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Ed Williamson

Ed Williamson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Tully (2018) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Cody delights in placing zingers in Marlo's mouth without resorting to the full takedowns of her targets you know she wants to launch into.” – TheShiznit.co.uk May 21, 2018 Full Review The Circle (2017) 16% 2/5 EDIT “Odd thing about The Circle, though, is that it is almost entirely devoid of characterisation. It's as if it knows you've seen this film before.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review Baywatch (2017) 18% 3/5 EDIT “Self-awareness is what got Zac Efron and his co-star The Rock where they are today, and so a riff on Baywatch, sending up how daft it was, feels like just the ticket. So why isn't it sillier?” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Sandler's best and most sympathetic work here is non-verbal.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017) 0% 2/5 EDIT “Fifty Years is guilty of being gratingly generic and of accepting too tough a challenge: to properly explore a hugely significant collection of songs without featuring any of them.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review 47 Meters Down (2017) 53% 3/5 EDIT “All of this is pretty gripping overall, but this sort of thing relies on character.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review Atomic Blonde (2017) 79% 4/5 EDIT “They live and die by the creativity of their fighting and shooting. These are things you would've thought had no more creative angles to exploit, but with a lot of choreography and a sheen of Berlin cool rinsed through the whole caper, there's plenty.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review Aftermath (2017) 40% 3/5 EDIT “Arnold Schwarzenegger is there to lift heavy things and drive jeeps off buildings onto Harrier Jump Jets. If we could all just get back to a place where we accepted that, maybe we'd all learn how to get along again.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review Maudie (2016) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Both Hawkins and Hawke are very good in Maudie, and if you're looking to qualify it you'd arrive first at the fact that they both effect physical transformations of a sort.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 26, 2017 Full Review American Made (2017) 85% 3/5 EDIT “American Made is a great laugh if like me you're happy enough watching rise-and-fall tales of American hubris you've seen a few times before” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 22, 2017 Full Review Detroit (2017) 82% 4/5 EDIT “In shining a light on a case without heroes, Detroit looks at the America of 50 years ago, and without needing to draw the obvious contemporary parallels, asks the question: Do we really want to go back there?” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 22, 2017 Full Review The Death of Stalin (2017) 94% 4/5 EDIT “There's real horror in it too at times...It's a risk, where it could've been guilty of overreaching, but there's a chaotic tone here established into which it all fits quite snugly.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Dec 22, 2017 Full Review A Hologram for the King (2016) 70% 3/5 EDIT “Hologram tries your patience a bit, but its leading man carries it, like he always bloody does.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Inferno (2016) 23% 2/5 EDIT “Like the rest of the franchise it hopefully brings to a conclusion, it is a baffling anomaly for its director and star.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years (2016) 96% 5/5 EDIT “A timely, important documentary, packed with unfamiliar footage and using a refreshingly new approach, just as concerned with recording a remarkable cultural flashpoint as a musical revolution.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Captain Fantastic (2016) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Films want you to root for the guy with the alternative lifestyle or the radical take on the world, thumbing his nose at the stuffed shirts. Captain Fantastic isn't so sure.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review The Boss (2016) 21% 2/5 EDIT “You can put Melissa McCarthy in pretty much anything and expect to see it elevated as a result. Certainly she does this here: it'd be nothing at all without her. But even with her it's not enough.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Miles Ahead (2016) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Miles Ahead is nothing anyone's going to fall in love with, but something interesting in its approach to stroke your goatee to, like those jazz albums you pretend to like.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Linklater presents a time in life, a few days, showing it up for what it is: a laugh while it's happening, its specific events likely soon forgotten, but no less significant for it.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Spotlight (2015) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Spotlight appears to tick all the boxes as far as the true-life awards-season investigation drama goes... It makes a few choices you aren't expecting, though, and I can't figure out whether or not this elevates it.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Bridget's choices were often bad over the first two films, but the scripts usually ignored the fact that her men were worse. Three films in, the franchise seems to have caught up and started rewarding her.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Sully (2016) 85% 3/5 EDIT “As generous an actor as [Hanks] usually is, here he's sacrificed any chance of personal plaudits on the film's behalf.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Bleed for This (2016) 70% 3/5 EDIT “It's a boxing movie so you know where it's headed -- though in fairness it seems pretty true to Vinny's actual story, so whaddya gonna do.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Allied (2016) 60% 3/5 EDIT “There are definite high points in this, like the detailed production design; Cotillard's performance, which throws in just enough intrigue and misdirection to keep you guessing; and Jared Harris... But there are problems, too.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review The BFG (2016) 74% 3/5 EDIT “The BFG creaks under the weight of its second act so much, you take a long while to appreciate the third, even though it has a lot to enjoy.” – TheShiznit.co.uk Jan 1, 2017 Full Review
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