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Jasper Rees
Jasper Rees's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) |
At the heart of this mega-celebrity choir, Bob Dylan nervously scowled like a clueless Martian picking up on the ways of Earthlings. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jan 30, 2024
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Time Bomb Y2K (2023) |
The computers look clunky, the haircuts dorky and the Backstreet Boys are asked for a quote about imminent Armageddon. Hey, the past is a foreign country – they do things hilariously there. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jan 03, 2024
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David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (2023) |
This quietly inspiring portrait of stoicism ends, beautifully... [Full review in Spanish] - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 15, 2023
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Mark Cavendish: Never Enough (2023) |
What makes the film into more than a greatest hits album is the painful story of the years when he was not winning... - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2023
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Finding Michael (2023) |
It's deeply uncomfortable to watch highly skilled Nepalis sift through clumps of frosted flesh strewn about the slopes, looking for the body that belongs to the family with the wealth... that entitles them to pay for extraction and burial. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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All That Breathes (2022) |
These birds are utterly other, while their rescuers represent the best of us. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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Tess (1979) |
The triumph of Tess is in the yoking of remorseless Hardian sadism to the natural photogenic allure of both Kinski and her surroundings (not to mention Anthony Powell’s gorgeous costumes). - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Mary and Martha (2013) |
Mary and Martha is a work of fiction, and it's notably light on comic relief. But the real game-changer is that Curtis here tugged on the heart strings by putting his First World characters in the line of fire. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Oct 08, 2020
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An Englishman in New York (2009) |
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Hurt returned to a role which, more than any other, crystallised his instinctive understanding for society's outsiders. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Sep 07, 2020
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) |
Along the way there are pleasures aplenty, among them several delightful performances on the supporting card. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 31, 2020
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The Girl (2012) |
A magnificent Toby Jones was all lizard eyes and hypnotic patter. Sienna Miller, perhaps channelling feelings provoked by voyeuristic paparazzi, was a revelation as the innocent far-from-marble fawn who totters blindly into a trap. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 05, 2020
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Essential Killing (2010) |
For all its allegorical heft, it never finally shucks off the impression that it is a well-made oddity. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Doctor Sleep (2019) |
It's all a bit Scooby Doo with better CGI. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 31, 2019
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The Day Mountbatten Died (2019) |
The story of both atrocities was carefully stitched together from every perspective: witnesses, rescuers, those who survived and the relatives of those who didn't, all in different ways were still scarred and bereaved. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Aug 20, 2019
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Blinded by the Light (2019) |
However familiar they may be, it's in these clashes, when everyone stops fixating on Springsteen, that the film feels most visceral and authentic. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 08, 2019
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Toy Story 4 (2019) |
Though it springs fewer surprises, Toy Story 4 is still reliably fab. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 20, 2019
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Birds of Passage (2018) |
This Colombian thriller passes the tropes of noir and the spaghetti western through a magical prism. - The Spectator
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| Posted May 16, 2019
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Amazing Grace (2018) |
[T]his is a mighty resurrection. - The Spectator
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| Posted May 09, 2019
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D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler (2019) |
As a title for a television programme, D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler... scores a triple decker of searchable terms: the war, the royals and the Nazis namechecked in a clickbait cluster. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted May 06, 2019
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(undefined) |
McCullin's England has a pleasing consistency. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Mar 18, 2019
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Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know (2018) |
A Night In was a sort of celebrity nostalgia edition of Gogglebox. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Feb 28, 2019
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Behind Closed Doors: Through the Eyes of the Child (2019) |
This was a sober and sobering film about the effects of the toxic male need to control. There needs to be another examining the causes. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Feb 14, 2019
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David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019) |
When is a rockumentary better than a biography? Francis Whately has created an unsurpassable trilogy of feature-length bio-docs, profiling the life of his subject. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Feb 11, 2019
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A Year of British Murder (2019) |
Where other documentaries about murder might forensically reconstruct the crime or the prosecution, or ask hand-wringing questions about public policy, this deeply empathetic film derived its power from a less inquisitive approach. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jan 22, 2019
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Brexit (2019) |
James Graham's bullish Brexit fantasia is more gripped by Leave than Remain. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jan 08, 2019
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Click and Collect (2018) |
Click and Collect offered proof that, in certain circumstances, it is possible to have your cake and eat it. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jan 07, 2019
