|
1/5
|
37%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
The images are murky and off-putting, the wisecracks fall flat, and the musical numbers aren't stylish or excessive enough to be memorable."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 13, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a Big Dumb Object: an action blockbuster so loud, ugly and exhausting that criticism seems beside the point."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 24, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
27%
|
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) |
"
The misogyny is too insistent to be ironic, despite the relatively small use of nudity and gore. The vampires, when slain, spurt milky white fluid rather than blood, a peculiarly unpleasant, and telling, detail."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 21, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
89%
|
Unfinished Sky () |
"
This hysterically melodramatic climax marks it as a sure contender for worst Australian film of the year."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 20, 2008
|
|
|
82%
|
Mademoiselle Chambon (2010) |
"
The ending is as inevitable as it is sentimental, with more than a hint of austere "good taste". For French cinema, it seems like business as usual."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 8, 2010
|
|
|
50%
|
Camino (2008) |
"
It is less a docu-drama than a grotesquely manipulative fairytale -- half Walt Disney, half Lars von Trier."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 17, 2009
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Shadows of Time () |
"
A full-blown romantic melodrama from India via Germany, replete with coincidences, missed chances, fateful decisions and wordless longing looks."
—
Urban Cinefile
Posted Dec 19, 2005
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004) |
"
This tragic-comic-historical-pastoral romance scrapes the bottom of all its generic barrels, to say nothing of being extremely badly directed by Colin Nutley, an Englishman based in Sweden whose many previous films I've managed not to see."
—
Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 11, 2005
|
|
1.5/5
|
75%
|
In Search of Haydn (2012) |
"
Though assorted experts do their best to sound excited about Haydn, some seem to be fighting the sense that from a post-Romantic perspective his output, like his life, lacks a certain wow factor."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
36%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
In Time is unusually pointed, but Niccoll is such a laborious filmmaker that it hardly matters. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
38%
|
Johnny English Reborn (2011) |
"
Few things could be sadder than this unfunny vehicle for a clown long past his prime."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 16, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
37%
|
Mars Needs Moms (2011) |
"
The credited director is Simon Wells (The Time Machine), but the grotesque characters and dark action bear the Zemeckis stamp."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
30%
|
Sanctum (2011) |
"
Under such circumstances, the actors can't wholly be blamed for awkward line readings -- but Roxburgh's gruff, tough mutterings are as ludicrous as Wakefield's nasal efforts to sound deep and meaningful."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
37%
|
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"
The spirit of inconsequential whimsy prevails throughout, with recurrent shots of traffic and the New York skyline helping blend different sensibilities into a multinational soup."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 13, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
58%
|
Paper Heart (2009) |
"
Mildly amusing at best, the interviews are accompanied by twee animated segments featuring paper dolls, which should fill any right-thinking person with disgust."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 24, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
43%
|
The Proposal (2009) |
"
As one embarrassing scene follows another, The Proposal accumulates so many bad vibes that it becomes grimly compelling."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 21, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
33%
|
RiP: A Remix Manifesto (2009) |
"
There are better guides to the subject than Gaylor, who discusses everything from Napster to pharmaceutical patents without ever varying his dated we-the-people rhetoric."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
26%
|
The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"
McConaughey too once showed promise, but here he seems to be auditioning for a bad sitcom, while Garner misuses her gawky sincerity."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 15, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
56%
|
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"
Scratch a CGI fairytale and you'll find an allegory about class, particularly if rodents are involved."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 9, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
88%
|
Young@Heart (2007) |
"
As an interviewer Walker is habitually condescending and sometimes downright inane..."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 17, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
Sex and the City (2008) |
"
I had to wonder what happened to the qualities that made the show famous: the outrageous dialogue, the sense of female camaraderie, the embrace of casual sex as a guiltless pleasure."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 7, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
66%
|
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"
Adamson is probably indifferent to politics, which would be easier to forgive if the film gave you anything else to think about."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 7, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
77%
|
The Eclipse (2010) |
"
While McPherson may have an extensive reputation as a playwright, as a filmmaker he's one step up from a total amateur."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
89%
|
Son of a Lion () |
"
As a work of art, it's a transparent con, particularly when Gilmour defensively insists on the 'humanity' of his characters for the benefit of the Western viewer."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 29, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
The actors are all at sea, especially the miscast Roberts, whose arch manner never suggests even a pantomime version of evil. Conversely, Lily Collins makes an overly knowing Snow White, smirking demurely as if she'd just stepped off the Gossip Girl set. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Gulliver's Travels (2010) |
"
Mike Judge's scathing Idiocracy, set in a "dumbed-down" future America, was far closer to Swift in spirit."
