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Alistair Harkness

Alistair Harkness's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Primate (2025) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Sadly, the rest of this 90-minute primate-fronted slasher movie proves a bit of a slog thanks to co-writer/director Johannes Roberts’ that’ll-do approach to the plot and characters.” – Scotsman Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 62% 2/5 EDIT “Those of us holding out for Statham’s John Wick or Leon might have to accept the fact that 2013’s Safe was his best shot.” – Scotsman Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “As infuriating as Godard no doubt was, though, Linklater...treats the making of Breathless as the joyful pursuit of art for art’s sake. It’s a joy that infuses every frame of Nouvelle Vague.” – Scotsman Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “...the film is pretty funny as it revels in the machinations of the grassroots comedy scene...” – Scotsman Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 69% 2/5 EDIT “But as film zeroes in on Mescal's Lionel as he embarks on an illustrious, decades-spanning career in search of the happiness he once felt, it never soars emotionally; the epic sweep of the story is mostly at odds with the thinly conceived characters.” – Scotsman Jan 22, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “...[Park Chan-wook's] proven ability to glide between different modes of storytelling within a single movie makes this a state-of-the nation satire devoid of assaultive polemics and rich in pulpy genre thrills...” – Scotsman Jan 22, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% 2/5 EDIT “Though the scenes with Foy and Mabel the goshawk are well done, too much of it is composed of unconvincing, theme-explicating scenes that feel as intrusive as the over-bearing score and the performative smoking Foy’s Macdonald indulges in through out. ” – Scotsman Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 91% 2/5 EDIT “Given Ireland ended up doing pretty well at the 2002 World Cup, the film succeeds only in making it all seem like a meaningless storm in a teacup. ” – Scotsman Jan 22, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/5 EDIT “As the middle part of a new trilogy, the film certainly embraces its second-act status, expanding the ideas and setting up a concluding chapter with another provocative cliffhanger. ” – Scotsman Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “...it’s the film’s immediate and primal ability to connect audiences directly to the atrocity it’s exploring that justifies its existence. ” – Scotsman Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 2/5 EDIT “...the Japanese practice of hiring actors to pretend to be family members gets a sentimental treatment in Rental Family, a fairly innocuous vehicle for Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser. ” – Scotsman Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Giant (2025) 61% 2/5 EDIT “...the film coasts by on the standard rise-and-fall structure of the sports movie. ” – Scotsman Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 2/5 EDIT “Like a glum spin on Shakespeare in Love, Hamnet, in the end, plays too much like primo Oscar bait. ” – Scotsman Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 80% 2/5 EDIT “... while there’s nothing wrong with providing pure cinematic silliness for five, six and seven-year-olds, there’s no joy or craft in the jokes on offer; it’s just a barrage of zaniness. ” – Scotsman Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “...Peter Hujar’s Day offers a fascinating snapshot of the life of an artist in a much mythologised time.” – Scotsman Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “...Song Sung Blue’s stranger-than-fiction tale of a Neil Diamond impersonator’s turbulent life comes with the sort wild twists that almost justify the celebrity downsizing. ” – Scotsman Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “The plot twists may be wild but the cast...fully commit to the go-big-or-go-home performance styles required to make it all work. ” – Scotsman Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “[Sentimental Value] is enjoyable enough thanks to the collective efforts of the cast and a few self-lacerating jokes about the changed state of the film industry.” – Scotsman Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a dizzying piece of filmmaking and Chalamet’s whiplash-inducing performance is one of the best things he’s done.” – Scotsman Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2/5 EDIT “...as a storyteller [James Cameron is] so in love with the hermetically sealed world he’s created he seems intent on trapping us there beyond what his hokey plot will support.” – Scotsman Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Though stretched-thin in places, Behtiyar and Hechinger have plausible chemistry – and Liu’s gorgeous visuals capture the paradoxical allure of a city defined by struggle.” – Scotsman Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “...debut writer/director Alex Russell is so attuned to the world he’s exploring that what transpires feels sickeningly real and relatable.” – Scotsman Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Silent Night, Deadly Night re-imagines the murderous Santa from the controversial 1984 slasher movie of the same name as a more creatively rendered psycho for this loose remake.” – Scotsman Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Despite the script’s own clunky insistence that it’s about grief, it’s really about celebrating the importance of all lives, even when those lives are modest and uneventful.” – Scotsman Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% 2/5 EDIT “The ensuing action is outlandishly grizzly, but the plot and character motivation is so rote it’s hard to invest in his titular quest for vengeance. ” – Scotsman Dec 2, 2025 Full Review
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