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Jasper Rees

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

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Cunk on Life (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Its inventive mockery is exhaustingly funny. A minor downside is that one or two jokes – mainly about our souls and other nethers – grow repetitious. But its audacity is always pushing boundaries” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 9, 2025 Full Review The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “At the heart of this mega-celebrity choir, Bob Dylan nervously scowled like a clueless Martian picking up on the ways of Earthlings.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 30, 2024 Full Review Time Bomb Y2K (2023) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The computers look clunky, the haircuts dorky and the Backstreet Boys are asked for a quote about imminent Armageddon. Hey, the past is a foreign country – they do things hilariously there.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 3, 2024 Full Review David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (2023) 94% 4/5 EDIT “This quietly inspiring portrait of stoicism ends, beautifully... [Full review in Spanish]” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 15, 2023 Full Review Mark Cavendish: Never Enough (2023) 4/5 EDIT “What makes the film into more than a greatest hits album is the painful story of the years when he was not winning...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 2, 2023 Full Review Finding Michael (2023) 67% 3/5 EDIT “It's deeply uncomfortable to watch highly skilled Nepalis sift through clumps of frosted flesh strewn about the slopes, looking for the body that belongs to the family with the wealth... that entitles them to pay for extraction and burial.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 3, 2023 Full Review All That Breathes (2022) 99% 4/5 EDIT “These birds are utterly other, while their rescuers represent the best of us. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 8, 2023 Full Review Tess (1979) 81% 5/5 EDIT “The triumph of Tess is in the yoking of remorseless Hardian sadism to the natural photogenic allure of both Kinski and her surroundings (not to mention Anthony Powell’s gorgeous costumes).” – The Arts Desk Jun 17, 2022 Full Review Mary and Martha (2013) 56% 3/5 EDIT “Mary and Martha is a work of fiction, and it's notably light on comic relief. But the real game-changer is that Curtis here tugged on the heart strings by putting his First World characters in the line of fire.” – The Arts Desk Oct 8, 2020 Full Review An Englishman in New York (2009) 67% EDIT “Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Hurt returned to a role which, more than any other, crystallised his instinctive understanding for society's outsiders.” – The Arts Desk Sep 7, 2020 Full Review The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) 80% 5/5 EDIT “Along the way there are pleasures aplenty, among them several delightful performances on the supporting card.” – The Arts Desk Aug 31, 2020 Full Review The Girl (2012) 70% EDIT “A magnificent Toby Jones was all lizard eyes and hypnotic patter. Sienna Miller, perhaps channelling feelings provoked by voyeuristic paparazzi, was a revelation as the innocent far-from-marble fawn who totters blindly into a trap.” – The Arts Desk Aug 5, 2020 Full Review Essential Killing (2010) 77% EDIT “For all its allegorical heft, it never finally shucks off the impression that it is a well-made oddity.” – The Arts Desk May 5, 2020 Full Review Doctor Sleep (2019) 78% EDIT “It's all a bit Scooby Doo with better CGI.” – The Spectator Oct 31, 2019 Full Review The Day Mountbatten Died (2019) 100% 5/5 EDIT “The story of both atrocities was carefully stitched together from every perspective: witnesses, rescuers, those who survived and the relatives of those who didn't, all in different ways were still scarred and bereaved.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 20, 2019 Full Review Blinded by the Light (2019) 89% EDIT “However familiar they may be, it's in these clashes, when everyone stops fixating on Springsteen, that the film feels most visceral and authentic.” – The Spectator Aug 8, 2019 Full Review Toy Story 4 (2019) 96% EDIT “Though it springs fewer surprises, Toy Story 4 is still reliably fab.” – The Spectator Jun 20, 2019 Full Review Birds of Passage (2018) 96% EDIT “This Colombian thriller passes the tropes of noir and the spaghetti western through a magical prism.” – The Spectator May 16, 2019 Full Review Amazing Grace (2018) 99% EDIT “[T]his is a mighty resurrection.” – The Spectator May 9, 2019 Full Review D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler (2019) 2/5 EDIT “As a title for a television programme, D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler... scores a triple decker of searchable terms: the war, the royals and the Nazis namechecked in a clickbait cluster.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 6, 2019 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “McCullin's England has a pleasing consistency.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 18, 2019 Full Review Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know (2018) 71% 3/5 EDIT “A Night In was a sort of celebrity nostalgia edition of Gogglebox.” – The Arts Desk Feb 28, 2019 Full Review Behind Closed Doors: Through the Eyes of the Child (2019) 4/5 EDIT “This was a sober and sobering film about the effects of the toxic male need to control. There needs to be another examining the causes.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 14, 2019 Full Review David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019) 100% 5/5 EDIT “When is a rockumentary better than a biography? Francis Whately has created an unsurpassable trilogy of feature-length bio-docs, profiling the life of his subject.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 11, 2019 Full Review A Year of British Murder (2019) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Where other documentaries about murder might forensically reconstruct the crime or the prosecution, or ask hand-wringing questions about public policy, this deeply empathetic film derived its power from a less inquisitive approach.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 22, 2019 Full Review
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