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Chief Film Critic of @TheTimes . Chases frothy bubbles, while the world is full of troubles, and anxious in its sleep.

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4 years
Worth the wait.
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2 years
Finally, god bless him, a Brit asks about Pugh. Wilde half dodges, and now the MC has officially banned anyone from asking any more questions that don’t involve ass kissing. Am leaving. This is shocking shite.
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2 years
The room is just full of festival plants who are asking Harry Styles idiotic questions about his work life balance. No one is allowed say the P word. Pugh.
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Chris Pine. As bored as me at the Don’t Worry Darling press conference. NOBODY is asking THE question. Bunch of kiss-ass BS. “Entertainment Journalists” are such a joke.
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2 years
The room is just full of festival plants who are asking Harry Styles idiotic questions about his work life balance. No one is allowed say the P word. Pugh.
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2 years
Chris Pine. As bored as me at the Don’t Worry Darling press conference. NOBODY is asking THE question. Bunch of kiss-ass BS. “Entertainment Journalists” are such a joke.
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2 years
Oh look. It’s a load of One Direction fans filming Harry Styles talking utter bilge. Welcome to journalism, Venice style.
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2 years
Just seen The Secrets of Dumbledore. Not allowed discuss it until tomorrow. All I can say is that Mads Mikkelsen and Jude Law are the screen couple that you never knew you needed. Until now.
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2 years
You've got to love Miss Flo. That's all I'll say.
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Variety
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Florence Pugh Skipping ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Venice Press Conference, but Will Walk the Red Carpet
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3 years
I spoke to Mads Mikkelsen about Johnny Depp, Indiana Jones and his indecently good performance in Another Round. As that film's director Thomas Vinterberg says, "He gave us his finest." Really, he did. And we didn't deserve it.
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5 years
Genuinely don’t think I can watch @BBCNews anymore. In the nicest possible way, I just don’t care about what Colin and his son from the Coffee n Grill have to say. Where have all the experts gone?
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3 years
I loved Belfast. It had me at the opening Wizard of Oz colour transition (in reverse). It had me with the Liberty Valance nod. And it floored me at the end, with the devastating, heart-breaking, sign-off.
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2 years
Slow, slow, clap for the Indy, trying to turn that non event into a news story.
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Olivia Wilde addresses rumours of ‘falling out’ with Florence Pugh
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3 years
Campion, Cumberbatch and Dunst. My festival heroes so far. What a film. All other entrants should back away humbly now. Golden Lion, Oscars, Baftas. The game is over. The winner is here. A stunner.
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3 years
Thoughts on me least favourite movie cliches.
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2 years
I also love it, deeply, when filmmaking surprises you. When you sit down before a movie thinking, "I'm probably going to hate this" and it sneaks up on you, pokes you in the heart and claims you completely.
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4 years
Greta Thunberg, at Venice press conference, via zoom (from school) after the deeply brilliant doc “Greta”. Fabulously, she leaves after 25 mins, saying, “I’ll answer this last question but then I have to get back to class.” Surely a first for Venice.
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5 years
Just come out of Joker. Can’t review till after premier, but OMG. OMG. OMG.
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4 years
Incredible weekend. My bike finally made it back from the garage, after 12 weeks in Lockdown (she had a jammed oil pump). The reunion was emotional.
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2 years
Forget about all the Cruise hype, I spoke to the real 80s Top Gun, Morten Harket, about being in A-ha, a band that hates itself and yet respects itself deeply at one and the same time.
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8 months
Maestro is extraordinary. Deeply moving. Cooper and Mulligan mind-blowingly good. Neck n neck with Poor Things as the film of the fest. I've even written a review. It'll materialise from Times Towers at some point.
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5 years
So. Rocketman.
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9 years
The romantic subplot in Hunger Games is, and has always been, at best, a bit Cat Deeley V Ant n Dec.
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10 months
Ravish Kumar is a giant. Makes you feel like such a shill. "No, Ravish, I review films! I'm making a difference too!" I know. It's not about me. But sometimes you talk to someone so committed and principled that it's almost alarming.
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8 months
Venice note: The Killer, still under review embargo, is, soundtrack-wise, exclusively, wall-to-wall The Smiths. While the Lily James flick Finally The Sunrise features a mid-movie rendition of Morrissey’s Dear God Please Help Me. A trend?
