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Neil Smith
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Movies reviews only
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The Garfield Movie (2024) |
Stumbles at the same hurdle that has scuppered previous attempts to bring Garfield to the big screen: namely, the impracticality of crafting a satisfying full-length feature around a self-centered sourpuss. - Total Film
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) |
Entertaining enough but inessential, Kingdom offers spectacle and thrills but lacks the ambition, smarts, and gravity of its immediate predecessors. - Total Film
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| Posted May 08, 2024
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The Idea of You (2024) |
Those who watch it will probably have forgotten it inside of five minutes. - Total Film
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| Posted May 01, 2024
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Boy Kills World (2023) |
There does come a point when the wackiness gets wearying. Yet it's hard to deny that Boy Kills World has a delirious, unhinged energy to it... - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 22, 2024
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Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver (2024) |
Snyder’s sci-fi epic stumbles towards the finish line with an underwhelming Part Two that feels more like a Part One-And-A-Half. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 20, 2024
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Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) |
There is a definite sense of material being extended beyond its elasticity. Yet it’s a decent vehicle for Ridley that, like last year’s The Marsh King’s Daughter, shows she doesn’t need a galaxy far, far away to demonstrate her star (Wars) power. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 16, 2024
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Challengers (2024) |
Expect code violations aplenty from a pulsating tale of discord at the net cord that’s sure to get deuces flowing. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Civil War (2024) |
There’s no shortage of horrors in an uncompromising hypothetical drama whose copious thrills come steeped in moral and ethical complexity. - Total Film
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| Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Drive-Away Dolls (2024) |
Throw in a luggage-sized McGuffin straight out of Pulp Fiction and we’re left with a comedy steeped in déjà vu. There is no denying, though, that Qualley and Viswanathan make a highly likable duo... - Total Film
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| Posted Feb 21, 2024
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Memory (2023) |
A tough and draining watch that’s worth enduring for its well-matched leads’ compelling star turns. - Total Film
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| Posted Feb 16, 2024
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Bob Marley: One Love (2024) |
Fans have been waiting a while for an authorised Marley biopic. Now it’s arrived, every little thing is sadly not alright. - Total Film
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| Posted Feb 08, 2024
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The Iron Claw (2023) |
Sensitive rather than sensationalist, this is an engrossing grapple with a wrestling dynasty that was blessed with pecs appeal yet dogged by bad luck. - Total Film
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| Posted Feb 05, 2024
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The End We Start From (2023) |
The End We Start From eschews epic special effects in favor of an intimate, close-up immediacy. - Total Film
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| Posted Jan 16, 2024
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) |
Aqua #2 has to be considered a disappointment – one that, in endeavouring to emulate what made Wan’s original the highest-grossing DC film of all time, merely serves up more of the same to increasingly bathetic effect. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 21, 2023
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Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023) |
Snyder’s passion project risks becoming subsumed by its own self-importance, but delivers bombastic mayhem and grandiose visuals by the bucket-load. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 15, 2023
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The Marvels (2023) |
Struggles to stay coherent for a good deal of its relatively brief running time. - Total Film
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| Posted Nov 08, 2023
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) |
Freddy Fazbear and his pals would seem precision-tooled for terror. Sadly, though, they are about as scary as Barney the purple dinosaur in what is ultimately a ploddingly predictable, gore-lite yawner. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 25, 2023
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The Kitchen (2023) |
A startling vision of the future that’s troublingly close to our present, with an affecting human story at its core. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 17, 2023
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The Book of Clarence (2023) |
Stanfield, on double duty as both Clarence and his straitlaced disciple twin Thomas, is a charismatic lead in a cast that boasts more than one enjoyable cameo. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 12, 2023
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
Exudes authenticity, from the metal stallions its characters take onto the highway to the dirt-smeared denims they love to wear. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 06, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023) |
A device that went the way of the dodo gets a lively epitaph you won’t need your hand held to enjoy. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 04, 2023
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Fair Play (2023) |
A gripping first feature from an impressive new talent that will get people talking both at work and at home. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Saw X (2023) |
Two decades on from the short that started everything, X must surely mark the spot Jigsaw finally rests in pieces. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) |
