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Grolsch Film Works

Grolsch Film Works is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Simran Hans.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Catch Me Daddy (2014) Simran Hans An exhilaratingly tense and stylish thriller that is a sure-fire sign of promising things to come.
Posted Aug 01, 2017  Edit critic review
5/5
The Neon Demon (2016) Martyn Conterio Imagine a Vogue fashion shoot directed by Count Dracula. That's The Neon Demon.
Posted Jun 07, 2016  Edit critic review
5/5
Midnight Special (2016) Martyn Conterio This is a movie featuring awe, magic and wonder unburdened by an over-reliance on computer-animated imagery to add the wow factor and unique selling point.
Posted Feb 17, 2016  Edit critic review
2/5
Love (2015) Martyn Conterio After an astounding 1998 debut, I Stand Alone, followed by 2002's notorious Irreversible and 2009's psychotropic odyssey Enter the Void, French cinema's arch provocateur, Gaspar Noé, has finally delivered the grand folly that was perhaps always in him.
Posted May 28, 2015  Edit critic review
4/5
Green Room (2015) Martyn Conterio If director Jeremy Saulnier's debut feature, Blue Ruin, was a bit of mournful Appalachian bluegrass, his follow-up, Green Room, is a fast-paced stomper with a snappy three-chord chorus: the film equivalent of The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop".
Posted May 22, 2015  Edit critic review
1/5
Polisse (2011) Martyn Conterio Polisse goes nowhere pretty fast and is merely satisfied with highlighting issues with little resolution to offer. Somehow we're meant to take this as gravitas.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Prometheus (2012) Martyn Conterio For those who like their sci-fi with serious intent (however crazy the ideas), Scott's return to the genre offers excitement and grand themes to ponder whilst leaving things open for a counter-mythology to develop
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Martyn Conterio The Dark Knight Rises is quite possibly everything you'd want from a blockbuster and superhero movie.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Looper (2012) Martyn Conterio In a world dominated by big budget movies bereft of real ideas, here's a sci-fi film that could well become a cult classic.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
West of Memphis (2012) Martyn Conterio West of Memphis is a truly haunting film that manages - through the sheer power of a spectacular narrative - to capture the very best and the very worst of humanity.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
Outside Satan (2011) Martyn Conterio It is often said that the Lord moves in mysterious ways. The very same can be said of Dumont and his unique style of filmmaking. Spread the word.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
V/H/S (2012) Martyn Conterio The filmmakers forgo suspense and terror for small time chills, laughs and post-modern irony
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Antiviral (2012) Martyn Conterio Brandon Cronenberg's movie works equally as a social satire and a supremely twisted horror tale that would make his Pop proud.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
2/5
The ABCs of Death (2012) Martyn Conterio Twenty-six segments over the course of two hours and nine minutes asks an awful lot of the viewer and pushes the format to breaking point.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
2/5
Evil Dead (2013) Martyn Conterio For all the OTT gothic visuals and newly invented backstories involving witchcraft and family woes, Alvarez is clearly no Sam Raimi.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Maniac (2012) Martyn Conterio Franck Khalfoun's Maniac is that rarest of cinematic offerings - a superior movie to the one upon which it's directly based.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lords of Salem (2012) Martyn Conterio The Lords of Salem is Zombie's best film work since The Devil's Rejects - a wacked-out-of-its-gourd horror show with an impish subtext mindful of cultural persecution
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
You're Next (2013) Martyn Conterio Adam Wingard's latest, the threateningly titled You're Next, is a whip-smart whodunit in the vein of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (1939) and its savage progeny, the slasher movie.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
American Mary (2012) Martyn Conterio American Mary uses the traditional mad scientist figure to offer a cautionary tale warning that avarice makes the heart grow darker.
Posted Nov 12, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Doomsdays (2013) Curtis Woloschuk Mullins has fashioned a hilarious revisionist rebel movie that's absurdity is rivaled only by its acuity.
Posted Jan 27, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery (2013) Curtis Woloschuk Misfire stokes nostalgia for a time when great down-and-dirty films seemed to emerge from the ether rather than being laboriously born of very public cap-in-hand petitions.
Posted Jan 02, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
August: Osage County (2013) Curtis Woloschuk Maybe if Wells had served chicken instead of fish he might've discovered his appetite for unhinged debauchery.
Posted Jan 02, 2014  Edit critic review
2/5
Out of the Furnace (2013) Radheyan Simonpillai Cooper props up the proceedings with detours and details of life and the locale, stopping to smell the blood, sweat and soot of the rust-belt while frequently tipping over into hopeless misery porn.
Posted Dec 02, 2013  Edit critic review
2/5
Oldboy (2013) Radheyan Simonpillai What makes the original's eccentricity easy to accept is the foreignness Western audiences attribute to it.
Posted Nov 26, 2013  Edit critic review
4/5
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Radheyan Simonpillai Ron's transition from redneck bigot to emphatic defender of the marginalized doesn't feel cheap or forced, instead building up to a graceful, moving moment of classical chivalry.
Posted Oct 23, 2013  Edit critic review
4/5
Escape From Tomorrow (2013) Radheyan Simonpillai That Moore is able to take Disney's own product and twist it into a disturbing, perverse, satire with very little tampering is remarkable in its own right.
Posted Oct 22, 2013  Edit critic review
1/10
Wrong Cops (2013) Michael Pattison In an age of vicious crackdowns upon the Occupy movement, Dupieux serves up a police comedy whose repeat gags are painful, bottom-denominator non-sequiturs.
Posted Sep 19, 2013  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Jasmine (2013) Radheyan Simonpillai Jasmine is a layered, larger-than-life, showstopper who often breaks a poised calm to become an emotional wreck. This is a daunting role for a good actress but Blanchett is great. She navigates between the nimble shimmy and the quivering snaps with ease
Posted Jul 23, 2013  Edit critic review
4/5
Fruitvale Station (2013) Radheyan Simonpillai Michael B. Jordan wins you over completely before the devastating finale. Those pulse-quickening moments at Fruitvale Station capture the chaos, confusion, fear and hate that provoked the perfect storm for tragedy.
Posted Jul 08, 2013  Edit critic review
4/5
This Is the End (2013) Radheyan Simonpillai Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are connoisseurs of bad taste and their directorial debut has a good deal of fun with free-flowing gags about urine, semen and all-around "rapey" vibes.
Posted Jun 10, 2013  Edit critic review
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