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Graeme Tuckett
Graeme Tuckett's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Movies reviews only
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Twisters (2024) |
It's either monumental chutzpah, or an abject failure of nerve, to make a film in 2024 about catastrophic weather events, without once muttering the words "climate-change". - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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The Road to Patagonia (2024) |
On a big screen, with the cinematography glowing the way it should and Daniel Norgren’s unexpectedly excellent soundtrack playing over some decent speakers, The Road to Patagonia is a pretty rhapsodic way to spend 90 minutes of your life - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) |
A Quiet Place: Day One... happily retains the human scale of the earlier films. Although clearly inspired by Signs, War of the Worlds, The Thing and early Alien films, it was Polanski's The Pianist I was most reminded of. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 27, 2024
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) |
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is nothing more than an extended version of its own trailer. The plot is nonsensical, but the chemistry and goodwill between Smith and long-time co-star Lawrence is as unforced and intermittently enjoyable as ever. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 19, 2024
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The Watchers (2024) |
I walked out of The Watchers thinking it was one of the daftest films I'd seen in months and laughing to myself that the Shyamalan family firm is in safe hands. And yet, just as with her Dad's films, there were moments that will stay with me. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 19, 2024
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The Exorcism (2024) |
The last-third of this film arrives in a hot rush that looks like it has been cobbled together out of re-writes and reshoots that no one was really invested in. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 19, 2024
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Shooting Stars (2023) |
Shooting Stars is a mostly low-key and thoughtful portrait. Director Chris Robinson has a deft touch with the on-court scenes and handles the relationships and drama equally well. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Freud's Last Session (2023) |
Brown smothers a potentially interesting project with stultifying good-intentions and clumsy staging. All that survives of Freud's Last Session is a dull person's idea of what a smart film might look and sound like. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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The Beach Boys (2024) |
Marshall does pretty well at capturing the paradox of a band whose popular image stands almost in opposition to their greatest musical achievements. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) |
In its best moments, there's a The Road-meets-Road Runner energy to this film that will leave no one who loved Fury Road feeling short-changed. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 27, 2024
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The Way, My Way (2024) |
The Way, My Way is a film that delivers exactly what the marketing is promising. This is a cheerful, modest and good-hearted movie – and I hope it finds the audience it deserves. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 26, 2024
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) |
The Strangers: Chapter 1 is a compendium of bad ideas, shot through with a nasty line in creepy misogyny. There is nothing here that a hundred other films haven't already done better. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 26, 2024
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The American (2023) |
Dance... lends itself almost too perfectly to film – and Robertson and his crew have maybe set a new benchmark with Joika for just how excruciatingly well the physicality and the stresses of dance – ballet especially – can be put on screen. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 26, 2024
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Stewart (2022) |
Jackie Stewart might not win the sport any new fans, but it is an immersive and affectionate piece of work. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 26, 2024
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The Lie: The Murder of Grace Millane (2024) |
If the film's existence in any way speeds up a ban on the so-called "rough sex" defence, and helps to spare another family from having to sit through a trial in which that is deployed, then it will have achieved a great deal. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 09, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024) |
This is a film that knows how to put on a show. If it had a story that made just a tiny bit more sense, and was smart enough to generate any tension or intrigue at all, I might even have liked the damn thing a bit more myself. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 09, 2024
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The Moon Is Upside Down (2023) |
This is a literate, clever and blackly funny gem that will be a polarising and provocative entry into the local roster. It swings from tender and reflective one moment, to raucous and gleefully filthy the next, without striking a false note. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 09, 2024
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Boy Kills World (2023) |
Star Skarsgard has the abs and the moves to sell the stunts – but Boy Kills World’s jokes just don't work and the incessant voice-over from Bob's Burgers' H. Jon Benjamin quickly becomes an irritation. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 09, 2024
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Back to Black (2024) |
The 2015 Amy is the sprawling, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping film her life demands. Back to Black is not. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted May 09, 2024
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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023) |
An affectionate and respectful swing at a storied and fascinating life. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 21, 2024
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Origin (2023) |
Telling such a vast and potentially unwieldy story in a way that remains human, entertaining and relatable is a hell of an achievement. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 21, 2024
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Challengers (2024) |
Writer Justin Kuritzkes is clearly loving the power of cinema to skip across a decade and director Guadagnino is equally happy to construct an intricate puzzle of a film, but still have it tick the boxes of a sports rom-com and box-office hit. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 21, 2024
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The Tiger's Apprentice (2024) |
The Tiger's Apprentice is so obviously assembled from ideas from other, better films that even the occasional visual flourish isn't enough to elevate the finished product into anything you'll ever be particularly happy you saw. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 14, 2024
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Monkey Man (2024) |
