Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows
Critics list

Gilbert Adair

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

Reviews

Movies 온라인카지노추천 Shows
The Apple (1998) 85% “It's an incomparably moving experience.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 30, 2021 Full Review Fellini's Casanova (1976) 58% “Donald Sutherland commands a stunning array of gestures both precise and revealing...an extraordinarily physical performance and the gem of this flawed masterpiece.” – Sight & Sound Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Empire of the Sun (1987) 77% “What is most remarkable about Empire of the Sun then, is the almost seamless fashion in which a faithful adaptation... has nevertheless contrived to become a proto-Spielbergian affirmation of faith and optimism in the universe.” – Sight & Sound Jan 28, 2020 Full Review High Hopes (1988) 92% “Cyril and Shirley both have and are the high hopes of Leigh's title, which is absolutely not ironic; and theirs is a story of grace under pressure.” – Sight & Sound Jan 16, 2020 Full Review What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018) 88% 6 “World's on Fire never manages to bring the different elements of the narrative together. It's neither truly immersive nor is it able to establish a critical distance from its subjects” – Sight & Sound Nov 15, 2019 Full Review Young Ahmed (2019) 58% 6 “In the film's slightness as well as its focus on a young boy, Young Ahmed calls to mind The Kid with a Bike, previously the brothers' shortest, loosest movie.” – Sight & Sound May 22, 2019 Full Review Dead Man (1995) 69% “[It's a] bizarre, funny, almost mystical take on the Western” – Time Out Nov 9, 2018 Full Review Tea With Mussolini (1999) 64% “It's a lazy, thoroughly old- fashioned entertainment... Yet it's also unexpectedly watchable and unpretentious -- campy, too, if you're into that kind of thing -- and it communicates a sense that everyone involved had a super time making it.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Bulworth (1998) 76% “Beatty is to be congratulated on even attempting to prick America's conscience in these conservative times, but the real reason for seeing it is the panache with which it captures the irresistible flash and filigree of American politics.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Crna macka, beli macor (1998) 82% “It's like a novel written entirely in italics, every single sentence of which ends with an exclamation mark. As there are people of whom it's said that they don't know their own strength, Kusturica is a film-maker who doesn't know his own brilliance.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% “From the ridiculous title, with those two M's gummily stuck together in the middle, to the uniformly atrocious performances, from the incomprehensible plot to the sluggish pacing, The Phantom Menace is an unsalvageable disaster.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Idiots (1998) 72% “Not everyone's cup of tea and, indeed, not a cup of tea at all, but one of those extremely rare films that aren't content to leave the cinema as they found it.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review In the Mood for Love (2000) 92% “The problem with In the Mood for Love is that its imagery has far too many face-cards and not enough twos and fives and eights, which, boring as they are, nevertheless constitute the indispensable nitty-gritty of narrative.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Memento (2000) 94% “If the prospect of having to do some of the work yourself doesn't alarm you, then Nolan's first American film is well worth catching, a thriller which is for once authentically Borgesian, to use an overworked qualifier.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review All About My Mother (1999) 98% “It's the film we, Almodvar's faithful fans, have been waiting for, the film we knew he had, as they say, in him.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 70% “It's a masterpiece, still the most convincing representation of human cruelty in the history of the cinema.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review The Mask of Zorro (1998) 84% “The problem with Martin Campbell's new movie is that, even though by no means a disgrace, it's finally just another inflated big nothing.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Fight Club (1999) 81% “Just when it's supposedly getting to grips with its theme, the movie goes utterly haywire and becomes yet another brainless, humourless bone-cruncher.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Being John Malkovich (1999) 94% “It's a film, indeed, of such jaw-dropping originality that its flaws -- and it definitely has some -- count for far less than they otherwise would.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 86% “It's one of those meant-to-be films whose refutation of every conceivable criticism has been pre-programmed into the work itself.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Aprile (1998) “There's really no getting away from it. As an actor, Moretti is a ham. Parma ham, maybe, but ham nevertheless.” – Independent on Sunday Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Sextette (1978) 25% “Sextette is, of course, a bad film, shakily acted, carelessly written (from "a play by Mae West") and directed without an iota of style by Ken Hughes. What is striking, however, is the wholly relative degree of its badness.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 12, 2017 Full Review City on Fire (1979) “The attractions of City on Fire may be encapsulated thus: Fire destroys city. Not many stars killed. Except that 'dull', as criticism, scarcely does justice to the ludicrous contrivance of this disaster movie.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Aug 2, 2015 Full Review The Dogs of War (1980) 70% “Completing the tableau is the requisite whiff of Boy's Own Fascism, too diffuse to spoil our entertainment but tangible nevertheless.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Aug 2, 2015 Full Review Moment by Moment (1978) 22% “Critics are fond of attributing a film's badness to some hypothetical computer: this truly terrible movie might have been made by HAL in his most maudlin "Bicycle-built-for-two" mood, as the plugs were being pulled out.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Aug 2, 2015 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More