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Demetrios Matheou

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

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After the Hunt (2025) 37% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a perplexing, slowly infuriating affair. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% 3/5 EDIT “It’s certainly original, and surprisingly tender, but does feel slight.” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% 5/5 EDIT “ It speaks volumes to its quality that Urchin evokes both Cathy Come Home and Naked – Loach and Leigh – while being very much its own animal. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 4, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a decidedly slow burn, with not a great deal actually happening, but it never loses the attention, its centre beautifully held by Riley, who with his sad eyes and whisky voice does a great job of conveying a lost soul in the last chance saloon.” – The Arts Desk Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Dying (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “...[Dying is] a German canvass of misery and survival so casually engaging and provocative that its three hours pass far more smoothly than any number of action-packed, plot stuffed franchise pictures. ” – The Arts Desk Jul 25, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% EDIT “Bale is sensational.” – Total Film Apr 2, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Salles utilises all his powers here...the whole imbued with a humanity that offers hope amid the tragedy.” – The Arts Desk Feb 21, 2025 Full Review September 5 (2024) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The ingenuity of the ABC sports team is both reflected and emulated by the filmmakers, while the whole has a short and sharp, no-nonsense air of which old-school journalists would approve.” – The Arts Desk Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Small Things Like These (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “What is most striking about the film is the reminder it offers of the mystery of acting, and in particular its malleability; call it a gift, or a craft, but we too often underestimate the best of it.” – The Arts Desk Nov 1, 2024 Full Review Sing Sing (2023) 97% 4/5 EDIT “The fact that it’s based on a real prison drama programme makes its message all the more persuasive and inspiring. The film's authenticity is marrow deep and worth relating. ” – The Arts Desk Aug 30, 2024 Full Review Only the River Flows (2023) 85% 2/5 EDIT “A combination of police procedural with film noir, shot with flair and imagination... Yet there’s another aspect, a psychological undercurrent, which becomes stronger as the film progresses and, slowly and determinedly, throws the film off course.” – The Arts Desk Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 3/5 EDIT “The three stories are designed to belong in a unified world, and it’s one that is persistently nasty and cruel; and, at nearly three hours, that can become wearing. Nevertheless, it’s presented with great relish and style.” – The Arts Desk Jul 1, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Fury Road remains the more complete, accomplished, surprising film, the one whose energy really doesn’t let you go; as fun as this one is, there’s a sense of déjà vu and, ultimately, diminishing returns.” – The Arts Desk May 24, 2024 Full Review La Chimera (2023) 95% 4/5 EDIT “O’Connor’s Arthur has the petulant, reluctant charisma of many a Fellini hero. Indeed, the actor is a revelation. He has the clothes horse allure of a leading man, and the nuance and surprise of a seasoned character actor.” – The Arts Desk May 10, 2024 Full Review Eureka (2023) 83% 2/5 EDIT “Alonso usually extracts value from plunging the audience into the routine monotony of his characters; here, he’s lacking the focus and sinister threat that keeps the approach moving.” – The Arts Desk Feb 19, 2024 Full Review Foe (2023) 24% 3/5 EDIT “Foe is a film that becomes stranger, richer, and more troubling the longer it goes on. All three actors admirably create an atmosphere of distrust and distress, with Mescal and Ronan especially excelling.” – The Arts Desk Oct 20, 2023 Full Review The Kitchen (2023) 89% EDIT “Though the film would benefit from an additional layer to its story, it is refreshingly free of the crass tendency to turn working class estates into hotbeds of criminality -- the actions here speak more of survival and rebellion.” – The Arts Desk Oct 19, 2023 Full Review May December (2023) 91% EDIT “This is an unlikely crackerjack of a film, twisty, sly, provocative, and luxuriantly intelligent.” – The Arts Desk Oct 16, 2023 Full Review All of Us Strangers (2023) 96% EDIT “The best adaptations are often not the most faithful, but those that take the essence of a scenario and employ it for an entirely different agenda. That’s the case with Andrew Haigh’s mysterious and heartbreakingly tender All Of Us Strangers.” – The Arts Desk Oct 16, 2023 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% EDIT “A highly resonant ode to self-determination and independence. Not many could marshal this kind of visionary cinema, but we’re getting used to it from Lanthimos. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 16, 2023 Full Review The Eternal Memory (2023) 92% EDIT “While he died in May this year, the film stands as a moving testament to an enduring love.” – The Arts Desk Oct 9, 2023 Full Review Memory (2023) 85% EDIT “This is slow-paced, sombre, subtle, and utterly engrossing; for a film with many dark turns, it’s ‘light’ for Franco’s standards, with a modicum of hope. The leads are fantastic. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 9, 2023 Full Review Monster (2023) 97% EDIT “[Yûji Sakamoto's] piece is unnecessarily knotty, almost stymieing the director’s usual elegance. That said, the themes are important, the performances are uniformly strong and it’s a deeply affecting reminder of how a lie can spiral out of control.” – The Arts Desk Oct 9, 2023 Full Review Fallen Leaves (2023) 97% EDIT “The Finn is a master at depicting the rolling nightmare of penury, while his absurdist humour sweetens the pill – for his audience, if not his characters. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 9, 2023 Full Review Baltimore (AKA Rose's War) (2023) 88% EDIT “Molloy and Lawlor employ their customary cool detachment to proceedings, while adding a wry humour that is fuelled by Poots’ charismatic and persuasive turn.” – The Arts Desk Oct 9, 2023 Full Review
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