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Anne Billson

Anne Billson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “Miraculously, and unlike other recent fantasies such as Legend, the film manages to get by with only the most rudimentary of special effects... Goldman and his director, Rob Reiner, concentrate instead on the characters, all of whom are well-rounded.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 16% EDIT “The story suffers from a fatal lack of narrative structure, degenerating into a series of virtually disconnected sketches.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Jul 3, 2025 Full Review House (1977) 90% EDIT “Obligatory viewing for lovers of the kitsch, the cool and the crazy, but be warned -- don't watch it under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, or your head will explode.” – The Arts Desk Sep 27, 2022 Full Review I Like It Like That (1994) 89% EDIT “This film is one of the most pleasant surprises of the year so far. Martin doesn’t put a foot wrong. She's definitely a name to watch,” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 2, 2022 Full Review The Watermelon Woman (1996) 92% EDIT “It also turns out to be quite likeable, helped by a disarming refusal to take itself or its milieu too seriously.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 22, 2022 Full Review My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010) 85% EDIT “Margueritte is played by Gisèle Casadesus, a spry and still beautiful 96-year-old veteran... and one of the pleasures of Becker's film is being able to feast your eyes on a face like hers, which has an entire lifetime etched into its lines.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Thirst (2009) 81% EDIT “The broad humour ends up undercutting the potential poignancy of the ending... Never mind, because it's not every day you see two vampires locked in such a colourful apache dance of destruction, filmed with such aplomb.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) 46% EDIT “I'm many decades older and several broken hearts' worth more cynical than the Twilight saga's target audience, but it does seem to me to be nothing less than emo-porn for teenage girls.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Oceans (2009) 81% EDIT “By mixing the fake with the genuine, however well-meaning their intentions, they've shot themselves in the foot; I left the cinema feeling as though I'd been taken for a ride.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Wake Wood (2011) 81% EDIT “Wake Wood is the latest evidence that new-model Hammer is harking back to a less atrocity-driven style of horror, built on an accumulation of creepy atmosphere rather than the systematic subjection of disposable teenagers to gruesome ordeals.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Black Death (2010) 72% EDIT “I'll wager grown-ups will be duly horrified by it. Not because of the gore -- although it does have a fair amount of that -- but because it takes you on a real journey into the heart of darkness, and you might not like what you find there.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Road (2009) 74% EDIT “I'm not asking for the end of the world to be a thrill-ride, but maybe it could have been less of a meretricious trudge.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) 28% EDIT “The film's saving grace, by a long chalk, is Kristen Stewart, who once again manages to make the insufferable Bella far more interesting on the screen than she is on the page.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Gainsbourg (2011) 73% EDIT “Sfar is helped no end by an astonishing performance from Eric Elmosnino, who also performs many of the songs on the soundtrack.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Box (2009) 42% EDIT “Just as we begin to twig what's going on, the plot wriggles out of Kelly's grip altogether and veers off into the overstretched delirium of all ambitious but immature directors.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Farewell (2009) 85% EDIT “Carion's film covers an astonishing amount of geographical and narrative ground and juggles three languages -- Russian, French and English -- but never loses its way.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Jennifer's Body (2009) 47% EDIT “A lover's tryst turns to carnage! A catfight between chicks in prom dresses in a swimming-pool! Set-pieces like these should be a slam-dunk, even shot in Vancouver on a low budget, but Kusama fumbles them all.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Let Me In (2010) 89% EDIT “Let Me In is not so much a film in its own right as a watered-down digest for Anglophones too stupid or too lazy to read subtitles.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Colin (2008) 48% EDIT “Where the film scores is in its moments of simplicity. This isn't another smirking Z-budget spoof, but has the confidence to take itself seriously (though there are some nice odd touches of humour).” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review A Prophet (2009) 96% 5/5 EDIT “The director uses gritty in-your-face close-ups to immerse us in the daily routine of prison existence, which, like all minutely observed routines, is utterly compelling.” – The Arts Desk Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Feeling Minnesota (1996) 16% EDIT “Steven Baigelman, who wrote and directed, aims for offbeat, flippant Tarantino-esque lowlife kicks but misses the mark on every count, having no feel for characters, plot, action or dialogue.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Day of the Beast (1995) 77% EDIT “This second feature by naughty Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia turns out to be a splendidly blasphemous horror-comedy about nothing less than the birth of the Antichrist.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Home for the Holidays (1995) 63% EDIT “Single mom Holly Hunter is fired from her job at a Chicago museum on the very day she is due to fly back to Baltimore to cope with nutty parents, loony aunt, wacky gay brother and boring sister. That's it -- that's the plot. Read it and weep.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Jingle All the Way (1996) 20% EDIT “The film is very loud, and festooned with the sort of comic violence far more disturbing than anything in an 18-rated movie.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) 95% EDIT “I wish I liked it more, but there's more than whiff of worthy Irish heritage in the air, and the story drifts all over the place. I'm afraid I kept drifting off as well.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 27, 2017 Full Review
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