—
Sydney Morning Herald
Posted Dec 23, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Sagan (2008) |
"
Edited down from its original incarnation as a two-part TV mini-series, the film in memory becomes a series of scenes with Sagan staggering about dropping drunken bons mots. Nothing can redeem this laughable material."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) |
"
For comedy value there is little to choose between the expensive antics here and the primitive spy charade enacted by apes in the 1970s TV series Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
The Tumbler () |
"
Promising as it sounds, in practice The Tumbler is a mess. The characters are strictly stock types -- none of them especially sympathetic -- and the story soon becomes so convoluted that it's easy to get lost in the swirl of explanations and flashbacks."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 3, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Letters to Juliet (2010) |
"
In a word, Letters to Juliet is rubbish, but Seyfried and Redgrave make it tolerable in their different ways."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 13, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) |
"
Thompson is better-placed to pull off this trick than most writers, though subtlety is not the strong point of a film that gives us a Busby Berkeley water ballet with pigs and Dame Maggie Smith sitting down on a cowpat."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
While Law Abiding Citizen is in no sense a successful work of art, a film that offers the illicit thrill of cheering on an all-American terrorist is at least pursuing something more complex than ''moral clarity''."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 28, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009) |
"
Mendes paints in broad strokes, but in this case he seems little more than an interpreter of his screenwriters' obsession with innocence."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 9, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
Cold Souls (2009) |
"
Cold Souls is imitation Kaufman, written and directed by newcomer Sophie Barthes, who makes no effort to hide the source of her inspiration."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 26, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Prime Mover () |
"
An uneasy blend of whimsy with elements that are deliberately harsh or humdrum."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
Case 39 (2010) |
"
On the strength of Case 39, Zellweger could easily play den mother to a brood of hillbilly psychos in a film by Rob Zombie. That would be horror worthy of the name."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
89%
|
Moon (2009) |
"
By halfway the film starts to feel like a mere exercise, one more effort to get maximum value from limited resources. Too much machinery, not enough dread."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 8, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Che: Part One (The Argentine) (2009) |
"
The Guevara portrayed here has humour but no irony: his commitment to the revolutionary ethos leaves little room for doubt, neurosis, or private loyalties of any kind."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 1, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
G-Force (2009) |
"
The joke of cute animals hacking into mainframes and dodging explosions may not be enough to sustain a movie."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
Imagine That (2009) |
"
Murphy struggles to find work in other genres, but given the way he indulges himself with funny faces and voices, it's equally possible that he genuinely likes acting alongside children."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"
It's easy to see why Bale was attracted to this role, but this often fascinating actor gives one of his least interesting performances."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
59%
|
Love the Beast (2009) |
"
More than anything, Love the Beast testifies to Bana's need to be liked. As an onscreen presence he exerts visible control over every scene, while as a director he largely avoids tackling painful material head on."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
The Spirit (2008) |
"
As an action director Miller is almost as clumsy as Baz Luhrmann, but he's far from naïve, and presumably the delirium of The Spirit is exactly what he intended."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
46%
|
Hotel for Dogs (2009) |
"
The images are cluttered and murky, the comic rhythms falter, and the adult humans in the cast, including Lisa Kudrow and Don Cheadle, seem resigned to being upstaged by the kids and dogs."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 22, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
Twilight (2008) |
"
In a film of this kind a great deal depends on the chemistry between the lead actors, and here Twilight falls especially short."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 19, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
View From Greenhaven () |
"
Whimsical Australian fable with the soul of a tourist brochure."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
Dominick Dunne: After the Party (2009) |
"
Jolley and de Garis never come close to revealing whatever lurks in the heart of this intelligent, ambitious, plainly unhappy and not particularly admirable man, who bears scars from many wounds, not all of them self-inflicted."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
"
Directed by Julian Jarrold from a script by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, this new adaptation adroitly condenses Waugh's plot while eliminating or reversing most of his intended meanings."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
2.25/5
|
31%
|
The Uninvited (2009) |
"
Thanks to a pair of talented actresses, The Uninvited is intriguing for almost an hour and a half. The ending is a convoluted letdown, but I have to admit I didn't guess the twist."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 27, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
61%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
Nothing here is sustained, neither the feel-good redemption narrative nor the insistence that the jolly hero is a genuinely fearsome monster."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 16, 2012
|
63%
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