|
5/5
|
85%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
Malick's spiritual odyssey is baffling, unique and overspilling with wonder."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 5, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
67%
|
Che: Part One (The Argentine) (2009) |
"
One thing's for certain: whether it's a meditation on guerrilla warfare, on Che or on moviemaking itself, you've seen nothing like it and are unlikely to ever again."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 20, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves) (1949) |
"
The lasting soul of Thieves' pure cinema poverty-parable finally nestles in its deeply affecting father-son pairing in which seven-year-old Staiola dazzles as one of cinema's wonder-kids."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 19, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet) (1957) |
"
Guaranteed to thunder on the big screen."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 20, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
Big, brash and very funny, Joss Whedon's Avengers is equal to the sum of its parts - and for once, that's no faint praise. Suit up."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Khodorkovsky (2011) |
"
Edged with cynicism and wit, Tuschi's film can't hide its admiration - but real answers lurk tantalisingly out of reach."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Girl Model () |
"
The filmmakers stay back, observing, for a restrained, intimate and poignant result."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
A dark drama that gleams with pure quality."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 27, 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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
79%
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Coraline (2009) |
"
Rich, ingenious and frighteningly close to home, Selick's new nightmare puts him nearer to Guillermo del Toro and David Lynch than Tim Burton. See it in 3D. Then sleep with the light on."
—
Total Film
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) |
"
Too loose and aimless to sit with Herzog's best, Encounters drifts along on its filmmaker's frostbitten humour and his ever-searching eye for weirdness and wonder."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 25, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
56%
|
Waveriders (2010) |
"
The footage of the tiny figures riding these ferocious 50ft monsters goes past awe-inspiring into something almost indefinable."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 3, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Tyson (2009) |
"
Not the full story - not even close - but this is 'Iron' Mike Tyson as you've never seen him before. One of the most devastatingly personal on-camera confessionals ever put on screen."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 27, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Two Lovers (2008) |
"
A small, dark, simple love story with big, burning, complex emotions. If this really is Phoenix's final performance, it's one hell of a way to go."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 27, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
American Teen (2008) |
"
This absorbing doc is a funny, heartbreaking reminder that we're all wounded survivors of the original war zone."
—
thelondonpaper
Posted Mar 7, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
Watchmen (2009) |
"
Forget what you know about superhero movies - director Zack Snyder's epic adaptation of Brit author Alan Moore's "unfilmable" comic-book masterpiece is something else entirely."
—
thelondonpaper
Posted Feb 27, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
Watchmen (2009) |
"
Not just another superhero movie. Gripping onto sex, violence and angst, it's hard to imagine anyone watching the Watchmen as faithfully as Zack Snyder's heartfelt, stylised adap. Uncompromising, uncommercial and unique."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 24, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Che: Part Two (Guerrilla) (2008) |
"
Gripping, elusive and something to be experienced, Che Part Two continues to offer up surprises, frustration and - above all - fascination."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 19, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Üç Maymun (Three Monkeys) (2008) |
"
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's aching film is driven by complex, powerful performances. Too many angsty silences deflate the tension, but it's gripping while it lasts."
—
thelondonpaper
Posted Feb 13, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"
Back, baby, back. An excellent police procedural and a personal triumph for Ben Affleck, steering his younger brother to a performance that deserved louder applause from gong juries."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"
The Rocky Balboa you were hoping for, dreaming for, and an astonishing personal triumph for Stallone. Bring on Rambo IV?"
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 15, 2007
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
91%
|
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) |
"
Boasting strong performances and lightened by a few flashes of much-needed easy humour, Precious is let down by Daniels' ropey direction - which leaves you feeling like it could/should have been a much better film."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 18, 2009
|
|
|
90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
Through it all, Park's film never loses its big, bloody-fanged grin. Expect sex (weird), blood-drinking (through a straw), stabby-bitey violence (lots) and laughs (even more)."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 18, 2009
|
|
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
Gorgeously rendered in subtly immersive 3D and full of organic cinematic nods, this is a rare, wondrous story of true love and dream-catching. Of holding on and letting go. You will believe a house can fly."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 18, 2009
|
|
|
83%
|
JCVD (Van Dammage) (2008) |
"
Jean-Claude Van Damme, B-movie megastar gone straight-to-video, is back with a career-best performance in one of the coolest indie movies of the year."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 30, 2009
|
|
|
89%
|
The Unforeseen (2008) |
"
Even if the director eventually hard-pedals her pantheist imagery into cliché, this inconvenient truth is discreet, intimate and regularly surprising."
—
Time Out
Posted May 2, 2008
|
|
|
89%
|
Blazing Saddles (1974) |
"
It's tough to beat as an outrageously phlegmy deposit in Hollywood's spittoon."
—
Film4
Posted Apr 2, 2008
|
|
4/6
|
89%
|
The Savages (2007) |
"
Hoffman and Linney are wonderful -- underplaying so perfectly that crumpled, bittersweet truths continue to surface."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Anderson's film breezes irresistibly on style, charm, a lovely score by Alexandre Desplat and that winning indie ensemble."
—
Digital Spy
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
Shredding while it lasts, Silent House is really just a fun campfire horror tale."
—
Total Film
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
11%
|
Piggy () |
"
Fluidly lensed and unsettling for an hour, writer/director Kieron Hawkes' debut thins out badly in the final third, leaving the charismatic Anderson to prop it up."
—
Total Film
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
American Pie's characters have grown up and settled down. Don't worry, the franchise hasn't. More than a decade on, Reunion opens with two wank jokes and never looks back."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
A handsome new sci-fi adventure that feels rather familiar. Enjoyable enough while it lasts, John Carter is big on ambition and disappointingly short on action."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Carancho (2011) |
"
Scenes spark then fade, until the sinuous climax arrives with collision force."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Infinitely assured moviemaking."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
Daring and different but just way too dark."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
Marsden, Bosworth and Skarsgård are superb. But what was the point?"
—
Little White Lies
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
63%
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