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1/6
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Sisterhood (2009) |
"
It may trade with startling unoriginality in the comedy of embarrassment and plays on national stereotypes, but at least it doesn't take itself seriously - although, you suspect, it probably couldn't if it tried."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 17, 2008
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1/5
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45%
|
New Town Killers (2008) |
"
A seemingly self-mocking jumble of sour literary, cinematic, class and genre affectations."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 12, 2009
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|
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64%
|
Zoolander (2001) |
"
A fashion spoof draped over the bones of a puerile conspiracy adventure, this vanity comedy fails at every level barring its incidental details."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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14%
|
Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew (1999) |
"
The story is a humourless retread of a Bond-style world domination yarn with a Frankenstein theme."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 16, 2007
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40%
|
Havoc (2005) |
"
You'd at least expect a decent exploitation movie from this material."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 10, 2007
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33%
|
Breaking and Entering (2007) |
"
Diffuse, disappointing, and strangely out of touch."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
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|
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44%
|
Angel-A (2005) |
"
The script is such a showman's bag of self-mocking clichés, empty tricks and metaphysical baloney, and the heart is never touched."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 29, 2006
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|
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32%
|
My Kingdom (2002) |
"
Neither an effective gangland thriller nor an achieved elegy for a lord undone."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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33%
|
Scenes from a Mall (1991) |
"
Allen's admittedly funny lines get lost in the mess, and Midler, in relatively restrained mode, fades away altogether."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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23%
|
Born Yesterday (1993) |
"
Where Holliday was always too sophisticated a butterfly right from the off, Griffith's copycat performance starts dumb -- but then never takes wing."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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59%
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The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) |
"
Redford's film sustains a slow mood of simpatico amiability and photographs the landscape with moony or golden washes that are perhaps hard to dislike, but is slain by its adherence to an outdated populist mythology."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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10%
|
Trapped in Paradise (1994) |
"
Cage looks cold most of the time, and has retractable stubble. The rest of the cast look like they're waiting for summer."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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|
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64%
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Little Buddha (1994) |
"
Bertolucci's epic is a disappointment."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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|
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53%
|
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) |
"
Aaaaah, what a classic!"
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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6%
|
She's Out of Control (1989) |
"
Dragoti's dire, dishonest, seldom humorous social comedy has all the nauseating hallmarks of a big-budget sitcom."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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44%
|
Get Over It (2001) |
"
Director O'Haver fails to supply any proper shape or development."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
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26%
|
Doug's First Movie (1999) |
"
These spin-offs remain animation on the cheap, and none yet -- straitjacketed by fidelity to its respective series -- has attained the density of image and kineticism of design of the art form's true originals."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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|
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50%
|
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"
A negative and spiritually underwhelming experience."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
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66%
|
Stuart Little (1999) |
"
The film is strangely uninvolving."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
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9%
|
Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"
Poor timing and muffed set pieces are compounded by implausibility and inconsequence."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
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53%
|
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) |
"
There are certainly strong moments and efficient set pieces here, too, but for all the claims that the film, adapted from a 1975 book by John Keel, is based on real events, Pellington fails to sustain credibility."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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83%
|
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"
Infused by an awkward decorum; the kind that descends on a gathering dominated by an unmentioned death or transgression."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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7%
|
Chill Factor (1999) |
"
The atmosphere is winning, with the odd felicity peppering the journey with gags and groans."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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67%
|
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1998) |
"
Finally pretty tedious."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
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63%
|
