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Jim Ross

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Biography:

Jim is a Scottish film critic based near London. He has been the lead critic at TAKE ONE Magazine (TAKEONECinema.net) since 2011, stepping up from Managing Editor to Editor-in-Chief in 2022. He has contributed to Film Inquiry, Cultured Vultures, Vague Visages, Little White Lies, and others, covering festivals worldwide, including multiple editions of Sundance, Tribeca, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Cambridge. Jim has produced, hosted, and edited film-focused radio shows on Cambridge 105FM and Edinburgh’s EH-FM, and co-hosts the ‘TAKE ONE Presents…’ podcast series online. He has worked with several film festivals, including the Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge African Film Festival and Edinburgh Short Film Festival, as part of programming teams and jury panels.

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The Brutalist (2024) 93% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Feb 19, 2025 Full Review On Falling (2024) 94% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% “...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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Jan 14, 2025 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Rumours (2024) 75% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Dec 4, 2024 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% “...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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Nov 27, 2024 Full Review The Assessment (2024) 82% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Nov 13, 2024 Full Review Santosh (2024) 100% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Nov 12, 2024 Full Review 2073 (2024) 48% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Nov 5, 2024 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 53% “...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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Oct 24, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% “CONCLAVE is an intelligently constructed film, where embellishments to its surface-level thriller mystery allow for its transubstantiation into an altar for broader themes.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 45% “"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."” – TAKE ONE Magazine Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Oct 7, 2024 Full Review Sujo (2024) 93% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Sep 23, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Starve Acre (2023) 83% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% “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.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% “"DUNE: PART TWO improves on its predecessor in some crucial ways, but the reliance on spectacle leaves gaps in the storytelling and a frustratingly ephemeral interest in the most interesting ideas the film brings forward."” – TAKE ONE Magazine Mar 15, 2024 Full Review The Iron Claw (2023) 89% “McCallany's intransigent role as Fritz will undoubtedly position one of the twenty-first century’s social bêtes noires - toxic masculinity - as the 'heel' of the piece. However, THE IRON CLAW plays with strands beyond this...” – TAKE ONE Magazine Mar 2, 2024 Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% “AMERICAN FICTION never feels as cutting as it could be [but is] witty, with sharp characters, and the engaging performances from Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown are the best vehicles for the script's funnier and more keenly observed moments.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Feb 2, 2024 Full Review All of Us Strangers (2023) 96% “ALL OF US STRANGERS [...] evokes the potency of storytelling when it collides with our memories of those who loved us, [demonstrating] the desire to determine the unknowable when combining our possible paths through life & those we lost along the way.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Feb 2, 2024 Full Review Priscilla (2023) 84% “There isn’t a female-coded word which seems to encapsulate quite the same thing as ‘emasculating’ for Priscilla’s story here, [but] the greatest strength of PRISCILLA is in communicating that story outside the constriction of patriarchal language.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Jan 16, 2024 Full Review Fingernails (2023) 60% “FINGERNAILS does have something to say about modernity's continual perversion of the human experience and the need to dissect, categorise, and package it. Romance is far from dead, but FINGERNAILS takes a forlorn look at what might kill it.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Nov 27, 2023 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% “[KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON's strengths are] utilised to underscore the dysfunction of America as a result of the pursuit of wealth; the warping of ambition into exploitation, ingenuity into criminality, and dreams into delusions.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Oct 20, 2023 Full Review
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