Tim Robey

London

Film critic for @telegraph. Own views. Author of Box Office Poison https://t.co/dwHnpno4L4 🌈 Barely here & *rarely check DMs* https://t.co/Lv3S0ohwW8

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Articles

How Mickey Rourke blew it

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

He could have one of the greats - instead, he feuded with De Niro, went under the knife and turned to reality TV. What went wrong? Mickey Rourke barely survived the 1980s before jacking in his acting career to have his face - the money-maker - smashed in when he took up professional boxing. Self-annihilation has always been his way of life.
Toby Jones is affecting as the man who changed Richard Burton’s life

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Robey

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Mr Burton, review: Toby Jones is affecting as the man who changed Richard Burton’s life

3 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Tim Robey

Before Richard Burton became the most famous actor Wales has ever produced, he was Richard Jenkins, a nondescript miner’s boy from Port Talbot, who nearly didn’t finish school in the early 1940s. How he would transform and flourish into the Burton of legend is down to the man who gave him the surname – or so Mr Burton, Marc Evans’s affecting, almost soothingly staid new biopic has it.
Toby Jones is affecting as the man who changed Richard Burton's life

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

Before Richard Burton became the most famous actor Wales has ever produced, he was Richard Jenkins, a nondescript miner's boy from Port Talbot, who nearly didn't finish school in the early 1940s. How he would transform and flourish into the Burton of legend is down to the man who gave him the surname - or so Mr Burton, Marc Evans's affecting, almost soothingly staid new biopic has it.
A gorily idiotic skewering of the super-rich

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

Death of a Unicorn wants to skewer the privilege of the 0.01 per cent - just like The Menu did, and Glass Onion did, and Saltburn, Blink Twice and Triangle of Sadness. Using an alicorn - unicorn's horn - to go about this, in the goriest ways imaginable, makes it the most outlandish of these splashy satires. But it also strongly suggests the end of the road has been reached with this lazy vogue for disembowelling the rich.
This ridiculously violent action caper is a painful watch

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

The ridiculously violent action-comedy Novocaine is a swerve in a guessable direction: we're moving away from played-out superhero brands towards bargain alternatives with nominally fresh concepts. To describe it as a budget Deadpool is not to pay Deadpool more respect than it deserves - heaven knows, that's not much. In fact, the only people fawning over it are the makers of Novocaine.
The Woman in the Yard: this ghostly study of grief isn’t worth leaving the house for

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tim Robey

The Woman in the Yard takes a favourite horror theme – grief – and literalises it on the doorstep of the main character. Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler) has survived a car crash that claimed the life of her husband (Russell Hornsby), leaving her to look after two children in an American Gothic farmhouse. She’s still recovering from severe injuries that have left her on crutches, and is not far off catatonic in her emotional state.
this ghostly study of grief isn't worth leaving the house for

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

The Woman in the Yard takes a favourite horror theme - grief - and literalises it on the doorstep of the main character. Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler) has survived a car crash that claimed the life of her husband (Russell Hornsby), leaving her to look after two children in an American Gothic farmhouse. She's still recovering from severe injuries that have left her on crutches, and is not far off catatonic in her emotional state.
Jason Statham is wasted in Sylvester Stallone's humourless slaughterfest

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

A Working Man is a promisingly self-parodic title for a Jason Statham flick, since it basically describes them all. The Transporter? The Mechanic? The Beekeeper? "Bloke with job" is the whole Statham brand. Scratch beneath the ostensible profession - here, we're talking construction - and we always get a shadowy backstory. It tends to entail mercenary credentials or black ops, and has made him hard as nails.
A Working Man: Jason Statham is wasted in Sylvester Stallone’s humourless slaughterfest

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tim Robey

A Working Man is a promisingly self-parodic title for a Jason Statham flick, since it basically describes them all. The Transporter? The Mechanic? The Beekeeper? “Bloke with job” is the whole Statham brand. Scratch beneath the ostensible profession – here, we’re talking construction – and we always get a shadowy backstory. It tends to entail mercenary credentials or black ops, and has made him hard as nails.