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NEIL SMITH
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• Channel 4 Film
• Independent
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• rec.arts.movies.reviews
• thelondonpaper
• Total Film
• ViewLondon

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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Withnail and I
4/5 The Upside of Anger
3/5 The Number 23
2.5/5 No Smoking
2/5 Goal II: Living the Dream
1/5 Material Girls
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 The Jungle Book
5/5 All About Eve
5/5 All About Eve
5/5 Withnail and I
5/5 Superman Returns
5/5 The Best of Youth
5/5 Amadeus
5/5 Gosford Park
5/5 Raiders of the Lost Ark
5/5 From Russia with Love
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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1/5 Good Luck Chuck
1/5 Good Luck Chuck
1/5 Death at a Funeral
1/5 The Brothers Solomon
1/5 Death at a Funeral
1/5 Introducing The Dwights
1/5 Introducing The Dwights
1/5 Are We Done Yet?
1/5 Norbit
1/5 Material Girls
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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2/5
 
"There's no light at the end of the tunnel in this misguided romp whose solitary redeeming feature is its quality cast." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Three and Out (2008)20%
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2/5
 
"With every twist of the second-hand plot telegraphed far in advance, you don't need to be clairvoyant to see where this is going." -- BBC
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
The Eye (2008)21%
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3/5
 
"Ralph Fiennes is no Sexy Beast and writer/director Martin McDonagh is stronger on dialogue than story, but this is still a laugh-out-loud dark comedy, giving Colin Farrell his finest role in ages." -- Total Film
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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3/5
 
""Are there any square cops out there?" says a supporting character in David Ayer's actioner. The answer, of course, is no - and this violent yarn is all the better for it. Next time out, though, he should probably assign himself a less familiar beat." -- Total Film
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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2/5
 
"In the end, though, there's only so much slack you can give a film that wears its cheapness and ineptitude like badges of honour." -- BBC
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Botched (2007)14%
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3/5
 
"Given the true story that inspired it, 21 really should have been a sure-fire bet. As it is, it’s a split hand that only pays off thanks to Fishburne and Spacey. Still beats Lucky You, though." -- Total Film
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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3/5
 
"Viewers who stick with it will be rewarded by an arresting tapestry that is considerably more than the sum of its parts." -- BBC
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
You, The Living (2007)100%
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2/5
 
"Little more than a Disney cash-cow entirely wasted on anyone old enough to smoke, drink or vote." -- BBC
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)75%
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5/5
 
"Ridiculously entertaining." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Mar 10, 2008
 
The Jungle Book (1967)88%
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2/5
 
"A retro pastiche that, like The Good German before it, will be of limited interest to all but the most ardent film buff." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Fade to Black (2006)29%
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4/5
 
"A movie that manages to be both brilliantly witty and delightfully subversive - not least for reportedly entrusting all its cinematography to a computer." -- BBC
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Boss of it All (2007)73%
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4/5
 
"For all the sleights of hand its director conjures up, this is an undeniably slight affair. But it’s still a sublimely entertaining one from a maverick confident enough in his abilities to make fun of his previous work and his agent provocateur persona." -- Total Film
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Boss of it All (2007)73%
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3/5
 
"“It’s a jungle in there!” sighs Hanks as he counts the millions visiting the movie’s kill-view website. But for all its scaremongering, Untraceable is best viewed as an above-average thriller with a tech-savvy hook." -- Total Film
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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4/5
 
"It makes you want to climb on screen and give the big, eco-friendly lug a hug." -- Total Film
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
U2 3D (2008)92%
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3/5
 
"It takes a special talent to wring so much warm, humane comedy out of such a screwy premise. But the real triumph is how Gondry uses it to champion no-budget indie filmmaking, salute cinema’s unifying properties and thumb his nose at the Hollywood system." -- Total Film
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)65%
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3/5
 
"Packs enough shocks to keep you gripped, not to mention a conclusion that refreshingly refutes the genre rulebook." -- Total Film
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Black Water (2007)79%
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"The story rattles along at such a lick there's little time to ponder the plot holes -- no mean feat in a film of this length and with so many fine actors competing for our attention." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
The Departed (2006)92%
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3/5
 
"For all its delicious moments, though, you can't help feeling there are a couple of ingredients missing from this frustratingly insubstantial confection." -- BBC
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)49%
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2/5
 
"A thoroughly derivative, boringly ordinary affair in desperate need of a hockey-masked psycho or razor-gloved ghoul to liven things up." -- BBC
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2008)54%
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2/5
 
"A desperately unfunny farce that doesn't need an audience so much as an exorcist." -- BBC
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)13%
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4/5
 
"Two fine performances, a subject close to all our hearts and a screenplay that manages to be both brilliantly witty and almost unbearably poignant add up to the best family comedy-drama since Little Miss Sunshine." -- Total Film
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
The Savages (2007)90%
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4/5
 
