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Leaf Arbuthnot
Leaf Arbuthnot's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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Twisters (2024) |
Powell and the howling, hulking twisters that careen about, ruining things, are two good reasons to see this film. Many viewers, I suspect, won’t find it as charming as the original, but it still offers a great ride. - New Statesman
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
The film can’t dispel an ambient sense of its own pointlessness. Scenes don’t build towards anything, but shuffle decorously by. - New Statesman
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| Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Treasure (2024) |
Neither Fry nor Dunham manage to disappear into their roles; and the film never really springs to life, plodding from moment to moment with leaden feet. - New Statesman
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| Posted Jun 17, 2024
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Theater Camp (2023) |
It’s a zippy 90 minutes or so, and packed with jokes. - Guardian
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| Posted Aug 23, 2023
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Face Down (2023) |
The film skilfully shows how brutal acts rarely happen in a vacuum, but reverberate for many years, their darkness passed down the generations like a curse. - Guardian
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Bawaal (2023) |
So lacking in fun, pep, humour and charm that only its spectacularly poor taste stands out. - Guardian
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| Posted Jul 21, 2023
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Satyaprem Ki Katha (2023) |
This is a film bursting with colour and movement, with talky, dramatic sections ceding to epic dance sequences involving hundreds of impeccably turned-out performers. - Guardian
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| Posted Jun 29, 2023
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) |
The novel that Blume long prevented from being made into a film has finally received the big-screen treatment. The result, thank goodness, is lovely: tender, funny, at points very moving, and full of precise and careful performances. - New Statesman
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Over My Dead Body (2023) |
In the end the whole thing is quite depressing. - Guardian
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| Posted Apr 18, 2023
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Much Ado (2022) |
This palpably low-budget effort brings many of the problems you might expect: dodgy lighting, dispiriting costumes and a washed-out palette. But there are other issues that can’t quite be attributed to money... - Guardian
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| Posted Apr 17, 2023
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Julia Scotti: Funny That Way (2020) |
The result is a film of real compassion, that will stay with you long after its (zippy) runtime is over. - Guardian
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| Posted Mar 30, 2023
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Radji (2021) |
By the time the community finally gets a verdict in its legal battle to preserve its right to cross the Sweden-Norway border, this is a film that ensures you really care. - Guardian
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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