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8 months
The most ridiculously wholesome and fabulously Irish thing I've ever seen here. Peter O'Mahony giving Keith Earls a "backer" to training, in France.
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2 years
I spoke to George MacKay. Such a breath of fresh air. Doesn't do this at all. Social media, that is. He's like a different species. So clear, so uncluttered. My role model for 2022.
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4 years
To all the kind folk who are STILL trolling me, a full 24 after my Johnny Depp piece - Jesus! Is there not some sort of support group you can join, where you get together and slather yourselves in litres of Sauvage before a giant rubber effigy of Captain Jack Sparrow?
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3 years
I normally dread it when I get an actual letter from a Times reader - often knee-jerk reactions to my column that have missed the tongue'n'cheek factor, and begin with, "Who do you think you are...." This one, however, was very, very, sweet. I will reply.
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2 years
The Banshees of Inisherin. Finally. Proper art.
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3 years
I don't know what you did over the weekend, but I got another dog. Because, just like a slice of Viennetta, one Leonberger is never enough.
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2 years
I don’t believe there is any correlation whatsoever between Venice ovations and movie quality (just wait for the one they give Don’t Bother Darling). But, in this case, alone, it deserves it.
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Variety
2 years
With a massive 13-minute standing ovation, Colin Farrell and Martin McDonagh's #TheBansheesOfInisherin just scored the biggest reaction of the Venice Film Festival so far.
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5 years
7:30am in Venice, and this is, already, the press queue for Joker. There’s always a hot ticket screening in Venice but this is unprecedented.
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5 years
Make a note of The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg. It’s ridiculously good, and it made my festival.
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1 year
Nothing to see here. Just the top twenty movies (in order!) that meant the most to me in 2022. Sorry Maverick! Not this time.
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kevin maher
3 years
Reader, I kissed her.
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4 years
So I wrote about Johnny Depp. I didn't say that he was evil. I didn't say he that was bad. I said that his (often cartoonish) acting style had fallen out of fashion. That's all. And it's the truth. He can still be a lovely person.
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3 years
I called that one from Venice. It's a done deal. You can congratulate me next March.
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2 years
Before your New Year's Eve splurge (in whatever form that takes!), watch The Lost Daughter on Netflix. You won't regret it. I spoke to Maggie Gyllenhaal about it.
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2 years
So weird. It's now a full three days since it was released, and I'm STILL reading about how the "mainstream media" all got together to deliberately slam Don't Look Up. Guess I must've missed that internal memo.
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4 years
What can I say? It’s Friday night. Wine has been drunk.
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5 years
Because we can.
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4 years
Nat Wolff delivers world’s biggest Zoom cameo during Mainstream QnA with Maya Hawke and Gia Coppola. Venice.
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4 years
Sorry. But on what f***ing planet????????????
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2 years
Ciao Venice. You were real. And the dogs loved it.
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2 years
Critics, including me, in fact mostly me, often bandy about the word "essential" to describe a particularly timely, watch-worthy, flick. Navalny puts all those other essentials in the shade. It is the ne plus ultra of essential movies. See it.
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3 years
Evening stroll.
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5 years
A bit of my Cannes diary on FB Screen Times.
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10 months
Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue is real. Marvel fatigue
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1 year
Good lord, the hubris!!! Sorry mate, cinema is doing fine. Your film just happened to be a middlebrow pile of shite.
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5 years
LFF Day 12. Sunday 7:30am. I call this look Massive Sense of Humour Failure. Martin Scorses and the corpse of Alfred Hitchcock could come out and do 5 hours of Gangnam Style around the stalls of the Odeon Luxe and I wouldn’t care. I just want it to end!
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2 years
And a very doggie Christmas to you too.
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Got this letter this morning. The sweetest nicest thing that’s happened to me in some time. I love people.
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1 year
Social media is so weird. The hype and hysteria around the Pugh/Garfield Oscar double-act has been so immense that, fearing I had missed something on the night, I went back, found their slot, watched it, and am now like, "F***ing hell, internet! You need to get out more often!!"
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3 years
Belated, post-holiday thoughts on Demi Moore.
