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Hugo Rifkind

Hugo Rifkind's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Brats (2024) 85% EDIT “What elevates all of this from navel-gazing bitterness is McCarthy’s increasing awareness that, much as he may have wished otherwise, he really was part of a cultural moment.” – The Times (UK) Jul 5, 2024 Full Review Scoop (2024) 76% 3/5 EDIT “There was a lot to enjoy in this broad cosplay of British media, for all its flaws. ” – The Times (UK) Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Milli Vanilli (2023) 100% EDIT “Overall, the message here is one of a cruel hypocritical industry, which is entirely fair. What is lacking, perhaps, is a secondary message that perhaps pop music has subsequently learned that singing isn’t everything.” – The Times (UK) Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Partygate (2023) 91% EDIT “Bullman’s eye is savage, and the party scenes showed faces next to faces and songs shouted in small rooms; all those visceral human intimacies that the rest of us all forgot how to do, then had to learn again.” – The Times (UK) Oct 10, 2023 Full Review Unknown: Killer Robots (2023) 100% EDIT “One reads and hears so much about AI these days that it was notably refreshing how graspable and terrestrial this all was. None of it was unimaginable, which is precisely why it was all so frightening.” – The Times (UK) Jul 14, 2023 Full Review David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count (2022) 100% EDIT “Excellent...” – The Times (UK) Nov 29, 2022 Full Review Mission: Joy (Finding Happiness in Troubled Times) (2021) 83% EDIT “The idea of a feature-length film about the friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama seemed as if it should be simply fascinating. It wasn’t, though. It was dull.” – The Times (UK) Feb 28, 2022 Full Review Reclaiming Amy (2021) 92% EDIT “Reclaiming Amy makes a clear case for Winehouse as strong, determined, surrounded by love, and doing exactly what she wanted, almost right until the end.” – The Times (UK) Jul 27, 2021 Full Review Friends: The Reunion (2021) 67% EDIT “I have to admit that I, personally, was utterly sold from the first moment that Ross Geller walked on to the remade set. Waves of fondness. Constant smile. Not sure what's happened to me. No one told me life was going to be this way.” – The Times (UK) Jun 5, 2021 Full Review EDIT “You may not think that beardy real-ale fans in fleeces prodding muddy holes in the rain for an hour while repeatedly saying the word "neolithic" in happy voices and "not neolithic" in sad ones would be all that diverting. Although it was for me.” – The Times (UK) Feb 23, 2021 Full Review Anthony (2020) 100% EDIT “Heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and never a misery-fest. Don't miss this one.” – The Times (UK) Aug 3, 2020 Full Review Disneynature: Elephant (2020) 81% EDIT “After six minutes, I was climbing the walls. It lasted an hour and a half.” – The Times (UK) Apr 2, 2020 Full Review Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel (2020) 100% EDIT “Best of all was the moment when, just after Mulqueen had directly accused Jews of holding sacrifices of Christian babies Baddiel turned straight to the camera, Fleabag-style, and said: "I think it's time for a song."” – The Times (UK) Feb 24, 2020 Full Review The Tiger Who Came to Tea (2019) 100% EDIT “There were a lot of new bits, but every beloved beat was there.” – The Times (UK) Dec 30, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Honestly, I got nothing out of this beyond despair.” – The Times (UK) Apr 8, 2019 Full Review The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) 78% EDIT “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley was a perfect contained tale of the now.” – The Times (UK) Mar 29, 2019 Full Review The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On (2019) 100% EDIT “Azhar has the knack of treading into tricky territory, normally without putting anybody's backs up.” – The Times (UK) Mar 1, 2019 Full Review 100 Vaginas (2019) 100% EDIT “It was much more broad and thought-provoking, one of those rare chances a man gets to listen to a bunch of women talk about being women without having to feel like a creep.” – The Times (UK) Feb 25, 2019 Full Review Brexit (2019) 80% EDIT “Sometimes it was farcical and sometimes sincere, given that it was a drama and not a documentary. I truly haven't a bad thing to say about it at all.” – The Times (UK) Jan 11, 2019 Full Review After the Screaming Stops (2018) 100% EDIT “Despite the breath-stopping absurdity and bewildered ego at every turn, and although the words are all madness and the songs are all terrible, this manages to be one of the most moving, uplifting and downright touching band portraits you will ever see.” – The Times (UK) Jan 5, 2019 Full Review Click and Collect (2018) EDIT “Their relationship was a little one-note, and the climatic scene with a claw-grabbing arcade machine was at least ten minutes too long, but as family-friendly silliness it didn't really put a foot wrong.” – The Times (UK) Jan 5, 2019 Full Review Sir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and in Private (2018) EDIT “There were too many pulled punches here. Frankly, too much veneration.” – The Times (UK) Dec 20, 2018 Full Review The Interrogation of Tony Martin (2018) 80% EDIT “The Interrogation of Tony Martin was an eye-opening, thought-provoking gem.” – The Times (UK) Nov 26, 2018 Full Review They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) 99% EDIT “With no narration, just primary sources, but also with authenticity coming through the artifice of recreated image and sound, it was quite unlike anything else there has ever been.” – The Times (UK) Nov 19, 2018 Full Review Queen of the World (2018) 38% EDIT “[Queen of the World] is unmitigated puffery and reverence with barely a second of grit, heart or spine.” – The Times (UK) Oct 2, 2018 Full Review
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