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Critics / Christopher Tookey
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CHRISTOPHER TOOKEY

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Biography: Chris Tookey has been film critic for the Daily Mail in London, England, since 1993, and for six years before that TV and film critic for the Sunday Telegraph. He has also written for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Observer, European, Books & Bookmen, Literary Review and (in the US) National Review. He was Chairman of the British Film Critics' Circle for five years between 1994 and 1998, producing and presenting their annual awards ceremony in aid of the NSPCC.He is also author of The Critics' Film Guide (Box Tree, 1994). He is a frequent broadcaster on television and radio, makes after-dinner speeches at the drop of a rubber chicken, and lectures on Film Criticism to final-year American college students for the British American Film Academy.

Publications: Daily Mail [UK], Daily Mirror [UK], Tookey's Film Guide

Critics' Group: London Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 543

Location: London, England

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Rotten
2/5

Rotten
13%

Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

" Grant's familiar, pained and rueful expressions start to look like an actor's commentary on the film, not a character's response to events within it." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Jan 5, 2010

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
22%

Spread (2009)

" I admired the way the movie avoided the usual romantic comedy happy ending, but the film's bleakness is unlikely to win it many friends at the box office." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Jan 5, 2010

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
21%

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

" The world’s most irritatingly high-pitched rodents are back and noisier than ever, in this lobotomised rip-off of the High School Musical franchise." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 18, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
83%

Nowhere Boy (2009)

" Nowhere Boy does offer insights into what made The Beatles great, and it’s an unpretentious, well-paced first feature." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 18, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
38%

Nine (2009)

" Marshall does his best to disguise the cast’s lack of terpsichorean talent with fast editing, but doesn’t entirely succeed." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 18, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
82%

Avatar (2009)

" Is Avatar worth seeing? Yes, on a big screen in 3D because it really is spectacular. The Na’vi are more expressive than any previous examples of motioncapture technology, except Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 18, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
10%

St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold ()

" St Trinians 2 achieves the near-impossible, by being even cruder, messier and more amateurish than the first outing." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 18, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
68%

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

" The plot is frequently incomprehensible, and Rachel McAdams’s poorly photographed femme fatale could be edited out of the picture without making much difference. Most of the time, I hadn’t a clue what she was doing, and she didn’t seem to either." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 18, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
73%

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

" Jonze has created one of the most offbeat, original and interesting films of the year. It's just a pity he didn't make it more accessible for children - and remove it a lot farther from the therapist's couch." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 11, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
50%

The Descent: Part 2 (2009)

" It's strong on claustrophobia, but extremely weak on characterisation, so it's not terribly involving." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
82%

Me and Orson Welles (2009)

" Zac Efron proves again that he's more than a pretty face in this period charmer, but the performance you'll remember to the end of your days is from an unknown British actor called Christian McKay." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Rotten
0/5

Rotten
23%

Planet 51 (2009)

" An extremely dull and unfunny comedy with pop-culture references where the gags should be, and humdrum voicings." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Rotten
0/5

Rotten
44%

The Box (2009)

" People start wandering about in a zomboid fashion but no one notices. The acting deteriorates into overwrought melodramatics. The plot gets sillier and sillier, and makes less and less sense. The Box should be taken away in one, and speedily buried." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
89%

Séraphine (2008)

" It has a lyricism, passion and beauty unmatched in cinema this year." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 27, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
46%

Nativity! ()

" So deliriously corny that I can imagine it becoming the unlikeliest hit of the year." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 27, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
24%

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

" Arguably the most preposterous picture of the year." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 27, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
82%

Paranormal Activity (2009)

" The film is adequately acted by its two young leads, but for this to be terrifying it would need an already hyped-up, excited audience, ready to jump at the smallest thing." — Daily Mirror [UK]

Posted Nov 27, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
50%

Glorious 39 (2009)

" As a director of child actors, Poliakoff is hopeless. Worst of all, he seems not to have seen many movie thrillers in the past 20 years, for the pacing is pedestrian and the camerawork static, more redolent of bad episodes of Midsomer Murders." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 20, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
87%

A Serious Man (2009)

" To me, and I suspect the mass of the cinema-going public, it feels nasty and pointlessly vindictive. There's a hole in the middle of this movie, where a modicum of empathy and humanity ought to be." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 20, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
89%

The White Ribbon (2009)

" There's no denying it's well crafted, but it's Haneke's silliest and least interesting film." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
48%

Taking Woodstock (2009)

" Undermining the entire snooze-fest is Lee and Schamus's sentimental, clichéd view of Woodstock as the last flowering of hippie innocence." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
21%

Amelia (2009)

" For a movie that desperately wants to be inspirational, Mira Nair's Amelia is a disappointingly earthbound hagiography." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Rotten
0/5

