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Ian Freer

Ian Freer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “It might lack the edge of Godard’s own movies but this courses with love for cinema, creativity, youth, Paris and ’60s cool. Film history is rarely this charming.” – Empire Magazine Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% 2/5 EDIT “It huffs and puffs to entertain but Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 falls flat on most levels. Animatronic chickens wreaking havoc should be much more fun.” – Empire Magazine Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Without simplifying anything, Train Dreams is ultimately a film that looks for and finds the good in people and in life. Wherever Clint Bentley goes next -- especially if Edgerton and Jones tag along -- we’ll happily go with him.” – Time Out Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Kenny Dalglish (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Perhaps lacking the crossover appeal of Kapadia’s previous docs, Kenny Dalglish still presents a fitting tribute to one of football’s finest.” – Empire Magazine Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 4/5 EDIT “A powerful story about father and sons, told by a father and son. At once a showcase for a monumental talent, and the arrival of an exciting new one.” – Empire Magazine Oct 17, 2025 Full Review War of the Worlds (2025) 4% 1/5 EDIT “A risible attempt to modernise classic science-fiction by adding WhatsApp and political chicanery. This thin, frenetic, soulless adaptation is misguided moviemaking cubed.” – Empire Magazine Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “As with their debut, the Philippou brothers show a real skill for creating believable teen characters, Barratt and Wong create a tender, affecting chemistry that make the chills all the more affecting. ” – Time Out Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% 3/5 EDIT “It’s not doing much daring or different but this delivers a fun, well-made summer theme-park ride, with fast highs and slow lows. ” – Empire Magazine Jul 2, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The Ballad Of Wallis Island is a big-hearted, consoling hug of a movie. It might not reinvent the wheel, but it’s the low-(Tim)-key crowd-pleaser of the year so far.” – Empire Magazine May 29, 2025 Full Review Day of the Fight (2023) 85% 3/5 EDIT “It leans too heavily into ham-fisted cliché but Jack Huston’s debut gets by on a striking look and a clutch of strong performances led by an excellent Michael C. Pitt.” – Empire Magazine Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Heart Eyes is a like a Hinge date from hell. Smart, funny, intense; swipe right.” – Empire Magazine Feb 19, 2025 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Understated performances and unflashy filmmaking coalesce into an absorbing mixture of the personal and the political. It may take its time but, given the circumstances of its making, this is an extraordinary achievement.” – Empire Magazine Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Flight Risk (2025) 29% 3/5 EDIT “It won’t win any awards for originality but Flight Risk is a fun, unpretentious, tight 91 minutes — especially if you’ve always jonesed to see Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary cream someone with a fire extinguisher.” – Empire Magazine Feb 4, 2025 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It may be formally unadventurous but A Real Pain is a real treat, a tender, funny treatise on family jealousies and our relationship to the past. Simultaneously light and heavy, it soars on the stellar pairing of Eisenberg and Culkin.” – Empire Magazine Jan 16, 2025 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) 86% 2/5 EDIT “The MVP of the first two films, Carrey dials down the physical comedy in both his roles, amping up punning (“Dorkupine!”) to hit-and-miss effect. For all the actor’s gurning and the film’s visual busyness, few images pop or lodge in the memory. ” – Empire Magazine Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Kraven the Hunter (2024) 15% 2/5 EDIT “This all feels a long way from Chandor’s glory days of Margin Call and All Is Lost. Save the occasional flourish, Kraven The Hunter is limp, tired, uninvolving superhero fare.” – Empire Magazine Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% EDIT “This is Steve McQueen’s most accessible film to date, without diluting any of his power. Mixing epic sweep with textured detail, despite an episodic second half it will make even the stiffest upper lip quiver.” – Empire Magazine Nov 6, 2024 Full Review Never Let Go (2024) 57% 3/5 EDIT “It’s certainly derivative -- cue Bird Box, A Quiet Place, The Babadook -- and has its dull bits, but it gets by on some imaginative licks and strong turns, particularly from a game Halle Berry.” – Time Out Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Blink Twice (2024) 74% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a film about the abuses of power, the dangers of being a woman in a man’s world and the importance of female solidarity, but is never didactic, just gripping. In short, Blink Twice is both brainfood and a blast. ” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Sky Peals (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Sky Peals lacks compelling conflicts and narrative fireworks, but Hussain’s film is a mood. The director and his cinematographer, Nick Cooke, shooting on 35mm film, effectively find the otherworldly in the ordinary. ” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Monster (2003) 81% 4/5 EDIT “In other hands, this could have become overwrought melodrama, but Jenkins skillfully mines the humanity within the sensationalism to come up with something that is both tender and chilling - and ultimately heartbreaking.” – Radio Times Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Shall We Dance? (1996) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Funny and poignant, this is entertainment in it's kindest and swishiest form.” – Empire Magazine Aug 21, 2024 Full Review Kneecap (2024) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Having the mordant wit and tonal confidence to parlay The Troubles into a punchline, Kneecap has laughs, smarts and verve to spare. Get on board or, as the characters put it, fuck up.” – Empire Magazine Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Hundreds of Beavers (2022) 97% 4/5 EDIT “What gives Hundreds Of Beavers its special quality is the mixture of no-budget, seemingly haphazard gonzo energy and the well-tooled jokes that can only come from rigorous planning and effervescent ingenuity.” – Time Out Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Something in the Water (2024) 46% 2/5 EDIT “The female-first vibe is refreshing but Something In The Water is something old, nothing new, a lot that is borrowed and an eyeful of twinkly blue.” – Empire Magazine Jun 28, 2024 Full Review
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