|
1/6
|
77%
|
Bronson (2009) |
"
Hardy delivers a committed if showy performance, but there are some awful smaller turns which smell dangerously of homophobia. The whole thing made me want to scrub my brain with Vim."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 13, 2009
|
|
1/6
|
51%
|
The Kingdom (2007) |
"
A terrifically stupid film. Dumb, dumb, dumb."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2007
|
|
1/6
|
53%
|
Across the Universe (2007) |
"
Taymor has mistaken a deeply clichéd view of the late '60s for a radical slice of the zeitgeist. Let it be."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 28, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Backburner () |
—
Time Out
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
79%
|
Teeth (2007) |
"
I'm not sure I've ever seen rape, incest or abuse dealt with so vapidly."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) |
"
A cynical affair only suited to those who like a cheap, forgettable weep."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
53%
|
Knight & Day (2010) |
"
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz! Tom and Cam! Cruise and Diaz! Together again!"
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 5, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
Repo Men (2010) |
"
Law and Whitaker are disastrous in the lead roles. It's a dreary and violent film that betrays its three years spent on the shelf."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
7%
|
Holy Water () |
"
This fatally unfunny Irish comedy doesn't raise a single laugh from its silly conceit."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Spell () |
"
Imagine 'Hollyoaks' with the gloss taken out, a dash of 'The Exorcist' put in,"
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
|
26%
|
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"
The filmmakers must have imagined sparky, engaging conversation between these duos similar to a high-speed tennis bout between skillful pros; what emerges is more comparable to a lazy afternoon table-tennis knockabout in an old people's home."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 23, 2007
|
|
|
84%
|
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) |
"
As fun as the film occasionally is, it just plays like a compilation of greatest hits."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
|
|
|
44%
|
The Color of Freedom (2007) |
"
Full marks to director Bille August for achieving the near-impossible: crafting a film about Nelson Mandela that threatens to send you to sleep and reduces the great man himself to mere background noise."
—
Time Out
Posted May 10, 2007
|
|
|
76%
|
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"
At its best when making the most of the conflicts at the heart of apartheid."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2007
|
|
|
69%
|
Babel (2006) |
"
If misery is your pornography, Babel is your holy grail."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 16, 2007
|
|
|
68%
|
London to Brighton (2008) |
"
After a promising start, the film becomes less about the experience of an archetypal runaway and more about exploiting terror for big-screen thrills."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2006
|
|
|
50%
|
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"
While the original book assumed an adult level of intelligence, the film pitches itself squarely at the sort of American teenager who would be shocked to learn that a fast food chain was anything but a pillar of the local community."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
|
72%
|
Infamous (2006) |
"
All that was painted grey in Capote becomes black-and-white here."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
|
46%
|
Bobby (2006) |
"
[Estevez's] attempt to shoehorn what he sees as the grand themes of the period into a choppy, unsubtle and insubstantial script is embarrassing."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
|
63%
|
Zidane, un Portrait du 21e Siècle (Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait) (2006) |
"
It mesmerises yet it also bores. It's a fascinating experiment and a frustrating film."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
|
39%
|
Il Caimano (2006) |
"
It's uneven."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
|
55%
|
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"
Is it possible to make a film that evokes both Barry Lyndon and National Lampoon's European Vacation? Sofia Coppola has had a decent stab at it."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 19, 2006
|
|
|
69%
|
World Trade Center (2006) |
"
Destiny pervades the project, and anyone who expected Stone to toe anything other than the company line was gravely mistaken."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 28, 2006
|
|
|
77%
|
Look Both Ways (2006) |
"
While [director Sarah] Watt begins to offer an interesting study in paranoia, tinged with some good comic moments, her multi-stranded plot and last-minute recourse to romance ultimately lost the interest of this viewer."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2006
|
|
|
89%
|
Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) |
"
Lennon's analysis is always lucid but only skims the surface, and Coutard appears more interested in people than politics."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 19, 2006
|
|
|
50%
|
Manderlay (2006) |
"
Watching this film is an edifying but frustrating experience; dull in parts, amusing and illuminating in others. You'd still struggle to call it entertainment."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
15%
|
Garfield - The Movie (2004) |
"
Without Murray, the film would have much less appeal."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
92%
|
La demoiselle d'honneur (The Bridesmaid) (2004) |
"
[A] curious, sexually charged but ultimately unsatisfying thriller."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
74%
|
Unknown White Male (2006) |
"
It doesn't help Bruce's cause that he is seen in archive footage to have been a smug, arrogant fellow; it's tempting to imagine that his memory has abandoned him in exasperation. A case of amnesia as overdue self-discovery, perhaps?"
