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Matthew De Abaitua

Matthew De Abaitua's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Sign 'o' the Times (1987) 82% “Sign 'O' The Times is Prince at his commercial and critical peak, a life-affirming playground of music and sex. It is also Prince at his friendliest.” – Film4 Apr 25, 2016 Full Review Children of Men (2006) 92% “Classic dystopian British science fiction that draws powerful and moving parallels to the state of the world.” – Film4 Apr 1, 2015 Full Review Daredevil (2003) 43% “For all its clichs, it has a cracking third act, helped by doses of 15-rated violence.” – Film4 Oct 19, 2012 Full Review Up (2009) 98% 5/5 “The creative leadership of the Pixar team restores clarity, simplicity, and courage to storytelling, establishing a daunting gold standard for family films.” – Film4 Oct 9, 2009 Full Review Moon (2009) 90% 4/5 “Moon could do with a heftier dose of weird, but the disciplined storytelling and direction bodes well for director Duncan Jones.” – Film4 Jul 17, 2009 Full Review Brüno (2009) 68% 4/5 “Brüno is thrillingly funny, establishing Sacha Baron Cohen as a comedian willing to go further than any other to show us what needs to be shown.” – Film4 Jul 10, 2009 Full Review Synecdoche, New York (2008) 69% 5/5 “A soul-altering, heart-changing, brain-transplanting masterpiece.” – Film4 May 15, 2009 Full Review Star Trek (2009) 94% “It's Star Trek, Jim, but not as we have known it. A masterclass in how to rebrand and relaunch a franchise. Sign us up for more alien girls, punch-ups, phasers, photons and misbehaving black holes.” – Film4 May 8, 2009 Full Review Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) 38% 2/5 “The geek exodus from Star Trek will continue with this middling movie, a cheapo space battle that has all the cool allure of a disco-dancing Dad.” – Film4 May 3, 2009 Full Review In the Loop (2009) 94% 4/5 “A devastating insight into the desperate state of functionaries in a technocracy.” – Film4 Apr 17, 2009 Full Review Watchmen (2009) 65% 2/5 “The makers, marketers and producers of Watchmen have worked so hard to keep this community happy that they have lost sight of what makes a film truly exciting: our emotional engagement with the characters and their story.” – Film4 Mar 7, 2009 Full Review The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 72% 5/5 “An unusual conceit brilliantly executed. A moving work of golden fantasy poised just above the dark waters of our own mortality.” – Film4 Feb 5, 2009 Full Review Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) 75% 2/5 “Could have been Ferris Bueller's Night Out but it's not even close.” – Film4 Jan 30, 2009 Full Review Valkyrie (2008) 62% 3/5 “Valkyrie's technique is admirable but it misses the mark emotionally.” – Film4 Jan 23, 2009 Full Review Collateral (2004) 86% 3/5 “Awesome vision and a compellingly villainous Tom Cruise save this cool contemporary noir from its lukewarm patches.” – Film4 Dec 21, 2008 Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) 21% 1.5/5 “It's not good enough, at this point in the game, to serve up this collection of cliches and expect anyone to be fooled or entertained by it for a minute.” – Film4 Dec 12, 2008 Full Review Of Time and the City (2008) 93% 5/5 “A masterpiece. Davies demonstrates how art achieves the universal from the particular.” – Film4 Oct 30, 2008 Full Review Hunger (2008) 90% 5/5 “Intense, disturbing and powerful mix of vision and detail: a recreation of a terrible time combined with a vivid and distinctive artistic sensibility. Truly powerful filmmaking.” – Film4 Oct 30, 2008 Full Review High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) 64% 1.5/5 “It has all the exquisite tension of dithering over whether to have the cake or the ice cream.” – Film4 Oct 24, 2008 Full Review Burn After Reading (2008) 78% 2/5 “Halfway between a good Coen brothers movie and a terrible Coen brothers movie.” – Times (UK) Oct 17, 2008 Full Review V for Vendetta (2005) 73% 3/5 “Contentious, pretentious but with a great last 20 minutes.” – Film4 Oct 14, 2008 Full Review Broken Flowers (2005) 87% “Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth.” – Film4 Oct 5, 2008 Full Review Righteous Kill (2008) 18% 1/5 “Scenes come and go in clouds of confusion, flashbacks and cutaways leaping in and out of the action like misbehaving children, but a moral stink persists.” – Film4 Sep 26, 2008 Full Review World Trade Center (2006) 66% 3/5 “A tentative mixture of tearjerker and disaster movie, cautious due to the requirement that it bear witness to the true-life heroism, staying within the tonal range that is sanctioned for American films depicting 9/11.” – Film4 Sep 19, 2008 Full Review Tropic Thunder (2008) 82% 3.5/5 “Patchy but Ben Stiller heaves mainstream Hollywood comedy out of its Will Ferrell-inspired rut.” – Film4 Sep 19, 2008 Full Review
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