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Niki Boyle

Niki Boyle's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Life After Beth (2014) 46% 4/5 EDIT “A film that succeeds in both its low key premise and extraordinary conclusion ...” – The List Jun 25, 2014 Full Review Hellion (2014) 58% 3/5 EDIT “Hellion deserves to be seen for the adolescent Wiggins' performance alone - with echoes too of Jennifer Lawrence's turn in Winter's Bone, it'd be gratifying to see his career take a similarly meteoric turn.” – The List Jun 23, 2014 Full Review Set Fire to the Stars (2014) 57% 3/5 EDIT “A character - and film - overburdened with poetic profundity.” – The List Jun 23, 2014 Full Review Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014) 81% 3/5 EDIT “The cinematography is spectacular, the soundtrack is decent (if relentlessly upbeat) and your little monkeys will most likely leave the cinema infused with a lust for nature.” – The List Jun 16, 2014 Full Review A Story of Children and Film (2013) 94% 3/5 EDIT “At the very least, you'll walk away from A Story of Children and Film with an additional 50 or so movies to add to your watch list.” – The List Apr 4, 2014 Full Review Anna (2013) 32% 1/5 EDIT “Poor dialogue, wooden acting and a lack of originality are the major sins which scupper this pseudo-cerebral neo-noir from Jorge Dorado.” – The List Mar 3, 2014 Full Review Killers (2014) 71% 4/5 EDIT “Those who stick with it ... will find much to enjoy: one tense, lengthy sequence does an exceptional job of wrong-footing the audience, while the conclusion is satisfyingly well-constructed.” – The List Mar 3, 2014 Full Review Witching & B...ing (2013) 83% 3/5 EDIT “The effects-heavy finale goes some way to reinforcing the film's horror credentials, and a minor epilogue revives a dash of comedy, but it's an imperfect end to an adventure that started off so well.” – The List Feb 27, 2014 Full Review The German Doctor (2013) 75% 3/5 EDIT “What Lucia Puenzo leaves us with is a story that's well-made without being overly memorable.” – The List Feb 27, 2014 Full Review Calvary (2014) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Calvary is a reasonably good analysis of Irish Catholicism's role in the age of atheism, but it's much more valuable for its depiction of a good man attempting to live and die by his own set of morals.” – The List Feb 27, 2014 Full Review The Congress (2013) 71% 3/5 EDIT “The Congress asks profound questions about performance and identity, especially how the former might distort our perception of the latter, and of reality in general.” – The List Feb 27, 2014 Full Review LFO (2013) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Tublen's last-act feels like a purposefully cheap gag, but LFO is nevertheless a consistently humorous lo-fi sci-fi story.” – The List Feb 24, 2014 Full Review Salvo (2013) 75% 3/5 EDIT “There's lots to love about Salvo.” – The List Feb 24, 2014 Full Review The House of Him (2014) 3/5 EDIT “At 90ish minutes, the film hardly outstays its welcome, but it'd be interesting to see what Florence could do with a leaner edit - and maybe an extra 20 quid or so.” – The List Feb 24, 2014 Full Review The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013) 51% 3/5 EDIT “Cattet and Forzani's approach is a little too exhausting to be completely enjoyable, but they deserve credit for managing to marshal some sense of narrative resolution by the end, when they might have just left the audience floundering in oblivion.” – The List Feb 24, 2014 Full Review Defender (2013) 71% 3/5 EDIT “A highly enjoyable Bollywood-take on the superhero action genre, with a hefty dose of wushu-style wirework added in.” – The List Nov 1, 2013 Full Review About Time (2013) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Even that hoariest of old staples, the romantic downpour, is fresh and exhilarating this time round.” – The List Jun 30, 2013 Full Review The Sea (2013) 52% 2/5 EDIT “It's the sort of thing that can play out well in prose, but ends up being dreadfully dull on film.” – The List Jun 26, 2013 Full Review Desert Runners (2013) 3/5 EDIT “By and large Steinman's shooting style is both sympathetic and unobtrusive, complemented by cinematographer Sevan Matossian's eye for humanity among these vast, unforgiving landscapes.” – The List Jun 24, 2013 Full Review Blood (2012) 52% 2/5 EDIT “[Its] petty misdemeanours wouldn't count so much against a better film, but with this film's prior convictions, it's hard not to hold it in contempt.” – The List May 29, 2013 Full Review Vehicle 19 (2013) 21% 2/5 EDIT “Plagued by a lack of drive and energy, Vehicle 19 is neither fast nor furious enough to be a satisfying ride.” – The List May 10, 2013 Full Review The Host (2013) 10% 2/5 EDIT “Teen sitcom-level dialogue, wooden acting, snogging-in-the-rain flashbacks and ludicrously chrome-plated alien racecars.” – The List Apr 3, 2013 Full Review Fire With Fire (2012) 7% 1/5 EDIT “Oh, Josh Duhamel - is there nothing you can do?” – The List Mar 4, 2013 Full Review Blancanieves (2012) 94% 4/5 EDIT “A beautiful and accomplished film.” – The List Feb 26, 2013 Full Review A Hijacking (2013) 96% 3/5 EDIT “Lindholm could arguably be praised for succeeding in making the audience experience his characters, but a more stringent editor would have given the film a much keener sense of pace.” – The List Feb 26, 2013 Full Review
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