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CHRISTOPHER TOOKEY
PUBLICATION(S)
• Daily Mail [UK]
• Tookey's Film Guide

BIOGRAPHY
Chris Tookey has been film critic for the Daily Mail in London, England, since 1993, and for six years before that TV and film critic for the Sunday Telegraph.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 321

CRITICS GROUP(S)
London Film Critics Circle

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• Location: London, England


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 The Painted Veil
4/5 Casino Royale
3/4 Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
3/5 Blood Diamond
5/10 The Core
2/5 Hot Fuzz
1/5 The Fountain
0/5 Bobby
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 The Lady Vanishes
5/5 Ratatouille
5/5 Year of the Dog
5/5 The Painted Veil
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 Rambo
0/5 Death at a Funeral
0/5 License To Wed
0/5 Rush Hour 3
0/5 The Number 23
0/5 Bobby
1/5 The Hottie & the Nottie
1/5 The Good Night
1/5 Into the Wild
1/5 Lions for Lambs
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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2/5
 
"The plot is often impossible to follow. And the film, though dark, isn't as deep as some have claimed." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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3/4
 
"A lightweight romantic comedy that's to be welcomed, if only for the fact it offers juicy roles to talented writer-actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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3/4
 
"Beneath its girlie trappings...this is a movie with many traditional virtues." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)54%
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1/5
 
"Grotty rotty shot by potty totty." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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2/5
 
"Roland Emmerich loves to make big, dumb movies, and though this may not be his biggest, it's certainly his dumbest. " -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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0/5
 
"The fourth and, amazingly, the most meat-headed adventure yet of the killing machine John Rambo can safely be recommended to people who hate intelligence and love exploding body parts. " -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)35%
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3/5
 
"This biopic rocks - well, the first half does." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)75%
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1/5
 
"If the hero has trouble dozing off, that's not a problem which will affect many viewers of this movie. " -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
The Good Night (2007)26%
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3/5
 
"Sure to wow the critics, but no movie for the masses." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)95%
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5/5
 
"Accept no substitutes for this blissful original. " -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
The Lady Vanishes (1938)96%
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3/5
 
"Despite stunning visuals, it is a B-movie." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)69%
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"Enchanting, fantastic fun for all the family." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Enchanted (2007)93%
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3/5
 
"Savage, yes. But Beowulf is monstrously entertaining." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)69%
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1/5
 
"Into The Wild gets lost in a self-indulgent wilderness." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Into the Wild (2007)83%
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1/5
 
"Made for sheep by donkeys." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Lions for Lambs (2007)28%
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0/5
 
"A farce - but not in the way its makers intended." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Death at a Funeral (2007)62%
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2/5
 
"Good idea, boring execution." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
30 Days of Night (2007)49%
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2/5
 
"Interview is a decently acted two-hander fringe play that doesn't deserve to be on film." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Interview (2007)57%
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2/5
 
"The film is just about worth seeing for the wigs and costumes. But Elizabeth: The Golden Age sank without trace in American cinemas, and I fear it will do the same here." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)34%
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"Such brutality may be hard to watch, but it's more truthful than most big-screen violence, and it doesn't have the flippancy that so degrades Eli Roth, Tarantino and other purveyors of 'torture porn'." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Eastern Promises (2007)88%
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1/5
 
"Kidman gives her most personality-free performance as a psychiatrist whose estranged husband (Jeremy Northam) starts behaving suspiciously by becoming a better father to his son (Jackson Bond). How spooky is that? The answer is: not even slightly." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
The Invasion (2007)19%
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3/5
 
"If you're in the mood for black comedy - especially if you enjoyed Shaun Of The Dead - this is shear (pun intended) enjoyment." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Black Sheep (2007)71%
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5/5
 
"In terms of visual panache and confident story-telling, it's second to none." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Ratatouille (2007)95%
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"The inspired action sequences are brilliantly staged and imaginatively shot, and at 86 minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)66%
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"Caruso's no Hitchcock, and Disturbia is not as original, suspense-filled or well-acted as the James Stewart-Grace Kelly masterpiece, but for its predominantly male, teenage audience it delivers enough shocks to be entertaining." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
Disturbia (2007)67%
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4/5
 
"In 1957, the climax looked like Hollywood wish-fulfilment. Fifty years later, it still does." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)89%
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"Disappointment of the week." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
Superbad (2007)87%
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4/5
 
"Knightley looks every inch a movie star, and the role won't do her career any harm. But it doesn't have the kind of range or depth that is normally required in an awardwinning performance." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 7, 2007
 
Atonement (2007)83%
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2/5
 
"Bland remake of tasty German romcom." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
No Reservations (2007)39%
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5/5
 
"John Cusack gives the performance of his life in this top-class horror." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
Year of the Dog (2007)69%
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4/5
 
"A satire on American infantilism - or an example of it? Either way, it's funny." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Knocked Up (2007)91%
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1/5
 
"Boring and pointless." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
Copying Beethoven (2006)26%
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4/5
 
"Top-class direction lifts ho-hum script." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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2/5
 
"This isn't an unpleasant experience, and may well appeal to small children, but the first 20 minutes promised much better." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Surf's Up (2007)78%
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"The thriller plot is over-dependent on coincidence and virtually impossible to follow, still less care about. Schrader's sniping at the Bush-Cheney administration seems obtuse rather than sharp, and badtempered instead of scintillating." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
The Walker (2007)52%
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0/5
 
"This bewilderingly bone-headed movie convinces that Ben and Sadie, should be kept as far apart as possible, if only to prevent them from breeding the kind of morons who would see nothing wrong with a movie such as Licence To Wed - or worse still, make it." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
License To Wed (2007)8%
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0/5
 
"The curse of the terrible 'threequels' continues with Rush Hour 3. Infecting this third movie is an extra, deeply unpleasant level of racism that we haven't seen before in the series." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Rush Hour 3 (2007)20%
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2/5
 
"Waitress isn't perfect, but it has sincerity and warmth, and feels like a labour of love - which is more than can be said of any other movie this week." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Waitress (2007)89%
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1/5
 
"A comedic disaster of biblical proportions." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
Evan Almighty (2007)23%
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2/5
 
"Richard Gere is repellently smug." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
The Hoax (2007)85%
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1/5
 
"Needs hosing down." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 20, 2007
 
Firehouse Dog (2007)38%
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1/5
 
"Dark, dreary, depressing documentary" -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 20, 2007
 
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007)81%
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3/5
 
"Big, bouncy, brainless musical." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 20, 2007
 
Hairspray (2007)91%
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1/5
 
"Less than fantastic." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 15, 2007
 
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)35%
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2/5
 
"Strangles itself in a web of pomposity." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 4, 2007
 
Spider-Man 3 (2007)61%
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5/5
 
"A great pleasure!" -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
The Painted Veil (2006)74%
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"Here, for all fans of the world's most pathetic movies, is an apocalyptically disastrous horror flick set in the Bible belt." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
The Reaping (2007)8%
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2/5
 
"Sienna Miller brings bright eyes and shapeshifting commitment to a script that doesn't always deserve it." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Mar 16, 2007
 
Factory Girl (2007)19%
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0/5
 
"Carrey gives the worst performance of his, or indeed any other actor's, career." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Feb 23, 2007
 
The Number 23 (2007)8%
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3/5
 
"Worthy but dull - and dangerous to boot." -- Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Feb 23, 2007
 
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)91%

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