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Ashley Clark

Ashley Clark's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Stuart Hall Project (2013) 100% EDIT “Simultaneously elegiac and light, dense and accessible, The Stuart Hall Project is a singular work with a built-in replay value, and possessed of its own distinct sensibility.” – Sight & Sound Jul 31, 2018 Full Review Chi-Raq (2015) 82% EDIT “In attempting to balance tragedy with fun in Chi-Raq, Lee throws a lot at the wall, hoping it'll stick. It makes for a rather odd viewing experience.” – Vice Jul 11, 2018 Full Review The Hateful Eight (2015) 74% EDIT “Tarantino's seeming obliviousness to his manifest racial privilege, the idea of him as an authoritative cinematic voice on American race relations for future generations terrifies the living shit out of me.” – Vice Jul 11, 2018 Full Review Hail, Caesar! (2016) 86% EDIT “Hail, Caesar! moves at an easy but never draggy pace, and soars in sequences that invite viewers to lose themselves in the magic of the movies, only for the curtain to be pulled back, revealing the artifice.” – Vice Jul 11, 2018 Full Review Detroit (2017) 82% EDIT “In one of the darkest moments I've experienced in a cinema for some time, I caught myself wondering whether the horror shown is so detailed, so unremitting, that white supremacists might actually enjoy watching it.” – 4Columns Nov 10, 2017 Full Review Microbe and Gasoline (2015) 92% EDIT “As Microbe and Gasoline proceeds, and the boys' friendship is tested by a variety of factors, the film gathers a stark emotional force that has eluded Gondry since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” – Reverse Shot Jul 6, 2016 Full Review Creed (2015) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Creed packs a serious punch, replete with crunching fight sequences captured in a probing, prowling style.” – Little White Lies Dec 1, 2015 Full Review Steve Jobs (2015) 85% 2/5 EDIT “Steve Jobs is scuppered by its repetitive nature, with Sorkin's overly verbose dialogue and Boyle's proclivity for on-the-nose visual statements sorely testing the patience, even if one is prepared for them.” – Little White Lies Nov 11, 2015 Full Review Sunset Song (2015) 81% EDIT “A rich drama about the pleasures and strains of labour, the realities of adulthood in a harsh climate and the indomitability of the Scottish spirit.” – Sight & Sound Sep 17, 2015 Full Review Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) 36% EDIT “Sadly, Green's film devolves into an anonymous mulch with little to offer beyond its central insistence that contemporary politics is a den of snakes, and that policies are subordinate to character.” – Sight & Sound Sep 16, 2015 Full Review Second Coming (2014) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Heralds the emergence of a major new filmmaking talent in Debbie Tucker Green.” – Little White Lies Jun 5, 2015 Full Review United Passions (2014) 0% EDIT “The major players uniformly fail to bring their A-games.” – Village Voice Jun 2, 2015 Full Review Reset (2015) 20% EDIT “At least Bojack had the decency to bring this turgid, self-indulgent doodle in at a slim 79 minutes.” – Village Voice Apr 7, 2015 Full Review The Barber (2014) 22% EDIT “Only Glenn, whose taciturn performance is punctuated by flashes of genuine menace, lifts The Barber to "watchable."” – Village Voice Mar 24, 2015 Full Review Straight Outta Tompkins (2015) EDIT “Straight Outta Tompkins is rarely boring, but neither does it come close to attaining the hard-hitting moral force its creator is clearly striving for.” – Village Voice Mar 3, 2015 Full Review Selma (2014) 99% EDIT “The famed American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr has been strangely under-represented in the cinema. Ava DuVernay's excellent third film thankfully puts this continued omission right.” – Sight & Sound Feb 5, 2015 Full Review Enter the Dangerous Mind (2013) 9% EDIT “A narratively repetitive thriller suffused with movie-psycho clichs.” – Village Voice Feb 3, 2015 Full Review American Sniper (2014) 71% EDIT “A stark, powerfully-acted drama featuring a career-best turn from Bradley Cooper.” – Film4 Jan 15, 2015 Full Review Dumb and Dumber To (2014) 31% EDIT “More miss than hit - and shockingly creepy in places - but a handful of sizable laughs make this sequel just about worthwhile.” – Film4 Dec 19, 2014 Full Review Concerning Violence (2014) 90% EDIT “In many cases, Fanon's astringent words seem as relevant today as ever.” – Sight & Sound Dec 5, 2014 Full Review The Overnighters (2014) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Demands a rewatch, and is so stuffed with incident that someone should remake it into an overcooked, Americana melodrama.” – Little White Lies Oct 30, 2014 Full Review Lilting (2014) 82% EDIT “Thanks to the delicate, multilingual set-up, almost every exchange carries an unpredictable dramatic charge.” – Sight & Sound Aug 15, 2014 Full Review Boyhood (2014) 97% EDIT “Boyhood proceeds in brisk, implacably linear chronological fashion, and despite its 165-minute running time, is astonishingly minimal.” – Sight & Sound Jul 11, 2014 Full Review Belle (2013) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Race, love and social politics are deftly handled in Amma Asante's forcefully-acted feminist period drama.” – Little White Lies Jun 12, 2014 Full Review Fruitvale Station (2013) 94% EDIT “It focuses on its subject's humanity and assesses the tragedy on a personal rather than explicitly sociopolitical level. However, the way in which it fleshes out Oscar's character makes it an acutely political work.” – Sight & Sound Jun 6, 2014 Full Review
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