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Dan Jolin

Dan Jolin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Empire Magazine film critic

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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 61% “Christensen proves incapable of making Anakin’s turmoil seem much more than an adolescent strop, while his love scenes with Portman are rendered boring by Lucas’ clumsy handling. ” – Total Film Apr 22, 2025 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% 3/5 “Aka ‘The Odyssey: The Bits Without The Monsters’. Not that that should put you off, as Binoche and Fiennes bring some raw, fleshy humanity to this mythic text, giving it a modern twist that balances the film’s flaws.” – Empire Magazine Apr 15, 2025 Full Review A Minecraft Movie (2025) 48% 2/5 “A hyperactive hot-pink mess of a movie, which fails to elevate its cubic source material and revels in that failure like it’s achieving something.” – Empire Magazine Apr 5, 2025 Full Review The Gorge (2025) 63% 3/5 “The spirit of the drive-in is strong in this trashy mash-up, though it’s best appreciated as an unlikely romance, where love and poetry somehow blossom amid heavy gunfire and monster rampages.” – Empire Magazine Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% “Tarzan pushes the non-CG cartoon to new heights. They say the jungle never sleeps, but in this movie it simply never stays still; every leaf, vine and branch has a life of its own. ” – Total Film Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) 56% 3/5 “If the intention was to distract younger audience members with some inoffensive and well-meaning adventure, the movie delivers. It’s a shame Jenkins wasn’t able to personalise it more, but, as they say, that’s just the nature of the beast.” – Empire Magazine Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Juror #2 (2024) 93% 4/5 “A deeply involving and thought-provoking new spin on the genre, which serves up a ripe moral quandary that goes deeper than anything John Grisham ever managed. ” – Time Out Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) 37% 2/5 “Valiant though this low-budget attempt to reclaim Hellboy may be, it sadly lacks the storytelling and stylistic savvy to rise above its all-too-obvious budgetary limitations.” – Empire Magazine Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 57% “Hartnett does his best, but director Shyamalan seems more interested in trying to convince us of his daughter's pop-star credentials.” – Empire Magazine Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Borderlands (2024) 10% 2/5 “Borderlands so wants to be Guardians Of The Galaxy... But it doesn’t come close.” – Empire Magazine Aug 8, 2024 Full Review The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) 86% 3/5 “A Western that hits many of the expected beats but which does so in an unexpected manner, being centred on a tender, loving relationship rather than gunplay and grit.” – Empire Magazine Jun 7, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 43% “Planet Of The Apes will disappoint anyone who either loved the original or who’s expecting to see a Tim Burton movie. Great make-up and costumes ain’t enough to excuse a shoddy plot and a stinker of an ending.” – Total Film Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver (2024) 16% 2/5 “Marginally better than Part One, but still a weird, messy and humourless sci-fi that gives you little reason to cheer the potential continuation of this Snyderverse.” – Empire Magazine Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Three Musketeers: Part II - Milady (2023) 86% 4/5 “If you loved D'Artagnan, you won't be let down by Milady. If you've not seen D'Artagnan, then get ready to enjoy the year's best non-Barbenheinmer double bill.” – Empire Magazine Nov 27, 2023 Full Review The Lesson (2023) 77% 3/5 “Nobody here watches the telly, or uses a smartphone, or listens to music composed in the last 80 years. It leaves the film feeling like it’s lacking some vital texture – those little unexpected details that give characters life.” – Time Out Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Blue Beetle (2023) 78% 3/5 “In broad story-and-action terms, there really isn’t much here that feels fresh... But Blue Beetle makes one smart decision that saves its shiny cerulean ass: it brings Jaime’s family along for the ride.” – Empire Magazine Aug 17, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% 5/5 “A masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level. A film that you don’t merely watch, but must reckon with.” – Empire Magazine Jul 19, 2023 Full Review Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) 51% 2/5 “Don’t even get us started on its flagrant and clumsy attempt to set up a Hasbro Cinematic Universe.” – Empire Magazine Jun 7, 2023 Full Review Fast X (2023) 57% 3/5 “It's a film that somehow finds new and fabulously silly things to do with cars, while — Momoa’s questionable villain aside — being exactly what you’d expect.” – Empire Magazine May 17, 2023 Full Review Tetris (2023) 81% 3/5 “While it never quite swims beyond the shallows of its money-minded plot, this fictionalised account of the licensing battle over hit puzzle game Tetris is, for the most part, absorbing and exuberant.” – Empire Magazine Mar 16, 2023 Full Review The Pale Blue Eye (2022) 63% 2/5 “A handsome murder mystery with a neat literary twist and an impressive turn from Harry Melling, but which is overcast by the gloominess of its protagonist and the implausibility of its revelations.” – Empire Magazine Dec 22, 2022 Full Review The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 96% 4/5 “Another great feel-bad treat from Martin McDonagh, featuring one of Colin Farrell’s best performances yet as a guy trying (and failing) to deal with the fallout of a falling out.” – Empire Magazine Sep 6, 2022 Full Review The Black Phone (2022) 81% 3/5 “The narrative is unadventurous, and anyone looking for any neat twists will be disappointed, but the performances are strong – Hawke will leave you in no doubt of his flair for villainy.” – Time Out Jun 23, 2022 Full Review Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 94% 4/5 “The Daniels juggle silly gags and weird visuals like cackling Dadaists.” – Time Out May 4, 2022 Full Review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 74% 4/5 “Marvel's most deranged and energetic movie yet, as much of a winning comeback for director Sam Raimi as it is a mega-budget exercise in universal stakes-raising.” – Empire Magazine May 3, 2022 Full Review
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