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Angie Errigo
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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Little Women (1994) |
A lovely story and vivacious stars make this warm-hearted saga of home, family and growing up - written, directed and produced by women - a joyful standard bearer in the new wave of "women's pictures". - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Apr 08, 2024
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The Horse Whisperer (1998) |
This is the fastidiously rendered work of a craftsman, and a sob-inducing, beautifully old-fashioned affair which is bound to irritate the hell out of a younger audience. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) |
Countless films have imitated Bringing Up Baby, most famously Peter Bogdanovich's homage What's Up, Doc?, but it is futile to look for its equal. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Jul 25, 2023
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Hangin' With the Homeboys (1991) |
The performances are hip, funny and smart, the situations embarrassingly recognisable and the pace energetic and assured. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Aug 12, 2021
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Backdraft (1991) |
Dramatically, of course, it's utter twaddle, but with state-of-the-art incendiary special effects and a sex scene on top of a fire engine, there's plenty of bang for your buck. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Aug 03, 2021
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Enemies, a Love Story (1989) |
Mazursky and his co-writer, Roger Simon, have done a difficult adaptation job well, concentrating disparate elements of humour, sex and despair into a tragicomedy of unusual depth. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Aug 01, 2021
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Running on Empty (1988) |
Despite Lumet's home-spun pincer movement on the espionage/conspiracy genres, cliché still sneaks up and nips the film into submission. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted May 25, 2021
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The Joy Luck Club (1993) |
[A] marvellous and right-on distillation of feminine hopes and hurts across the generations. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Dec 17, 2020
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) |
There may not be a laugh every minute, but there are enough to satisfy most devotees of the relentlessly silly, tasteless school of parody. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Aug 11, 2020
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Like Water for Chocolate (1992) |
Deliciously offbeat and bittersweet, it is, entirely appropriately, a treat. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Jun 11, 2020
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Cool Runnings (1993) |
Cheesy? Certainly. But strong performaces and a heart-warming storyline make this a winner. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Mar 16, 2020
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) |
Sumptuous to look at, with some decent performances... - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Nov 27, 2019
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Tomorrow (2018) |
As self-started projects go, Street and Brennan can be pleased with theirs, the finished film as much a tribute to optimism and perseverance as the plot. - The List
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| Posted Sep 25, 2019
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Robert the Bruce (2019) |
There were expectations that RtB would be a kind of sequel to Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar winner. If only. - The List
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| Posted Jun 24, 2019
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Never Look Away (2018) |
[An] engrossing historical romantic drama with a wonderful cast... - The List
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| Posted Jun 20, 2019
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Rocketman (2019) |
A lot of fun and very cute. - The List
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| Posted May 21, 2019
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Amazing Grace (2018) |
A perfect celebration of the spiritual heritage that so enriched American popular music. - The List
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| Posted May 07, 2019
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Poetic Justice (1993) |
Some good performances are balanced out by the film's contrivances and gratuitously foul-mouthed characters. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Apr 26, 2019
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Wild Rose (2018) |
As a timely tale about never giving up on yourself, Wild Rose is warm-hearted and inspiring. - The List
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| Posted Apr 08, 2019
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The Keeper (2018) |
It's reasonably pleasant for about the length of a game of football, yet it goes on and on as tragedies strike and things culminate in a ludicrously melodramatic turn. - The List
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| Posted Apr 01, 2019
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Practical Magic (1998) |
It tootles along being cute... but to further its notions of sisterhood and the power of women, it also takes a spin through Thelma And Louise territory, then revisits The Exorcist to up the supernatural content. It's enough to make your head spin. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Mar 30, 2019
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Dumbo (2019) |
It is sweet, it is scary, the production design is gorgeous and Eva Green is delicious as the aerial artiste diva who puts some pep into Farrell's step. - The List
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| Posted Mar 27, 2019
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On the Basis of Sex (2018) |
A nicely inspirational, romantic hagiography and an unmistakable call to political engagement. - The List
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| Posted Feb 18, 2019
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) |
To say that this is the funniest film Mel Brooks has co-written, produced and directed in some years is, alas, not saying very much. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Dec 07, 2018
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The Portrait of a Lady (1996) |
What on earth is the little surrealist film-in-a-film in the middle all about, or the opening credits sequence in which hippy chicks gaze into camera as female voices talk about kisses? - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 26, 2018
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Miracle on 34th Street (1994) |
Richard Attenborough positively sparkles in the role of the mysterious Kriss Kringle, giving a restrained and genuinely sweet performance. - Empire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 23, 2018
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The Front Runner (2018) |