Fresh
75%

Cold Souls (2009)

" Writer-director Sophie Barthes can't decide whether to take the idea seriously or comedically, with the result that it works neither as comedy nor drama." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
39%

2012 (2009)

" If you want massive spectacle, an orgy of disaster-movie clichés and schadenfreude run riot, you won't be disappointed. Cinematic popcorn doesn't come poppier, cornier (or cheesier) than this." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
77%

Harry Brown (2009)

" Harry Brown is not a great film, but it is an important one, with messages we ignore at our peril." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
84%

Bright Star (2009)

" There's a fine line between fragile sensitivity and wimpishness, and Ben Whishaw tramples all over it. He is the drippiest British actor since the Merchant Ivory heyday of James Wilby." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 6, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
55%

Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

" If you want an entertaining period piece, you could do a lot worse than attend Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Nov 6, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
10%

Dead Man Running (2009)

" About as entertaining as a goalless draw at Accrington Stanley." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 30, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
73%

Starsuckers (2009)

" A more chaotic mixture of good and bad. Its faults include a tiresomely hectoring narrator and an approach that tries to cram far too many disparate thoughts into 100 minutes." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 30, 2009

Fresh
5/5

Fresh
94%

An Education (2009)

" A hit movie that's small in scale, but big in heart - the most charming British film of the year." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 30, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
93%

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

" Whereas Dahl kept his foxes and other animals relatively true to their wild selves, Anderson humanises and Americanises without bothering to establish a coherent set of rules for his far too self-consciously quirky universe." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 23, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
37%

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

" An underwhelming screenplay and weak acting mean this is unlikely to spawn one sequel, let alone many." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 23, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
68%

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

" A grotesque squandering of time, talent and a great idea." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 16, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
81%

Triangle (2009)

" Any director who can make a film that dares to be this expressionistic is a talent to watch." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 16, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
12%

Couples Retreat (2009)

" A trip to the innermost circle of comedy hell." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 16, 2009

Fresh
5/5

Fresh
98%

Up (2009)

" Pixar's tenth film is one of the most uplifting ever made. It's an instant classic and one of those rare movies which will appeal to all ages and intellects. It has heart and intelligence, beauty and excitement, plus loads and loads of imagination." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 9, 2009

Rotten
0/5

Rotten
28%

Pandorum (2009)

" It might make a passable video game. Despite expensive production design, as a movie it is pretty much unwatchable." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 4, 2009

Rotten
0/5

Rotten
10%

My Life in Ruins (2009)

" It's like Mamma Mia! without the songs, wit and charm, or Shirley Valentine after a full frontal lobotomy." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 4, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
71%

District 13: Ultimatum (2009)

" The reason this wildly improbable, socially clueless drivel is easily the most entertaining film of the week is that it contains three of the most exciting action sequences I've seen in the past ten years." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 4, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
57%

The Invention of Lying (2009)

" The Invention Of Lying deserves high marks for cleverness, but low ones for humanity and warmth." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Oct 4, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
55%

The Soloist (2009)

" Foxx is an Oscar-winner thanks to his uncanny impersonation of Ray Charles in Ray, but he plays Ayers as a multitude of tics and non sequiturs. He is hampered by Susannah Grant's muddled screenplay." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
59%

Creation (2009)

" Creation is an elephantine, but forgettable biopic." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
27%

Fame (2009)

" Virtually everything about Allison Burnett's screenplay is blander, dumber and less daring than the original." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Fresh
5/5

Rotten
40%

Surrogates (2009)

" The beauty of Surrogates lies not so much in the somewhat conventional thriller plot, though it is efficiently crafted and keeps the audience guessing up to the end." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
85%

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

" It is harmless, entertaining fun for under-12s, and a worthy follow-up to Surf’s Up from Sony Pictures Animation. It’s not challenging Pixar just yet, or even Warner Brothers, but at least it’s heading in the right direction." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Fresh
76%

The Firm (2009)

" A redundant compendium of blokeish cliches." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
66%

Away We Go (2009)

" At its best, the film reminded me of another road movie about alternative lifestyles, Flirting With Disaster, but this isn’t nearly as sharp or funny." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
8%

31 North 62 East (2009)

" The dialogue is so painfully naive that it seems to have been written by a 15-year-old who has read nothing but Alistair MacLean novels." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
75%

Julie & Julia (2009)

" Julie & Julia is among the most heart-warming, feelgood films of the year, and so joyously obsessed with food that it might be described as a feed-good movie." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 11, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Fresh
92%

Fish Tank (2009)

" Dreary and unoriginal, like hundreds of its sub-Ken Loach predecessors, this is how Billy Elliott might have turned out had it been made by a collective of depressive Essex girls." — Daily Mail [UK]

Posted Sep 11, 2009
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