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David Cairns

David Cairns's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Mickey (1918) 100% EDIT “A proper feature film, centred around Mabel as star, playing a genuine, consistent and reasonably well-developed character. Being a Keystone picture, it's still a shambles... but she holds it together. She's actually allowed to.” – MUBI May 11, 2018 Full Review The Green Fog (2017) 96% EDIT “The whole thing also amounts, as intended, to a love letter to the Bay Area, that most photogenic of cities, and its rich cinematic history.” – MUBI Jan 25, 2018 Full Review Caterpillar (2010) 86% EDIT “Over-explicit and confused.” – MUBI Dec 14, 2017 Full Review And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) 91% EDIT “[Steven] Soderbergh has returned to fashion a documentary/tribute that's loving, moving and funny.” – MUBI Dec 14, 2017 Full Review The Illusionist (2010) 90% EDIT “The Illusionist is as radiantly rich as Tati's own movies, without losing any sense of period.” – MUBI Dec 14, 2017 Full Review Restrepo (2010) 97% EDIT “The unnerving thousand-yard-stare of McDonaugh is impressively disturbing, but the constant anxious smile of Cortez carries a haunting emotional impact.” – MUBI Dec 14, 2017 Full Review Soul Boy (2010) EDIT “Soul Boy is eminently loveable.” – MUBI Dec 14, 2017 Full Review Shirin (2008) 80% EDIT “The obvious artifice of the picture track, scarcely less stylized than the mythic soundtrack, seems to exclude the kind of obvious appeal documentary might have.” – MUBI Dec 13, 2017 Full Review Spider Baby (1967) 88% EDIT “Jack Hill's uncategorisable cult nasty is part Old Dark House/Addams Family black comedy, part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, before the whole thing winds up somewhere in Eraserhead territory.” – Electric Sheep Oct 17, 2016 Full Review A Most Wanted Man (2014) 86% EDIT “No doubt the doom-laden setting and tragic denouement are true to the reality of these situations, but the audience would appreciate some surprises.” – Electric Sheep Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Coherence (2013) 89% EDIT “A mild form of Lynchian terror is unleashed. It's also rather funny.” – Electric Sheep Jun 25, 2014 Full Review Greyhawk (2014) EDIT “A compelling experience.” – Electric Sheep Jun 23, 2014 Full Review The Conjuring (2013) 86% EDIT “Wan is super-talented at delivering frissons and jumps, he just needs to take himself a bit more seriously.” – Electric Sheep Aug 2, 2013 Full Review Santa Sangre (1989) 88% EDIT “Promoted with the apt slogan 'Forget everything you have ever seen', Jodorowsky's film takes no prisoners, except maybe for purposes of torture.” – Electric Sheep Sep 20, 2012 Full Review The Love Parade (1929) 100% EDIT “Combining the Ruritanian settings and aristocratic glamour of operetta with the lightness of revue, the film takes musical cinema out of the Broadway theatres and into a romanticised vision of the world.” – Senses of Cinema Feb 3, 2012 Full Review Trollhunter (2010) 83% EDIT “Enjoy it before the inevitable sequels and Hollywood remake sully its memory.” – Electric Sheep Sep 7, 2011 Full Review House by the River (1950) 60% EDIT “House by the River is a gothic melodrama, and it marshals its limited resources to create a rich and pervasive atmosphere of decay and corruption.” – Senses of Cinema Jul 7, 2010 Full Review Van Diemen's Land (2009) 75% EDIT “In its evocation of a bleak, hostile environment in which even the meanest cannot eke out an existence, it packs a bloody punch.” – Electric Sheep May 6, 2010 Full Review
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