Despite a talented cast and a wealth of potentially meaty themes, this comes off disappointingly mealy-mouthed, and it's hard to care. - The List
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| Posted Oct 12, 2018
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First Man (2018) |
Flouting the conventions of the biopic and man-with-a-mission movies Chazelle gives us an intimate, moving character drama with raw, visceral space-peril thrills. - The List
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| Posted Oct 08, 2018
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Black '47 (2018) |
There is no denying the power of this affecting, artful history lesson and tribute to Celtic tenacity in the style of a lean, mean western. - The List
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| Posted Sep 24, 2018
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The Seagull (2018) |
An umpteenth adaptation of a masterwork that is open to endless interpretation. Like so many, it is interesting and in parts fruitful, but not entirely satisfying or affecting. - The List
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| Posted Sep 04, 2018
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Alpha (2018) |
It is marvellous to see such a large scale, IMAX-worthy picture with an abundance of old-fashioned heart amid the wham-bam franchises that fill our summers. - The List
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| Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) |
Honestly, for all its absurdities and cue-up-another-song sub-plots it is the mother-daughter love story that touches the heart, and the film's joyful esprit de corps really is irresistible. - The List
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| Posted Jul 18, 2018
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Swimming With Men (2018) |
Lives are transformed, love happens, self-esteem is revived - yep, it's The Full Monty with nose clips and goggles. - The List
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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That Summer (2017) |
For those fascinated by the Maysles brothers' classic 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, a portrait of the eccentric, impoverished socialites Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, this is a Beale-apalooza. - The List
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| Posted May 28, 2018
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Anon (2018) |
It is cold, detached and one note - a note so subdued it becomes soporific. - The List
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| Posted May 09, 2018
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) |
A very attractive, accomplished and surprisingly pleasing dish of heartwarming romance, mystery and moving historical drama, directed by the dab hand of Mike Newell and played out by a cracking ensemble. - The List
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| Posted Apr 16, 2018
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A Quiet Place (2018) |
What is most satisfying here is not just the effective frights that unpredictably punctuate the family's existence, but the empathy that builds up with them and how moved we are by their plight. - The List
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| Posted Apr 03, 2018
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Ready Player One (2018) |
The classic young hero quest, 21st century style. - The List
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| Posted Mar 26, 2018
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Mary Magdalene (2018) |
Beautiful, thoughtful and realistic. - The List
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| Posted Mar 12, 2018
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The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) |
A space opera / horror / thriller mash-up that clutches ineffectually at philosophical and socio-political profundity while pastiching familiar sci-fi tropes ... - The List
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| Posted Feb 07, 2018
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The Mercy (2018) |
The supporting cast and period detail are fine, but essentially this is Firth's film and he does brave, moving work as the disheartened dreamer spiralling down into despair and madness. - The List
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| Posted Feb 05, 2018
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Lies We Tell (2017) |
All these assets are swamped by a weak, increasingly melodramatic storyline littered with horrible stereotypes and preposterous villainy. - The List
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| Posted Jan 29, 2018
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The Greatest Showman (2017) |
Jackman has the charisma, charm and cheek that Barnum must have possessed in some measure. He has a twinkle that keeps you sympathising with him even when he's being a deeply flawed, social climbing, straying hero. - The List
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| Posted Dec 22, 2017
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Paddington 2 (2017) |
It's terribly sad that Paddington's creator Michael Bond - to whom the film is dedicated - died in June without seeing how absolutely wonderfully his legacy has been continued. - The List
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| Posted Nov 06, 2017
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) |
Even if you know how it was fated to end, it's a captivating journey, from the fun of their first days to the touching postscript. - The List
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| Posted Oct 11, 2017
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Romeo and Juliet (1954) |
Renato Castellani's classically elegant production was beautifully shot on location in Italy with jewel-bright design inspired by Renaissance paintings. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 06, 2017
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The Muppet Movie (1979) |
Comedy director James Frawley imposes pleasing order on the charming proceedings while Henson and his long-time associate Frank Oz delightfully dominate. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 06, 2017
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Norma Rae (1979) |
Based on the true story of a reluctant real-life heroine, this sincere drama with a social conscience makes its union cause authentic, heartfelt and grittily entertaining. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 06, 2017
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Home Alone 3 (1997) |
There are some genuine laughs, and not too much saccharin or cartoon-style brutality. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 06, 2017
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Hollow Man (2000) |
Challenged for much of a story, the film resorts to turning Bacon's laboratory into a haunted house, from where the see-through psychopath traps his colleagues to dispose of them one by one. - Radio Times
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| Posted Sep 06, 2017
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