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	58 Reviews by Derek Adams 58 Reviews by Derek Adams of Time Out Movie: Hairspray Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Waters' most hygienically commercial film is a Retro schlock-fancier's delight. 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: DOA: Dead or Alive Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) An ideal vehicle for Yuen, who is a dab hand at filming imaginative hand-to-hand combat sequences... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flying Scotsman, The Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) There’s much to admire here, even if you’re not into cycling. Douglas Mackinnon’s made a fine fi... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Meet the Robinsons Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The first 20 minutes of this competently animated kids’ adventure are entertaining enough. But th... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Hogs Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Petrol-headed fifty-somethings into Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers will probably relate t... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlotte's Web Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Youngsters will warm to the barn’s talking animals and perhaps even shed a tear at the sight of a... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Arthur and the Invisibles Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Luc Besson’s half-baked live-action/animated fantasy looks like it was invented on the hoof: it’s... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unaccompanied Minors Release date: 12/8/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Irresponsible content notwithstanding, it’s the low standard of filmmaking that really defies bel... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happy Feet Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Director George 'Babe' Miller has pulled off a coup with this one; he’s raised the benchmark to a... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Of the dressed-to-thrill cast, only [Alex] Pettyfer disappoints; he just looks and sounds too bla... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) True, it tries to be tongue-in-cheek, but really it’s just cheek. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Age: The Meltdown Release date: 3/31/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The storyline wanes towards the end and, from the kids’ point of view, the whole package lacks mo... 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Below Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) It’s heartwarming, occasionally exciting, and some of the cinematography is exemplary. 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Save the Green Planet Release date: 4/20/2005 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The film oscillates between wild humour, suspense, horror and pathos, sometimes all in one shot. ... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) ... the effects and sets are marvellously fantastical and there are one or two neat comical allus... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stealing Harvard Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Weird, then, how the cast play as if holding their breath for the pay cheque. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Soul Survivors Release date: 9/7/2001 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) [A] dodo of suspense. 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Greatest Show on Earth, The Release date: 12/31/2000 11:01:32 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (6/1) Characteristically elephantine Big Top epic from DeMille, thumped across with a winning brashness... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shakespeare in Love Release date: 12/25/1998 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) It's Tom Stoppard's witty, intelligent script which proves so satisfying. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barb Wire Release date: 12/31/1996 11:01:27 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The film's haphazardly edited, lacks narrative clout, and rambles on to a ludicrously extended co... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Midnight Clear, A Release date: 12/31/1992 11:01:38 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The performances are uniformly excellent as the film moves inexorably towards bloody confrontatio... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Point Break Release date: 1/1/1991 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) There's enough high-octane, heart-racing excitement for a dozen movies. 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Say Anything Release date: 4/1/1989 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) he love story is as old-fashioned as the jokes are old hat, but Crowe's amusing script and unforc... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Release date: 1/1/1988 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The shocks are infinitesimal, the script diabolical. 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Some Kind of Wonderful Release date: 12/31/1987 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) This time it ends with the underdogs together. Oddly enough, it's this conclusion that feels phon... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Platoon Release date: 12/19/1986 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Stone's eye-blistering images possess an awesome power, which sets the senses reeling and leaves ... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pretty in Pink Release date: 2/28/1986 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) To be able to give this kind of stuff new and sympathetic twists is a tribute to Hughes' skill wi... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Release date: 12/31/1985 11:01:38 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Enough imagination, wit and ingenuity to put recent Spielberg to shame. 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sophie's Choice Release date: 12/31/1982 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) By the end, the accumulated weight and lethargy of the production fails to invest Sophie's fate w... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Personal Best Release date: 12/31/1982 11:01:41 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The sort of nerve required to produce an excellent screenplay like Chinatown seems to have desert... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Heavy Metal Release date: 7/29/1981 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Fantasies that are gratuitously sexist and Fascist (macho whoring and warmongering), and whose ro... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shining, The Release date: 5/23/1980 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Kubrick's unbalanced approach (over-emphasis on production values) results in soulless cardboard ... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stalker Release date: 12/31/1979 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Tarkovsky conjures images like you've never seen before; and as a journey to the heart of darknes... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Grease Release date: 6/1/1978 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Its flashy opportunism (nostalgia pitched squarely at an audience too young to even recall the er... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man Who Fell to Earth, The Release date: 12/31/1976 11:01:38 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) Roeg, often using a dazzling technical skill, jettisons narrative in favour of thematic juxtaposi... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stepford Wives, The Release date: 12/31/1975 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) William Goldman's leisurely script and Forbes' dull direction never quite capture the subtleties ... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sting, The Release date: 12/1/1973 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The film ends up relying on different chapter headings to explain what's going on, but it's all v... 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Silent Running Release date: 12/31/1971 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) A wonderful film. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Patton Release date: 1/1/1970 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The film lays bare the roots of Patton's lust for power in his willingess to sacrifice everything... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shame Release date: 12/31/1968 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) It ends with one of the cinema's most awesomely apocalyptic visions: not the cheeriest of films, ... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Graduate, The Release date: 12/21/1967 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) The film itself is very broken-backed, partly because Anne Bancroft's performance as the mother c... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: How the Grinch Stole Christmas Release date: 12/31/1966 11:01:33 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (7/0) A seasonal classic. 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Great Escape, The Release date: 7/4/1963 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (4/3) Worth seeing the last half hour, if nothing else, for one of the best stunt sequences in years: M... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hustler, The Release date: 1/1/1961 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (4/3) A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance. 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spartacus Release date: 12/31/1960 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (4/3) Asurprisingly apt companion piece to Paths of Glory in its consideration of the mechanisms of pow... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mon Oncle Release date: 1/1/1958 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (4/3) Unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed, and always technically brilliant. 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spirit of St. Louis, The Release date: 1/1/1957 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (4/3) It's quite engrossing, with the period trappings lovingly presented. 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Searchers, The Release date: 3/13/1956 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (4/3) There is perhaps some discrepancy in the play between Wayne's heroic image and the pathological o... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ghosts of Cite Soleil Release date: 6/27/2007 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/4) No reference Leth’s gritty, haphazardly edited film plays like a music video, with jagged rap sequences interl... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Arkadin Release date: 12/31/1955 11:01:38 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/4) No reference Failure or not, it's irresistible. 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Seven Year Itch, The Release date: 1/1/1955 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference Monroe flaunts her attributes too blatantly, and seems less human because of it, while George Axe... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Marty Release date: 1/1/1955 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference It does have doggy charm and a certain perceptiveness. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sign of the Pagan Release date: 12/31/1954 11:01:44 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference An immensely interesting though finally unsuccessful film. 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stalag 17 Release date: 1/1/1953 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference A fascinating film. 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Grand Hotel Release date: 1/1/1932 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: M Release date: 1/1/1931 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference A subversive film, or more simply a movie brimming over with the ferment of Lang's imagination at... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blood of a Poet, The Release date: 12/31/1930 11:01:27 PM Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference The honesty and robustness of the images prevents the movie from lapsing into pretension or preci... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Son, The Release date: 1/30/1900 Review by Derek Adams of Time Out: (3/3) No reference A summer camp classic. 11 other reviews of this movie Served 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