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1/6
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24%
|
The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) |
"
Ambition and accomplishment are aeons apart in this would-be meaningful drama."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 27, 2009
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1/6
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31%
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The Good Night (2007) |
"
Skimming through comedy, satire and cautionary tale, it's all somewhat vague - exasperatingly so when suggestive artiness seems to have been intended. Not as clever as it thinks."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 18, 2008
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1/6
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31%
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Chromophobia (2005) |
"
Quite how this segues into a grand finale defining bathos to the strains of Beethoven almost beggars description, but failed seriousness to this degree of screaming awfulness is choice indeed - unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2007
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1/6
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14%
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) |
"
A total dud."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 19, 2007
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1/5
|
14%
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Charlie Casanova () |
"
Lots of attitude, little accomplishment."
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Time Out
Posted May 10, 2012
|
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1/5
|
10%
|
Trespass (2011) |
"
As terrible movies go, it's not unentertaining - once you surrender to its trashmeister idiocy."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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1/5
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47%
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Mother's Day (2012) |
"
Excruciatingly misguided."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2011
|
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1/5
|
4%
|
The Roommate (2011) |
"
Billy Zane's toe-curlingly awful turn as a preening design professor turns out to be the main entertainment value on display."
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Radio Times
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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1/5
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67%
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Honeymooner () |
"
The observations on male double standards all seem rather obvious and the arbitrary resolution comes across as the purest contrivance."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 20, 2011
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1/5
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20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
Yes, it's dreck, but we've all seen duff movies. What makes this so painfully exasperating is that 'The Tourist' is so bloody pleased with itself."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
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1/5
|
48%
|
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2011) |
"
Yen, with his fleet footwork and rippling torso, may have the moves, but he certainly doesn't have the material."
—
Radio Times
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
16%
|
Alpha and Omega (2010) |
"
Stumbles every time it attempts to rise above the perfunctory, with its tiresome comic-relief geese and bog-standard internecine rivalry in the wolf pack."
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Radio Times
Posted Oct 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
Release (2010) |
"
The thuddingly sincere dialogue, one-dimensional characterisation and occasionally wobbly performances turn ... sincere intentions into the stuff of cheesy melodrama."
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Radio Times
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
The Last Seven () |
"
It's all so dreary you'll wonder why they bothered."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 27, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
48%
|
The Losers (2010) |
"
The shambling plot strings together a series of explosive set pieces rendered ineffective by mediocre digital effects."
—
Radio Times
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Pimp (2010) |
"
The sight of Dyer operating under the delusion he's channelling Al Pacino is grim enough, but the real blame must be laid at the door of director/star/co-writer Cavanah, who seriously underperforms in all three roles."
—
Radio Times
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Shank (2010) |
"
This is one of the dullest gang flicks ever to see the light of day..."
—
Radio Times
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"
Since the fights are all digitally conjured up anyway, genuine thrills are at a minimum and the copious sprays of pixelated blood quickly pall."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
39%
|
Imagine That (2009) |
"
Murphy at least tries to stay in character rather than overdoing the silly voices and physical knockabout, but maybe the material was so blah that he felt it wasn't worth the effort."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 14, 2009
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——
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Edith and Marcel () |
"
It verges on the cherishably daft."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2008
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——
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Battle of Austerlitz () |
"
Silent-cinema genius he may well have been, but by this time in his career Abel Gance was creatively a shadow of his former self."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 15, 2007
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——
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Best Defense (1984) |
"
A dismally unfunny shambles."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2007
|
|
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67%
|
200 Motels (1971) |
"
A real dinosaur."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 10, 2007
|
|
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78%
|
Sin City (2005) |
"
While the book succeeded in pushing the boundaries of its medium, the film merely feels like a triumph of technology."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
|
|
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74%
|
La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (2007) |
"
Yes, she sings 'Je ne regrette rien', and, yes, we cry. Yet the tears are for the song and the memory of a remarkable artist. They're very little to do with this strenuously crafted yet ultimately bungled 140 minutes of celluloid."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
|
56%
|
Vacancy (2007) |
"
It's not pretty, but it's certainly vacant."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
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31%
|
Klimt (2005) |
"
It's not unintriguing, but without anything resembling a dramatic progression, the going soon gets stodgy."
