|
0/5
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
Kevin James is the hero of this "comedy", which boasts five screenwriters and not a single amusing moment."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
0/5
|
25%
|
Four Christmases (2008) |
"
Seeing such talent wasted on this dross is dismaying."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 28, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) |
"
Even a scene with Janet Jackson trashing a living room cannot lighten the laboured atmosphere."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
Splintered (2012) |
"
Not enough twists or shocks to make it interesting or scary."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
Bonded By Blood (2011) |
"
A thin, wan script, acting that's mostly embarrassing, and a stream of foul expletives where a script should be."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
27%
|
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"
The humour is lame and more than a little smutty, while the plot barely hangs together."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Fired Up (2009) |
"
This aggressively stupid comedy tries to have it both ways, advocating sexual probity while its cameras linger over acres of golden female thighs."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
The Lost City (2005) |
"
Great music and costumes, but with a woeful plot and jaw-droppingly stilted dialogue. Cuban-born Garcia's main complaint against Fidel seems to be that rich, corrupt Cubans could no longer dance the night away."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 5, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
54%
|
Choke (2008) |
"
This adaptation of a novel by American provocateur Chuck Palahniuk is profane, offensive and obscene, and packed with balefully weak jokes."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 21, 2008
|
|
|
56%
|
Flawless (2008) |
"
Calling a diamond-heist movie Flawless is a valiant choice - especially when it's anything but. Suspense is essential to this genre, but here you couldn't care less what happens next."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 28, 2008
|
|
|
52%
|
The Foot Fist Way (2006) |
"
From a bunch of minor Judd Apatow protégés, a dispiriting low-budget series of witless, misogynistic sketches masquerading as comedy."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
|
|
58%
|
Taken (2009) |
"
This queasy, violent revenge fantasy becomes more preposterous as the body count rises. Taken is notable mainly for its racist stereotyping of Arabs and eastern Europeans."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
|
|
42%
|
Wild Child (2008) |
"
A tweenie comedy with an uplifting American-style sports movie awkwardly bolted on, it's a mess - far inferior to the recent Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 15, 2008
|
|
|
79%
|
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007) |
"
Essentially a soap opera."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 15, 2008
|
|
|
77%
|
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"
Between a series of stunt-driven set-pieces, implausibly linked, the film gets bogged down in wearying talk."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 18, 2008
|
|
|
38%
|
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) |
"
Fatally, Craig's self-obsessed Joe never develops into anyone more interesting."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 18, 2008
|
|
|
71%
|
W Delta Z (The Killing Gene) (2008) |
"
A little too close to torture-porn for most tastes, but debutant director Tom Shankland shows promise."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
|
|
92%
|
U2 3D (2007) |
"
Inadvertently, U2 3D mimics perfectly the empty, intimacy-free spectacle that is stadium rock."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
|
|
37%
|
Rambo (Rambo IV) (2008) |
"
Little more than a cartoon, Rambo caters only for those still smitten by the rat-a-tat of continuous gunfire."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
|
|
37%
|
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
"
In its favour, there's nothing here to upset the children. (Not, that is, unless they're allergic to Hoffman's hammy, Method-derived acting.)"
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 14, 2007
|
|
|
75%
|
Hotel Harabati (De particulier a particulier) (2006) |
"
In terms of keeping his plot obscure, director Brice Cauvin tips his chapeau in the direction of David Lynch, but ultimately it's rather lifeless. File under "calculatedly enigmatic"."
—
Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
|
4%
|
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) |
"
The one laugh is in the production notes, where director Les Mayfield claims this is a comic take on the Jason Bourne movies. As if."
