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Sebastian Scotney

Sebastian Scotney's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024) 67% 3/5 “...in choosing to portray [Bonhoeffer] above all as a saintly hero who has the disadvantage of speaking his lines in a second language, the message of what Bonhoeffer stood for has been diluted. ” – The Arts Desk Mar 10, 2025 Full Review The Second Act (2024) 74% 4/5 “Dupieux knocks this conceit about and has some real fun with it. Since Seydoux, Lindon, Garrel, and Quenard are fixtures on French screens, Dupieux's sense of mischief leads him to riff on their celebrity. ” – The Arts Desk Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) 97% 3/5 “There are resonant stories and great music to be heard in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, but its 150-minute running time is too demanding for anyone who isn't already a student of decolonialism in Africa.” – The Arts Desk Nov 17, 2024 Full Review Lies We Tell (2023) 100% 4/5 “The film's strength is its patient, cunning building of irresistible crackling tension as cruelty and fear become the dominant forces. This is achieved with such wonderful pacing that the denouement, when it comes, inevitably seems a bit rushed.” – The Arts Desk Oct 16, 2023 Full Review Apocalypse Clown (2023) 83% 4/5 “The quickfire gags of the delightfully mad Apocalypse Clown are performed by an ensemble of well-cast actors playing engagingly wacky characters. It is impossible not to be drawn in by all the fun they're having.” – The Arts Desk Sep 2, 2023 Full Review The Beasts (2022) 99% 4/5 “The Beasts is all of two hours and 17 minutes long, and yet to look away is never an option. Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen reels the viewer in masterfully as he builds tension and suspense.” – The Arts Desk Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Champions (2023) 59% 3/5 “Mirth these days simply can't be as unguarded as it was in the 1990s. If one accepts the world is a different place, champion laughs are easy enough to come by.” – The Arts Desk Mar 15, 2023 Full Review Oscar Peterson: Black + White (2020) 73% 4/5 “The film is all about the glory of Peterson’s music. It is not only what underpins and carries the story when this film is at its best, it's also what lasts.” – The Arts Desk Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel (2022) 69% 3/5 “Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel is a slightly rambling portrait of the very end of an era. An uneven film, it is nonetheless fascinating for the questions it raises and the thoughts it provokes.” – The Arts Desk Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Hold Me Tight (2021) 86% 4/5 “It's a film that asks to be felt and experienced rather than pored over. The power and honesty of Krieps's performance demands that it be experienced more than once.” – The Arts Desk Dec 12, 2022 Full Review Juniper (2021) 94% 4/5 “Juniper provides, above all, an absolutely unforgettable role for Charlotte Rampling... It is surely Rampling's strongest and best role since she played Sarah Morton in Francois Ozon’s The Swimming Pool (2003).” – The Arts Desk Sep 26, 2022 Full Review Bloody Oranges (2021) 75% 3/5 “Bloody Oranges has been described as a comedy. To me that brought to mind a line from Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: “I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.” It sums up a very uneven film.” – The Arts Desk Sep 19, 2022 Full Review Official Competition (2021) 96% 2/5 “Official Competition is being touted as “biting satire”. But herein lies a problem. None of the characters has been drawn to create any empathy, while the script feels bitty, giving us a series of point-proving pay-offs. ” – The Arts Desk Aug 26, 2022 Full Review Our Eternal Summer (2021) 4/5 “At its best, Our Eternal Summer is highly affecting in the way it shows the impact the ordeal has on these young people. We see how -- drawn together in a combination of need, affection and desire -- they are deepened as individuals. ” – The Arts Desk Aug 5, 2022 Full Review The Good Boss (2021) 92% 3/5 “The Good Boss is designed to be an acting tour de force for Bardem, and it's certainly that... It's a memorably dominating performance.” – The Arts Desk Jul 19, 2022 Full Review The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) 87% 4/5 “The script, by director Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, definitely has enough comic intent -- and our hero himself has enough self-ironicising lightness -- to propel a compulsively switchbacking wacko plot and win the viewer over.” – The Arts Desk Apr 22, 2022 Full Review Great Freedom (2021) 97% 4/5 “This is an important film, and a distinctive -- if essentially dark -- addition to the canon of movies set in prisons.” – The Arts Desk Mar 14, 2022 Full Review The Duke (2020) 97% 5/5 “The pacing is superb, and there isn’t a single wasted frame. Broadbent as Bunton is impossible to dislike and inevitably leaves the viewer with a smile. ” – The Arts Desk Feb 25, 2022 Full Review Wilderness (2020) 4/5 “Wilderness has close-ups. And intimacy. And glorious empty beaches.” – The Arts Desk Apr 19, 2021 Full Review Ronnie's (2020) 100% 4/5 “Oliver Murray's documentary film Ronnie's is an affectionate and portrait of him and of the jazz club he founded.” – The Arts Desk Nov 26, 2020 Full Review 4/5 “A fascinating aspect is the presence of considered and authentic voices assessing their own pasts.” – The Arts Desk Aug 23, 2019 Full Review
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