"Where Lions For Lambs stumbled, Haggis’ latest succeeds in putting dramatic form to the disquiet over US policy. Tommy Lee Jones’ performance, meanwhile, is impressive enough to make him a decent bet in this year’s Oscar race." -- Total Film
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
In the Valley of Elah (2007)71%
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4/5
 
"Powerful, downbeat drama with an anti-war message." -- BBC
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
In the Valley of Elah (2007)71%
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2/5
 
"An all-star cast and Pegg's larger-than-life turn can't stop this offbeat yarn being a bit of a snooze." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
The Good Night (2007)26%
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3/5
 
"Saucy sex scenes apart, however, it’s hard to get drawn into a slow-moving, drawn-out story that takes two-and-a-half po-faced hours to reach its jarringly abrupt and confusing conclusion." -- thelondonpaper
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
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3/5
 
"Isolated moments of high drama and some startlingly intimate sex scenes sadly fail to galvanise a turgid and overlong whole." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
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4/5
 
"A compelling documentary that leaves you wondering if there is nothing sacred in this stinking world." -- BBC
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)93%
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2.5/5
 
"All those years making wine have clearly impacted on Coppola's storytelling abilities. Let's hope he recovers them before his next directorial outing." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Youth Without Youth (2007)29%
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2/5
 
"Given the implausible contrivances that link these disparate protagonists, though, it’s hard to care much about any of them in a chilly drama whose sleek aesthetic masks a hollow soul." -- Total Film
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Chromophobia (2005)31%
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3/5
 
"The kind of movie you feel you’ve seen before when you’re watching it for the first time, Gray’s latest never once surprises. But it’s intelligent and well-crafted enough to make you prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt." -- Total Film
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
We Own The Night (2007)55%
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3/5
 
"For the most part this is a perky delight that takes a cheeky glee in biting the gloved hand that feeds." -- BBC
Posted Dec 11, 2007
 
Enchanted (2007)94%
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"You leave the cinema not just saddened anew that such an iconic artist was so pointlessly killed, but amazed that it doesn’t happen more often." -- Total Film
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)37%
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3/5
 
"With McCarthy and Davis also playing two further roles with suspiciously identical initials, The Nines toys with issues of identity, duality and alternate reality certain to appeal to anyone who's experimented with the virtual avatars of Second Life." -- BBC
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
The Nines (2007)69%
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5/5
 
"For old-school Hollywood movie-making at its most polished, literate and sophisticated there is really nothing to match it." -- BBC
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
All About Eve (1950)100%
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5/5
 
"Impeccable." -- Total Film
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
All About Eve (1950)100%
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3/5
 
"A little self-consciously kooky but with an ace soundtrack that combines gypsy punksters Gogol Bordello with real-life plug-pullers this sure beats putting your head in the oven." -- Total Film
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)66%
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3/5
 
"If the picture doesn’t ultimately live up to the raw vitality of Cheadle’s performance, it remains an uplifting snapshot that broadcasts its message with zero distortion. Tune in and you won’t be turned off." -- Total Film
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Talk to Me (2007)81%
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3/5
 
"Too often the film crosses the line between recording his subjects' illegal activities and aggrandising them." -- BBC
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)70%
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2/5
 
"No amount of visual flourish, sadly, can compensate for the woeful lack of chemistry between the leads or arch dialogue that sounds more like a Pinter parody than the man himself." -- BBC
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Sleuth (2007)35%
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3/5
 
"Don't expect too many surprises from this low-key story of a Bangladeshi woman who learns to stand on her own two feet after years of stultifying arranged marriage." -- BBC
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Brick Lane (2008)70%
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3/5
 
"Monica Ali’s best-selling debut novel about life in London’s Bangladeshi quarter gets a sensitive treatment from director Sarah Gavron, deftly condensing its sprawling narrative without sacrificing colour or texture." -- Total Film
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
Brick Lane (2008)70%
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2/5
 
"A drippy chick-flick about six Sacramentans who find their lives mirroring the English novelist’s fictions." -- Total Film
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)64%
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4/5
 
"Scott’s best film since Gladiator is a classy cops ’n robbers thriller where the latter outclasses the former. Crowe tries to redress the imbalance with a committed performance, but you can tell he knows it’s Washington’s movie." -- Total Film
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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2/5
 
"Francois Girard's film proves a cross-cultural yawn, as if taking its cue from Pitt's blank-faced blandness and Keira Knightley's anaemic support." -- BBC
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Silk (2007)8%
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1/5
 
"An unpleasant sex romp of the kind Robin Askwith made in the 1970s." -- BBC
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Good Luck Chuck (2007)3%
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1/5
 
"As dire a cum-com as ever shot its load on a cinema screen." -- Total Film
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Good Luck Chuck (2007)3%
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3/5
 
"Full of memorable dialogue and sharp performances, it's let down only by its perfunctory climax." -- thelondonpaper
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
The Lookout (2007)87%
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3/5
 
"Sienna Miller as an airhead celeb more famous for her sex life than her movies? Quite a stretch for the British actress." -- thelondonpaper
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Interview (2007)57%

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