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El Mar (2003) |
"
Too portentous, overheated, flashy, derivative and implausible for its own good."
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Time Out
Posted May 12, 2008
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83%
|
$ (Dollars) (The Heist) (1971) |
"
The comedy sits uneasily with the admittedly efficient action scenes, although at least here we have none of the usual Brooks sermonising to dilute the brew."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 8, 2008
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92%
|
Hamlet (1948) |
"
Despite winning several Oscars, Olivier's (condensed) version of Shakespeare's masterpiece makes for frustrating viewing."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2008
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88%
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Broken Flowers (2005) |
"
The ending is sublime, a set piece that almost makes up for the overwhelming slightness of it all."
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Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
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73%
|
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"
At heart it's a terribly anguished expression of rejection, loneliness and love. If only it knew when to stop."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 16, 2007
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54%
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The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"
The film's watchable enough if you're indulgent of its flaws but at 167 minutes it does tax the patience."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 15, 2007
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81%
|
Dial M for Murder (1954) |
"
It all moves along in a rather efficient if lifeless fashion, with only John Williams shining as a canny police detective."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 4, 2007
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50%
|
Wedding Director (Il Regista di Matrimoni) (2008) |
"
The humour's less hit than miss, and a little of Castellitto's melancholia goes a very long way. Disappointing."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2006
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70%
|
Day Night Day Night (2006) |
"
Overly reliant on a weak lead performance, it drags so much that you're left almost wanting the bomb to go off."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
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86%
|
Blow-Up (1966) |
"
As often with Antonioni, a film riddled with moments of brilliance and scuppered by infuriating pretensions."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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48%
|
XXX (2002) |
"
If Dubya and Dick Cheney had made their very own post-9/11 patriotic propaganda movie for the teens they need as globalisation fodder, then this would be it."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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90%
|
Serpico (1973) |
"
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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79%
|
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) |
"
For all the praise heaped upon Oshima's admittedly ambitious film about East-West relations in the microcosm of a Japanese PoW camp during World War II, it's far less satisfactory than most of his earlier work."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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82%
|
Cliffhanger (1993) |
"
Fun for the undemanding, but Stallone's 'comeback' should have been much tighter."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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70%
|
The Life of Emile Zola (1937) |
"
Carefully mounted, well directed and acted, but basically the sort of well-meaning pap out of which Oscars are made."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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42%
|
Don't Come Knocking (2006) |
"
By the time we get to the point where the camera is endlessly circling Shepard sitting on a sofa in the middle of the street, it feels as if he and his director were making things up as they went along."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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91%
|
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) |
"
Raucous, vulgar, over long."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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19%
|
Red Sonja (1985) |
"
Worst of all, there's a charmless brat prince for Sonja to take under her wing."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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90%
|
Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
"
Outrageously overrated at the cynical end of the Swinging Sixties."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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86%
|
Time After Time (1979) |
"
After nearly two hours the tension has evaporated, and all that's left is a curdle of jokes and brutality."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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89%
|
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) |
"
It certainly has the courage of its convictions."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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81%
|
Innerspace (1987) |
"
While the anatomical special effects are imaginative enough, the manic rather than magical tone fails to achieve the sense of awe that made Fantastic Voyage -- clearly this film's inspiration -- so fascinating."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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80%
|
The Assassination Bureau (1969) |
"
None too witty black comedy."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
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62%
|
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"
This feverish state-of-the-split-nation address finds Russell tossing everything that matters -- and more -- into the pot, and producing a pretty indigestible and very messy stew."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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6%
|
Universal Soldier - The Return (1999) |
"
Filling out and greying at the temples, Van Damme is far from convincing, even in the tedious fight sequences."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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86%
|
The Road To Guantanamo (2006) |
"
A few flaws undermine the moral, political and dramatic force of the filmmakers' 'argument.'"
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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81%
|
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) |
"
Intriguing, eccentric, sporadically entertaining tosh (but tosh all the same)."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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92%
|
Minority Report (2002) |
"
The fashionably fussy, funky veneer may convince some that the film's serious, but it's finally another chase pic, murky in detail, muddled in ideology and strangely predictable in dramatic thrust."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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63%
|
The Running Man (1987) |
"
Pretty warmed-over stuff, this future world of the terminal TV game shows, and director Glaser fails to muster much pace and punch."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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61%
|
American Pie (1999) |
"
A crude piece of work, spottily acted and directed."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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71%
|
This Land Is Mine (1943) |
"
One of his quietest and least startling."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
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90%
|
The Karate Kid (1984) |
"
A surprise summer hit in the States, this is another film-making-by-numbers exercise in teenage wish-fulfilment."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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50%
|
The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) |
"
Far from bad, but academic and -- for once with this director -- overlong."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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38%
|
John and Mary (1969) |
"
Hoffman and Farrow awake to each other in a New York bed and interminably worry, via chat, fantasy, flashback and some trendy cultural reference, whether they should do it again."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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92%
|
Pillow Talk (1959) |
"
It often seems complacent and shallow."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
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43%
|
The Rules of Attraction (2002) |
"
The leads and their accomplices look dead glam, but it's never clear whether their vacuity is a deliberate strategy. Certainly Avary's style seems all for instant gratification."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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68%
|
Logan's Run (1976) |
"
Fundamentally, this is just further proof of Hollywood's untiring ability to reduce all science fiction to its most feeble stereotypes."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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94%
|
My Fair Lady (1964) |
"
Hepburn is clearly awkward as the Cockney Eliza in the first half, and in general the adaptation is a little too reverential to really come alive."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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10%
|
The Sandpiper (1965) |
"
A truly dire romantic melodrama."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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47%
|
The Bride of Re-Animator (1990) |
"
The excessive blood-spurting gruesomeness and cartoonish stop-motion effects trivialise the horror and undercut the would-be black humour in this travestied sequel to Stuart Gordon's hugely enjoyable film."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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71%
|
It Could Happen to You (1994) |
"
Perez has a field day as Muriel, injecting a welcome note of good old-fashioned greed into what is otherwise a relentlessly edifying story."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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73%
|
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) |
"
A sad product of its times."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
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70%
|
TRON (1982) |
"
Tron never reaches a level of excitement commensurate with its effects budget."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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50%
|
Dreams (1990) |
"
Only during a final procession does the old Kurosawa magic get a brief look-in, but by then the hackneyed moralising and dramatic languor have ensured that, despite the well-meaning message, it's hard to care."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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71%
|
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) |
"
Of course, it's immaculately crafted and exhilaratingly paced, but in the end it's never as emotionally involving as it could and should be."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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96%
|
The Princess Bride (1987) |
"
The leads are vacuous; the absurdities sometimes forced and obvious."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
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73%
|
Tenebre (Unsane) (1982) |
"
Unpleasant even by contemporary horror standards."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
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80%
|
Romper Stomper (1993) |
"
The cheap 'message' of the ending fails to salvage a film that at best is well-meant but misguided, at worst, flashy and garbled."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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71%
|
Return to Paradise (1998) |
"
It's a painful prospect, to be sure, and Sheriff, in particular, insists he's no hero, but the next hour or so of handwringing conjures little suspense."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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15%
|
Random Hearts (1999) |
"
This might have been tailor-made by director Pollack to ease Ford into more straightforwardly romantic territory."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
64%
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