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Ed Potton

Ed Potton's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Times of London writer

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David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 5/5 EDIT “Like the man, this film isn’t sentimental but gosh, it packs a punch.” – The Times (UK) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 74% 2/5 EDIT “The gag count is admirably high; the laugh count is not.” – The Times (UK) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Perhaps most delightful, though, are the carefully drawn supporting characters, with welcome returns for Flash the sloth and Maurice LaMarche, the Vito Corleone-esque arctic shrew. Truly an offer you can’t refuse.” – The Times (UK) Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Kenny Dalglish (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “A warm and gutsy portrait of the legendary Liverpool star from Asif Kapadia.” – The Times (UK) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Away from the relay scenes, the film is rather conventional, but when Sarah and Ash — or rather his proxies — are on the blower, it’s enthralling stuff.” – The Times (UK) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 5/5 EDIT “The characters are so engaging.” – The Times (UK) Oct 14, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% 4/5 EDIT “Such subtlety has largely vanished by the final reel, sadly, but this is still a suitably shiver-inducing farewell to the Warrens.” – The Times (UK) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (2023) 87% 3/5 EDIT “This movie is trashy and amusing rather than full-bore hilarious and the schlocky self-mockery wears thin at times. The effects are resolutely lo-fi, though, which is rather endearing in this age of CGI-splurges -- and Dinklage and Bacon are a riot.” – The Times (UK) Aug 28, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 5/5 EDIT “The film blends realism and pizzazz with the assuredness for which Frears would become known, Day-Lewis deliberately channelling Clint Eastwood in a turn of charismatic stillness. Four decades on, the jewel still glistens.” – The Times (UK) Aug 5, 2025 Full Review Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) 62% 3/5 EDIT “Like the original movie, this isn’t super funny, unless burping, farting and people being hit in the groin with golf balls is your thing.” – The Times (UK) Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “The director has grabbed what could have been a poisoned chalice and downed it in one. ” – The Times (UK) Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Bad Guys 2 (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “...this is another feast of angular animation and insouciant one-liners with a ghetto-fabulous score from Daniel Pemberton.” – The Times (UK) Jul 29, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Matt Shakman’s Fantastic Four reboot feels quite fresh, albeit in a totally recycled way.” – The Times (UK) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 5/5 EDIT “The sense of hallucinogenic sweatiness won’t be to everyone’s taste but [Garland] and Boyle should be applauded for taking such big swings and having the flair and confidence to pull them off. It’s an astonishing piece of work.” – The Times (UK) Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Deep Cover (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “... It works out rather well, combining deadpan gags with some brisk pacing.” – The Times (UK) Jun 13, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Some scenes are very funny... The screaming and shouting eventually detract from the drama, but the ending is note-perfect.” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review Fuori (2025) 57% 2/5 EDIT “Martone might counter that the episode features in the novel, and that it shows the ease the women have developed with one another. Here, though, it just feels creepy. Which is a shame because the film has other things to recommend it...” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review Romería (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “... The film doesn’t quite match the subtlety and originality of Summer 1993. It’s a satisfying enough addition to the saga, though, and a fillip for the Galician tourist board.” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “It’s an intriguing premise, stylishly executed but sometimes it’s short of emotional oomph. ” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review Woman and Child (2025) 71% 4/5 EDIT “As Iranian films increasingly acknowledge the brutality of the country’s ruling regime, politics are low-key here, with all of the women wearing headscarves. Low-key but never totally absent.” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “This kind of unhinged ambition is what cinema does better than anything else. ” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a decent film about an underexplored subject and adequately acted by a cast of inexperienced unknowns, but nothing we haven’t seen before from the determinedly low-key Dardennes. ” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 2/5 EDIT “This being Reichardt, white-knuckle thrills were unlikely to be on the menu either, but you would have hoped for something to engage with beyond a vague hum of disappointment.” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% 3/5 EDIT “Coen and Cooke, you sense, didn’t quite know how to wrap everything up. Still, it’s a distracting and subversive world that they have built.” – The Times (UK) May 23, 2025 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “You really could not make any of this up.” – The Times (UK) May 23, 2025 Full Review
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