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Simon Kinnear

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Hard Times (1975) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Hill’s lean direction wastes nothing, with plenty to admire in the fight choreography, period detail and the stars’ chemistry, even if the film is stolen by veteran Strother Martin as a dandified medic.” – Total Film Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Four Corners (2013) 67% 2/5 EDIT “This milieu deserves a City Of God; Gabriels slickly shot, well-meaning but facile attempt to explain an entire society's hardships feels closer to Paul Haggis Crash.” – Total Film Jul 12, 2018 Full Review The First Film (2015) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Despite diligent research and expert help, the excitable presenter readily gives in to mythmaking, especially when conjecturing on Le Princes uncertain end.” – Total Film May 3, 2018 Full Review Still the Water (2014) 52% 2/5 EDIT “All the mystical-tree footage in the world can't lift the torpor.” – Total Film May 3, 2018 Full Review Comet (2014) 44% 2/5 EDIT “Its impossible to invest in the couple; even when courting, they make a fairly insufferable pair.” – Total Film May 3, 2018 Full Review Dark River (2017) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Rural life is familiar terrain for British cinema, but with Barnard as our guide, it remains an enthralling destination.” – Total Film Feb 21, 2018 Full Review Lover for a Day (2017) 82% 3/5 EDIT “With its monochrome stylings and a plot laced with ennui, it might be the most French film ever made, but there's no denying Garrel's craft.” – Total Film Jan 16, 2018 Full Review Mountains May Depart (2015) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Mostly a piercing study of haves and have nots ...” – Total Film Dec 15, 2017 Full Review The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 78% 5/5 EDIT “This is the Muppets' finest film. Its mashup of slapstick, songs and literary adaptation is suitably anarchic, but crucially it gets Dickens right.” – Total Film Dec 7, 2017 Full Review In a Lonely Place (1950) 96% 5/5 EDIT “A volatile Bogart drops the charm to deliver perhaps his finest performance.” – Total Film Nov 24, 2017 Full Review Hi-Lo Joe (2017) 2/5 EDIT “A well-intentioned study of depression, undone by pitching itself as both serious drama and whimsical comedy.” – Total Film Nov 24, 2017 Full Review Deliver Us (2016) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Without ever interrogating the faith of priests or the "possessed", the film's observance of ancient rituals (ex)poses serious questions.” – Total Film Oct 26, 2017 Full Review Double Date (2017) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Comedy and horror don't always get past first base, but debut director Benjamin Barfoot and actor/writer Danny Morgan are capable match-makers in this hilarious skewering of lads-on-the-pull culture.” – Total Film Oct 10, 2017 Full Review Pecking Order (2017) 95% 4/5 EDIT “As feathers are ruffled by ego and envy, the film doubles as a surprisingly affecting fable of fun turning fowl.” – Total Film Sep 26, 2017 Full Review The Lure (2016) 71% 3/5 EDIT “A light-hearted study of eccentric hobbyists.” – Total Film Sep 5, 2017 Full Review Back to Burgundy (2017) 73% 2/5 EDIT “Cédric Klapisch's drama, co-written by a vintner, is an authentic love letter to the wine business, but as drama it lacks the subtlety of a vintage.” – Total Film Aug 28, 2017 Full Review Moon Dogs (2016) 57% 2/5 EDIT “The breeziness is scuppered by darker set-pieces of genital injury, while the charmless crisis at the story's heart signals a vein of sour misogyny.” – Total Film Aug 28, 2017 Full Review Hotel Salvation (2016) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Comfortingly familiar, but kept fresh by an insouciant realism that deftly avoids exotic cliché.” – Total Film Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Dark Night (2017) 61% 2/5 EDIT “This portrait of an alienated culture funnelling its rage into gun violence is itself too cold and distant to connect.” – Total Film Aug 14, 2017 Full Review Dying Laughing (2016) 86% 4/5 EDIT “There's nothing radical about this comedy doc's talking-head format, but it's a sharply edited masterclass with a formidable roll call: Seinfeld, Silverman, Rock, Coogan, dozens more.” – Total Film Jun 13, 2017 Full Review After the Storm (2016) 96% 4/5 EDIT “There isn't a single false note in this generous, affectionate portrait of people making the best of their situation.” – Total Film May 30, 2017 Full Review The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Juho Kuosmanen's delightful debut is as far from Raging Bull as a B&W fight movie can get, with Mki (Jarkko Lahti) keener on local lass Raija (Oona Airola) than training.” – Total Film Apr 19, 2017 Full Review Aquarius (2016) 97% 5/5 EDIT “A timely, inspiring parable of protest, directed with sinewy style and driven by Braga's rock-solid lead performance.” – Total Film Mar 20, 2017 Full Review Headshot (2016) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Headshot is thinly plotted, but with action choreography by Uwais' team, the mayhem is staged with visceral abandon.” – Total Film Feb 27, 2017 Full Review It's Only the End of the World (2016) 44% 2/5 EDIT “It's shot mostly in claustrophobic close-up, given the usually good actors nowhere to hide over 97 relentless minutes of spittle-soaked squabbling.” – Total Film Feb 20, 2017 Full Review
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