ROTTEN TOMATOES: Fionnuala Halligan

FIONNUALA HALLIGAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography: Screen International film critic.

Total Reviews: 33

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh	Fresh 74%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" A lovingly-detailed, lavishly-recreated British period production with all the right cast giving all the right performances." Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	The Damned United (2009)	" *Offering just enough football to satisfy the fans in the stands, The Damned United* is also a pleasingly high-quality British drama with some terrific performances.**" Posted Dec 15, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 56%	Bunny & The Bull (2009)	" Only Julian Barratt breaks out of the arch aesthetic constraints, delivering an insane, Dachshund-suckling Russian vagabond to remember." Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" A laconic, terribly old-fashioned but fantastically fun stop-motion animation which is an instant high-water benchmark for Dahl fans." Posted Oct 14, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 27%	Fame (2009)	" Tancharoen�s background shows and steps in to save the film: highlights include an infectious rap in the canteen, a Hallowe�en �Carnevil,� and a show-stopper in a club, courtesy of Naughton." Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 59%	Creation (2009)	" The trouble is, that with Charles Darwin, a hundred films could be made that would never capture the essence of the man. Bettany comes as close as is reasonable to expect." Posted Sep 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" There is so much in this picture, from dread, horror, to suspense, bitterly moving love, extraordinary, Oscar-worthy art direction and a desperate lead performance from Viggo Mortensen which perfectly illustrates the ... desperation of parental love." Posted Sep 3, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" Neither story here quite stands up by itself, and they don�t quite gel together either -- even as the film wraps, it feels as if there�s a course missing." Posted Jul 25, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 24%	G-Force (2009)	" It�s a shame that the heart of the story doesn�t beat strongly enough to match the visual invention onscreen." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" While individual sequences are undoubtedly the most exciting of this summer�s blockbuster season, Prince never quite connects the dots into a ripping ride, playing out instead in a series of gentle interludes." Posted Jul 8, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 45%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	" Ice Age 3 is an exemplary marriage of precise, well-paced storytelling enhanced by 3D effects in an adventure-packed ride." Posted Jun 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" Performance-wise, the machines do tend to upstage the humans." Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Looking for Eric (2009)	" Loach crams a few films into this unique title and manages to pull them into one crowd-pleaser by the end." Posted May 18, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 37%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" It just about scrapes through as being enjoyable, loud, banging, daft multiplex entertainment." Posted Apr 29, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 84%	State of Play (2009)	" It's rare that a big-ticket thriller gets it so right." Posted Apr 14, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 54%	The Boat That Rocked (2009)	" Lurches and leaks its way through a series of flimsy setpieces before gracelessly coming to a watery grave." Posted Mar 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Happy Tears (2009)	" The story always feels edgily, sometimes jerkily, unpredictable before surprisingly opting for a conventional wrap." Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" The International falls far short of making its case." Posted Feb 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 39%	Inkheart (2009)	" Bit by bit, Inkheart gets backed into a very moribund soundstage finale with loose ends either rapidly wrapped or abandoned entirely." Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 64%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" One of the most remarkable action films ever made." Posted Oct 20, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" The Hurt Locker probably isn't the 'great' Iraq film which will finally move audiences into theatres but it does play out like fragments of one." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 19%	Meet Dave (2008)	" The puzzler that is Eddie Murphy's career continues apace with this low-fi kiddy-oriented affair featuring the comedian as both a human-shaped spaceship called Dave Ming-chang and the commander of said vessel." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)	" Flashbacks flounders in the final third." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 34%	The Edge of Love (2009)	" Above all else though, it whets the appetite for another look at Dylan Thomas and his wife, a prospect which previously seemed dauntingly difficult for a film-maker to tackle." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 60%	RocknRolla (2008)	" It's a step back to basics and an assured return to form for Ritchie, leaving the viewer marvelling afresh about how a director this confident could have produced Swept Away and Revolver." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	" Hathaway vaults several stages along in her career with an intense yet sympathetic turn as the deeply-troubled, acid-tongued Kym." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 39%	Wild Child (2009)	" A project broad-based enough to make tween competitor Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging feel arthouse." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 37%	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	" Simon Pegg's brilliant central performance and some very funny gags are drained by a limp finale which leaves all manner of plot strands hanging and characters left out to dry as the film stalls and sputters its way home." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 66%	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	" The Incredible Hulk makes noises about a return, but it seems doubtful audiences will keep the faith for a third try -- at least, with Hulk as the sole star." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 41%	Blindness (2008)	" The result makes for a traumatic viewing experience, but never does Mereilles convincingly illuminate the wrenching fear of his source material." Posted Sep 30, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 87%	The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)	" Engrossing on many levels -- except for, fatally, an emotional one." Posted Sep 29, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 64%	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	" The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas appears to be a little conflicted: it desperately wants the viewer to care about Bruno and Shmuel, yet the fact that this is a story not reality... places it, and the viewer, at arm's length." Posted Sep 15, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" A natural awards contender and audience-pleaser without feeling overtly manipulative on the way." Posted Sep 9, 2008

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