Patel has crafted a deliriously entertaining and pleasantly gritty couple of hours with a decent side-order of social and political commentary that I have no doubt will raise plenty of ire and eyebrows in India and beyond. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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The First Omen (2024) |
The First Omen is an exercise in terrific film-making, that doesn't quite hang together as a film. But on a big screen, with the soundtrack turned up loud, it's still a fun couple of hours. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Io Capitano (2023) |
Io Capitano is an astonishing achievement. This is – at times – a tough-to-watch story, but there is something unbreakable and defiantly alive being shown here too. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) |
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire can't hold a candle to last year's Godzilla: Minus One – and it's nothing like as smart as Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla relaunch. But it is a likeable enough way to waste a couple of hours. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Ordinary Angels (2024) |
Blasting into the picture at about the 20-minute mark like she's auditioning for a remake of Erin Brockovich and nothing is going to get in her way. Swank grasps this by the scruff and just keeps shaking until it starts to look like a watchable film. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Immaculate (2024) |
After an effective 60-minute set-up, Immaculate swings for the fences in a couple of deliriously unhinged final scenes, but, by that time, Mohan and star Sydney Sweeney deserve every bat-poo bonkers moment they can throw at the screen. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) |
It's been a long time between buckets of popcorn, but it feels like Ghostbusters is back in safe hands. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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The Convert (2023) |
When it works, it works beautifully. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 12, 2024
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Let the Dance Begin (2023) |
The scenery is spectacular, the characters are likeable and broadly sketched – and the contrivances are so nakedly piled upon each other that the only thing to do is to sigh, smile, and just let the story play out. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Imaginary (2024) |
There was potential here, maybe, for a film that dug a little deeper, pushed a little harder and delivered a contemporary spin on ideas... - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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The Great Escaper (2023) |
The Great Escaper is still pleasingly gritty at times, with some pointed things to say about the way we romanticise and lionise our veterans, but without necessarily looking after them. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024) |
Whether you think you're interested in a sci-fi or not, this is a powerful and quite beautiful reminder of what a stunning medium cinema can still be, when enough ambition, intelligence, artistry – and money – all come together in the same place. Bravo. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Cabrini (2024) |
Although Cabrini is unashamedly a religious film, there is still plenty here to keep any curious heathens in the audience happy and interested. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Drive-Away Dolls (2024) |
Drive-Away Dolls is an absolute hoot. It takes a lot of talent and time to make something look this gorgeously dumb and dashed-off, and everyone on screen and behind the camera has clearly had fun making this. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Baghead (2023) |
There are several attempts here at delivering a scare, but the visuals are unimaginative and the writing is so howlingly daft, I'd long stopped caring enough to jump. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024) |
The film doesn't ask much of [Bana], except to bark a few orders and gaze soulfully out of rain-sodden windows like a constipated basset hound on a disappointing family holiday. All of which Bana excels at. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 16, 2024
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Bob Marley: One Love (2024) |
There's a good handful of set-pieces here – the jam session that led to the writing of the title track of Exodus is a standout, a visit to a pub in London where The Clash are playing is another – that elevate the film far past a few clumsy moments. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 14, 2024
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Riceboy Sleeps (2022) |
There is no trickery or artifice behind or in front of the camera and the locations on-screen are as genuine as the characters. But Shim and his cast strike their notes perfectly. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 02, 2024
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Priscilla (2023) |
Coppola, Spaeny, Elordi — with long-time cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd (The Beguiled) and editor Sarah Flack (Lost in Translation) — have found a way to tell this story that is as unsparing as it is sympathetic. Bravo. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Feb 02, 2024
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Perfect Days (2023) |
The memory of Wenders’ Paris, Texas hangs over Perfect Days. And yet the similarities are only superficial. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 26, 2024
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The Iron Claw (2023) |
The film is studded with terrific scenes and couple of blazing performances. But... Some narratives are just never going to provide the clear arcs and tidy endings a movie demands. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 26, 2024
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The Beekeeper (2024) |
The Beekeeper is an exuberantly stupid load of hyper-violent nonsense. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 19, 2024
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All of Us Strangers (2023) |
Haigh has constructed a mystery that leans into the conventions of a horror story, but which remains hopeful and poignant until the credits roll. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 17, 2024
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The Holdovers (2023) |
Payne's best films - Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, Nebraska - have always featured the implosion and partial redemption of insufferable men, and he is on familiar ground here. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 11, 2024
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Christmess (2023) |
Christmess occasionally betrays its tiny budget and tight schedule, but this film feels like it occupies a genuine, lived-in space, populated by people who have a life outside of the screen. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 05, 2024
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Ferrari (2023) |
Ferrari skips between the domestic drama, the boardrooms and meetings – and then to the track, without ever weaving these three strands into a whole. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Jan 03, 2024
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) |
This Aquaman is never going to be anybody's idea of a good film, but its heart is in the right place and it never left me feeling actually irritated or bored. - Stuff.co.nz
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| Posted Dec 28, 2023
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