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TAKE ONE Magazine

TAKE ONE Magazine is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Calum Cooper, Carmen Paddock, Cathy Brennan, Connor Lightbody, Jim Ross, Katie Duggan.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Marty Supreme (2025) Jim Ross By the time [MARTY SUPREME] finishes batting balls at you and falls to the floor in exhaustion, the chaos left in its path is at once maddening and impressive.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Ultras (2025) Jim Ross [ULTRAS highlights that] football is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it – it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Kenny Dalglish (2025) Jim Ross That inextricable relationship between politics, society, and sport [presented in KENNY DALGLISH] is the story of modern Britain, a powerful tool for understanding what tomorrow’s nation may look like, and for how we will come to view today’s.
Posted Dec 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Stationed at Home (2025) Carmen Paddock STATIONED AT HOME is a resoundingly successful experiment in non-professional casting that uses a shared ethos to create something special.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Jim Ross DIE MY LOVE is unlikely to be considered the pinnacle of Ramsay’s career. Still, it shows a stylistic approach that, even when revisiting themes, retains an intense clarity of vision which ensures Ramsay’s work continues to feel fresh & ominously vibrant.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Jim Ross If Shelley’s novel is the dense & sprawling sheet music for an orchestral symphony of ideas, then Del Toro’s arrangement here is sparser. However, the tune of FRANKENSTEIN extracts tension, horror & beauty that harmonises with the full version.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Jim Ross ...rarely fails to be entertaining, with the visuals & performances taking the film a long way. However, they are fleeting thrills in the service of an unmemorable story. Berger’s film looks like a high roller, but it’s playing with buttons & matchsticks.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Jim Ross THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished enough film, [but the] narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around [several cliches, but] fails to use that fancy footwork to advance something memorable of its own.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Jim Ross Paul Thomas Anderson’s proven filmmaking ability makes ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a technically accomplished picture that is gripping and entertaining, taking sides in the battle for history without losing its capacity for doubt.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
From Ground Zero (2024) Jim Ross Some pieces, such as the phone call [in] ECHO, or the child’s role in NO SIGNAL, border on emotionally overwhelming. There is a skill in creating a feature-length program which does not overpower one’s ability to engage with the work being presented.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Carmen Paddock PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is not a neutral film by any stretch of the imagination, but it should not be. Farsi’s documentary is urgent, heart-wrenching, and deeply personal, profiling a single life among the tens of thousands lost too soon.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Jim Ross Ryan Coogler continues to grow as a filmmaker: the choice not to water down the more challenging ideas underneath the blockbuster sensibilities of SINNERS proves to be the lifeblood of the film.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Jim Ross The strengths of REBIRTH in creating more than one memorable scene may well ensure its status as one of the better JURASSIC PARK follow-ups, but that bar is sadly low: it still exhibits the same problems as many of its less compelling fellow sequels.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Late Shift (2025) Jim Ross One may argue that there is little story actually told in LATE SHIFT, but that mistakes plot developments for story. The specific events in Floria’s evening don’t especially matter, but [her resilience] in the face of whatever they may be matters hugely.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Naked Gun (2025) Connor Lightbody if the cinema experience is meant to be a communal one, comedies like THE NAKED GUN are perfect to experience with a crowd chortling in unison.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Hot Milk (2025) Jim Ross Emma Mackey is an engaging screen presence that keeps HOT MILK more or less on track in her lead role, but the lack of narrative direction leaves her character and the film to languish in the hot Spanish sun.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Connor Lightbody There is more than a pinch of socio-realist Andrea Arnold in the reels of Canty’s smashing debut. However, it is also the work of a filmmaker blazing his own directorial path with this endearing Irish hip-hop charmer.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Jim Ross [Boyle and Garland] do not express any single [theme] especially clearly. However, in defying a desire for simplistic metaphors and clear avatars, it's arguable that 28 YEARS LATER allows meaning to emerge [with] viewers in more complex & unexpected ways.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Jim Ross THE FINAL RECKONING gets lost in a sense of importance & finality, which bloats the script while robbing it of the lighter elements that [make] the series so entertaining. More unforgivably, the much-ballyhooed stunt set pieces leave little impression...
Posted May 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Surfer (2024) Carmen Paddock fans of Cage, Australian dramas, and a B-movie’s relish for the extreme will find it lives up to the promise of its premise with aplomb.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Jim Ross The film will stand the test of time, both in terms of the ideas and questions it raises, as well as a beautiful example of the moving image. However, something about THE BRUTALIST arriving now lends the film potency.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Flow (2024) Jim Ross The unique approach of FLOW streams through [its] animation style [&] character behaviour, in a way that deepens the impact of its themes of solidarity, companionship, and harmony. The film [possesses] a remarkable blend of calm and beauty.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sing Sing (2023) Calum Cooper SING SING is not just a beautifully made, powerfully acted prison drama – it’s living proof of what can be achieved when we nurture compassion and creativity.
Posted Feb 18, 2025  Edit critic review
On Falling (2024) Jim Ross ON FALLING demonstrates that when our societal systems are dysfunctional at best & broken at worst, we all lose something: our ability to connect, be joyful, & share in the world. [Laura Carreira's film] is an extraordinarily accomplished feature debut.
Posted Feb 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Vermiglio (2024) Carmen Paddock VERMIGLIO is a beautiful neorealist throwback that shows the power of detailed, naturalistic characterisation.
Posted Jan 28, 2025  Edit critic review
William Tell (2024) Calum Cooper Despite the intricate plotting and mass of characters, the film races through the story as if trying to get it over with as painlessly as possible.
Posted Jan 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Jim Ross ...often visually remarkable, and some shots will leave viewers as awestruck as Ellen supposedly is by Orlok. However, the film falters in communicating [its themes], content to menacingly nibble around the edges rather than sink its teeth in.
Posted Jan 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Carmen Paddock BABYGIRL is festive family fun in the least traditional sense. Finding levity and grace... the film gives generational acting talents a phenomenal showcase that will ignite conversation, not offer the final word.
Posted Jan 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023) Carmen Paddock CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT revels in the moral rot and innate violence of unchecked power. If Brass and Vidal were unhappy with the first version for taming their extreme impulses, this should rectify their concerns.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) Carmen Paddock As it turns out, Hamlet and GTA are supremely well-matched, especially not amidst the emotional crises and sense of lost time engendered by the pandemic.
Posted Dec 20, 2024  Edit critic review
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) Jim Ross Nyoni's feature is a slow-paced film but one with a unique and exacting grasp on tone. As the film opens, it may seem as daft as a coot, but the powerful perspective of ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is delivered with an eagle eye.
Posted Dec 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Rumours (2024) Jim Ross Despite a messy and unfocused narrative trajectory, the depth of absurdity Guy Maddin (and co-directors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson) offers in RUMOURS skewers the modern geopolitical scene better than most.
Posted Dec 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Jurassic Park III (2001) Jim Ross ...it's a dull regression to the mean [of blockuster filmmaking]. Although [the regressive portrayal of heteronormativity and feminism] is not at the forefront of the film's concerns, it is indicative of the lack of imagination the film has.
Posted Nov 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Emilia Pérez (2024) Carmen Paddock the film is aurally and visually ugly, and the way in which it uses Mexican drug violence and cartels as scenery without engaging with the social reality leaves a bad taste. Worst of all, it is a musical that is ashamed of being a musical
Posted Nov 25, 2024  Edit critic review
The Assessment (2024) Jim Ross THE ASSESSMENT has enough interesting ideas to bolster the excellent central performances & basic premise. It never quite rises to meet its loftier concerns, but intelligent writing & captivating performances deliver something well above a passing grade.
Posted Nov 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Santosh (2024) Jim Ross SANTOSH is a patient film – almost to a fault as the film moves towards a conclusion – that [...] illustrates how a dysfunctional environment can pervert the meagre empowerment it offers marginalised people.
Posted Nov 12, 2024  Edit critic review
2073 (2024) Jim Ross Many activists over the globe are fighting the forces 2073 points its confused finger at. Hopefully, history will be kinder to them than it should be to this messy expression of solidarity.
Posted Nov 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Jim Ross ...lost sight of some of the deeper things that allowed [the first film] to give a bit of weight to the more showy aspects. There's nowhere near as much attention to establishing the themes.
Posted Oct 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Conclave (2024) Jim Ross CONCLAVE is an intelligently constructed film, where embellishments to its surface-level thriller mystery allow for its transubstantiation into an altar for broader themes.
Posted Oct 21, 2024  Edit critic review
Megalopolis (2024) Jim Ross "The film’s proposed worldview may be naive, sometimes presented immaturely, and have enough minor embellishments and subplots in the narrative to border on the incoherent, but their expression certainly doesn’t lack sincerity and optimism."
Posted Oct 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Jim Ross FOLIE Á DEUX may mean this iteration of the Joker leaves cinemas with a whimper, but at least it finally had something to say with its dying breath.
Posted Oct 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Stranger Eyes (2024) Connor Lightbody a film that is both deeply cynical and resoundingly humane in portraying the hyper-surveilled Singapore. Everyone is under scrutiny, but their humanity remains beyond the camera’s gaze.
Posted Sep 25, 2024  Edit critic review
Sujo (2024) Jim Ross A picturesque chronicle of a young man’s life and the long shadow cast from whence he came, it represents another assured piece of work from the creators of IDENTIFYING FEATURES.
Posted Sep 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Jim Ross THE SUBSTANCE is a delirium-inducing concoction of numerous body horror films and literary influences, further combining an askew glance at fame and a gaudy gore aesthetic to an eye-catching effect.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
The Critic (2023) Carmen Paddock In 2024, the threat of fascism to the arts and the press is omnipresent. THE CRITIC approaches a dynamic historical era whose high stakes parallel today’s with a dearth of imagination and humanity. It looks handsome, but its heart is hollow.
Posted Sep 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Starve Acre (2023) Jim Ross Although less distinctive than APOSTASY, STARVE ACRE’s distinctive qualities have roots in Kokotajlo’s eye for unsettling images that build dread and a balance of effects work and plot developments that toes the line adeptly between unnerving and absurd.
Posted Sep 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) Carmen Paddock The Dead Don't Hurt is a clear labour of love and a throwback to an earlier era of Western, for better and worse.
Posted Aug 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Jericho Ridge (2022) Carmen Paddock JERICHO RIDGE understands the pure thrill of a well-executed standoff, and at 88 minutes, never once lets the pace drop. It is hard to ask for more.
Posted Aug 27, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Robot Dreams (2023) Connor Lightbody Berger animates ROBOT DREAMS like an expressionistic mosaic, the artistry painting a mural of tender profundity. A 2D rendering of how transient life is...set to a charming percussive score that wags alongside Robot and Dog’s journeys.
Posted Aug 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Jim Ross Rome wasn't built in a day, nor was the ALIEN sequel bearing the name of the traditional founder of the Eternal City. However, the result feels more like stumbling around the ruins of the Great Fire of Rome than a triumphant temple atop the Palatine Hill.
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
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