manages to delight without running away from darkness." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
96% Psycho (1960) " After half a century of terror, Psycho is still ensuring that no one feels safe in the shower." — Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3/5 77% Filth " McAvoy's powerhouse performance [lifts] the entire venture shoulder high, making this a solid silver medal winner in the Welsh-on-screen adaptation stakes." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
96% Sunshine on Leith " I shed a tear within the first 10 minutes, and spent the rest of the movie beaming like a gibbering, love-struck fool." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
4/5 93% For Those In Peril " A full week after first viewing, I find myself still sifting through montage images that linger in the mind like a half-remembered dream." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
2/5 49% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " This self-conscious oddity can't decide whether it wants to be an indie-earnest reappraisal of the rigours of chronic dependency, or a slightly racy romcom with a saucy topical edge." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
2/5 31% Emperor (2013) " Hokey monologues about the finger of historical blame are interspersed with perfume-ad flashbacks to idyllic days of love; you half expect Andrew Lloyd Webber to descend from on high to provide a few touching show tunes." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3/5 73% How I Live Now (2013) " An uncertain affair, powerfully played and sporadically affecting, but lacking the singular clarity of vision that becomes Daisy's survivalist mantra." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
1/5 52% The To Do List (2013) " Writer/director Maggie Carey's clodhopping coming-of-age yarn merely proves that terrible teen movies are now a source of equal-ops embarrassment for both genders." — Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
4/5 100% The Wicker Man - Final Cut (2013) " The strengths are overpowering; Edward Woodward's towering performance, Anthony Shaffer's brilliantly nasty script, Paul Giovanni's weirdie folk music, and that matchlessly horrifying ending." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
1/5 32% Austenland (2013) " What might have made a five-minute skit becomes an extended exercise in taking a joke for a walk round a country house before allowing it to crap on the terrace and then stamping it to death on the manicured lawn." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 86% Hannah Arendt (2013) " The banality of evil is examined in this solid and intelligent account of Arendt's controversial conclusions on the trial of Adolf Eichmann." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " Incidental at best, and a touch irksome at worst." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
2/5 9% Runner Runner (2013) " Odds are you'll have forgotten most of the film before the end credits finish rolling." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 83% Mister John " That the whole should not quite add up to the sum of its parts is no great tragedy; there is enough magic in these meanderings to carry us over the flaws." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 81% Prisoners (2013) " It's a tense and engaging thriller with some big ideas, only some of which it is able to carry." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
4/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " While the film may hold some viewers at arm's length, the performances are worthy of stand-up-and-cheer ovations all round." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/5 60% InRealLife " It's unsettling viewing, and smartly sidesteps allegations of parental paranoia by talking directly to those "digital natives" whose lives are being transformed (for better and worse) by the web." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2/5 9% Diana (2013) " Watts employs a number of iconic head tilts, hairdos and stick-on noses, but fights a losing battle against a film which has neither backbone nor teeth ..." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2/5 13% R.I.P.D. (2013) " Overall, it's a directionless mess: too expensive for a B-movie, too grown-up for a kids' movie (funerals, bereavement and jokes about Steely Dan) and too infantile for everyone else." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/5 77% Kelly + Victor " Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Julian Morris are impressively raw and unguarded as the doomed lovers, their nerves exposed for all to see as the roots of their angst are increasingly laid bare." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/5 100% Metro Manila (2013) " There's a tenderness in the depiction of the central family which was notably lacking from Ellis's earlier work, and the nuts and bolts of the heist narrative are handled with slow-burn dexterity." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2013
4/5 91% In a World... (2013) " This snappy treat tickles up belly laughs from the golden larynx of the entertainment industry, as it delves into the strangely competitive world of the voiceover artist." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
100% Tarnished Angels (1958) " One of Douglas Sirk's masterworks." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
1/5 36% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Boo, indeed." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
3/5 50% White House Down (2013) " At least has the good grace to laugh at itself as it rolls out the dingbat-daft action-movie cliches." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
3/5 68% The Artist and the Model (2013) " A whimsical black-and-white meditation upon the nature of art, set in rural southern France during the second world war." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
2/5 8% Justin and the Knights of Valour " This disappointing CG animation fails to capture the sense of fairytale wonder that its narrative requires." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
4/5 88% Rush (2013) " Bright, brash and unashamedly formulaic, this is thrillingly accessible fare ..." — Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2013
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