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Film reviews from a Rotten Tomatoes critic

King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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This a stunning film to look at, with gloomy, echoing Camelot, a castle perched on a high cliff, contrasting with the busy and bustling Londinium – where everyone is a petty criminal, mostly with a heart of gold. (Though the capital is really, really clean. Still, the Romans hadn’t been gone long, and say what you like about them, they made… King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword Read More

Sausage Party 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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This film, filled to the brim with sex and swearing, has been a real eye opener for me. My local supermarket is so posh that its version of Sausage Party would be like Downton Abbey, with a Duchy Originals organic egg from Prince Charles’s hens falling in love with a rather cheaper Waitrose Essentials white finger bun. Though the only… Sausage Party Read More

Alien: Covenant 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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A Covenant is an agreement between god and his people but Alien Covenant is so heady with religion I’m surprised they didn’t go the whole way and call it Alien: Old Testament. The question is who is god here – Weyland, David, the Engineers, or Ridley Scott himself who has clearly hugely enjoyed drenching his… Alien: Covenant Read More

Zookeeper’s Wife, The 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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The Zookeeper’s Wife is a movie that shouldn’t so much have a star rating as a hankie rating – though the atmosphere is lightened slightly by the world’s bounciest baby camel, which joyfully careers around the zoo paths with exuberant delight during the early scenes. Until it’s shot dead by an evil Nazi. Exuberant delight is in… Zookeeper’s Wife, The Read More

Their Finest 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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“Film, Mrs Cole –  real life with the boring bits cut out”. So says scriptwriter Tom Buckley to Catrin Cole, as they make a movie that will be truthful – in a way – and authentic, and optimistic. Oh and there will be a dog. It’s 1940 and the Blitz is devastating London. The Ministry of Information is putting out… Their Finest Read More

Director Matthew Kaplowitz: Films In 5 Days, Girl Fights & Festivals

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“Honestly, I can’t say I totally understand my subjects when I first started filming them… It’s a process in life and if we take the time to do it, we learn things. That’s how these films all started with one idea, and ended with something totally different and real.”  As a storyteller Matthew Kaplowitz has a knack… Director Matthew Kaplowitz: Films In 5 Days, Girl Fights & Festivals Read More