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
49%
|
Rory O'Shea Was Here (Inside I'm Dancing) (2005) |
"
Full marks for intent; barely a pass for execution."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
56%
|
The King (2006) |
"
The King suffers from an overbearing sense of its own self-importance."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
23%
|
Freedomland (2006) |
"
This mixed-up, self-important thriller is adapted by Richard Price from his own novel and wastes a talented cast."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
28%
|
Elizabethtown (2005) |
"
The entire enterprise smacks of wish-fulfilment provoked by middle-age male guilt. Uplifting, it most certainly ain't."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
61%
|
Wimbledon (2004) |
"
All in all, it's rather pleasant, but nothing else."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
|
57%
|
The Interpreter (2005) |
"
This is largely a competent, successful thriller, but observing global politics from this perspective is an uncomfortable, frustrating experience."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
2/6
|
33%
|
Awaydays (2009) |
"
The film falls down in its effort to make credible the background stories of its well-performed lead characters."
—
Time Out
Posted May 22, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
53%
|
French Film (2009) |
"
Not a good film by a long stretch, but there's something so harmless about this debut directorial effort (from a script by Aschlin 'Scenes of a Sexual Nature' Ditta) that to pull it apart would be like savaging a child's first attempt at storywriting."
—
Time Out
Posted May 15, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
67%
|
End () |
"
Inevitably, this is a sympathetic, one-sided film and its familiar perspective is a nostalgic, sometimes tiresome one that imagines a 'golden age' when grannies could leave their doors open at night."
—
Time Out
Posted May 1, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
71%
|
American Teen (2008) |
"
It's a lightly amusing film but it's also an unchallenging one which reinforces presumptions about kids rather than surprising with new insights. It floats in the shallow end of filmmaking."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 6, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
87%
|
Un Conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale) (2008) |
"
You could, of course, forgive the whole enterprise as the extravagances of an intellectual fairytale, but the film's wayward eccentricities outweigh its good performances and breezy telling of a jumble of a plot."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 16, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
56%
|
Flawless (2008) |
"
The problem is that as heist movies go this is about as captivating as watching someone dodge a bus fare. Almost everything about the film is second-rate: the direction, the plotting, the intrusive modernist production design."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 28, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
23%
|
Incendiary (2009) |
"
It ends up being a compendium of bizarre diversions, most of which are utterly surplus to the film's half-cocked desire to stick with the experience and emotions of its main character."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
42%
|
Wild Child (2008) |
"
This celebration of mid-Atlantic compromise is one for the youngest and most forgiving of teenage girls."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 15, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
59%
|
Izgnanie (The Banishment) (2007) |
"
A frustrating, oblique and portentous endurance test."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 15, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
44%
|
Death Defying Acts (2008) |
"
All in all, it's a bit of a snore that falls back on romance when all else fails."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 8, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
42%
|
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
"
Why in the name of ermine boleros would anyone make such a dull, coy and, worst of all, pretty film about Anne Boleyn?"
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 7, 2008
|
|
2/6
|
43%
|
Infinite Justice (2006) |
"
Clumsily shoehorns every hot topic under the sun into a digitally shot drama of high aims, middling production values and low intelligence."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
69%
|
Cocaine Cowboys (2006) |
"
It's the sort of glamour-meets-violence drugs-crime story on which lads' mags thrive: unqualified, over-reverent and hysterical."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
50%
|
Someone Else (2006) |
"
Spector, who's a fluid, straightforward director, resists the crutch of music until the final scene when he goes and blows it all by playing something stupid like... a Gary Barlow song."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
62%
|
Blood Diamond (2006) |
"
It doesn't entirely evade the issue at its core - conflict diamonds - in favour of pure action by way of guns and planes, thrills and spills; but it hardly embraces the subject fully either."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 25, 2007
|
64%
——
97%
