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Nick Curtis

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Nick Curtis is The Standard’s chief theatre critic, co-host of the Standard Theatre Podcast, a feature writer, and an award-winning interviewer. Although he has written predominantly for the Standard for three decades his work has also appeared in most major English newspapers and magazines from Radio Times to Tatler to GQ.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% 2/5 “All the old cast is back together, with some lubricious young blood pumped in, and there’s a half-hearted attempt to move the emotional dial forwards to confront age and loss. ” – London Evening Standard Feb 14, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 4/5 “This is an extraordinary performance, far deeper than an impersonation, that charts the progress of the singer-songwriter, the music scene he entered and altered, and events in the wider world during times that were urgently a’changin’.” – London Evening Standard Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 59% 2/5 “Completely barking. ” – London Evening Standard Dec 7, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% 3/5 “It's a visually ravishing, emotionally freighted vehicle for the prodigious vocal and considerable acting talents of Cynthia Erivo as the shunned, green-skinned Elphaba and Ariana Grande as the vacuously beautiful Galinda/Glinda.” – London Evening Standard Nov 20, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 4/5 “Ridley Scott, we salute you.” – London Evening Standard Nov 12, 2024 Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% 2/5 “This one, directed by Dougal Wilson, feels ponderous and slow. The slapstick scrapes Paddington gets into are effortful and all the scripted jokes are painstakingly explained, as if younger audience members are dim. ” – London Evening Standard Nov 4, 2024 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% 3/5 “It's an unflinching, detailed character study, but Hard Truths is hard work. ” – London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2024 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% 4/5 “Blitz is a series of beautifully composed episodes, methodical rather than pacy. ” – London Evening Standard Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Lost in London (2017) 75% 3/5 “Laced with self-mockery, it's very funny, and far better than we had any right to expect.” – London Evening Standard Jan 22, 2017 Full Review Iron Man (2008) 94% “There's a satisfyingly climactic CGI battle, but Downey Jr tops it in the witty denouement with pure acting skill.” – London Evening Standard Jun 9, 2015 Full Review The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 71% 2/5 “Shame. We finally get a British superhero, and he's a bit boring.” – London Evening Standard Jun 19, 2012 Full Review One Day (2011) 37% 2/5 “The film falls into every trap of literary adaptation. It's rushed, superficial, unmoving, full of characters explaining the plot to one another.” – London Evening Standard Aug 17, 2011 Full Review Never Let Me Go (2010) 71% 3/5 “Like all the best sci-fi, it's about how we live now, rather than the future.” – London Evening Standard Oct 13, 2010 Full Review The A-Team (2010) 48% 3/5 “Joe Carnahan's movie is loud and vulgar and disorienting, but also an exhilarating kind of fun.” – London Evening Standard Aug 3, 2010 Full Review Kick-Ass (2010) 78% 4/5 “Kick-Ass succinctly deflates Spider-Man style solemnity: "With no power comes no responsibility." It is blissfully, outrageously funny.” – London Evening Standard Mar 25, 2010 Full Review Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) 96% 4/5 “If art-prankster Banksy's first film is a hoax, as it just might be, it's an extremely complex and clever one. With echoes of the Frankenstein story.” – London Evening Standard Mar 5, 2010 Full Review Sherlock Holmes (2009) 70% 3/5 “The film is Ritchie's most coherent bit of storytelling. The tone is light but not facetious and the pace would be hectic if there weren't so many humdrum lacunae.” – London Evening Standard Dec 16, 2009 Full Review Avatar (2009) 81% 4/5 “The detail, the depth, the jaw-dropping boldness of Avatar simply bowl you over.” – London Evening Standard Dec 11, 2009 Full Review Nowhere Boy (2009) 81% 4/5 “Nowhere Boy has striking emotional depth, a spot-on sense of period, and a central performance of remarkable texture and nuance from newcomer Aaron Johnson.” – London Evening Standard Oct 30, 2009 Full Review The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) 64% 3/5 “A triumph. That Dr Parnassus was finished at all following the death mid-shoot of its star Heath Ledger is impressive. That it hangs together as a striking work of fantasy is truly remarkable.” – London Evening Standard Oct 16, 2009 Full Review Up (2009) 98% 4/5 “Up matches or surpasses Pixar's previous hits like Toy Story, Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo. It shares their joyousness and visual flair, but for all its flights of fancy is more firmly rooted in the real, human world.” – London Evening Standard Oct 9, 2009 Full Review Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) 83% 3/5 “For all the raging teenage hormones stirred into the usual potion of magic and adventure, the sixth instalment of the Harry Potter saga is a slickly unemotional affair.” – London Evening Standard Jul 10, 2009 Full Review The Dark Knight (2008) 94% 4/5 “[Ledger's] manic zest gives the film its energy.” – London Evening Standard Jul 25, 2008 Full Review Satan (2006) 56% 1/5 “Despite the air of brutish aggression and sexual predatoriness, little happens until gory retribution finally rears its head.” – London Evening Standard Feb 23, 2007 Full Review Because I Said So (2007) 3% 0/5 “Treats women like idiots and men like inflatable sex toys.” – London Evening Standard Feb 16, 2007 Full Review
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