—
Independent
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
|
67%
|
A Very British Gangster (2008) |
"
A Very British Gangster, his portrait of Manchester crime boss Dominic Noonan, raises awkward questions about his methods, as well as the question of whether "documentary" is even the right word."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
|
14%
|
Hitman (2007) |
"
Rubbish, of course, but some teenage boys love this stuff. Don't rule out sequels."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 30, 2007
|
|
|
55%
|
This Christmas (2007) |
"
It's laboured and obvious, and not even a Yuletide movie: Christmas is little more than a device to bring the family back under one roof. Still, its plot is as overstuffed as any turkey."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 30, 2007
|
|
|
56%
|
The Legacy (L'Héritage) (2006) |
"
This brilliant premise falls apart in the final act."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
|
47%
|
A Few Days in September (Quelques jours en septembre) (2007) |
"
No film starring Juliette Binoche can be totally negligible, but this comes close."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
|
41%
|
December Boys (2007) |
"
Well-intentioned, but teeth-grindingly earnest, with a voice-over that seems to consist entirely of clichés."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
|
85%
|
In the Hands of the Gods (2007) |
"
Certainly the story's climax in Buenos Aires is unexpected, yet many scenes resemble staged reality TV moments: group hugs, tears, mumbled monologues about overcoming obstacles."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
|
20%
|
Death Sentence (2007) |
"
Literally laughable."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
|
70%
|
Year of the Dog (2007) |
"
Shannon, a born comic sidekick, cannot carry the central role; disappointingly, the story sputters out into a sentimental finale."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
|
41%
|
No Reservations (2007) |
"
There's not an unpredictable moment in Carol Fuchs's plodding, syrupy script; this dreadful remake of the moderately pleasing German film Mostly Martha is misconceived from start to finish."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
|
0%
|
Truth About Love (2005) |
"
An awkward, last-minute romantic dash to Bristol's Temple Meads station in the style of Richard Curtis only serves to underline the air of creative bankruptcy."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 16, 2007
|
|
|
5%
|
Because I Said So (2007) |
"
Laughter is largely absent from this sorry, shrieking mess."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 16, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Beloved (Les Bien-aimes) (2012) |
"
It feels like a vanity project, and it doesn't help that the songs - tremulous, world-weary and melancholy - sound much the same despite the changing times."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
Hadewijch (2010) |
"
Though Dumont sets a painstakingly slow pace, Céline's story feels maddeningly incomplete, and vague both in theological and psychological terms"
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
Trishna (2012) |
"
As usual with Winterbottom's work, Trishna evokes its locations vividly; as a story with a tragic arc it's less effective."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Horrid Henry: The Movie () |
"
Shrill, over-eager and frankly disappointing."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
Angel of Evil (2011) |
"
Angels of Evil is just one damned thing after another."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 26, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
90%
|
Attack the Block (2011) |
"
Attack the Block's attempts to straddle horror and comedy are doomed: it's neither scary nor funny enough."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"
This sequel to the superior Paris Je T'Aime is pleasant but inconsequential."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
The First Grader (2011) |
"
It's one thing to trace the story of an inspirational life on film, quite another for the film itself to do the life justice."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 27, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Meek's Cutoff (2011) |
"
The film, which clearly owes a debt to Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, proceeds at a snail's pace."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 9, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Dinner for Schmucks (2010) |
"
You may feel an idiot for staying with it till the end."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
Cherry Tree Lane () |
"
Deeply unpleasant, tightly scripted and well executed..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009) |
"
Amiable enough, though it resembles a marketing tool for Beavan's book about his project."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
Soulboy () |
"
Feels oddly detached from the compelling genre of music it claims to advocate."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Lymelife (2008) |
"
It's not terrible, but many of the metaphors employed by writers Derick and Steven Martini are crashingly obvious."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
She, a Chinese (2009) |
"
Unhappily, thereâ(TM)s no dramatic arc here, just a series of encounters with unsuitable or undesirable men. Writer-director Xiaolu Guo puts her heroine through trying ordeals, but her character remains elusive."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
G-Force (2009) |
"
The story feels thin and faintly incoherent, the action is loud and relentless. A milder version of many other Bruckheimer films, then - which doesn't mean kids won't love it."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
63%
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96%
