Contributions from David Jenkins | Little White Lies

Contributor David Jenkins

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About Dry Grasses review – consistently mind-expanding

by David Jenkins

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s magnificent latest follows the daily life of a cantankerous English teacher in a small Anatollian village.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Deadpool & Wolverine review – a mixed (ball) bag

by David Jenkins

The MCU serves up a two-hour dick joke slam in the guise of a metatextual superhero threequel. Results may vary.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – generic cop flick falls flat

by David Jenkins

Eddie Murphy hits the nostalgia circuit with this depressing, algorithmic homage to the sparkling 1984 original.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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Despicable Me 4 review – a paper-thin fourquel

by David Jenkins

Another chunk of glossy, silly content rolls out for the Steve Carell-fronted behemoth animation franchise.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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MaXXXine review – it kinda suxxx

by David Jenkins

Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

by David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Hounds – This contrived crime story outstays its welcome

by David Jenkins

Two bumbling hoods in Casablanca are charged with disposing of a corpse in Kamal Lazraq’s disappointing thriller.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Sasquatch Sunset – Gross-out larks with an anthropological twist

by David Jenkins

A family of mythical beasts are observed in their natural habitat in comic portrait of animals and their instincts.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 review – witless nonsense

by David Jenkins

Another unwatchable slasher dirge from the IP graverobbers behind 2023’s unlikely cause célèbre.

1
Anticipation
1
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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The Dead Don’t Hurt review – elegiac and tenderly romantic

by David Jenkins

Viggo Mortensen’s sombre take on the western evokes some classic Clint Eastwood films.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect