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Tony Rayns

Tony Rayns's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai (2020) 54% EDIT “The panorama of life in this stratum of Mumbai society, from the secretive, unneighbourly political aide on the top floor to the defensive chancer on the ground floor, is well drawn, often wittily scripted and always convincingly acted. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 90% EDIT “There’s no disputing that its quaint morality earns Terminator 2 the label “A James Cameron Film", but there is equally no doubt that it represents another triumph for corporate film-making.” – Sight & Sound Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Stranger Eyes (2024) 83% EDIT “Yeo Siew Hua asks intelligent questions about the effect of surveillance on the psyche in a brilliantly-cast mystery about a child’s disappearance. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% EDIT “Lee directs with great brio, making smart use of locations and settings.” – Sight & Sound Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 51% EDIT “Just when the film appears irretrievably stuck in a morass of explications and local colour, though, it escalates into its action phase and takes on something of the energy and character of the genre it discusses.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% EDIT “Hard-Boiled is actually Woo's most relaxed and confident film so far, and in many ways a terrific achievement. It offers nothing much new in plot terms... but its details and incidentals are gleefully idiosyncratic.” – Sight & Sound Jul 27, 2023 Full Review Labyrinth of Cinema (2019) 93% EDIT “Obayashi Nobuhiko's three-hour swansong is a pop-art paean to pacifism and unity in the form of an exploration of Japanese film history and, in particular, its many depictions of armed conflict.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Neighboring Sounds (2012) 91% EDIT “It could be the best 'noises-off' movie since Bong Joonho's debut feature Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), which it in some ways resembles.” – Sight & Sound Nov 3, 2020 Full Review The Garden (1990) 100% EDIT “Touching, intense, sometimes unexpectedly amusing, sometimes agonising, and always achingly sincere.” – Time Out May 27, 2020 Full Review Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) 100% EDIT “Like Rainer Werner Fassbinder's other recent imitations of life, Fear Eats the Soul... achieves a remarkable balance between stylisation and realism.” – Sight & Sound Apr 1, 2020 Full Review Payday (1973) 63% EDIT “Such consistent recourse to convention is especially sad to see in a first feature.” – Sight & Sound Mar 27, 2020 Full Review Avanti! (1972) 79% EDIT “The audience is literally distanced from the action while at the same time encouraged to identify with it, which gives the whole exposition an almost diagrammatic quality.” – Sight & Sound Mar 20, 2020 Full Review Charley Varrick (1973) 82% EDIT “The film, like Walter Matthau's lead performance, becomes more good-naturedly humorous as it proceeds, and marks something of a return for Siegel to the liberal softie he used to be.” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Dementia (1955) 78% EDIT “The movie spends an hour exploring a lonely woman's sexual paranoia through a torrent of expressionist distortions which would look avant-garde if the vulgar Freudian 'message' weren't so reminiscent of '50s B features.” – Time Out Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Darling (1965) 74% EDIT “Excruciatingly embarrassing at the time, it now looks grotesquely pretentious and pathetically out of touch with the realities of the life-styles that it purports to represent.” – Time Out Feb 27, 2020 Full Review The Innocent (1976) 79% EDIT “The film resolves itself into an almost painfully sincere meditation on masculine self-delusion. It has a great performance from Laura Antonelli as the wife, and excellent ones from Giannini and Jennifer O'Neill as husband and lover.” – Time Out Feb 14, 2020 Full Review Burning (2018) 95% EDIT “Burning is primarily about the novelistic imagination, but Jongsu's story also coalesces the mood of uncertainty that has been visible in the Korean left during the ultra-rightwing presidencies of Lee Myungbak and Park Geunhye.” – Sight & Sound Jan 31, 2019 Full Review An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) 94% EDIT “What makes Elephant exceptional is Hu Bo's piercing sensitivity to private doubts and anxieties, and his ability to make them visible on the faces of his complex, credible characters.” – Sight & Sound Dec 15, 2018 Full Review Cold War (2018) 92% EDIT “This is a movie in which the political is personal: what separates Wiktor and Zula is less the Iron Curtain than an intractable cold war of the heart.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2018 Full Review The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1965) EDIT “An art-cinema landmark... There's no doubt that it's partly a brilliant directorial sleight-of-hand.” – Sight & Sound Jul 10, 2018 Full Review Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) 74% EDIT “Inevitably, this is tricked out with Moore's all-too-familiar stunts... all of them subject to the (capitalist?) law of diminishing returns.” – Sight & Sound Jul 10, 2018 Full Review Wonderful Town (2007) 86% EDIT “Demonstrates that it's still entirely possible to make a movie outside the framework of pop genre cinema that is engrossing, moving and, in its unassertive way, quietly entertaining.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Breathless (2009) 83% EDIT “As hard-boiled tales of moral redemption go, Breathless is a right knuckle-duster.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Into the Abyss (2011) 92% EDIT “Into the Abyss is not just a compelling documentary about a convicted murderer on Death Row, but a further chapter in Werner Herzog's obsessive exploration of the American way of life - and death.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Faust (2011) 66% EDIT “Surviving 139 minutes of this barrage of profuse but elusive imagery and sound is something of an ordeal.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review
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