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Tim Evans

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:: One People's Project , Sky Movies

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	95%	Enough Said (2013)	" The joyous thrust of this thoroughly entertaining - and often poignant - comedy thrives on the sparkling chemistry between Gandolfini and Louis-Dreyfus, a romance pitched at that often overlooked demographic - the middle-aged divorcee." — Sky Movies Posted Oct 16, 2013
2/5	45%	Escape Plan (2013)	" For the financially savvy Arnie'n'Sly it's not so much escape plan...as pension plan." — Sky Movies Posted Oct 16, 2013
4/5	42%	The Fifth Estate (2013)	" Cumberbatch is handed his meatiest role yet and delivers ..." — Sky Movies Posted Oct 9, 2013
2/5	29%	Machete Kills (2013)	" Even at 107 minutes, it outstays its welcome...and it's difficult to see Machete Kills cutting much ice with an audience that doesn't consist of damp-palmed teenage boys." — Sky Movies Posted Oct 9, 2013
5/5	81%	Prisoners (2013)	" Richly detailed and labyrinthinely plotted, the switchback narrative is populated with carefully delineated characters without recourse to cumbersome exposition." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/5	2%	Diana (2013)	" More sudsy than a tsunami hitting a Proctor & Gamble factory." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 18, 2013
3/5	14%	R.I.P.D. (2013)	" You won't die laughing...but it's a pleasant enough diversion." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 18, 2013
3/5	44%	The Call (2013)	" It's a tense, taut thriller that only eases off the tension in the final reel." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 18, 2013
5/5	88%	Rush (2013)	" Peter Morgan's script, an object lesson in soberly effective economic writing, lends what could become two rigid stereotypes a pulsing emotional dynamic that Hemsworth and Bruhl flesh out to keenly dramatic effect." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 11, 2013
4/5	50%	White House Down (2013)	" As usual, Emmerich doesn't know when the shameless, popcorn extravaganza should stop...but you don't really want him to." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 11, 2013
3/5	35%	Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)	" An accomplished follow-up that doesn't feel like some lazy studio financier-instigated cash-in." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 11, 2013
4/5	81%	Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)	" It's a striking debut...and one which marks the arrival of a major talent." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 4, 2013
4/5	91%	The Great Beauty ()	" The superb Servillo - who, when he doesn't have the look of Dennis Norden, is the spit of a lusty Sid James - is the perfect match for Sorrentino's wry vision ..." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 4, 2013
3/5	45%	No One Lives (2013)	" [A] gut-wrenchingly gory horror yarn from Asian director Ryûhei Kitamura." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 4, 2013
3/5	86%	The Great Hip Hop Hoax ()	" Director Jeanie Finlay's entertaining documentary begins as a bit of a light-hearted wheeze but then grows darker ..." — Sky Movies Posted Sep 4, 2013
3/5	49%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" Labelling a Michael Bay movie thoughtful is like calling Transformers cerebral...but this is a lot more stimulating than we've come to expect even if reverts to shoot 'em up type by the end of its pumped up running time." — Sky Movies Posted Aug 28, 2013
	64%	One Direction: This Is Us (2013)	" It's a decent enough watch and you can't fail to warm to the band for their honest relish of a success that didn't seem likely when they rolled in third on the X-Factor." — Sky Movies Posted Aug 28, 2013
3/5	75%	You're Next (2013)	" Wingard amusingly blends a vicious household dynamic - grim sibling rivalry in train with neurotic parents - with a straight-down-the-line home invasion thriller feeding off family hatred." — Sky Movies Posted Aug 28, 2013
4/5	54%	Lovelace (2013)	" Seyfried is a revelation as the blithely trusting Linda, initially under the sleazy spell of Chuck and latterly terrified of his physical and mental abuse." — Sky Movies Posted Aug 21, 2013
4/5	68%	Elysium (2013)	" In a disappointing season of bloated blockbusters, Elysium stands tall, a first-rate sci-fi thriller given extra heft by a heartening moral core." — Sky Movies Posted Aug 21, 2013
4/5	47%	We're The Millers (2013)	" It's Miller time." — Sky Movies Posted Aug 21, 2013
5/5	84%	Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa ()	" Fans will spend their happiest 90 minutes this summer...and those yet to fall under his spell will get a crash course in 22-carat hilarity." — Sky Movies Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/5	42%	Red 2 (2013)	" Less an ensemble variation of Bourne and more Carry on Killing, there's much to enjoy in a sequel that finds laughs in the blase attitude of its anti-heroes to the grim business of inconsequential death." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 31, 2013
3/5	14%	The Smurfs 2 (2013)	" Smurf-ophiles will love it but the unconverted still won't be feeling the blues." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 31, 2013
4/5	73%	Breathe In ()	" It's a strikingly authentic chronicle of forbidden love and one that never lapses into melodrama or hits a false note." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 17, 2013
