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Review of The Swimmers (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 10 Dec 2022

One issue with here is there’s so much plot, alongside a persistent desire to frame and underscore every one of this journey’s…

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Review of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 10 Dec 2022

Glass Onion adopts the sturdy structural underpinnings of the Agatha Christie-like whodunit, and presents them with an ingenious mix of…

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Review of Emancipation (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 07 Dec 2022

Peter’s unflappable, occasionally unbelievable heroism is placed front and centre, and it’s nearly always at the expense of making…

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Review of Strange World (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 21 Nov 2022

There’s the nagging feeling that this one is very content to rake old ground rather than search for a new way to express these important,…

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Review of Strange World (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 21 Nov 2022

There’s the nagging feeling that this one is very content to rake old ground rather than search for a new way to express these important,…

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Review of The Menu (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 18 Nov 2022

The pungent whiff of designer cynicism pervades every scene, so not only is it difficult to understand why these diners aren’t taking…

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Review of Good Night Oppy (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 05 Nov 2022

Director Ryan White delivers an entertaining, albeit highly selective account of this project, brushing over any details that might lend…

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Review of My Policeman (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 21 Oct 2022

Emotional equality and the equilibrium of platonic friendship soon give way to factionalism and suggestions that two of three may peel off…

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Review of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 19 Oct 2022

It’s a sweet film that hits all of its modest targets and works largely because it avoids vapid pop culture references and ironic humour…

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Review of Halloween Ends (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 13 Oct 2022

It’s maybe disingenuous to say this, but the shift in tone and quality is so extreme that it feels as if Green has been let off his leash…

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Review of Both Sides of the Blade (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 09 Sep 2022

There was never a question of whether this would be a great movie, but the pleasant surprise is that it is, in fact, a very great one…

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Review of I Came By (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 31 Aug 2022

It’s in the writing where this one shines…

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Review of Prey (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 03 Aug 2022

The film plays through the scenario with plenty of moment-by-moment gusto, and there’s a lack of flab to it that makes it rather…

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Review of Prey (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 03 Aug 2022

The film plays through the scenario with plenty of moment-by-moment gusto, and there’s a lack of flab to it that makes it rather…

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Review of Fire of Love (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 29 Jul 2022

Dosa’s film is a slick, moving and cutely Herzogian portrait of this loving, monomaniacal couple who straddled the line between the…

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Review of The Railway Children Return (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 22 Jul 2022

As a feature, it all feels very rushed and dramatically inert, with the outcome of Abe’s predicament visible from many, many miles off…

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Review of Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 29 Jun 2022

It’s by no means horrendous or offensive, but it’s just a chronic bore, another film that will likely join the Billion Dollar Box…

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Review of Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 12 Apr 2022

Apollo 10 ½ is about the subjective intimacy of history, and how all events are just an equally-sized, vibrantly-coloured fragment in the…

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Review of Operation Mincemeat (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 12 Apr 2022

It’s a model of old school screen storytelling, where the robust individual elements coalesce into the exact sum of their parts and not a…

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Review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 28 Mar 2022

There’s a joke where people say, “This film’s plot could’ve been written on the back of a napkin…

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David Jenkins has written reviews for:

Time Out (7,510)
Total Film (3,532)
Little White Lies (3,136)
Observer (UK) (2,398)
Film4 (1,522)
Sight and Sound (827)
Time Out London (344)

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