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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
ANTHONY QUINN
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• Daily Telegraph
• Independent
• thelondonpaper

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Total Reviews: 183


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5/5 Brief Encounter
4/5 The Painted Veil
3/5 Letters From Iwo Jima
2/5 Shrek the Third
1/5 The Number 23
 
 
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5/5 The Conformist
5/5 All About Eve
5/5 Control
5/5 Brief Encounter
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1/5 Semi-Pro
1/5 The Accidental Husband
1/5 Southland Tales
1/5 Infinite Justice
1/5 Fred Claus
1/5 American Gangster
1/5 Weirdsville
1/5 Silk
1/5 Ex Drummer
1/5 The Brothers Solomon
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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2/5
 
"The problem with Hollywood films condemning the public appetite for torture is that they frequently pander to it, and this is a very lurid and unsavoury example." -- Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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1/5
 
"Ferrell seems to be running on empty, despite a luxuriant McEnroe afro-with-headband and a past as a one-hit wonder ("Love Me Sexy")." -- Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Semi-Pro (2008)21%
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"As a spectacle of ingenious larceny, it's not up there with Rififi, or even Sexy Beast. But it's not bad, either." -- Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)77%
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2/5
 
"Dramatically and visually, there's no relief to be had in this self-indulgent downer." -- Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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5/5
 
"A beautifully imagined portrait of moral and political cowardice." -- Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Conformist (1970)100%
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1/5
 
"A plot of insufferable silliness contrives to keep the lovers on tenterhooks and the audience in a permanent cringe, none of it helped by Thurman's thoroughly phony performance." -- Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Accidental Husband (2008)0%
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2/5
 
"Von Trier has evidently been watching The Office, and replicates both its soulless setting and fly-on-the-desk camera-style, not to mention the Brentian fear of being unpopular." -- Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Boss of it All (2007)73%
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2/5
 
"A shocking disappointment." -- Independent
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
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4/5
 
"A terrific debut by Vargas, who wrote, directed and produced." -- Independent
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
The Violin (2007)97%
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3/5
 
"The fragmentary approach could never be called exhilarating, but it has a sly humour, and the mood is sustained by Vogler and Rottlander as the unlikely companions." -- Independent
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Alice in the Cities ()100%
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2/5
 
"Filming in his characteristically dreamy, dislocated fashion, Van Sant seems as interested in the innocently beautiful face of his young star as he is in the docu-style story-telling." -- Independent
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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3/5
 
"Based on Khaled Hosseini's highly regarded novel, this story of exile, ambition and betrayal has an emotional power that outstrips its occasional implausibilities." -- Independent
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)66%
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3/5
 
"Bold, and successfully maintains suspense." -- Independent
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)68%
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2/5
 
"The duologues between the couple seldom vary in tone: he's the doormat, and she wipes her silk slippers on him. Depardieu makes for a compelling presence, even if he's a bit one-note." -- Independent
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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2/5
 
"It would be a flinty heart indeed that fails to be touched by the rheumy-eyed playing of MacLaine and her co-star Christopher Plummer." -- Independent
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
Closing the Ring (2007)27%
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2/5
 
"The old St Trinian's movies with Alistair Sim weren't exactly comedy classics, but they look like gold next to this feeble, sloppily written caper." -- Independent
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
St. Trinian's (2007)41%
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2/5
 
"Not a lot of fun." -- Independent
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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3/5
 
"Domesticating the mobster within society has become almost a commonplace, thanks to The Sopranos, but Kingsley's tight-lipped gruffness gives a lift to the mordant ironies of the script." -- Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
You Kill Me (2007)79%
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1/5
 
"They've left it late, but writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) and his team have gone and scooped The Independent's Worst Film of 2007 award – against stiff competition, too." -- Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)35%
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3/5
 
"One sequence, soundtracked almost entirely by rainfall, is an exquisite metaphorical display of emotional tumult." -- Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Silent Night (2006)91%
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4/5
 
"Invaluable pointers on narrative patience, spiritual yearning and technical finesse." -- Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Sacrifice (1986)79%
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2/5
 