3/5	57%	The Frozen Ground (2013)	" After a dispiriting run of dumbly routine thrillers - Stolen, Trespass, Justice - Nicolas Cage raises his game with this workmanlike police procedural." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 17, 2013
4/5	86%	Easy Money (2012)	" Espinosa raises the emotional ante by placing this trio of misfits in a human context." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 17, 2013
4/5	76%	The Kings of Summer (2013)	" A supremely entertaining adventure that might threaten to fall over a couple of times but always regains its balance." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 17, 2013
3/5	56%	Citadel (2012)	" A lean and mean horror set in a shattered city that is both all-to-recognisable as broken Britain while also feeling totally alien." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 10, 2013
3/5	72%	Pacific Rim (2013)	" It's by no means a bad film...but there's not a trace of Del Toro's compellingly off-kilter dabs on it." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 10, 2013
2/5	21%	Bula Quo! ()	" 'Bula' is apparently the Fijian for hello...but after 90 minutes of this you'll be desperate to know what goodbye is." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 4, 2013
2/5	50%	Now You See Me (2013)	" A glossily superficial yarn that elicits a shrug and a resigned 'meh' rather than awed incredulity." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 3, 2013
3/5	35%	The Internship (2013)	" If you can ignore the eulogising of Google as a pinnacle of corporate altruism, there's fun to be had ..." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 3, 2013
3/5	75%	The East (2013)	" The last reel appears compromised by Hollywood's generic demands..but what has gone before is a refreshing lesson in how to make a thriller that's genuinely thrilling on a human scale." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 26, 2013
3/5	38%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" A rewarding mash-up of Last of the Summer Wine and Goodfellas." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 26, 2013
4/5	75%	Despicable Me 2 (2013)	" A sequel that actually manages to improve on the original and establishes Gru & co as richly-detailed personalities who can be trusted to carry the franchise on." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 26, 2013
4/5	98%	Before Midnight (2013)	" For those who witnessed Jesse and Celine's tentative getting together as inter railing students almost twenty years ago, it's reassuring to see them still in love." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 19, 2013
2/5	48%	Summer in February ()	" Ultimately, it's a competent, if uninspired, chronicle of an intriguing community hamstrung by that worthily reverential approach that afflicts British film-makers." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 12, 2013
4/5	58%	Stuck in Love (2013)	" Unfashionably un-cynical, it's a labour of familial love from first-time writer-director Josh Boone whose simple style well serves a story of sweetness and wit." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 12, 2013
3/5	52%	Thérèse (2013)	" Although always watchable, there's a dynamism missing, handicapped in no small measure by a dialled down performance from Tautou, who is far too old for the role of a young free spirit." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 6, 2013
3/5	11%	After Earth (2013)	" Ultimately, it's a workmanlike sci-fi thriller that never really manages to erase the stain of Hollywood nepotism." — Sky Movies Posted Jun 6, 2013
2/5	19%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" Time to Wolfpack it in." — Sky Movies Posted May 22, 2013
3/5	49%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" Ultimately, it's far from a literary adaptation...but as a movie it makes you want to join the party." — Sky Movies Posted May 16, 2013
2/5	25%	Vehicle 19 (2013)	" It's pure formula...but will give Fast and Furious fans something to drool over until the next F&F; instalment comes skidding around the corner." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
4/5	95%	A Hijacking (2013)	" Eschewing hard boiled action for an authentically gritty approach, director Tobias Lindholm creates a fuggy atmosphere of claustrophobic dread aboard the ship juxtaposed with the airy hi-tech steel and glass HQ of the shipping line." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
4/5	98%	Mud (2013)	" This richly rewarding work lightly wears influences as disparate as Huckleberry Finn and The Hustler but ultimately emerges as the unmistakeable work of Nichols, one of the rare breed of genuinely exciting directors working in Hollywood today." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
4/5	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" Ultimately, it's a blockbuster that pretty much follows the story-telling arc of its compadres in the superhero world...yet Star Trek's not just living well. It's prospering." — Sky Movies Posted May 9, 2013
3/5	54%	All Stars ()	" It's a well-worn formula - a gang of youngsters have to form a dance troupe to put on a show that will save their local youth club - but what it lacks in budget it makes up for in bravado." — Sky Movies Posted May 2, 2013
3/5	38%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" A disappointingly by-the-numbers revenge yarn unspieled at great length ..." — Sky Movies Posted May 2, 2013

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