|
3/5
|
70%
|
Footloose (2011) |
"
The idea of an American town outlawing dancing was a stretch back in 1984, but in the intervening years, it's actually become more believable - which goes some way to justifying this remake."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
The Inbetweeners (2011) |
"
Updates the teen summer holiday formula surprisingly entertainingly, considering it doesn't subvert it one iota."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
|
82%
|
Super 8 (2011) |
"
An original, entertaining, solidly built movie with no star faces and plenty of heart..."
—
Uncut Magazine [UK]
Posted Aug 10, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
It's a gentle and entrancing tale, deeper and richer than more instantly gratifying fare. Think of it as the slow food of the animation world."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Senna (2011) |
"
The film's masterstroke is its exclusive use of archive footage, with no visible talking heads or modern-day interruptions."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
Win Win (2011) |
"
For all its witty observations on the trials of modern manhood, it never strays out of its blinkered suburban comfort zone."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Los ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes) (2011) |
"
When a few of the more ludicrous twists arrive in the second half, there's enough goodwill generated by the thoughtful, creepy and effective setup to carry things through to the end."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Amreeka (2009) |
"
The political issues are a little heavy handed but the story - partly drawn from the director's own experience - works best when it focuses on the personal."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
A Screaming Man (2011) |
"
Betrayal, guilt, denial, faith and secrecy all roil about beneath the film's placid, almost wordless surface, which is beautifully observed with a stately, Ozu-like calmness."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) |
"
It's a succession of ever-escalating action sequences and grand settings. At first they're stunning, then they're routine, then they're wearying."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (2010) |
"
It's overlong and a little over-indulgent, but given current events in north Africa, there's an unanticipated resonance to it."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
Everywhere and Nowhere (2011) |
"
Ash's fusion of beats and vintage Bollywood soundtracks could have been a neat key for dealing with some worthwhile issues, except it sounds about 15 years out of date."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
13 Assassins (2011) |
"
13 Assassins musters nearly twice as many swordsmen as Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and is about two-thirds as good, although it delivers the requisite genre thrills."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Deep End (1971) |
"
Everything about this singular film - the camerawork, the imagery, the soundtrack - feels vibrant and surprising in a way that makes most modern coming-of-age movies look formulaic and, well, shallow."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Armadillo (2011) |
"
The film-makers evidently risked their lives alongside these soldiers, and it's a further mark of their courage that they retained their detachment."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 7, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
Carmen 3d (2011) |
"
We spend 100 years developing an art form that breaks out of the musty auditoria of the 19th century and where does it get us? Right back where we started."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Tron Legacy (2010) |
"
It is often beautiful to look at, and could come to represent the fashion tropes of its era as faithfully as its predecessor did. And the silliness somehow adds to the enjoyment rather than detracting from it. It's the best kind of bonkers."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 7, 2010
|
|
|
71%
|
Monsters (2010) |
"
For all James Cameron's trumpeting about a 3D revolution, this efficient little movie could turn out to be the real game-changer of the year."
—
Uncut Magazine [UK]
Posted Dec 6, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Frozen (2010) |
"
It's a stunt film that only just overcomes the challenge it's set itself."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
Cyrus (2010) |
"
Instead of all-out family farce, this goes for naturalistic acting and wry observation, and doesn't quite give us enough of anything."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010) |
"
The whole movie has the immaculate visual gloss of a Chanel advert, which is no bad thing."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Undertow (2010) |
"
The conclusion might be too lachrymose and melodramatic for most tastes, but if you only see one gay Peruvian fisherman ghost story this year..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura) (2010) |
"
The ending comes like a sharp punchline -- a warning, or perhaps a reassurance, that even when you get to the age of 100, life is no less mysterious."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Eyes Wide Open (Einaym Pkuhot) (2010) |
"
This is responsible, restrained and intelligent, but if anything, the risky subject material is handled with too much caution."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 14, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Shotgun Stories (2007) |
"
Set in rural Arkansas, Jeff Nichols' relaxed, distinctive debut revels in the milieu of its redneck characters, but injects their rural half-blood feud with an almost mythic quality."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
—
|
78%
|
Some Came Running (1959) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Question humaine, La, (Heartbeat Detector) (2007) |
"
There's no killer revelation, just a graceful telescoping of past into present and a steadily accumulating dread."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
46%
|
Cassandra's Dream (2007) |
"
Woody Allen still insists on making movies at the rate of one a year, but he clearly needs to slow down. A lot."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"
The promising themes peter out as the film loses direction, though, and Bartlett is neither sympathetic enough to root for nor dumb enough to laugh at."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007) |
"
Temple's film is a fittingly conscientious and absorbing tribute to his complex, contradictory personality."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 9, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Knallhart (Tough Enough) (2006) |
"
Well acted, scored and paced, and striking a careful balance between social realism and hip street thriller."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
—
|
——
|
These Foolish Things (2007) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
45%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007) |
"
Buoyed by luck, comedy and state-of-the-art special effects, it has not only survived the journey intact, it's also washed down its decks, ready for a whole new cycle of movies to begin."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 30, 2007
|
|
—
|
65%
|
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2007) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 2, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
The Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme mannen) (2007) |
"
It's a delectable premise, rendered with smooth efficiency but we never really get beneath the surface of this shallow parallel reality."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 2, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Longing (Sehnsucht) (2007) |
"
It is shot like a documentary and set in an almost comically mundane smalltown, but it deals with elemental forces and grand, romantic themes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Mutual Appreciation (2006) |
"
Bujalski perfectly skewers what you might call the "sort-of" generation: educated, mid-20s white Americans hemmed in by their own non-committal uncertainty."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 4, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
39%
|
Straightheads (Closure) (2007) |
"
This nasty and nonsensical rape-revenge thriller is a feature-length exercise in wrongness."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Typhoon (2006) |
"
As desperately overblown as anything Hollywood has ever concocted."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
The Puffy Chair (2005) |
"
The dialogue captures the awkwardness and frustration of young adulthood with loving accuracy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"
Overall though, it's a messy, superficial affair: it lacks focus, shifts uneasily in tone, and shoehorns in star names (Sharon Stone, Bruce Willis) to little effect."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 20, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Beyond Hatred (Au-dela de la haine) (2007) |
"
It's unlikely to appeal to your mainstream moviegoer, but this French documentary achieves remarkable things with a depressing subject."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) |
"
There are innumerable set pieces, most of which take an awfully long time to deliver an awfully weak gag."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
The Namesake (2006) |
"
There were many moments when I found myself wanting to refer to the book to find out what really happened."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2007
|
|
—
|
69%
|
Freedom Writers (2007) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2007
|
|
—
|
92%
|
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2007
|
|
—
|
——
|
Asterix and the Vikings (2006) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2007
|
|
—
|
61%
|
Forty Shades of Blue (2005) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2007
|
|
—
|
100%
|
36 quai des orfevres (2005) |
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2007
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