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WALLY HAMMOND
PUBLICATION(S)
• Time Out
• Time Out New York
• Time Out Sydney

BIOGRAPHY
Time Out film critic.
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Total Reviews: 142


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Fresh  Bigga than Ben
Fresh  Alexandra
Fresh  Then She Found Me
Fresh  Linha de passe
Fresh  Funny Games
Fresh  Romance of Astree and Celadon
Fresh  Heavy Metal In Baghdad
Fresh  RocknRolla
Fresh  Times and Winds
Fresh  Badlands
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Rotten  Swing Vote
Rotten  Swing Vote
Rotten  Partition
Rotten  El Cantante
Rotten  In Memory Of My Father
Rotten  Kamikaze Girls
Rotten  Three and Out
Rotten  Flashbacks of a Fool
Rotten  Redacted
Rotten  Intimate Enemies
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

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4/6
 
" The performances are spiky, the use of varied locations is fresh and the dialogue – ‘How could I ever imagine that I, a Moscow hooligan and Nazi would become a negro lover?’ – is warmingly non-exemplary." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
Bigga than Ben (2008)60%
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2/6
 
" He shoots simultaneously for ‘wake up, America!’ inspiration and good ol’ boy charm but ends up putting both barrels through his own cowboy-booted foot." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Swing Vote (2008)38%
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4/6
 
" It’s also quietly challenging, in its own way, not least in its portrait of old age, its trials, new freedoms and the privilege of changing one’s mind before it becomes too late." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Alexandra (2008)94%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out
Posted Sep 25, 2008
 
Swing Vote (2008)38%
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3/6
 
" Hunt’s film does soften the heart, not least because of its honesty and its sensitivity to some unfashionable dilemmas." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)52%
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4/6
 
" Salles and Thomas’s movie contains some extraordinary moments and its fine editing injects a dynamic cross-cutting energy." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Linha de passe ()75%
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5/6
 
" This new version adds nothing novel, but it lacks none of the original's bite." -- Time Out Sydney
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)51%
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4/6
 
" It is the wisdom, passion, joy and hope with which he invests the film that makes it so terribly moving." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Romance of Astree and Celadon (2008)63%
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2/6
 
" The period reconstructions are impressive but the script and direction are a little pedestrian." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Partition (2007)40%
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3/6
 
" The guerrilla-movie-making ethic of the directors is reflected in the band members, who sport goatees and speak excellent, hipster/metalhead-inflected American English." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)81%
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3/5
 
" Ritchie’s film is arguably his most entertaining to date. With its cheeky wit, non-PC provocations, cock-eyed class-consciousness and cheerful irreverence it could be the closest thing to Ealing comedy we’re offered these days." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
RocknRolla (2008)57%
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2/6
 
" This messy, maudlin portrait of the decline and decline of Puerto Rico-born salsa star Héctor Lavoe wavers uncertainly between cable channel biopic and socially concerned drug movie." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
El Cantante (2007)24%
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4/6
 
" Buried in leaves or hugging the rocks, they could be in ecstatic communion or fusing with the natural world. More likely, Erdem’s marvellous film sees them as bridging the divide between heaven and earth." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Times and Winds (2008)85%
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5/6
 
" This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema’s equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Badlands (1973)100%
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5/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)94%
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3/6
 
" Older audiences may be required to get back in touch with their adolescent appetites for garish decor." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
Kamikaze Girls (2005)60%
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2/6
 
" If you’re a fan of jaundiced views of Hollywood or unedifying portraits of dysfunctional families, look no further." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
In Memory Of My Father (2005)63%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
Kamikaze Girls (2005)60%
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2/6
 
" Too gauche, too derivative and merely sporadically amusing." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Three and Out (2008)20%
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3/6
 
" An ambitious but disappointing, regret-filled psycho-drama." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)45%
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4/6
 
" Its mock-artistic thriller trappings notwithstanding, ‘In Bruges’ is basically a funny, tragicomic two-hander, with the casting of Farrell alongside Gleeson enabling a pleasing Irish inflection." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)81%
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4/6
 
