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Lewis Porteous

Lewis Porteous's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Hard Times (1975) 72% 3/5 EDIT “There's a purity to the movie's simple premise and the sense of inevitability with which its narrative unfolds.” – The Skinny Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Everything Went Fine (2021) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Everything Went Fine is as erotic and thrilling as a hospital sponge bath.” – The Skinny Jul 21, 2022 Full Review Hot Air (2018) 17% 2/5 EDIT “Predictable, artless fare at its core, yet also disappointingly toothless.” – The Skinny Aug 27, 2019 Full Review Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2018) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Director Steve Sullivan applies only gentle analysis to his subject, allowing audiences to think for themselves as he excavates a comprehensive narrative of a one-off career.” – The Skinny Mar 26, 2019 Full Review The Mystery of Picasso (1955) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Those who stay engaged with this piece will find it hugely rewarding, a sort of high art precursor to Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense.” – The Skinny Jan 24, 2018 Full Review The Voice of the Moon (1990) 3/5 EDIT “Fellini devotees will find plenty to sink their teeth into here, though all but his most hardened fans will likely find The Voice of the Moon a testing watch.” – The Skinny Oct 26, 2017 Full Review My 20th Century (1989) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This is a movie concerned with dualities: of east and west, wealth and poverty, science and nature, male and female, light and dark, past and future, fact and fiction.” – The Skinny Mar 27, 2017 Full Review Brakes (2016) 88% 2/5 EDIT “Too often ponderous dialogue and blurry visuals result in a muddled lack of clarity.” – The Skinny Jun 19, 2016 Full Review The Last Command (1928) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Though the action moves in a predictable direction, Jannings' anguished breakdown makes for a compelling pay off.” – The Skinny Jun 1, 2016 Full Review The Man With a Movie Camera (1929) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Little can be added to the praise heaped upon Man with a Movie Camera over the years, other than to emphasise quite how entertaining it is.” – The Skinny May 3, 2016 Full Review Winter (2015) 2/5 EDIT “While the desire to show us the burden Woods' actions place on his family is commendable, there's a serious misjudgement in playing his outlandish gestures for laughs.” – The Skinny Mar 3, 2016 Full Review The American Dreamer (1971) 88% 3/5 EDIT “What's striking about this documentary is that it proves Hopper was full of shit all along.” – The Skinny Feb 26, 2016 Full Review Finders Keepers (2015) 98% 4/5 EDIT “A film exploring the undoing of two men, the strange circumstances that see their lives interconnect, and the qualities we've come to value as a society.” – The Skinny Feb 23, 2016 Full Review Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler (2015) 90% 4/5 EDIT “It's a joy to watch these gamers' stories handled with shock, open-mindedness and empathy.” – The Skinny Feb 19, 2016 Full Review The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Robert Mitchum brings late-career gravitas to this brilliant Boston-set crime thriller.” – The Skinny Feb 2, 2016 Full Review A New Leaf (1971) 94% 4/5 EDIT “It's great fun to watch Walter Matthau play against type as a spoilt trust fund kid, but it's the versatile and inventive May that he (and the audience) fall for.” – The Skinny Jan 13, 2016 Full Review All My Good Countrymen (1968) 4/5 EDIT “All My Good Countrymen is buoyed by reckless energy and wonder, yet is notably the work of an established master.” – The Skinny Dec 3, 2015 Full Review Bridge of Spies (2015) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Easily one of Spielberg's most cynical offerings, thanks to the Coen brothers' humanistic, whip-smart script which evokes a futile, high-stakes game of cat and mouse.” – The Skinny Nov 24, 2015 Full Review Brand: A Second Coming (2015) 73% 2/5 EDIT “Timoner seems reluctant to probe Brand and consequently offers little in the way of revelation.” – The Skinny Nov 3, 2015 Full Review Mississippi Grind (2015) 91% 2/3 EDIT “What it sorely lacks is any sense of life.” – The Skinny Oct 23, 2015 Full Review The Program (2015) 62% 2/5 EDIT “Taut but structurally aimless, O'Dowd's skeptical sports writer is reduced to a bystander, watching a narrative we're already familiar with play out.” – The Skinny Oct 12, 2015 Full Review Pan (2015) 27% 2/5 EDIT “Joe Wright shows little interest in exploring wider thematic concerns, instead presenting us with a charmless, overly-literal action fantasy.” – The Skinny Oct 8, 2015 Full Review The Intern (2015) 59% 2/5 EDIT “Once a complacent giant, De Niro now calls to mind a faintly embarrassing father figure to whom respect is nevertheless owed.” – The Skinny Sep 30, 2015 Full Review Life (2015) 63% 3/5 EDIT “[Dane DeHaan's] star quality is well served to Corbijn's bittersweet evocation of studio-driven Hollywood and its relationship with a long faded way of American life.” – The Skinny Sep 24, 2015 Full Review La Grande Bouffe (1973) 60% 5/5 EDIT “The corrosive, nihilistic ugliness of excessive wealth and consumer culture has never been quite so damningly exposed.” – The Skinny Sep 1, 2015 Full Review
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