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Alistair Harkness

Alistair Harkness's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Stranger (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “...Ozon filters Camus’ text through a more modern understanding of colonialism so his protagonist’s outlook can now be read as a proxy for France’s frosty relationship with its former colony. That makes for a similarly frosty viewing experience...” – Scotsman Apr 8, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “In each segment the children turn out to be more conventional than their enigmatic elders – a joke Jarmusch has a lot of fun with while surreptitiously building to a more profound understanding of the sometimes ephemeral nature of family.” – Scotsman Apr 8, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario), the end result is sharp, funny and excruciating in equal measure.” – Scotsman Apr 8, 2026 Full Review California Schemin' (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a cautionary tale, done with real panache.” – Scotsman Apr 8, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 43% 2/5 EDIT “...its funniest moments occur when the film finds sly ways to incorporate and pastiche the gameplay of its source material, which it does too infrequently to build to anything as subversive as The Lego Movie...” – Scotsman Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Fuze (2025) 79% 3/5 EDIT “...Fuze does become slicker and more cinematic...at least until it over-eggs things with some what-happened-next explanatory text that weirdly tries to reframe what we’ve just watched as a jokey caper movie. For the most part, though, this is a blast.” – Scotsman Apr 2, 2026 Full Review DJ Ahmet (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “A charming coming-of-age film...” – Scotsman Mar 25, 2026 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “What follows, though, is a slyly funny study of a quietly passionate man whose obsession with his late wife inspires a last minute desire to leave a lasting political legacy, one characterised by decency and compassion, not megalomania. ” – Scotsman Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Utilising appropriately drab colour schemes and moving at a glacial pace that reflects the world it’s set in, it’s a formalistically rigorous work in which the most chilling moments slip by almost unnoticed.” – Scotsman Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Broken English (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “It’s an intriguing approach, but directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard over-egg proceedings with additional characters and podcast-style discussions...” – Scotsman Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Matching Orwell’s words to real-world atrocities, it’s eerie to see how applicable they are to everything... Orwell anticipated it all. More to the point, he knew what it added up to.” – Scotsman Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Never trying to force the film to be something it’s not, Van Sant instead crafts a sad, disturbing, sometimes pathetic tale whose relevance hasn’t diminished. ” – Scotsman Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 73% 3/5 EDIT “...it’s mostly an amped-up replay of the first film, but there’s still plenty of inventively gloopy, plasma-spraying fun to be had. ” – Scotsman Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “...it’s hard not to root for Gosling, whose movie star aura elevates the film even when the directors fumble it. ” – Scotsman Mar 20, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 2/5 EDIT “Alas, despite scratching at interesting ideas, Gyllenhaal’s chaotic, see-what-sticks approach nullifies most of them, leaving us with an untethered heroine barking slogans that the film around her fails to back up in any creatively meaningful way. ” – Scotsman Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “...the film captures not just the heartening, sometimes surreal sense of community that emerged, but also the possible inflection points during which things could have deteriorated were it not for the cool-headed actions of the residents...” – Scotsman Mar 10, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 43% 2/5 EDIT “...the film takes the original’s gleefully macabre premise and makes it weirdly boring, starting with the tedious decision to begin with Powell’s character, Becket, recounting his story to a priest during his final few hours on death row. ” – Scotsman Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Dolly (2025) 63% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a grim, freaky set up, but it lacks the sustained menace of its biggest influence and, unlike Ti West’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre-riffing X trilogy, doesn’t have enough ideas of its own to take it somewhere interesting. ” – Scotsman Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 30% 2/5 EDIT “But while it’s fun to see Campbell once again embracing her inner badass, the new teen characters are pretty thinly conceived and Williamson struggles to generate any genuine tension...” – Scotsman Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “But if Pixar's boundary pushing instincts are in shorter supply these days...Hoppers demonstrates that it can still make a sparky original movie that’s properly entertaining, even if it doesn’t scale the artistic heights of its best work.” – Scotsman Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% 2/5 EDIT “It’s pretty compelling stuff — until co-writer/director Oliver Laxe proceeds to deliver a devastating mid-point shock so upsetting the film never recovers. ” – Scotsman Feb 24, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “... it’s an incredible testament not just to the power the first superstar of the rock ’n’ roll era once had, but the power he continues to exert over pop culture. ” – Scotsman Feb 24, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% 2/5 EDIT “Weirdly, the film doesn’t really build to much given the scope of Ann’s life and the themes it’s scratching at. Outside of the musical reveries and Seyfried’s outré performance, it’s pretty prosaic. ” – Scotsman Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 80% 3/5 EDIT “A slyly entertaining b-movie throwback that finds fun ways to deconstruct its own clichéd set-up, Cold Storage benefits from a smart script by...David Koepp...and breezy lead performances from Joe Keery (Stranger Things) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian).” – Scotsman Feb 22, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Though a few too many of the supporting characters default to the cringe-comedy clichés of The Office, Charli herself is pretty good at self-lacerating humour.” – Scotsman Feb 22, 2026 Full Review
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