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1/6
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0%
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City Rats (2009) |
"
It's a terrible film, so blithely wrong-headed in its execution that some scenes are quite entertaining in an 'is this really happening?' kind of way."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 25, 2009
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1/6
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14%
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Dragonball Evolution (2009) |
"
Making no effort to be original, exciting, witty or even vaguely plausible, it may pass the time as sparkly fodder for 12-year-old boys with plenty of sugar in their bloodstream."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 9, 2009
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1/6
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9%
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Reverb (2007) |
"
It just about works as an exercise in empty style, but that doesn't compensate for the small matter of its near-total incomprehensibility."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 6, 2009
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1/6
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55%
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Fuck (F*ck) (2005) |
"
The insight-neutral scrag ends of what feels like ten decent documentaries on censorship, semantics, social policy and broadcasting coalesce in this painfully self-satisfied and poorly made 'shock-doc'."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 12, 2009
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1/6
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27%
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Clubbed (2008) |
"
It's a comically inept and unfocused piece of filmmaking, with 'This Is England'-lite period detail attained by what looks like a bring-your-own-costume policy."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 16, 2009
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1/6
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65%
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
"
At best, you'll be disappointed; at worst, you'll want to blow up a high school."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 24, 2008
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1/6
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22%
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Daylight Robbery (2008) |
"
Daylight Robbery...the exact expression that you're likely to utter if you pay for a ticket to see this utter garbage."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 29, 2008
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1/6
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13%
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"
Making the farcical tenor of the recent Indiana Jones film feel like a paragon of dramatic and archaeological integrity, this phoned-in action threequel doesn't even have the good grace to deliver on its title and feature any mummies"
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Time Out
Posted Aug 8, 2008
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1/6
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14%
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The Love Guru (2008) |
"
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Well 'they' obviously haven't seen 'The Love Guru', an overgrown dirt-patch of clunking juvenilia."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2008
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1/6
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5%
|
The Hottie and the Nottie (2008) |
"
A stark yet comforting reminder that cold, hard cash is no substitute for cold, hard talent. 'The Hottie and the Nottie' is an execrable Z-grade eugenics parable moonlighting as a sexy, disposable date movie."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 28, 2008
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1/6
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4%
|
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) |
"
Do anything: rob a petrol station, superglue your eyelids together, chew on broken glass, just avoid at all costs."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 7, 2007
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1/6
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14%
|
Rise of the Footsoldier (2007) |
"
The direction smacks of sadism, especially the obvious glee Gilbey gets from filming violent scenes in close-up and, in the case of the bloody shotgun-to-the-face denouement, in triplicate."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2007
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1/5
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0%
|
Outside Bet () |
"
Very poor indeed."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
71%
|
African Cats (2011) |
"
An attempt the dramatise the animal world which just feels cheap and unworkable. A drag."
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Little White Lies
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
Elles (2012) |
"
A rather dull and smug experience."
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Little White Lies
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
10%
|
The Cold Light of Day (2012) |
"
The wait for the definitive Henry Cavill calling card movie continues."
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Little White Lies
Posted Apr 6, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
So little plot and character that you'd be hard pressed to call this a 'film' in the strictest definition of the term."
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Little White Lies
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
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1/5
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——
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Life Goes On () |
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Time Out
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
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1/5
|
33%
|
Intruders (2012) |
"
No. Just no."
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Little White Lies
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Powder () |
"
Aside from the fact that each cast member employs a different style of acting, this is drably shot (Ibiza looks like Clacton), slackly edited and detached from any recognisable reality."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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1/5
|
32%
|
How Do You Know (2010) |
"
Contrived, mawkish and mirthless, this feels like it was made by people who haven't had any meaningful human contact for years."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
40%
|
The Expendables (2010) |
"
If you like watching men with no necks thumping each other, this could be your Citizen Kane."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
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1/5
|
0%
|
Pimp (2010) |
"
With its excessive levels of casual racism, sexism and homophobia, the film feels like nothing more than a rejected 'Derek and Clive' sketch that's been stripped of eloquence and irony and calibrated instead for cheap, leery laughs."
