|
3/5
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Infinitely assured moviemaking."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
Daring and different but just way too dark."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Girl Model () |
"
The filmmakers stay back, observing, for a restrained, intimate and poignant result."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
Marsden, Bosworth and Skarsgård are superb. But what was the point?"
—
Little White Lies
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
A dark drama that gleams with pure quality."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
Melancholia is incredibly eerie, and is lent an exciting frisson by the authenticity of an actress and filmmaker with first-hand experiences of psychological trauma."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
|
78%
|
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) |
"
Crazy Stupid Love is funnier, smarter and more touching than your average cut-out-andkeep Hollywood relationship flick."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 12, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Powder () |
"
This indie drama puts its best foot forward, only to strut face-first through every cliché in the genre."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Project Nim (2011) |
"
Marsh's sensitive doc is a light look at some dark clues to the kind of creatures we really are."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
Malick's spiritual odyssey is baffling, unique and overspilling with wonder."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 5, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Countdown to Zero (2010) |
"
A worthy, important effort - but not a great one."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Countdown to Zero (2010) |
"
Sobering stuff, especially when smart talkingheads - including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and ex-US Secretary Of Defence Robert McNamara - confirm it's a matter of "when" not "if". Eek."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 15, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Viva Riva! (2011) |
"
There's just enough sexy sex (gratuitous lesbians for good measure) and violent violence (too nasty at times) to keep this bumpy ride on track."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 9, 2011
|
|
|
100%
|
Rio Breaks (2010) |
"
Gentle, touching and beautifully captured, this is the best surfing documentary since Riding Giants and a personal, genuinely painful true-life drama set on the brink of childhood's end. Discover it."
—
Total Film
Posted May 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
37%
|
Mars Needs Moms (2011) |
"
Don't be put off by the title. Wells harnesses 3D mo-cap wizardry for a children's adventure that balances storytelling and sci-fi."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
73%
|
Route Irish () |
"
Crushingly bleak anti-drama erodes your interest with every scene."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
Battle: Los Angeles (2011) |
"
Really need to watch District 9 again. Immediately."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 14, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
The Adjustment Bureau (2011) |
"
Despite wobbling under the weight of some hefty ideas while straddling two genres, this sci-fi mystery surprises by emerging as a sweet, star-powered romance."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 24, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
32%
|
I Am Number Four (2011) |
"
An enjoyable teen rom-thriller that never swerves off the beaten path but always keeps its footing. Expect a franchise, and career boosts for Pettyfer and Agron."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Inside Job (2010) |
"
Despite leaving you flailing at times with its sheer weight of detail, this superior documentary is packed to the gills with enraging, depressing answers as to what ignited the 2008 recession."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 7, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
The Mechanic (2011) |
"
Engineered to do exactly what you want: smash, crash and gurn. Another B-movie franchise for The Stath? Quite possibly."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Tangled (2010) |
"
Not quite Disney at its very best, but a fast-moving, witty, heartfelt animated CG 'toon that sees the Mouse House leaping into the new era of animation with some style."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 18, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Tron Legacy (2010) |
"
A film that awes and bores in frustratingly equal measure. Visually and musically, it's a triumph. Dramatically, it needs some re-wiring."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 6, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Another Year (2010) |
"
The film this year you'll want to miss but mustn't. See it. Thank us later."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Nov 4, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Let Me In (2010) |
"
If we hadn't already seen it in Swedish, we'd probably be talking up Reeves' dark, gripping vampire remake -- and its two lead performances -- as something rather special. Actually, we're going to do that anyway."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 27, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2011) |
"
A strange, fascinating vision of art consuming its maker that lodges in the mind."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 14, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) |
"
Stone swaps fury for fun. But it sure beats another Fidel Castro interview."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Mother (Madeo) (2010) |
"
Another quality Bong hit."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Aug 20, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) |
"
Adapted from Brian O'Malley's comic-book saga with breakneck stylistic verve by Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment flick."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Predators (2010) |
"
Better than Predator 2, not a patch of the original. A throwback game-of-death, Rodriguez and Antal's sequel hurls out plenty of gore but few surprises. Left wide open for unlimited sequels, could this be a vehicle for RR to blood new directors?"
