Antonia Quirke Movie Reviews & Previews (2025)

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Very Bad Things (1998) 40% “It's as thought writer and director Peter Berg couldn't face following through what he suggests in the early moments of the film.” – Independent on Sunday Apr 1, 2019 Full Review Two Girls and a Guy (1997) 50% “Tobak is fascinated with Downey, and spends most of the time following him about, like someone with a crush.” – Independent on Sunday Apr 1, 2019 Full Review Stepmom (1998) 44% “It's a film about a woman who lives for other people and who wears the requisite hunted expression. If this woman wasn't Sarandon, then Stepmom would be altogether hopeless.” – Independent on Sunday Apr 1, 2019 Full Review Touch of Evil (1958) 97% “What a film this is.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Bride of Chucky (1998) 45% “Bride of Chucky is easily the best of the four-film Chucky franchise, and it's a barmy, witty horror movie full of Scream-like ironies.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Venus Beauty Institute (1999) 59% “Tonie Marshall's quiet, unremarkable film has little real emotional pull.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Gloria (1999) 14% “An unnecessary remake.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Just the Ticket (1999) 23% “The film works well when it is down on the street, spying on Gary doing his off-the-cuff stuff with real commuters, and Garcia is physically perfect for this kind of role.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Croupier (1998) 95% “Croupier is fascinating, mercilessly compact, adamant.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Cruel Intentions (1999) 54% “Cruel Intentions is a surprisingly winning update of Choderlos De Laclos's 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangeureuses.” – Independent on Sunday Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Something's Gotta Give (2003) 72% “It pays homage to the great pulse of warmth still, 27 years later, being given off by Annie Hall, and Keaton basks in the attention. You can hear the beat of her triumphant heart.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review The School of Rock (2003) 92% “School of Rock just doesn't rock. It has no appetite for destruction. No raw power. It's like late Whitesnake. Tidied-up, over-produced. Jack Black is not, sad to say, Jack White.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Pieces of April (2003) 84% “It's interesting to see [Katie] Holmes in something like this, which gives an edge to her usual cute and cloying persona.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) 22% “Spade doesn't look to have the confidence to flourish in such a mainstream film.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004) 0% “The film is mirthless, worthless, toothless, useless.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review It's All About Love (2003) 19% “In Vinterberg's hands, the unusual become usual and It's All About Love lulls you into trusting everything it shows.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Man Dancin' (2003) “A batty film: harsh and grim, then madly thespy.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Sunrise (1927) 98% “The film is electric: overwhelmingly passionate and sexual.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review House of Sand and Fog (2003) 75% “While the book reads as tragedy, the film feels like melodrama, and really hasn't the guts for Connolly's natural spirit and warmth, or Kingsley's beautiful canniness. They both feel completely throttled, done in by the film's over-calculated heaviness.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Mona Lisa Smile (2003) 33% “Just what we need: a pyjama party posing as a movie.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Starsky & Hutch (2004) 63% “At a time when the Hollywood studios seem locked in a competition to see who can make and distribute the most witless spoofs, pastiches and tributes, along comes one that is genuinely funny.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review The Perfect Score (2004) 15% “It makes The Breakfast Club look like one of the smartest experiences of your life.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Ash Wednesday (2002) 27% “This might have been a good film if Burns (writer, director, producer) had tried harder.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Zatoichi (2003) 87% “This film is a shebang, a full-scale show, complete with everything you would happily pay to see: costumes, tattoos, scratchy folk music, gambling in saki dens. You will eat it up.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2017 Full Review The Station Agent (2003) 94% “Dinklage is a star, for sure, but the film is hypnotic because of its unusually certain and constantly delicate tone.” – London Evening Standard Dec 18, 2017 Full Review

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