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Time Out
Posted May 21, 2010
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1/5
|
5%
|
Old Dogs (2009) |
"
This is imbecilic hooey of the rarest breed."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2010
|
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1/5
|
22%
|
Freestyle (2004) |
"
Shabbily filmed and poorly acted, its lone positive is a compellingly awful turn by Alfie (brother of Lily) Allen, whose bumbling, velour-tracksuited date-rapist is the sleaziest thing youâ(TM)ll see this year."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
A Closed Book () |
"
With its unlovely DV aesthetic and cheesy midi-synth score, the film has clearly been put together on the cheap. Yet it's also severely lacking in the fundamentals."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
10%
|
Malice in Wonderland (2010) |
"
Quite apart from the fact that it mistakes sexism and homophobia for sardonic liberal rib-tickling, even at 80 minutes, the film feels like a brash, crass and boneheaded music promo that's been stretched to breaking point."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"
A garish and poorly filmed chop-socky frolic that makes about as much sense as an Escher painting viewed through Vaseline-smudged Ray-Bans."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
48%
|
Nativity! () |
"
CBeebies if Ronnie Corbett was artistic director; filmmaking by committee, if that committee were made up of the esteemed members of Coventry City Council and chaired by Lenny Henry."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 27, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
43%
|
Lala Pipo: A Lot of People (Lalapipo) () |
"
Insipid and puerile to the frame."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
Fame (2009) |
"
This film makes even the most gaudy of Saturday night TV talent contests look like Dostoyevsky in comparison."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 25, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
16%
|
Crossing Over (2009) |
"
Any one of these stories, if properly fleshed out and shorn of contrivance, would have made for a perfectly serviceable film. Instead, we have lots of hysterical little bits of nothing much."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
64%
|
Death Proof (2007) |
"
A waste of time. A waste of celluloid. A waste of talent."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
|
47%
|
A Few Days in September (Quelques jours en septembre) (2007) |
"
Duff addition to the ever-expanding canon of 9/11 movies."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
|
0%
|
The All Together (2007) |
"
What a poorly developed and resiliently stupid piece of work this is."
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Time Out
Posted May 10, 2007
|
|
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35%
|
Reno 911!: Miami (2007) |
"
A verità (C) riff on the â~Police Academyâ(TM) series is the idea behind cult US sitcom â~Reno 911!â(TM), which, here, is stretched to breaking point for this puerile punt at cinematic glory."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2007
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|
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40%
|
The Gigolos (2006) |
"
The shaky camerawork and naturalistic performances mark the film's kinship with quasi-realist sitcoms like The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2007
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|
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26%
|
Stomp the Yard (2007) |
"
There's little here for British eyes."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2007
|
|
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26%
|
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"
Nic Cage seems comfortable in the role of the flaming-skulled biker, but the plot holes are too deep even for his Herbie-like arachnid motorcycle to negotiate."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 28, 2007
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|
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78%
|
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"
It reserves singing and dancing for the stage until Jamie Foxx just randomly bursts into verse while strolling down the street. Dreamgirls wants to be Effie but ends up as Deena: thin, smooth, unburdened by a personality."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 25, 2007
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|
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28%
|
Smokin' Aces (2007) |
"
The film's whimsicality makes it a big step back for the director, who shows he has little handle over anything bar garish action set-pieces."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 12, 2007
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|
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55%
|
Déjà Vu (2007) |
"
Take away a couple of neatly staged action sequences and you're left with a callously measured slab of US jingoism that deals with the most horrific human tragedies in the most lunk-headed and insulting way possible."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
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54%
|
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"
Clearly intended to be viewed through a haze of marijuana smoke, it'd be against the law for us to recommend this film."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
|
73%
|
Twelve and Holding (12 and Holding) (2006) |
"
... a film that never quite equals the sum of its many intriguing parts."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 9, 2006
|
|
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27%
|
Waist Deep (2006) |
"
From its non-committal title downwards -- we're a bit worse than ankle deep, but not quite neck deep -- the film includes a final shot that is almost surreal in its implausibility. Waist Deep? More like Deep Waste."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 2, 2006
|
|
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25%
|
A Good Year (2006) |
"
Escapist dilettantes may find A Good Year light, breezy and charming but even the most rudimentary inspection will reveal the film's sickeningly rotten core."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
|
77%
|
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) |
"
The film paints with swaggeringly broad strokes, the basic thesis being Lennon = good, government = bad."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
|
68%
|
Close to Home (Karov La Bayit) (2007) |
"
As a whole the film feels trite in the way it trivialises and sentimentalises what it is claiming to be an inherently flawed system."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
|
10%
|
The Grudge 2 (2006) |
"
Vapid, silly and about as scary as an Adam Sandler film."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 19, 2006
|
|
|
48%
|
Idlewild (2006) |
"
For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you'd expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 14, 2006
|
65%
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97%
