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Matthew Norman

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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) 91% 3/5 EDIT “This mischievous film never tires of teasing the conventions and traditions of the genre.” – London Evening Standard Jul 5, 2019 Full Review Yesterday (2019) 63% 2/5 EDIT “Fuelled by the engaging chemistry of its leads and the unflagging wonderment of the music, it zips along. But it can never quite reach escape velocity from the weight of its silliness.” – London Evening Standard Jul 1, 2019 Full Review Toy Story 4 (2019) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Toy Story 4 is so good it's criminal. The legislation it flouts is the law of diminishing returns which governs movies with numbers after their names.” – London Evening Standard Jun 23, 2019 Full Review Men in Black: International (2019) 23% 2/5 EDIT “Tessa Thompson carries it to the best of her mighty abilities but it's a pulverising load to bear.” – London Evening Standard Jun 16, 2019 Full Review Dark Phoenix (2019) 22% 2/5 EDIT “A stupendously dull series-ender without a shred of wit, narrative thrust or genuine emotional force.” – London Evening Standard Jun 10, 2019 Full Review Rocketman (2019) 89% 5/5 EDIT “There may be a showbiz biopic to come that matches Rocketman for wit, energy, charm, candour and shameless exuberance. But I think it's gonna be a long, long time.” – London Evening Standard May 24, 2019 Full Review The Hustle (2019) 13% 1/5 EDIT “Wilson's energy level never falters. You would sympathise with such a natural, engaging talent for the narrow typecasting if she hadn't done it to herself. Rebel, Rebel, your film is a mess.” – London Evening Standard May 12, 2019 Full Review Tolkien (2019) 51% 3/5 EDIT “It uses its imagination to build a thoughtful and charming portrait.” – London Evening Standard May 5, 2019 Full Review Avengers: Endgame (2019) 94% 5/5 EDIT “The only complaint about Avengers: Endgame is that it raises the bar so high that there may well never be a superhero movie to match it.” – London Evening Standard Apr 28, 2019 Full Review Greta (2018) 61% 3/5 EDIT “The pace seldom lags, the cinematography is luscious, and a dream sequence has a clever twist.” – London Evening Standard Apr 21, 2019 Full Review Hellboy (2019) 17% 1/5 EDIT “If it was my call, I'd write nothing about the movie and leave this space blank for readers' notes.” – London Evening Standard Apr 15, 2019 Full Review Shazam! (2019) 90% 4/5 EDIT “After lazy reliance on phoney gravitas and blundering with its first serious stab at levity with Aquaman, DC has found a comic torch-bearer of pure heart to illuminate the path of righteousness ahead.” – London Evening Standard Apr 7, 2019 Full Review Us (2019) 93% 4/5 EDIT “This film, unlike its predecessor, isn't perfect. But it is a richly intriguing riot of imagery and ideas that demands to be rewatched again and again.” – London Evening Standard Mar 24, 2019 Full Review What Men Want (2019) 41% 2/5 EDIT “What begins as a standard gross-out affair (with a prosthetic #MeToo limb clumsily grafted to the body) ends in a treacly, glib, made-for-TV wasteland.” – London Evening Standard Mar 17, 2019 Full Review Captain Marvel (2019) 79% 4/5 EDIT “For Marvel there's a new boss in town.” – London Evening Standard Mar 10, 2019 Full Review The Aftermath (2019) 26% 2/5 EDIT “A post-wartime love triangle drama that champions The Bleeding Obvious with every frame.” – London Evening Standard Mar 3, 2019 Full Review Cold Pursuit (2019) 68% 3/5 EDIT “After a zingy, tight first hour, the concision gives way to flab. The executions become a touch mechanical, the gags start to feel forced, and the avalanche of lavishly nicknamed baddies loses distinction.” – London Evening Standard Feb 28, 2019 Full Review A Private War (2018) 87% 3/5 EDIT “At a time when pressured media budgets are conspiring, with the general preference for escapism over reality, to threaten war reporting's very existence, A Private War unflinchingly reminds us of its value.” – London Evening Standard Feb 17, 2019 Full Review If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Jenkins doesn't scratch the surface of the black American experience. He takes you deep into its bones and suggests that far less has changed than the naive may believe.” – London Evening Standard Feb 10, 2019 Full Review Green Book (2018) 77% 3/5 EDIT “[A] flawed but oddly joyful movie elevated far above its limitations by two sublime performances.” – London Evening Standard Feb 4, 2019 Full Review Vice (2018) 64% 3/5 EDIT “When a movie's premise is that its subject single-handedly moulded recent history, you want more depth and grandeur than this one provides.” – London Evening Standard Jan 27, 2019 Full Review Mary Queen of Scots (2018) 62% 2/5 EDIT “Beau Willimon's stiflingly expository screenplay... moonlights as the undergraduate lecture David Starkey would give after a partial lobotomy.” – London Evening Standard Jan 20, 2019 Full Review Stan & Ollie (2018) 92% 5/5 EDIT “A film that plasters a soppy rictus across one's face from first frame to last belongs to its leads. Their beguilingly natural performances betray no hint of the monumental effort required for these perfect recreations.” – London Evening Standard Jan 13, 2019 Full Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018) 79% 4/5 EDIT “From the introductory shot, gliding through the clouds on that parrot-handled brolly, Blunt takes staggeringly self-assured charge.” – London Evening Standard Dec 26, 2018 Full Review Creed II (2018) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Creed II is almost a match for its predecessor in most respects, and in one its superior.” – London Evening Standard Dec 2, 2018 Full Review
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