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Toby Young

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Home (2008) 93% 3/5 EDIT “It would have been more effective if Meier had exercised less restraint and allowed her characters to spin out of control.” – The Times (UK) Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Alpha (2018) 80% 3/5 EDIT “The cinematography is breathtaking and Smit-McPhee gives a solid performance, but the sense of being on an epic adventure never quite takes flight, perhaps because it lacks a villain.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 24, 2018 Full Review The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) 49% 3/5 EDIT “The Spy Who Dumped Me keeps the jokes coming at a mile-a-minute and they miss the target almost as often as Kunis and McKinnon do when they're firing their guns. But just enough of them land to make the film quite amusing.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 24, 2018 Full Review Luis and the Aliens (2018) 24% 2/5 EDIT “Best thing about it is its running time of less than 90 minutes.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 24, 2018 Full Review The King (2017) 77% 2/5 EDIT “The King is a workmanlike documentary about the late Elvis Presley, but struggles to find anything new to say about the much-raked-over rock 'n' roll legend.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 24, 2018 Full Review The Children Act (2017) 74% 2/5 EDIT “The Children Act could do with a healthy dose of vulgarity, including cakes and ale.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 24, 2018 Full Review BlacKkKlansman (2018) 96% 2/5 EDIT “By trying to stir audiences into righteous indignation about race, Spike Lee fails to include elements that might make his film entertaining - such as plot, character development, romance, action and suspense.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 24, 2018 Full Review The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) 68% 2/5 EDIT “Ritchie clearly thinks he's made a classy espionage caper in the same mould as North By Northwest, but he lacks Alfred Hitchcock's understanding of the need to combine humour with suspense.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 13, 2015 Full Review Paper Towns (2015) 58% EDIT “A satisfying coming-of-age drama that manages to avoid being too mawkish.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 13, 2015 Full Review Fantastic Four (2015) 9% 1/5 EDIT “The witty dialogue and knowing humour of films like Iron Man and Guardians Of The Galaxy is completely absent here.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 13, 2015 Full Review Max (2015) 37% 3/5 EDIT “I wasn't expecting to like Max - it's the story of a military-trained dog that is shipped back to America after his handler is killed in action - but it's surprisingly enjoyable.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 13, 2015 Full Review Manglehorn (2014) 50% EDIT “You can tell Pacino is committed to the role because he hasn't washed his hair.” – Daily Mail (UK) Aug 13, 2015 Full Review Bridesmaids (2011) 89% EDIT “Kristen Wiig deserves much of the credit for Bridesmaids, but the laurels belong to Judd Apatow. He is the Billy Wilder of contemporary Hollywood and Bridesmaids is his Some Like It Hot.” – The Spectator Jun 30, 2015 Full Review The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) 92% EDIT “Unsuspecting punters may think, 'Well, I've seen the first two, so I might as well find out how the story ends' -- but, if so, they're going to be disappointed.” – The Spectator Jun 23, 2015 Full Review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) 96% EDIT “I must confess to being completely unmoved by the Harry Potter phenomenon. The books strike me as derivative and bland, and the film versions are, if anything, even worse.” – The Spectator Nov 18, 2014 Full Review The White Ribbon (2009) 85% 4/5 EDIT “The message of this disturbing, nihilistic film is that we're all Nazis at heart.” – The Times (UK) Nov 13, 2009 Full Review We Live in Public (2009) 80% 2/5 EDIT “Mercifully, Harris has now run out of money, but I fear we haven't heard the last of him.” – The Times (UK) Nov 13, 2009 Full Review Taking Woodstock (2009) 47% 2/5 EDIT “A rare misfire for the usually reliable Lee.” – The Times (UK) Nov 13, 2009 Full Review Cold Souls (2009) 75% 2/5 EDIT “The writer-director Sophie Barthes does her best to keep things moving, but the film runs out of steam about halfway through.” – The Times (UK) Nov 13, 2009 Full Review Amelia (2009) 19% 1/5 EDIT “Hilary Swank is forced to deliver dialogue that sounds as if it was written in Chinese and then translated into English by a computer.” – The Times (UK) Nov 13, 2009 Full Review The Horseman (2008) 57% 4/5 EDIT “For a revenge thriller, The Horseman strays dangerously close to "torture porn" territory, but it's so well made that you're almost willing to excuse the gratuitous close-ups.” – The Times (UK) Oct 30, 2009 Full Review Citizen Kane (1941) 99% 4/5 EDIT “There's no denying that [Welles's] bravura performance, both in front of the camera and behind it, is spellbindingly effective.” – The Times (UK) Oct 30, 2009 Full Review An Education (2009) 93% 5/5 EDIT “This is a wonderful, life-affirming picture that deserves all the prizes it will undoubtedly win. I can't call it the best British film of the year because it's still only October. But I'd be amazed if a better one comes along.” – The Times (UK) Oct 30, 2009 Full Review An American Werewolf in London (1981) 89% 3/5 EDIT “But in a "comedy horror" picture, the "horror" bits aren't supposed to be this scary. He would have been better off dispensing with the comedy altogether.” – The Times (UK) Oct 30, 2009 Full Review The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. (2009) 26% 0/5 EDIT “It isn't merely bad, it makes you want to clamp your hands to either side of your face and do an impersonation of The Scream.” – The Times (UK) Oct 23, 2009 Full Review
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