Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Tár (2022)
91%
“Blanchett’s characterization of this Lydia Tár proves so thorough, so multifaceted in its dimensions, so believable, that it defies even the film’s most programmatic intentions.” –
The New York Review of Books
Dec 29, 2022
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The Clock (2010)
“The Clock is so monumental in intention and design that even the simplest things you can say about it need qualification.” –
The New York Review of Books
Feb 12, 2020
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
93%
“In terms of historical content, the film is neither quite honest nor quite true. That's a shame, because it's a great film.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Feb 12, 2020
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Munich (2005)
79%
“Eric Bana gives a performance that deserves something more serious than an Oscar. It's a sublimely convincing portrayal of a man who is travelling far from who he is in order to defend who he is.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Feb 12, 2020
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Casanova (2005)
45%
“Casanova is a silly film. Half Carry On, half Shakespearean comedy, everyone in it is perfectly nice and should reassemble to make a great Twelfth Night.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Feb 12, 2020
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Shopgirl (2005)
61%
“Steve Martin's script sneers at the vanity of fake LA girls and their plastic surgery. He is in no position to sneer.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 17, 2018
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
17%
“Tupac, you can sleep easy. Richard Pryor, watch out.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 17, 2018
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Proof (2005)
62%
“It's that breed of verbal swordplay that so impresses on stage while seeming so redundant and brittle on screen.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 17, 2018
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Brief Encounter (1945)
94%
“Lean's sad, buttoned-up account of unconsummated love is about all of us and our cautious natures.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 17, 2018
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The Weather Man (2005)
60%
“It's a deeply honest and comic performance and seems filled with all the genuine humiliations that one imagines Cage himself has suffered in the past 10 years.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 17, 2018
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Syriana (2005)
72%
“Syriana is an American movie that reaches out beyond itself. Watching it made me feel hopeful -- a rare sensation in a cinema.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 17, 2018
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
35%
“Memoirs of a Geisha hurts the heart and the brain with its crushing monotony, inert, sub-human dialogue and Marshall's calculated attempt to sell us another Hollywood fairytale of prostitution.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
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Date Movie (2006)
7%
“Date Movie is the worst movie I have ever seen. I really mean that.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
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Capote (2005)
89%
“It's the acting that sings, especially when Hoffman duets with luminous Catherine Keener, the lady with the loveliest laugh in film. Hoffman's writer is a self-serving egoist; Keener's a restrained, wise soul.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
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Grizzly Man (2005)
93%
“Herzog has his documentary in hand, explaining that what we have here "iz on astone-ishing story of beauty and depth". He's not wrong.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
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Walk the Line (2005)
83%
“Walk the Line -- although conspicuously well acted -- is really no different from previous efforts, and that's a good thing. It shares the charm of the (musical biopic) genre.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
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Tsotsi (2005)
82%
“The audience gasps in that odd mixture of surprise and recognition that great story-telling affords.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
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V for Vendetta (2005)
73%
“In the face of this film something adolescent in me surged to the surface and I mean that as a great compliment: adolescence is a state I hold in high regard.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
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The Social Network (2010)
96%
“In The Social Network Generation Facebook gets a movie almost worthy of them, and this fact, being so unexpected, makes the film feel more delightful than it probably, objectively, is.” –
The New York Review of Books
Aug 21, 2017
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Anomalisa (2015)
92%
“. . .sublime performances lend the film a rare aural self-sufficiency: you could close your eyes and still enjoy it.” –
The New York Review of Books
Aug 21, 2017
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The Polar Express (2004)
55%
“The rest is easily summarized: the Polar Express arrives, Hero Boy and some other dead-eyed zombie children get onboard. . .we reach the real Santa, who exists, and drops a little silver bell from his sleigh, which the boy later finds.” –
The New York Review of Books
Aug 21, 2017
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Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
53%
“No musical in the past 10 years (with the exception of Chicago) has had the courage of its convictions, and that's the whole problem.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 18, 2008
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Transamerica (2005)
77%
“Around [Felicity Huffman's] bold performance shelter cardboard cut-outs.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sep 28, 2006
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