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Ed Whitfield

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The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% EDIT “It’s all filmed with Kubrickian distance – static camera, deep focus, clinical composition. That, you might think, is the right lens through which to view such a catastrophe – to see it the way it was seen, or rather unseen, by those on the fringe. ” – The Ooh Tray Feb 25, 2024 Full Review Madame Web (2024) 10% EDIT “Imagine if you will, a thriller without thrills. A sisterhood movie without any chemistry between the vulnerable girls. A comic book movie without laughs. A superhero movie without heroes.” – The Ooh Tray Feb 25, 2024 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% EDIT “This is an old-school movie designed to make you think, and it succeeds, to the frustration of those who already suffer from insomnia and existential dread.” – The Ooh Tray Jul 23, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister in charge of the wartime German film industry, believed the most effective use of the medium was to bury the message in ostensibly innocuous genre fare. You sense he’d have found Gerwig’s film a bit much. ” – The Ooh Tray Jul 23, 2023 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% EDIT “Suffers from “part one” syndrome. It’s a long setup to get to the movie you came to see – the one in which the laid pipe delivers the thrills. It’s deflating to get to the end of a 2h43m picture and hear the words, “this is only the beginning".” – The Ooh Tray Jul 11, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 71% EDIT “Mangold can’t find the visual gags in the setups, there’s no joy in the chase. His solidity as a director is a drag on the film’s quest to entertain with the zeal of old. Instead, it feels old. Indiana Jones was never meant to retire.” – The Ooh Tray Jun 30, 2023 Full Review The Flash (2023) 63% EDIT “Andy Muschietti has no story to tell, so must be content with an overwrought comic restyling of old movie memorabilia, with the requisite corporate lacquer applied to ensure it’s as synthetic, witless, and wearying as possible. ” – The Ooh Tray Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 82% EDIT “Gunn falls prey to franchise imperatives and Marvel cultural mores. More is more, leaving less and less screen time for the human story.” – The Ooh Tray May 9, 2023 Full Review Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) 91% EDIT “We probably have Strange Things 4 to thank for this revival, but if it has birthed a new film franchise, that’s no chore if each instalment is as colourful and good natured as this one.” – The Ooh Tray Apr 2, 2023 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 94% EDIT “There’s something about the relentlessness of Wick’s ordeal that stands above the generic action pictures that clog up the contemporary market place. These movies are superficial but they have a personality and an intensity that lingers in the memory.” – The Ooh Tray Mar 26, 2023 Full Review Scream VI (2023) 77% EDIT “One’s left with the sense that the series has some untapped potential.” – The Ooh Tray Mar 19, 2023 Full Review Creed III (2023) 89% EDIT “You can replicate the character dynamics of the original series & its story beats – you can chuck in an exhilarating montage, and direct the climatic showdown with style. But without the heart that powered the original movies, it’s a mechanical pastiche.” – The Ooh Tray Mar 19, 2023 Full Review Babylon (2022) 57% EDIT “If anything, Babylon is too good a recreation of late-silent era Hollywood – it’s self-indulgent, overwrought, underwritten, and following a full-frontal assault on the senses, peters out into irrelevance.” – The Ooh Tray Jan 22, 2023 Full Review Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) 76% EDIT “A fortune has been spent to return the movies to where they were a century ago. ” – The Ooh Tray Dec 31, 2022 Full Review Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) 91% EDIT “It’s a high-end game – a marble chess set.” – The Ooh Tray Dec 31, 2022 Full Review Blonde (2022) 43% EDIT “An artful – sometimes pretentiously overwrought, and palpably aggressive attack on the male gaze and the portrait of a woman destroyed by the lust she induced in overstimulated males. ” – The Ooh Tray Oct 2, 2022 Full Review Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 29% EDIT “All concerned have made the audacious decision to relegate the dinosaurs – the marquee attractions, to the status of background extras.” – The Ooh Tray Jun 12, 2022 Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% EDIT “Top Gun’s appeal is built on US exceptionalism, on competitive machismo, on bread and butter heroics. The sequel offers it polished and unreconstructed. ” – The Ooh Tray Jun 6, 2022 Full Review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 73% EDIT “Once rampant, the movie cannot be tamed.” – The Ooh Tray May 7, 2022 Full Review The Batman (2022) 85% EDIT “If the film falls short of greatness, because Reeves didnt know when to cut and run, it is, in its final extended form, a superior comic book adaptation and brooding thriller in its own right.” – The Ooh Tray Mar 5, 2022 Full Review Scream (2022) 76% EDIT “Signals we've moved into a new era where legacy sequels, in a bid to keep the wolf of audience weariness from the door of indifference, refer to their conception while sticking to the strategy point for point. This, as Scream '22 notes, is fooling no one.” – The Ooh Tray Jan 16, 2022 Full Review The Matrix Resurrections (2021) 63% EDIT “One of the most passive aggressive mainstream movies of recent years - a film that both mocks the expectations of its imagined audience and the crude franchise revival imperative of its financial backers.” – The Ooh Tray Dec 23, 2021 Full Review Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 93% EDIT “It's all part of a knowing scheme that repurposes what came before to create an Endgame sense of anticipation and payoff. It's wholly unearned, but you have to give producer Kevin Feige credit - recycling has never been this profitable.” – The Ooh Tray Dec 19, 2021 Full Review West Side Story (2021) 91% EDIT “West Side Story's the same old story and the same old tunes. It looks and sounds great - a stylistic upgrade - but it's still a movie struggling to make the case for its existence.” – The Ooh Tray Dec 11, 2021 Full Review House of Gucci (2021) 61% EDIT “A vulgar picture is painted. Its resemblance to its subjects is a matter of debate.” – The Ooh Tray Dec 6, 2021 Full Review
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