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Andrew Simpson

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La llorona (2019) 96% EDIT “Postcolonial critique - and a bold comment on Guatemala's failure to atone for crimes against its Mayan population.” – Sight & Sound Aug 3, 2020 Full Review Queen of the Desert (2015) 18% EDIT “Herzog has created by far the greatest failure of his career” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 18, 2015 Full Review Queen of Earth (2015) 93% EDIT “A solid stab at channelling its influences into the horror of modern self obsession” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 18, 2015 Full Review Taxi (2015) 96% 4/4 EDIT “An elegantly coded, surprisingly sprightly work, made in the face of adversity.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 18, 2015 Full Review A Late Quartet (2012) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Not without its touching moments, A Late Quartet nevertheless can't truly escape the eye-rolling determinism of its script, with only a pragmatic, wry Christopher Walken truly convincing as a man who has lived inextricably bound with his music.” – Fan The Fire Jun 12, 2013 Full Review Antiviral (2012) 65% 3/5 EDIT “Cronenberg's use of his Toronto setting is a clever exercise in making the minimal look futuristic, with its cold white surfaces - like Landry Jones' own waify presence - an effective canvas for a plot that grows increasingly bloody.” – Fan The Fire Mar 17, 2013 Full Review Hitchcock (2012) 59% 2/5 EDIT “A half-hearted, clunky stab at psychodrama.” – Fan The Fire Mar 17, 2013 Full Review Holy Motors (2012) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Offering a weird and wonderful tangle of ideas, Carax and Lavant are clearly reveling in the madcap vibe, and together they have created an entertainingly barmy and gag-filled ode to both cinema and what Oscar calls 'the beauty in the act'.” – Fan The Fire Jan 20, 2013 Full Review On the Road (2012) 47% 2/5 EDIT “In the end, it retains its status as a journey to who-knows-where, yet probably not in the way its original author intended.” – Fan The Fire Jan 20, 2013 Full Review The Master (2012) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Refusing to wrestle with the veracity or the real implications of The Cause, one begins to question what is underpinning the entire exercise, an ambiguity that, as with Kubrick, will require multiple viewings to unravel.” – Fan The Fire Jan 20, 2013 Full Review West of Memphis (2012) 95% 3/5 EDIT “After your blood has stopped boiling, it's the quieter moments that stay with you. Now go see Paradise Lost.” – Little White Lies Dec 19, 2012 Full Review Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) 98% EDIT “Gibney's most successful and rich work since Taxi To The Dark Side, Mea Maxima Culpa ultimately proves most successful in the way it balances public scandal with a tribute to human frailty and heroism.” – Little White Lies Oct 26, 2012 Full Review Dredd (2012) 80% 3/5 EDIT “It's all good, grisly fun, and as Dredd draws to a close with an inevitable setup for a second instalment, what emerges is a stylish film that celebrates and occasionally transcends its B-Movie origins.” – Fan The Fire Sep 30, 2012 Full Review The Campaign (2012) 66% 1/5 EDIT “Using tired, lazy stereotypes that swerve any relevance to the times, it ironically treats both Americans and its audience with the same contempt as the politicians it lampoons.” – Fan The Fire Sep 30, 2012 Full Review Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) 48% 3/5 EDIT “With an aesthetic that will draw inevitable comparisons to Mordor and the series Game of Thrones, his is a medieval world full of death and decay, whose evil queen toys with dead animals and quite literally sucks the life out of her subjects.” – Fan The Fire Jun 2, 2012 Full Review Headhunters (2011) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Headhunters works best when punishing its lead excessively, continuously, and for no apparent reason.” – Fan The Fire Apr 30, 2012 Full Review Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) 90% 3/5 EDIT “The performance of Olsen, effortlessly moving between playful girlishness, catatonia and hysterical paranoia, is remarkable.” – Fan The Fire Mar 1, 2012 Full Review Rampart (2011) 74% 5/5 EDIT “Rampart's eccentricities will offend those committed to a straighter, chillier style, but its stylistic looseness only serves to underline Brown's utter disconnect from reality.” – Fan The Fire Mar 1, 2012 Full Review The Descendants (2011) 88% 5/5 EDIT “The sharp wit and commitment to damaged men remain, but with his newfound appreciation of what goes unsaid, The Descendants sees Payne finally becoming the filmmaker many have claimed he was all along.” – Fan The Fire Feb 2, 2012 Full Review Carnage (2011) 71% 4/5 EDIT “One suspects that Alan is the closest thing to Polanski's spirit on-screen, and indeed it is Polanski himself who is the God of Carnage here, overseeing a deliciously brutal assassination of bourgeois dishonesty.” – Fan The Fire Feb 2, 2012 Full Review Tower Heist (2011) 67% 2/5 EDIT “The presence of an almost sleepwalking Eddie Murphy as a motor mouth criminal simply adds to the sense of resources neglected.” – Fan The Fire Dec 8, 2011 Full Review Straw Dogs (2011) 42% 2/5 EDIT “The hunting scenes and the brutal farm siege are solidly gripping, and Lurie doesn't shy away from David embracing his inner savage.” – Fan The Fire Dec 8, 2011 Full Review The Thing (2011) 34% 2/5 EDIT “Van Heijningen has again reinterpreted the material, he has instead done so for an era in which horror films are remade by commercials directors who get the look, but miss the feel, of the original article.” – Fan The Fire Dec 8, 2011 Full Review Everything Must Go (2010) 73% 2/5 EDIT “For a film that preaches giving it all away, Everything Must Go could have done with being a little more bold.” – Fan The Fire Oct 21, 2011 Full Review Trollhunter (2010) 83% 3/5 EDIT “It may be an ultimately gimmicky post-modern take on local folklore, but it is still something of a hoot.” – Fan The Fire Sep 2, 2011 Full Review
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