Proof (2005) |
"
Sadly, the impact of the clever parallelogram of emotional and philosophical concerns in Auburn and Rebecca Miller's screenplay is deadened by the director's overly literal -- mechanical -- cinematic interpretation."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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72%
|
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) |
"
The clincher is how the actors are reduced to puppets and ciphers; Paltrow straight-jacketed in her Hildy Johnson-style two-piece and the evidently bored Law reduced throughout half the movie to giving the gimlet eye through flying goggles."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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21%
|
The Crush (1993) |
"
Leaves much to be desired."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
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4%
|
Robocop 3 (1993) |
"
Dekker's third instalment also comes third in terms of merit."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
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15%
|
D-Tox (Eye See You) (2002) |
"
This killer-chiller isn't preposterous enough for laughs and is too sloppily directed and scripted to scare or surprise."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
|
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44%
|
50 First Dates (2004) |
"
Quite what age group this soft-centered entertainment is aimed at is hard to divine."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
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14%
|
Dutch (1991) |
"
It's all assembly-line stuff."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
|
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75%
|
Benny & Joon (1993) |
"
It's acted out in the secondary emotional register of the glass menagerie: whimsical, delicate, idiosyncratic, barmy."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
|
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64%
|
The Fourth Protocol (1987) |
"
What is missing is any real tension or psychological detail that might lend plausibility to all the hocus-pocus about East-West political and military intrigue."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
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15%
|
Never Talk to Strangers (1995) |
"
An adequate psychological thriller on a topical theme -- Repressed Memory Syndrome -- but with little special quality, few frills or thrills, and a relaxed, almost languid exposition."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
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|
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48%
|
Bamboozled (2000) |
"
Lee's satire on American TV is an intriguing failure."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
|
2/6
|
51%
|
Chéri (2009) |
"
The multi-talented and adaptable director Stephen Frears has produced one of his most dull, airless and conventional films."
—
Time Out
Posted May 8, 2009
|
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2/6
|
60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
'The Ship That Sank' would be a more appropriate title for writer-director Richard Curtis's latest and most disappointing entertainment. It's a cripplingly self-conscious and self-satisfied tribute."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 3, 2009
|
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2/6
|
42%
|
Blindness (2008) |
"
Sadly, 'Blindness' may realise its director's worst fear: to produce not only an exploitation B-movie but one, paradoxically, spoiled by its own integrity and misplaced 'artistic' mise-en-scène and intentions."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 21, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
35%
|
Pride and Glory (2008) |
"
Bloody, violent and increasingly derivative, 'Pride and Glory' betrays its initial promise as a small-scale, 'Godfather'-esque social tapestry with crude plotting, variable acting and an all-too-guessable storyline and conclusion."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 7, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
38%
|
Swing Vote (2008) |
"
He shoots simultaneously for 'wake up, America!' inspiration and good ol' boy charm but ends up putting both barrels through his own cowboy-booted foot."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
40%
|
Partition (2007) |
"
The period reconstructions are impressive but the script and direction are a little pedestrian."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 12, 2008
|
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2/6
|
25%
|
El Cantante (2007) |
"
This messy, maudlin portrait of the decline and decline of Puerto Rico-born salsa star Héctor Lavoe wavers uncertainly between cable channel biopic and socially concerned drug movie."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 5, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
63%
|
In Memory Of My Father (2006) |
"
If you're a fan of jaundiced views of Hollywood or unedifying portraits of dysfunctional families, look no further."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
20%
|
Three and Out (2008) |
"
Too gauche, too derivative and merely sporadically amusing."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 25, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
57%
|
L'Ennemi intime (Intimate Enemies) (2007) |
"
Director Florent Emilio Siri ('The Nest', 'Hostage') shows ability in action sequences and group dynamics but his film never develops sufficiently to raise it much above the conventional."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 24, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
30%
|
Youth Without Youth (2007) |
"
Even ace editor Walter Murch struggles to give coherence to the professor's fractured, episodic journey through darkening wartime exile in Geneva, to the brighter revelations of '50s India and the sun-kissed Mediterranean."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
——
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We Are All Christs () |
"
An ugly catalogue of personal and familiar abuse."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
Hadewijch (2010) |
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
Kill The Referee (les Arbitres) () |
"
Even for footy fans, the film's a game of guesswork."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
Tamara Drewe (2010) |
"
The dullness of British mainstream cinema is epitomised by this Stephen Frears -- didn't he used to be an auteur? -- adaptation of Posy Simmonds's gently teasing 2005-2007 Guardian comic strip about rural goings-on."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 8, 2010
|
64%
——
97%
