Tom Huddleston

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Time Out, Time Out London
For 348 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tom Huddleston's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Dark Days
Lowest review score: 20 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 128 out of 348
  2. Mixed: 203 out of 348
  3. Negative: 17 out of 348
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    The Blues Brothers
    That Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi adore this music is not in question – it’s lovingly chosen and brilliantly performed – but the film sometimes feels like a work of cultural tourism, particularly in scenes set in a gospel church and a Chicago street market. These lively musical sequences also sit awkwardly with director John Landis’s bizarre predilection for wholesale destruction: sure, smashing up cop cars can be fun, but Landis takes things to a tiresome extreme.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Tom Huddleston
    Urban Hymn
    The crude good-girl/bad-girl dynamic between its young leads is just one of many crass elements in this woolly, well-meaning but fatally unconvincing melodrama.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    Luckily, Jackson’s singular talent for massive-scale mayhem hasn’t deserted him, and the hour-long smackdown that crowns the film gives him ample opportunities to indulge it.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    Magic Magic
    The first half of Magic Magic is greatly enjoyable... Sadly, director Sebastián Silva isn’t sure where to take his characters.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    This feature-length Mr Peabody and Sherman is by no means unbearable: there are a few decent gags, and the episodic plot just about manages to hold the interest. But there’s little here for any but the most easy-to-please youngsters.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    Milius
    The film does approach Milius with a certain reverence, but it can’t disguise the fact that he’s a troubling, divisive figure: bull-headed, almost cartoonishly macho, staunchly right-wing and dangerously self-obsessed.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    Viva
    As a self-conscious exercise in kitsch graverobbing, ‘Viva’ succeeds through a combination of cultural nous and sheer aesthetic audacity.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Huddleston
    Baskin
    The visuals are painstaking and horribly beautiful – shades of Hitchcock, Carpenter, even Spielberg – while the gore scenes are truly outrageous, knocking cheap imitators (hey, Nicolas Winding Refn, this is how it’s done) into a cocked hat.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    August: Osage County
    If you enjoy improbable plot twists, overcooked dialogue and Hollywood legends champing on scenery, this adaptation is a highly entertaining slice of American Gothic.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    Tokyo Tribe
    It’s a wild, at times exhilarating watch – but an exhausting one.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    Jason Bourne
    When the talking stops the film takes off, with a pair of bone-rattling chases set in Athens and Las Vegas that cause maximum damage to people, property and the audience’s eardrums. A bracing reminder of how fiercely efficient Greengrass can be, these scenes just about justify the existence of Jason Bourne. But, please, no more.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    My Father and The Man In Black
    The film overdoes it with the awkward, unconvincing re-enactments, many starring the director himself. The result will amuse hardcore Cash fans, but few others.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 100 Tom Huddleston
    The Thing
    The Thing has emerged as one of our most potent modern terrors, combining the icy-cold chill of suspicion and uncertainty with those magnificently imaginative effects blowouts.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    The Hole
    Dante plays the early scenes perfectly, racking up the clammy dread without tipping over into outright nastiness. But somewhere along the way, the tension dissipates.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 100 Tom Huddleston
    Heaven's Gate
    A grippingly violent parable, a touching, tragic romance and – thanks to legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and an unprecedented attention to historical detail – quite simply one of the most beautiful, immersive films ever made.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Like four or five Harry Potter books squeezed into a single movie: it makes precious little sense.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    A Walk Among the Tombstones
    A Walk Among the Tombstones is well paced and fairly watchable, but it does take itself desperately seriously.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    Focus
    The chassis may be slick and speedy, but under the hood Focus lives up to its Ford-produced namesake: sturdy but not exactly stimulating.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    The Fate of the Furious
    Overall, there’s a sense that ‘Fast and Furious 8’ knows exactly where it wants to go and won’t bust a gasket getting there: you might ask for a little more character work here, a few more plot surprises there, but on the whole this rattles along just fine.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Huddleston
    Minions
    The action sequences are wild, the jokes relentlessly dumb-but-smart, and the sheer sense of anything-goes daftness...is glorious.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Huddleston
    War Machine
    A messy, troubling and strangely enjoyable film.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    For No Good Reason
    It’s a shame, because there’s a good, solid documentary to be made about this fascinating, enormously talented, slightly self-congratulatory little man and his unmistakeable ouevre.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    The Visit
    A bizarre, conflicted mess, horrifying when it’s trying to be funny, oddly appealing when it turns the screws.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Tom Huddleston
    The Inbetweeners 2
    That a film in 2014 can still get away with depicting all women as either dumb, hapless sluts or ball-busting harridans is frankly unbelievable.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    Home
    A smart concept is thoroughly wasted in this cute but grating DreamWorks animated comedy.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    City of Tiny Lights
    City of Tiny Lights is always entertaining, and proves a great excuse for Ahmed to confirm his newly minted matinee-idol status. If only it had the confidence to shrug off its influences and do its own thing.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    Riz Ahmed is superb as Changez (pronounced Chan-Gez, not like the Bowie song),
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    David Brent: Life on the Road
    Being stuck in a cinema with David Brent for 96 minutes can be trying (the lazy ending doesn’t help). But when Gervais is on an improvisational roll, Brent digging himself deeper and deeper into some awful pit of social awkwardness, we can’t help but remember why we love to hate them both.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Tom Huddleston
    Life
    A handful of tense moments and some neat Gravity style effects just about keep Life ticking along. But the direction by Daniel Espinosa (he of the dire Child 44) is seriously shoddy – there's a moment towards the end when everything seems suddenly to happen at once, and not in a good way – and the total lack of originality is disappointing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Tom Huddleston
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    An overlong, at times almost plot-free soap opera that introduces a wealth of characters and dips into a wide variety of subplots but never comes together as a story.
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