Third time’s the charm for a franchise that’s found its groove, ironically by changing the record. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 10, 2023
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The Nun II (2023) |
Is the Conjuring Universe worth continuing? This latest iteration will leave you nun the wiser. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Strays (2023) |
The doghouse is too good for a crude comedy only the collar-blind will warm to. - Total Film
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| Posted Aug 17, 2023
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Blue Beetle (2023) |
Stand down the undertaker: this spirited outlier shows there’s life in the old DCEU yet. Over to you, Aquaman 2. - Total Film
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| Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) |
Fast, furious and based on fact, this pleasingly lateral adaptation embellishes a console-jockey favourite with familiar sports-movie archetypes. - Total Film
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| Posted Aug 08, 2023
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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) |
How did a sequel with Jason Statham, three humongous sharks and a cephalopod on acid end up being so meh? - Total Film
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) |
Vivid visuals are standard in the computer-animation marketplace, but this is one example of the genre that can boast a smattering of genuine wit. - Total Film
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| Posted Jun 27, 2023
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No Hard Feelings (2023) |
Taste and laughs are in equally slim supply in Jennifer Lawrence’s latest, from which only her fresh-faced co-star emerges untarnished. - Total Film
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| Posted Jun 21, 2023
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) |
If only Caple Jr. and his five credited screenwriters had found a way to make us invested in the outcome, instead of merely assaulting us with another energy-draining orgy of bombastic Bayhem. - Total Film
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Fast X (2023) |
A sequel both outrageously entertaining and entertainingly outrageous. - Total Film
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
So comfortable are the leads now in their spacesuits that they have the feel of a cosily familial ensemble. If there’s a standout, though, it’s Karen Gillan’s Nebula. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) |
A well-crafted look at Michael J. Fox that balances affectionate nostalgia with unflinching candour. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Suzume (2022) |
Miyazaki’s artistic heir honours the master while stylishly ploughing his own distinctive furrow. The future of anime looks in safe hands. - Total Film
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| Posted Apr 17, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023) |
Infinity Pool delights in finding fresh ways to disturb and nauseate the audience. You do start to wonder, though, if there’s anything more to it. - Total Film
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| Posted Mar 18, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
[Its] vein of knowing humour... sets the movie apart from the Annabelles and Chuckys of this world. - Total Film
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
The style might cause whiplash, but it’s worth it for the thrilling momentum Chazelle brings to his revisionist filmdom fantasia. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022) |
Comes with oodles of charm – albeit of a kind likely to send anyone averse to precocious moppets sprinting for the nearest hill. - Total Film
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| Posted Oct 06, 2022
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Empire of Light (2022) |
Mendes’ direction is superior to his script in an elegant homage to the movies that doesn’t quite manage to move. - Total Film
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| Posted Sep 12, 2022
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Jurassic World Dominion (2022) |
Less triumphant send-off than passable retread, the newest Jurassic only approaches classic when it ventures into uncharted territory. - Total Film
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| Posted Jun 08, 2022
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Showing Up (2022) |
Williams and Reichardt have forged a strong and intuitive connection... - Total Film
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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Close (2022) |
Guileless performances, understated direction and bucolic Belgian scenery combine to create a quiet gem of a film you Dhont want to miss. - Total Film
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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Funny Pages (2022) |
Kevin Kline’s director son suggests that talent is hereditary with this witty and poignant look at an artist in embryo. - Total Film
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| Posted May 24, 2022
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Decision to Leave (2022) |
A master filmmaker mines cinema’s glamorous past in a nostalgic neo-noir you don’t so much watch as surrender to. - Total Film
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| Posted May 24, 2022
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Holy Spider (2022) |
An intense and gripping dramatization that, a few liberties apart, does justice to a disturbing true story. - Total Film
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| Posted May 23, 2022
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Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
The director of The Square gives a new shape a whirl with hilarious, scathing and sometimes jaw-dropping results. - Total Film
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| Posted May 22, 2022
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God's Creatures (2022) |
Atlantic cod and oyster beds provide a pungent backdrop for this effective fillet of atmospheric psychological drama. - Total Film
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) |
Though delightful in places, the third entry in Sony's third Spider-Man cycle feels both overstocked and underwhelming. - Total Film
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| Posted Dec 15, 2021
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