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John Walsh

John Walsh's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Last Airbender (2010) 5% EDIT “[A] breathtakingly clueless, misconceived, stupid, humourless, unexciting, dim, dumb farrago, the worst film I've seen in years.” – Independent on Sunday Jul 18, 2014 Full Review True Grit (2010) 95% 4/5 EDIT “At an uncertain time for heroes in America, there's no wonder it's packing 'em in.” – Independent (UK) Feb 11, 2011 Full Review Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) 55% 3/5 EDIT “It's directed with flair and energy, spirited, funny and charming.” – Independent (UK) Feb 11, 2011 Full Review Paul (2011) 70% 2/5 EDIT “From time to time, clever ideas rear their heads, but they soon return to the film's default setting of laddish japes.” – Independent (UK) Feb 11, 2011 Full Review Yogi Bear (2010) 13% 1/5 EDIT “There are some watchable 3D sequences in a boat on the rapids and a makeshift airplane, but it's pretty grim for anyone over six.” – Independent (UK) Feb 11, 2011 Full Review Red (2010) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Never tell Hollywood action heroes in their 50s and 60s, that they're a bit past it.” – Independent (UK) Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Alpha and Omega (2010) 20% 2/5 EDIT “The 8-12s will love it, but grown-ups may feel they've seen lots of it before (especially the caribou stampede, a shameless pinch from The Lion King.)” – Independent (UK) Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Easy A (2010) 85% 4/5 EDIT “A sparkling moral tale about a small lie that ramifies out of control.” – Independent (UK) Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Mary and Max (2009) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It's a 20-year story that absorbs and beguiles, despite the ugly subject matter.” – Independent (UK) Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) 52% 3/5 EDIT “The stars of this computerised epic are the Design and Art departments, who provide stunning landscapes, caves and kingdoms, and whose 3D magic is genuinely thrilling.” – Independent (UK) Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Ramona and Beezus (2010) 71% 2/5 EDIT “Despite everyone's efforts, Ramona comes across as an insufferably spoilt and attention-seeking little horror.” – Independent (UK) Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% 4/5 EDIT “A sparkling new print of Howard Hawks's 1953 musical comedy, which paired Monroe and Russell at their spangled, curvaceous, lipsticky best.” – Independent (UK) Feb 26, 2010 Full Review Leap Year (2010) 24% 2/5 EDIT “Adams is perky and watchable and almost saves the film. But it's so dumb: how come the eventual proposal, supposedly set a few yards from the Dingle pub, seems to take place on the Cliffs of Moher, 75 miles away?” – Independent (UK) Feb 26, 2010 Full Review The Crazies (2010) 72% 3/5 EDIT “This remake of George A Romero's 1973 movie is gross, bloody and savagely effective, with its palette of sickly browns and reds, and the nasty surprises that jump out of clapboard barns and innocent meadows.” – Independent (UK) Feb 26, 2010 Full Review Everybody's Fine (2009) 47% 2/5 EDIT “De Niro, while initially expressionless, gives the film a heart. Barrymore and Beckinsale stay one-dimensionally cute. A weepie that wholly fails to make you weep.” – Independent (UK) Feb 26, 2010 Full Review Extraordinary Measures (2010) 29% 2/5 EDIT “The film's combination of gloopy sentiment, macho horns-locking and recondite enzyme research isn't a winner; and the slushy music, by Andrea Guerra, has you begging for mercy.” – Independent (UK) Feb 26, 2010 Full Review Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Moore is marvellously indignant and confrontational (he tries to make a citizen's arrest of the AIG board), and dramatises moments of rebellion and fight-back with relish. But there's something self-righteous and teenage-lefty about his rhetoric.” – Independent (UK) Feb 26, 2010 Full Review Micmacs (2009) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Nobody beats [Jeunet] for sheer comic inventiveness and the speed with which he whips ideas into crazy reality. The only problem with his approach is that black humour clearly isn't enough for him.” – Independent (UK) Feb 26, 2010 Full Review I'm Going to Explode (2008) 71% EDIT “I'm Gonna Explode never quite explodes but it sets up a potent, sometimes funny, opposition between domestic complacency and youthful rejection, and a slow-burning love story that draws you in.” – Independent on Sunday Jan 5, 2010 Full Review Is Anybody There? (2008) 65% 3/5 EDIT “An intelligently-written, smartly-handled study of laughter in the dark.” – Independent (UK) May 1, 2009 Full Review Helen (2008) 65% 1/5 EDIT “It's a neat idea, of one life "standing-in" for another and starting afresh, but badly handled. It's a glum 79 minutes.” – Independent (UK) May 1, 2009 Full Review Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) 43% 3/5 EDIT “This Disney film is a hand-tooled, eight-cylinder charm offensive: the landscape is ravishingly shot, the songs are cute and the plot moves from slapstick to romance at a cracking pace. Your 13-year-old daughter will utterly love it.” – Independent (UK) May 1, 2009 Full Review Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) 27% 3/5 EDIT “There isn't an original thought in the film, but it bounds along amusingly.” – Independent (UK) May 1, 2009 Full Review The End (2004) 67% 2/5 EDIT “This grainy documentary that lets the Cockney hard men brag about violence, honour codes and the changed East End. Director Collins appeared with her sister Teena in Guy Ritchie's Snatch. That explains a lot.” – Independent (UK) May 1, 2009 Full Review X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) 37% 1/5 EDIT “It's a long anti-climax, full of crunching but pointless fights between Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and his brother Victor (Liev Schreiber). Wretched.” – Independent (UK) May 1, 2009 Full Review
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