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 7, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Greenberg (2010) |
"
Everybody hurts, all the time, as Ben Stiller aces his dramatic turn in another witty, discomforting comedy drama from Baumbach. No happy endings here, but a climactic note of hope feels hard-earned."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 11, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
[Rec] 2 (2010) |
"
Every empty corridor is full of unease. The carnage is frantic, bloody, relentless. The drama comes veined with black humour. And when the jolting finale hits, you realise this could easily be horror's next big franchise."
—
Total Film
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
The Losers (2010) |
"
Powering forward on a punky soundtrack and a don't-give-a-damn grin, this comic-book actioner never stops moving long enough for you to think about how little sense it makes."
—
Total Film
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Date Night (2010) |
"
Date Night is held together by a terrific cast that make a little go a long, long way. Somewhere in all of this there was a seriously good movie. As it is, we have a seriously weird one."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 16, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"
Still fighting the good fight for the working man, Capitalism is entertaining but conspicuously bankrupt of fresh ideas and insights. By now, Moore is starting to feel like less."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
34%
|
The Wolfman (2010) |
"
An enjoyably bloody homage to Universal's classic hair 'em, scare 'em monster. There's plenty of gore and guts to cheer; it just needed more of everything else: heart, horror, affection and artistry."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 16, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"
As it geysers forward from that claret-soaked opening scene, V For Vendetta director James McTeigue's mega-violent B-movie packs shock and gore and, to be frank, not much else."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Humpday (2009) |
"
Fresh, funny and subtly insightful, this daring little indie bromance feels like the movie Hollywood wouldn't have the balls to make."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Planet 51 (2009) |
"
A jumble of kiddie slapstick and pointless chases."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"
Soderbergh's ultra-indie isn't about feelings - business and pleasure don't mix. But this intriguing, cerebral, beautiful little movie rings with cold, hard, ugly truths."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The Cove (2009) |
"
If The Cove isn't in the running for next year's Best Doc Oscar, there's something terribly wrong with this world. Gripping exposé, harrowing horror-thriller and devastating agitprop, it takes us to "a little town with a big secret"."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 23, 2009
|
|
|
82%
|
Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
Red blood and black humour spurt hard as Thirst reveals itself to be one of the most deliciously skewed incisions into the vampire romance subgenre."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
Ong Bak 2 (2009) |
"
Some new moves and old tricks from Tony Jaa, still packing a wallop but in need of a truly knockout narrative. Then again, when have you ever seen two men fighting on top of an elephant?"
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009) |
"
A rewarding change of pace for Sam Mendes, Away We Go is a small, lovely film that gently sneaks up on you with unexpected depth and feeling. Let it."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Bustin' Down the Door (2008) |
"
The vintage surf footage packs some thumping wipeouts and there's fresh relish in the sidestory of local Hawaiian surfers handing out beatings to their gnarly foreign invaders."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 4, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"
QT has let loose completely: flashes of cine-genius curdle with crude, crazy juvenility, although it doesn't stop this being his most purely enjoyable film since Kill Bill: Vol. 1."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Aug 24, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Afterschool (2008) |
"
Gripped with an unnerving iciness, Afterschool has style and smarts, but Campos never really manages to slice cleanly into his mega-relevant themes of voyeurism and violence, isolation and info-culture."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
Antichrist (2009) |
"
It's thrilling to see that von Trier's vicious sense of mischief, his moviemaking skill and his desire to smash limits and expectations all remain undimmed. However you swallow it, this bizarre, hysterical melodrama is impossible to ignore."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
One of the Potter franchise's breeziest entries yet offers flashes of darkness but lashings of teen tension. Less a movie than a set-up for next year's epic conclusion. Bring on V-day."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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