—
Time Out
Posted May 31, 2007
|
|
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22%
|
Typhoon (2006) |
"
Like a poor manâ(TM)s Tony Scott movie."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 27, 2007
|
|
|
54%
|
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"
A movie which has been put together with occasional skill but lacks a compelling reason to exist."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 19, 2007
|
|
|
70%
|
Blades of Glory (2007) |
"
Personable enough, though genuine belly laughs are in short supply."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 5, 2007
|
|
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53%
|
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"
Occasionally arresting ideas and a non-condescending attitude to its pre-teen protagonists give this more character than many effects-driven family fantasies, even if it's ultimately too wonky in construction to sweep us along convincingly."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 31, 2007
|
|
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59%
|
300 (2007) |
"
It might have been one of the great all-time mad, bad movies but for one thing - it's just sooo boring."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 17, 2007
|
|
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19%
|
Factory Girl (2007) |
"
One wonders whether the documentary format would have better served the material than this ill-focused drama. Since real-life family and observers chime in over the end credits, perhaps the filmmakers were thinking the same thing."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2007
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33%
|
Duelist (Hyeongsa) (2005) |
"
Clearly, Lee has an extraordinary eye, but wilful self-indulgence leads him astray here."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 8, 2007
|
|
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8%
|
The Number 23 (2007) |
"
Schumacher keeps it pacy, the murky camerawork's very cool, Carrey suitably wide-eyed, but its limitations are finally only too obvious."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 15, 2007
|
|
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69%
|
The 9th Company (9 rota) (2005) |
"
The unquestioning lionising of Russian heroism is far from comfortable viewing, especially given the Putin regime's darkening human rights record."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2007
|
|
|
39%
|
Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) |
"
A game of two halves, both of them dire."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 7, 2007
|
|
|
76%
|
Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"
Even goodwill can't make this look like anything more than a glorified TV special. Surely it's time for the audience to throw in the towel?"
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 16, 2007
|
|
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53%
|
Crime Novel (Romanzo criminale) (2005) |
"
The storytelling here is murkier than required, causing the pace to flag alarmingly in the second half."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 2, 2006
|
|
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11%
|
All The King's Men (2006) |
"
What should have been an incisive study of the American political scene turns out a lumbering celluloid white elephant."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
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46%
|
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"
Relatively compelling at the time, it's just a bit too glib to resonate for much longer afterwards."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 19, 2006
|
|
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21%
|
You, Me and Dupree (2006) |
"
A bit dull, since Dillon's constrained playing the straight guy, Hudson has little to work with, and Douglas looks bored."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2006
|
|
|
24%
|
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"
What was [Shyamalan] thinking? This isn't just duff, it's career-threatening catastrophic."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 10, 2006
|
|
|
10%
|
Gymkata (1991) |
"
Mediocre action pulp."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
25%
|
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"
Completing the trail of cryptic clues simply becomes an end in and of itself -- think Sudoku: The Movie -- with little in the way of whimsy, star chemistry or excitement to enliven the dour plod."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
77%
|
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"
For a film about an unfancied underdog, Seabiscuit is just far too pleased with itself."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
43%
|
The Phantom (1996) |
"
This belated, albeit decorative adaptation looks tamely second-hand."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
13%
|
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) |
"
A new low in lame spoofery."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
75%
|
The Upside of Anger (2005) |
"
l, yet the movie's There's spiky humour and ample breathing room for the material, yet the movie's rather too intent on parading its own wisdom."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
7%
|
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) |
"
Bouncy musical numbers and plenty of social concern, but the star, regrettably, is on autopilot."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
64%
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