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Fiona Williams

Fiona Williams's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) 85% 3/5 EDIT “It's fine, it's familiar, it's got Kurt Russell and a cute Groot so of course it'll make a motza.” – sbs.com.au Apr 24, 2017 Full Review Logan (2017) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “"Owing to its agitated hero's misfortunes through the ages, this is a film that's acutely aware of the dangers of emotional exploitation, and it spares its audience a similar fate."” – sbs.com.au Mar 5, 2017 Full Review Suicide Squad (2016) 26% 2/5 EDIT “David Ayer devotes the film's first hour to telling us how bad these crazy mofos are ("the most dangerous people on the planet"; "bad guys"; "worst of the worst"), but then spends the next hour (...and 10 minutes) trying in vain to make good on the promise.” – sbs.com.au Aug 2, 2016 Full Review Ghostbusters (2016) 74% 3.5/5 EDIT “"A relatable action comedy that pays affectionate homage to its source material"” – sbs.com.au Jul 17, 2016 Full Review Money Monster (2016) 59% 3.5/5 EDIT “At the risk of damning it with faint praise, it's a low-risk investment with short-term dividends.” – sbs.com.au Jun 2, 2016 Full Review The Neon Demon (2016) 59% EDIT “It's preposterous and pretentious, epically pervy - and slow. It feels tailor made for the outrage it received (in week of graphic sex and violence in the movies playing here in Cannes, we can all tick 'necrophilia' off the bingocard).” – sbs.com.au May 20, 2016 Full Review It's Only the End of the World (2016) 44% 2/5 EDIT “Perhaps the worst of Dolan's sins is that he's managed to elicit a bad performance from the usually solid Marion Cotillard.” – sbs.com.au May 19, 2016 Full Review Personal Shopper (2016) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Stewart is engrossing as the grieving twin and invisible employee whose own health issues make an early death a distinct possibility.” – sbs.com.au May 18, 2016 Full Review CafĂ© Society (2016) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Eisenberg carries the film with amiable impersonations.” – sbs.com.au May 18, 2016 Full Review I, Daniel Blake (2016) 92% 4/5 EDIT “"A fierce and often funny polemic designed to leave a lump in your throat and a fire in your belly."” – sbs.com.au May 13, 2016 Full Review Sherpa (2015) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Documentary director Jen Peedom chronicles an industrial dispute like no other in her thoughtful account of high risk at high altitude, Sherpa.” – sbs.com.au Mar 31, 2016 Full Review My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) 28% 1.5/5 EDIT “[A] painfully unfunny carbon copy.” – sbs.com.au Mar 31, 2016 Full Review Sisters (2015) 60% 3/5 EDIT “Okay, there are some solid one-liners (including two - count 'em! - tampon jokes), and Maya Rudolph is reliably excellent as an uppity spoilsport, Brinda. But the best gags are few and far between, and the movie starts to lag like a lengthy sitcom.” – sbs.com.au Feb 1, 2016 Full Review Ruben Guthrie (2015) 60% 3/5 EDIT “"There's an unintended 'ripped from the headlines' quality to the story of an advertising executive's battle with alcohol"” – sbs.com.au Jul 15, 2015 Full Review Inside Out (2015) 98% 5/5 EDIT “It speaks to the brilliance of Inside Out that many of the film's insights about the interplay of emotion only come to light upon later reflection.” – sbs.com.au Jun 18, 2015 Full Review Wendy and Lucy (2008) 85% 3.5/5 EDIT “Wendy and Lucy is an old-school indie portrait of a woman in a desperate situation. It's quiet -- virtually silent in parts -- and at just 80 minutes, it makes its point without overstating it.” – sbs.com.au Mar 27, 2015 Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% 3/5 EDIT “These two star-crossed lovers have a lot more to negotiate than just the path to true love.” – sbs.com.au Feb 11, 2015 Full Review Paper Planes (2014) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “There's a lot to like in Paper Planes' ideas about ingenuity and resilience; that may bode well for getting bums off the beach and onto seats for the film's late-school holiday release. Be prepared to tap your reserves of goodwill to overlook its flaws.” – sbs.com.au Jan 16, 2015 Full Review The Water Diviner (2014) 63% 3/5 EDIT “"The movie's not without its problems, but it's hard to fault its reverent determination to look beyond the jingoism of the Anzac Legend, to make salient points about reconciliation"” – sbs.com.au Dec 28, 2014 Full Review The Little Death (2014) 61% 2/5 EDIT “For all of the comic potential of a broad and bawdy farce, Lawson's story doesn't meet its own brief and, much like the lousy sex had on screen, it ends up being a frustrating letdown of uneven pacing and mismatched mood.” – sbs.com.au Sep 25, 2014 Full Review Winter Sleep (2014) 87% 4.5/5 EDIT “Winter Sleep is stitched together with so much wit and self-aware theatricality, it's abundantly clear how Ceylan really feels about the injured egos of the remotely rich.” – sbs.com.au Jun 3, 2014 Full Review Mr. Turner (2014) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Timothy Spall is a grunting, squinting, po-faced force of nature in Mike Leigh's surprising and charming biography of Romantic landscape painter J.M.W. Turner” – sbs.com.au Jun 3, 2014 Full Review Party Girl (2014) 75% 3/5 EDIT “For most of its running time, Party Girl is a slice of life redemption story, until the ending brings some drama which, though plausible, seems tacked on and unnecessary.” – sbs.com.au Jun 3, 2014 Full Review Leviathan (2014) 97% 5/5 EDIT “17th Century English political philosophy meets 21st Century Russian fury in Andrey Zvyagintsev's bone-rattling epic, Leviathan.” – sbs.com.au Jun 3, 2014 Full Review The Homesman (2014) 81% 2.5/5 EDIT “It might pass the Bechdel Test, but The Homesman's gender politics are little skewy.” – sbs.com.au Jun 3, 2014 Full Review
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