Ryan Gilbey
Tomatometer-approved critic
Cottontail (2023)
85%
3/5
“The curse of Beatrix Potter-associated cinema is lifted, at least temporarily, by the debut feature from Patrick Dickinson, even if his picture’s relationship to Potter’s work is purely tangential.” –
Guardian
Feb 11, 2025
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Love Hurts (2025)
19%
2/5
“As Valentine’s Day treats go, however, Love Hurts is the cinematic equivalent of a wilted bouquet from a petrol station forecourt.” –
Guardian
Feb 6, 2025
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Scream 2 (1997)
82%
“All that Scream 2 can do is load yet more icing on to a cake already collapsing under the weight of its own over-abundant decoration. ” –
Independent (UK)
Feb 5, 2025
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Mulan (1998)
92%
“Easily the most satisfying animated feature from Disney since the studio's commercial rejuvenation at the start of this decade, and the film's success is also unusually illuminating; in getting so much right it identifies what has been going so wrong. ” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Hercules (1997)
83%
“Given that two of the screenwriters, Bob Shaw and Donald McEnery, have collaborated on episodes of Seinfeld, it's disappointing that the film is more cheeky than funny. But at least they succeed in making the story's themes relevant to a modern audience.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 18, 2024
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Pocahontas (1995)
58%
“For a film which has been heralded as painstakingly PC, Pocahontas's conscience stretches only to portraying American Indians as human beings which, in 1995, hardly qualifies as a particularly sophisticated perspective.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 17, 2024
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
98%
2/5
“Though the interviews with the Reeve children are poignant and insightful, directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui show no signs of trusting their material.” –
Guardian
Oct 31, 2024
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Juror #2 (2024)
93%
3/5
“Suspense is kept on a low flame but the film offers cosy pleasures, not least in the jury-room wrangles; one thing Henry Fonda never had to deal with in 12 Angry Men was the pernicious influence of true-crime podcasts.” –
Guardian
Oct 30, 2024
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The Penguin Lessons (2024)
80%
2/5
“There is a glass-half-full approach and then there is submerging reality so deeply in whimsy, sentimentality and cultural cliche that it needn’t be there at all. ” –
Guardian
Sep 7, 2024
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The Tango Lesson (1997)
50%
3/4
“The Tango Lesson proves beyond doubt that Potter is adept at breaking down established boundaries between artist and audience.” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997)
14%
“[An] infantile sex comedy.” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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A Merry War (1997)
69%
1/4
“The picture feels awfully insubstantial. ” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
7%
2/4
“Pesci's breathless psycho routine can be wearing, but the script offers the odd sparkling lines. ” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
64%
3/4
“It's the underrated Roy Schneider and the ever-brilliant Julianne Moore who really make this worth seeing. ” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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Under the Skin (1997)
90%
3/4
“At times, the atmosphere of claustrophobic sexual tension is overwhelming, but there's real sadness and sensitivity here, as well as a desperately poignant performance from Morton. ” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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One Night Stand (1997)
33%
3/4
“Instead of emotional hyperbole, Figgis strikes a paradoxical note of hushed melodrama.” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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Alien Resurrection (1997)
55%
4/4
“It's the same old story, but it has verve and pizzazz to spare. The progression of the character of Ripley is also ingenious. ” –
Independent (UK)
Aug 6, 2024
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blur: To The End (2024)
87%
3/5
“In place of the long-gone messiness that made Starshaped so compelling is a geezerish sentimental sheen, a look-how-far-we’ve-come self-regarding awe, which chimes with the title song but wears thin over 105 minutes rather than three. ” –
Guardian
Jul 17, 2024
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The Nature of Love (2023)
92%
3/5
“ It is a mark of Chokri’s desire to explore her characters’ moral murkiness that she shows the relationship stuttering past these red flags into areas comic and transgressive.” –
Guardian
Jul 1, 2024
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Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (2023)
83%
3/5
“Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt face off as two unlikely lovers whose families clash over progressiveness and tradition – culminating in a finale that out-pinks Barbie.” –
Guardian
Dec 20, 2023
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The Kill Room (2023)
59%
2/5
“Nicol Paone’s flat direction and Jonathan Jacobson’s listless screenplay leave the cast painting by numbers.” –
Guardian
Nov 22, 2023
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Butcher's Crossing (2022)
72%
2/5
“The film doesn’t really know what it is or who it’s for.” –
Guardian
Nov 1, 2023
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Nobody Has to Know (2021)
84%
3/5
“If this isn’t a film to set the heart racing, it doesn’t leave that organ entirely untroubled; with his script’s echoes of 40s weepie Random Harvest, Lanners is aiming for similar status.” –
Guardian
Oct 31, 2023
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Sumotherhood (2023)
42%
1/5
“A low point is reached early on when Ed Sheeran takes a dump in a hedge.” –
Guardian
Oct 12, 2023
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Awareness (2023)
13%
3/5
“Derivative it may be but Awareness moves along at a clip, layering double-crosses on top of alternate realities and implanted memories so that it hardly matters...” –
Guardian
Oct 10, 2023
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