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The Dead Room (2018) |
The Dead Room was more clever academic exercise than an all-out horror. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jan 07, 2019
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Care (2016) |
For all the careful shaping of the narrative, it was not entirely possible to camouflage the flavour of a pulpit infomercial. But as has happened before with prime time drama, if Care proves an effective loudhailer it will have done its job. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Dec 21, 2018
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Papillon (2017) |
Hunnam and Malek don't quite match the sentimental odd-couple connection between their predecessors. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Dec 20, 2018
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North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State (2015) |
For this portrait of life under Kim Jong-un, it relied on defectors based in Seoul communicating by mobile with contacts over the border. These contraband conversations were hasty, and parsimonious with detail. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Dec 18, 2018
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The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) |
There's almost no hinterland for Foy to work with. Some affecting last-minute tears are not enough to spring this Lisbeth from the cryo-chamber. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Nov 25, 2018
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) |
The costumes and wigs are splendid, and the songs are still up to snuff. But this homage to a showman is more famine than feast. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 25, 2018
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Am I a Murderer? (2018) |
With apologies for the lapse in taste, I was faintly reminded of Fletch and Godber trying to break back into prison in the film version of Porridge. This could and should have been a deeply serious contribution to the #MeToo story. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Oct 17, 2018
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Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip (2018) |
This was an eye-opening and engaging tour of a subject little-visited by television. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Oct 02, 2018
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The Little Stranger (2018) |
Sarah Waters' haunted-house yarn from the maker of Room will leave you cold. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Sep 23, 2018
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Against the Law (2017) |
The script was strong on the factions within the gay community, and the erasure of class divisions among homosexuals. But nothing was quite as moving as the interviews. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Sep 12, 2018
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Yardie (2018) |
Yardie is a lively, smartly shot and impeccably designed entertainment, featuring an excellent British and Jamaican cast, and it's a welcome snapshot of an important moment in Anglo-Caribbean culture. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Aug 31, 2018
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Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar (2018) |
Thanks in part to a stylish montage of period imagery, this portrait was a psychological profile of an era for which President Trump's base is apparently nostalgic. It was great for white men, and women fed off scraps of the American Dream. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Aug 28, 2018
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British Sitcom - 60 Years Of Laughing At Ourselves (2016) |
For all this evidence of social progress seen through the lens of half-hour comedy, the impressive cast of nostalgists gathered to reflect on 60 years of television comedy included almost no women. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Aug 21, 2018
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The Guardians (2017) |
This is a true find, therefore, and a captivating addition to the filmography of the first world war. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 16, 2018
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Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong for Asian Men (2018) |
How many of Baig's perfectly nice boys think about their Britishness? This crucial question went unasked in an otherwise spry and eye-opening tele-essay. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Aug 15, 2018
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Under the Tree (2017) |
For any politician spoiling for a fight over Ireland's soft/hard border, Under the Tree is required viewing. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 09, 2018
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The Escape (2017) |
The Escape is finally not quite as overwhelming as it might be. But this is a confrontational portrait of deadening unhappiness. It may well save some marriages. Or end others. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 02, 2018
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Stacey Dooley Investigates: Second Chance Sex Offenders (2018) |
As ever with such films - including Theroux's own - the meat was in the conversations with the offenders, whose desire for rehabilitation made them unreliable witnesses to their own recovery. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2018
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Killed By My Debt (2018) |
Tahsin Guner's meticulous script lingered on agonising what-if turning points when tragedy might have been prevented. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jul 20, 2018
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Barry Davies: The Man, the Voice, the Legend (2018) |
If they were midfielders, Davies was the one with time on the ball, while Motson ran around puffing. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jul 09, 2018
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Rich Hall's Working for the American Dream (2018) |
This rambunctious essay was a great fillip. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jul 09, 2018
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Swimming With Men (2018) |
Unfortunately the jokes did not write themselves, and no one else got round to writing them either. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jul 06, 2018
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Japan's Secret Shame (2018) |
Odds are stacked against all rape victims in Japan: there is a paucity of rape crisis centres, only eight per cent of the police force is female, and for 110 years the law demanded that accusers prove that they showed some sign of physical resistance. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Jun 29, 2018
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Leave No Trace (2018) |
The jeopardy remains muted and subterranean until it sprouts at the very end. - The Arts Desk
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| Posted Jun 27, 2018
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