" This dazzlingly designed, mega-budget, period costumer offers further proof of Feng’s increasing versatility, expansive vision and bravura technique." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Legend Of The Black Scorpion (2006)n/a
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5/6
 
" It’s not a reassuring vision but that’s not the name of Haneke’s particular game." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 6, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)51%
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3/6
 
" ‘Beaufort’ mounts an impressively credible ‘expressionist’ reconstruction of the futility and contradictions of war as experienced by these men. Its limitation comes from a fundamental failure of vision." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Beaufort (2008)87%
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3/6
 
" War was ever a Kubrick-ian hell-ride, futile, fundamentally unheroic and de-humanising, but now it’s mocked by a mad multimedia accompaniment innocent of all real ethical, moral and humanitarian value." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Redacted (2007)43%
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" It’s one of the great films of disenchantment." -- Time Out
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
The Killers (1946)100%
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2/6
 
" Director Florent Emilio Siri (‘The Nest’, ‘Hostage’) shows ability in action sequences and group dynamics but his film never develops sufficiently to raise it much above the conventional." -- Time Out
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Intimate Enemies (2007)60%
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4/6
 
" A thoughtful, sincere and moving film, buttressed by a fine, central performance by an actor at the top of his form." -- Time Out
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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3/6
 
" The performances are likeable and entertaining, while Nichols pumps the whole proceedings with a satisfyingly fluid, dramatic energy." -- Time Out
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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4/6
 
" Its dark romanticism lingers in the mind." -- Time Out
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Lust, Caution (2007)70%
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2/6
 
" Even ace editor Walter Murch struggles to give coherence to the professor’s fractured, episodic journey through darkening wartime exile in Geneva, to the brighter revelations of ’50s India and the sun-kissed Mediterranean." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Youth Without Youth (2007)29%
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3/6
 
" An intriguing, ably shot and directed addition to the ‘cinema of anxiety’ ." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Hotel Harabati (2006)75%
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3/6
 
" Pitt, toying with his death-wish like some private joke, is eminently watchable in a role with little developmental arc; while Affleck, as his unwitting nemesis, takes his own mysterious integrity right to the grave." --
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)75%
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3/6
 
" This inspirational drama gets three stars for oddity value alone." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2007
 
August Rush (2007)37%
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4/6
 
" The film’s meandering, surrealist-kissed, early scenes dance nicely in time with his urban protagonist’s disconnected, existential malaise." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
The Wayward Cloud (2007)82%
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3/6
 
" A heavily contrived, undemanding and often funny mainstream Paris-set comedy-drama." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Prête-moi Ta Main (2006)57%
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3/6
 
" slightly hesitant, slightly undercharacterised and gently compromising, hybrid: an oddly diplomatic, if often brutal, dip into the hellish demi-mondes lurking behind bouncer-guarded London doorways." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 24, 2007
 
Eastern Promises (2007)88%
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3/6
 
" You could call it a cousin of ‘Time Bandits’ or ‘The Princess Bride’, but it lacks the former’s originality and the latter’s heart." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Stardust (2007)76%
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3/6
 
" The performances are solid and small points are made about the plight of outsider art and human bonding but as a study in dying or elderly eccentricity, it’s been eclipsed by recent works." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
My Nikifor (2004)86%
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3/5
 
" It’s a by-turns flip and searching cineaste’s rites-of-passage drama -- both for the characters and the director -- that deals entertainingly with the rivalries, doubts, fears and sexual entanglements of its twentysomething milieu." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2007
 
Reprise (2008)86%
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4/6
 
" A treat for Indian movie buffs and lovers of silent melodrama alike." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
A Throw of Dice (1929)100%
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2/6
 
" An ugly catalogue of personal and familiar abuse." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
We Are All Christs (2006)n/a
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Imaginary Heroes (2004)34%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Shwaas (2004)40%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Conspiracy of Silence (2004)33%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)60%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Bob, Verushka & the Pursuit of Happiness (2000)43%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Santa Smokes (2004)67%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Before the Fall (2004)67%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
After Midnight (2004)60%

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