"It's dark and too relentless for the comedy it would like to be." -- Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
He Was a Quiet Man (2007)76%
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2/5
 
"In the end The Golden Compass is another expensive mishmash of CGI 'magic' and widescreen spectacle: well-acted, as you would expect, but more or less empty of anything to provoke the curiosity and intelligence of a young audience." -- Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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"This tells us precisely nothing about John Lennon and a sight too much about his killer, Mark Chapman." -- Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)37%
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1/5
 
"Jamil Dehlavi's film is well-intentioned but simple-minded, and the clunking script does more to muddy the issues than to elucidate them." -- Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
Infinite Justice (2006)43%
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2/5
 
"His flamboyant rendering of the Mozart opera isn't as smug and stagey as Sleuth, but it is insufferable – and 40 minutes longer." -- Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Magic Flute (2006)69%
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1/5
 
"The actual effect of films such as this, however, is to put you in an entirely non-Christmas, non-joyous and non-charitable mood." -- Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
Fred Claus (2007)22%
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3/5
 
"Definitely worth a look." -- Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Nines (2007)69%
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2/5
 
"Compared to Walter Hill's 1980 movie The Long Riders, also about the James gang, this feels an underpowered affair. Indeed, compared to Dominik's own previous movie, Chopper (2000), it is impossibly meek." -- Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)74%
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2/5
 
"Compared to Walter Hill's 1980 movie The Long Riders, also about the James gang, this feels an underpowered affair. Indeed, compared to Dominik's own previous movie, Chopper (2000), it is impossibly meek." -- Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)74%
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5/5
 
"Put simply, one of the greatest movies ever made." -- Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
All About Eve (1950)100%
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1/5
 
"Ridley Scott's American Gangster offers both belated history-lesson and demented hero-worship, and seems to be intended as a kind of gift to black America. One hopes that black America will have nothing to do with it." -- Independent
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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1/5
 
"It's wacky, it's zany, it's loopy, it's freaky, it's daffy – but alas, not the most important one, which is "funny"." -- Independent
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Weirdsville (2007)56%
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2/5
 
"Underwhelming." -- Independent
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Brick Lane (2008)70%
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3/5
 
"There's plenty of campery, inevitable when you have Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich in the voice cast, but for all the ham-inatronic moments, it looks terrific." -- Independent
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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2/5
 
"Music interlaces the action, which proceeds mostly without words, expression or, regrettably, interest." -- Independent
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007)88%
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2/5
 
"Features the most explicit use of a watermelon ever filmed." -- Independent
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
The Wayward Cloud (2007)89%
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2/5
 
"The contrivance is horrible, the schmaltz unpardonable." -- Independent
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)64%
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3/5
 
"Carré is frighteningly good as Anna and the final few frames are marrow-chilling." --
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Anna M. (2007)62%
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3/5
 
"A young man with plenty of advantages renounces the modern world, wounds his family deeply and is acclaimed a sort of saint." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Into the Wild (2007)83%
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2/5
 
"Won't make any friends outside of B-movie aficionados, and even they might tire of laughing at all the cheapo gore being thrown around." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Planet Terror (2007)77%
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1/5
 
"Tremulous eroticism a-go-go, but it's all completely lifeless." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Silk (2007)8%
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3/5
 
"Patience will be rewarded." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
In Memory of Me (2007)78%
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2/5
 
"Shoddily written." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Good Luck Chuck (2007)3%
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2/5
 
"Liberal Hollywood sends its big guns into the "war on terror" and winds up in a dreadful mess." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Lions for Lambs (2007)28%
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1/5
 
"Women, gays and old people get a pretty rough ride, though given the film's minuscule target audience it shouldn't really bother them." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Ex Drummer (2007)45%
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3/5
 
"A modest, bitter-sweet charmer." -- Independent
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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1/5
 
"Odd-couple comedy that tries much too hard and, in other ways, not hard enough." -- Independent
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
The Brothers Solomon (2007)16%
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3/5
 
"A real baying-at-the-moon gorefest, unusual both for its savagery and for a half-decent performance from Hartnett." -- Independent
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
30 Days of Night (2007)49%

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