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Michael Brooke

Michael Brooke's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% EDIT “Its study of the mechanism of total oppression and the cynical sidelining of a once-respected legal system resonates well beyond the 1930s.” – Sight & Sound Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Paradise: A Trilogy of Hope (2013) EDIT “Surprisingly humane and even warm, despite these not being adjectives one readily associates with Seidl's work.” – Sight & Sound Jul 31, 2018 Full Review The Stoker (2010) 100% EDIT “The experience becomes unnervingly intoxicating.” – Sight & Sound Jul 31, 2018 Full Review The Dark House (Dom zly) (2009) EDIT “It's well worth catching: on the evidence so far, Smarzowski is becoming one of the most astute chroniclers of his country's seedier aspects.” – Sight & Sound Jul 30, 2018 Full Review Allonsonfan (1975) 100% EDIT “This wittily rumbustious, almost operatic film offers a stirring reminder of a time when European filmmakers regularly engaged with serious political ideas, without compromising their cinematic creativity.” – Sight & Sound Jul 26, 2018 Full Review The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) EDIT “The film refuses to offer pat solutions, presumably in an effort to stimulate more constructive discussions among its audience.” – Sight & Sound Jul 10, 2018 Full Review That Summer (2017) 84% EDIT “Its value lies less in its resurrection of footage long thought vanished than in the way that it has been co-opted, with remarkably little overt editorial interference, into an essay on the impermanence, persistence and importance of memory.” – Sight & Sound Jun 7, 2018 Full Review Graduation (2016) 94% EDIT “Though Mungiu is very much his own man, there's more than a whiff of Michael Haneke in his basilisk-eyed view of humanity.” – Sight & Sound Apr 6, 2017 Full Review In Darkness (2011) 88% EDIT “Though the film's factual basis dictates an upbeat ending, much of the journey is appropriately and memorably grim.” – Sight & Sound Mar 11, 2014 Full Review Bank Holiday (1938) 83% EDIT “Although in essence it's a lightweight romantic melodrama with comic elements, it also provides a fascinating glimpse of the leisure activities of various British social classes.” – Sight & Sound Feb 25, 2013 Full Review The Interrupters (2011) 99% EDIT “The Interrupters is a heavyweight film about a heavyweight subject of clear interest well beyond the United States.” – Sight & Sound Aug 16, 2011 Full Review Attack the Block (2011) 91% EDIT “Films this cine-literate are rarely this unpretentiously enjoyable.” – Sight & Sound May 17, 2011 Full Review The Man From London (2007) 62% EDIT “The mere fact of Hungarian auteur Bla Tarr continuing to direct films without making the smallest concession to popular fashion is a cause for celebration.” – Sight & Sound Aug 29, 2010 Full Review Lourdes (2009) 91% EDIT “Spiritually flawed and often cynical though Hausner's pilgrims undoubtedly are, they're all too recognisably human.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2010 Full Review The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) 93% EDIT “Puiu's seemingly artless, documentary-style mise en scène, with the characters followed by a shoulder-mounted camera, conceals countless subtleties, foreshadowings and running themes.” – Sight & Sound Sep 28, 2006 Full Review
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