Alistair Harkness
Film Critic and Feature Writer at The Scotsman
Freelance Film Reviewer at BBC
Film critic for @TheScotsman/ @Scotsman_arts.
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1 day ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
Make it to Munich pays tribute to an unassuming teenager with an indomitable spirit, writes Alistair HarknessMake it to Munich (12A) ★★★Good One (15) ★★★★Final Destination: Bloodlines (15) ★★★Hallow Road (15) ★★In 2023 Scottish teenager Ethan Walker was at the start of what might have been a promising football career when he was hit by a car in New York state while away at college on a football scholarship.
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1 week ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
The Surfer (15) ★★★★Ocean with David Attenborough (PG) ★★★★The Uninvited (15) ★★★★Desire: The Carl Craig Story (15) ★★★If surfing is a state of mind — to paraphrase Patrick Swayze’s guru-like surfer in action classic Point Break — then Nicholas Cage’s new film The Surfer explores what might happen if said mind is thoroughly unhinged.
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
Thunderbolts* (12A) ★★★★☆Parthenope (15) ★★★☆☆Even for a studio synonymous with self-referential humour, the latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes so wrapped in quotation marks it risks deconstructing itself before it’s even told us what it is. But what’s surprising about Thunderbolts* (even its weirdly asterisked title has an ironic punchline), is how much this approach actually works.
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3 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
The Accountant 2 (15) ★★★Den of Thieves: Pantera (15) ★★Julie Keeps Quiet (12A) ★★★★A moderate hit for Ben Affleck when it was first released in 2016, The Accountant was a fairly disposable action thriller with an entertainingly goofy premise: an autistic forensic accountant (Affleck) with a shady roster of clients turns out also to have been trained by his bully of a father since childhood to become a lethal killing machine.
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1 month ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
Spy thriller The Amateur, with Rami Malek’s character like a weedier Jason Bourne, already seems like a relic from a different eraThe Amateur (12A)★★★☆☆Holy Cow (15)★★★★☆The Return (15)★★☆☆☆Rami Malek returns to the territory of his break-out role in TV’s Mr Robot with The Amateur, an espionage thriller about a CIA tech nerd (Malek) out for revenge after his wife (Rachel Brosnahan) is killed in a London terrorist attack.
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