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Tim Pulleine

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

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Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “At 107 minutes the film rather outstays its welcome.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “The sheer skill and flair of the setpieces can still make one sit up with admiration and destructive glee.” – Guardian Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 16% EDIT “The duel from which Superman emerges triumphant is paralysing in its lack of excitement. ” – Guardian Jul 2, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid (1984) 81% EDIT “There isn't much conviction elsewhere in the confection.” – Guardian May 27, 2025 Full Review The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) 39% EDIT “Robbins’ handling is a satisfying combination of precision and dynamism. The end result... offers a cheering reminder that Hollywood is still capable of elevating formula material without inflating it.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “The camerawork underpins the movie's style of graphic abstraction, framing Robert De Niro's resonant chameleon impersonation of La Motta with the emblematic force of a Goya etching. ” – Guardian Oct 10, 2023 Full Review The Pornographers (1966) 100% EDIT “By any standards there is no gainsaying the distinctiveness of the black-and-white scope composition, nor the quirky engagement with the outlandish subject matter.” – Guardian May 3, 2023 Full Review The Great Muppet Caper (1981) 78% EDIT “More traditional family fare is served up by The Great Muppet Caper, which -- though it is somewhat thinly spread over 96 minutes -- contrives, to tolerably engaging effect, to involve the garishly cuddlesome creatures in a farcical live-action anecdote.” – Guardian May 3, 2023 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% EDIT “The casual plotting that might have passed muster in the ramshackle context of an old Republic serial just won't support a two-hour super-production, and the disproportion between means and ends becomes increasingly tiresome and ultimately exasperating.” – Guardian May 3, 2023 Full Review Hudson Hawk (1991) 30% EDIT “[Hudson Hawk] seems able to provide little more than maladroit slapstick, mainly entailing graphic injuries, and reams of repartee whose sole distinction is to prove definitively that actors are incapable of dying from embarrassment. ” – Guardian Feb 28, 2023 Full Review Thelma & Louise (1991) 87% EDIT “The apocalyptic ending seems more fabricated than inevitable. All the same, sheer command lifts Thelma and Louise well clear of the commercial norm. ” – Guardian Feb 28, 2023 Full Review Carnival of Souls (1962) 87% EDIT “It is the limited B-picture format which gives the film some of its distinctiveness, for better as well as worse. ” – Guardian Sep 23, 2022 Full Review Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 85% EDIT “For all its pleasing moments of humour, the film seems to be held in the clutches of a rather questionable nostalgia. When near the end the matron confides to the chauffeur that he is the nearest thing she has to a friend, we cannot quite believe her.” – Guardian Jul 26, 2022 Full Review Critters (1986) 52% EDIT “The picture provides a fair amount of knockabout fun, with some sprightly incidental jokes of a suitably unsubtle variety.” – Guardian Oct 27, 2021 Full Review Round Midnight (1986) 100% EDIT “A wonderfully detailed performance by a real jazz musician, Dexter Gordon.” – Guardian Oct 27, 2021 Full Review Crossover Dreams (1985) 60% EDIT “It would take more than some gleaming nocturnal cinematography and one or two sharp observations to invest any genuine interest in the posturing numbskull of a protagonist.” – Guardian Oct 27, 2021 Full Review A Shock to the System (1990) 70% EDIT “An expert, enjoyable comedy-thriller, giving Michael Caine the chance to remind us that there is nobody with a surer touch when it comes to maximising the potential of a sardonic script.” – Guardian Apr 9, 2021 Full Review Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) 35% EDIT “Gilded by personable performances, particularly from [Christina Applegate and Josh Charles], this wish-fulfilling fantasy manages to be wholeheartedly ridiculous in a manner that leaves criticism disarmed.” – Guardian Mar 13, 2021 Full Review Def by Temptation (1990) 76% EDIT “After a tolerably promising start the strain involved in parodying material that is to begin with essentially parodic increasingly betrays strain.” – Guardian Mar 13, 2021 Full Review Wayne's World (1992) 79% EDIT “The characters created by Myers and Carvey appear juvenile in the fullest sense.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2021 Full Review Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1975) 85% EDIT “Its characters are constantly individualised, in the writing (the script is by [Alain] Tanner and John Berger) as well as through the performances Tanner draws from his remarkable cast.” – Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Hair (1979) 83% EDIT “As it is, Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant - a film whose situations and even imagery Hair several times calls to mind - offers from its contemporary vantage-point a far more reflective impression of late-60s counterculture.” – Sight & Sound Mar 17, 2020 Full Review All of Me (1984) 85% EDIT “Once the body-snare joke is under way, however, invention tends to flag and much of the ensuing humour explores the realms of fairly obvious smut -- brightly enough managed, though, if yon have a weakness for that.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2020 Full Review Ms. 45 (1981) 86% EDIT “No surplus exposition here, but not much surplus sense either.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2020 Full Review Water (1985) 0% EDIT “At least, as the harassed governor, Michael Caine displays his customary practised ease; Caine could do this sort of thing standing on his head, and on this occasion might have.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2020 Full Review
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