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3 years
Another night. Another flick. That’s Jodie Comer in blur.
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5 years
I know that everyone says you're supposed to go to Wild Rose this weekend. But if you want to see a film about real performance, real heartache, and the personal toll of talent, this is the one. Astounding.
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5 years
Had the most amazing dog walk this morning because of the O2 crash. No emails, WhatsApp or twitter. No phone use at all. Just walking. This is me using my phone to take a picture of how nice it is to not use my phone on a dog walk.
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2 years
Morning. Dogs.
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5 years
Not sure if this even bears restating but, as a rule, poster-quoting Sue from St Albans, Teresa from Tunbridge Wells and Claire from Epping is another, very conspicuous, way of saying. "Hi everyone. This film is shit." And it is.
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6 years
Genuinely gutted by that painstakingly researched 3D reconstruction of the 'real' Julius Caesar. At best I had pictured this guy. Or this guy.
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5 years
And this is the trailer for the film that blew my mind (For Sama - showing on Channel Four later this year). One of the poster quotes, from Film Threat, has called it, “One of the most important films you will ever see in your life.” I kind of agree.
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3 years
Morning!
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3 years
Fur fest.
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5 years
Hotel last night. Shattered. Waiting for my lift. Bill Murray arrives and slips in before me. He went up to a party on the 5th floor. I went to bed. This is him at the press conference this morning. Ledge.
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3 years
“And they call it, puppy luuurrrrve!”
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3 years
Funny, I wasn’t going to give you any more dinner, but now that you’ve put your paws in the bowl....
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6 years
Just listened to John Humphrys-Rupert Everett on Today. Oh dear. So, you've done this film. It's taken 12 years. But enough of that, what's it really like to be gay? Yeeesh. For an alternative Everett chat, you could try this.
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5 years
Just heard that this film will be getting a UK cinema release in Sept/October. Am thrilled for Waad and everyone involved. See it. No excuses. It's filmmaking, unlike so much out there, that really, REALLY, matters.
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6 years
Don't want to gloat about the failure of Justice League, but it's important too. Audiences are speaking. We can only take so much shit.
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3 years
Another day. Another dog walk. Picc circus. Carnaby St. The usual.
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2 years
This is Lara the dog. For the first four seconds of the clip I’m staring at my phone. Then I look up from the screen and into her eyes. And this happens. There’s a lesson in there, perhaps? There is for me.
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2 years
That's the Friday night film fix sorted, then.
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2 years
So, Doctor Strange sucks. We need soon to talk about the emotional emptiness of movies made under covid-safe conditions (robotic blocking, too much green screen, not enough extras). We will look back at this period of filmmaking as the Red Notice Era.
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4 years
some thoughts from me, from the Screen Times FB group, on Marriage Story, Netflix, and the cinema experience.
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6 months
Love this by @j_amesmarriott Best thing I've read in The Times since early 2020. And that's including my own film reviews.
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kevin maher
5 years
So, you know the way when you go on a late night dog walk, through a field, and you hear footsteps behind you, and you suddenly turn around and press the flash? I'm not going to say I was scared. However...
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Best actor losers Farrell and Butler at yesterday's SAG awards. Farrell clearly saying, "I know! The Whale! The fecking Whale! Beaten by a dude in a latex fat suit in one of the worst movies of the year!! Hilarious!"
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2 years
Lara's birthday hug. One year old today! Tempus.
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3 years
Today I shall mostly be snoozing with my head nestled neatly against the bottom of my mentor.
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3 years
Tried to watch Squid Games over the weekend. What an utterly embarrassing piece of shit! The entire world of telly continues, for me, to be a baffling, overhyped, joke designed to fill some aching global emptiness.
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4 years
No.
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3 years
For all those who were left slack-jawed with awe when Tom Cruise included footage of a failed building jump in Mission Impossible: Fallout.... I give you, Buster Keaton in Three Ages, 1923.
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3 years
The commute.
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3 years
Holiday break.
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7 years
Don't mean to be needlessly crude. And it's a lovely film. But depending on how you say 'our', surely this scans as 'Arseholes at Night'?
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4 years
Just in case you go to Rebecca and think, “Hmmm. I’m sure there’s a better version of this somewhere?” I give you.... Fontaine.
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