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Dan Jolin

Dan Jolin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Empire Magazine film critic

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Christy (2025) 67% 4/5 EDIT “This is Sweeney’s film. Christy is a career-best turn, sure to draw favourable comparisons with Hilary Swank. She may not be a problematic dude, but she’s certainly Michôd’s most impressive lead performer yet. ” – Time Out Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “A highly effective indie horror that overcomes the familiarity of its scares with the brilliantly executed novelty of its canine conceit.” – Empire Magazine Oct 7, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 3/5 EDIT “Despite an occasional burst of self-mocking glibness, this is a movie that isn’t afraid of sincerity, and it brings a bit of silver-lining energy to our overcast world.” – Time Out Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% EDIT “...Requiem For A Dream is so efficiently devastating that it resonates like the echo of a dying scream. Beautifully executed, but spine-jarringly uncomfortable stuff.” – Total Film Aug 23, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Part end-of-the-world drama, part musical, part coming-of-age ghost story, The Life Of Chuck won’t please everyone. But, if you open yourself to its brazen sincerity, you might just shed a life-affirming tear or two.” – Empire Magazine Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Savages (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “There’s real value in a family film that puts its characters before plot, gags and pop-culture references, and which explores it with such wit, sincerity and visual panache. ” – Time Out Jul 25, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “If the script doesn’t hit quite so many comedic high notes as some other Marvels, it at least brims with sincerity, presenting a heroic squad committed to protecting the Earth, while encouraging the whole world to link arms and do its bit, too. ” – Empire Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Karate Kid: Legends (2025) 58% 3/5 EDIT “Karate Kid: Legends doesn’t quite live up to the promise of its Cobra Kai-meets-Mr Han marketing. But for breezy feel-goodness, you’ve come to the right dojo.” – Empire Magazine May 29, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% EDIT “Christensen proves incapable of making Anakin’s turmoil seem much more than an adolescent strop, while his love scenes with Portman are rendered boring by Lucas’ clumsy handling. ” – Total Film Apr 22, 2025 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Aka ‘The Odyssey: The Bits Without The Monsters’. Not that that should put you off, as Binoche and Fiennes bring some raw, fleshy humanity to this mythic text, giving it a modern twist that balances the film’s flaws.” – Empire Magazine Apr 15, 2025 Full Review A Minecraft Movie (2025) 48% 2/5 EDIT “A hyperactive hot-pink mess of a movie, which fails to elevate its cubic source material and revels in that failure like it’s achieving something.” – Empire Magazine Apr 5, 2025 Full Review The Gorge (2025) 62% 3/5 EDIT “The spirit of the drive-in is strong in this trashy mash-up, though it’s best appreciated as an unlikely romance, where love and poetry somehow blossom amid heavy gunfire and monster rampages.” – Empire Magazine Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% EDIT “Tarzan pushes the non-CG cartoon to new heights. They say the jungle never sleeps, but in this movie it simply never stays still; every leaf, vine and branch has a life of its own. ” – Total Film Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) 56% 3/5 EDIT “If the intention was to distract younger audience members with some inoffensive and well-meaning adventure, the movie delivers. It’s a shame Jenkins wasn’t able to personalise it more, but, as they say, that’s just the nature of the beast.” – Empire Magazine Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Juror #2 (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “A deeply involving and thought-provoking new spin on the genre, which serves up a ripe moral quandary that goes deeper than anything John Grisham ever managed. ” – Time Out Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) 37% 2/5 EDIT “Valiant though this low-budget attempt to reclaim Hellboy may be, it sadly lacks the storytelling and stylistic savvy to rise above its all-too-obvious budgetary limitations.” – Empire Magazine Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 56% EDIT “Hartnett does his best, but director Shyamalan seems more interested in trying to convince us of his daughter's pop-star credentials.” – Empire Magazine Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Borderlands (2024) 10% 2/5 EDIT “Borderlands so wants to be Guardians Of The Galaxy... But it doesn’t come close.” – Empire Magazine Aug 8, 2024 Full Review The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) 86% 3/5 EDIT “A Western that hits many of the expected beats but which does so in an unexpected manner, being centred on a tender, loving relationship rather than gunplay and grit.” – Empire Magazine Jun 7, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% EDIT “Planet Of The Apes will disappoint anyone who either loved the original or who’s expecting to see a Tim Burton movie. Great make-up and costumes ain’t enough to excuse a shoddy plot and a stinker of an ending.” – Total Film Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver (2024) 16% 2/5 EDIT “Marginally better than Part One, but still a weird, messy and humourless sci-fi that gives you little reason to cheer the potential continuation of this Snyderverse.” – Empire Magazine Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Three Musketeers: Part II - Milady (2023) 87% 4/5 EDIT “If you loved D'Artagnan, you won't be let down by Milady. If you've not seen D'Artagnan, then get ready to enjoy the year's best non-Barbenheinmer double bill.” – Empire Magazine Nov 27, 2023 Full Review The Lesson (2023) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Nobody here watches the telly, or uses a smartphone, or listens to music composed in the last 80 years. It leaves the film feeling like it’s lacking some vital texture – those little unexpected details that give characters life.” – Time Out Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Blue Beetle (2023) 78% 3/5 EDIT “In broad story-and-action terms, there really isn’t much here that feels fresh... But Blue Beetle makes one smart decision that saves its shiny cerulean ass: it brings Jaime’s family along for the ride.” – Empire Magazine Aug 17, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% 5/5 EDIT “A masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level. A film that you don’t merely watch, but must reckon with.” – Empire Magazine Jul 19, 2023 Full Review
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