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3/5
|
100%
|
Girl Model () |
"
The banal yet luminous dramas of hope and disappointment play out, proving - again - that life is the same everywhere in the world, once you dig below the perma-crust of nationalistic self-assertion and position-striking."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
2/5
|
64%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
The story has worked in performance before. As a stage play it has run and run. As a movie it plods and plods."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
3/5
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
Unfortunately the pang of loss - the "you can't go back again" - is reflected in the film's own inability go back again. After a meditative midsection it tries to re-establish cuteness and comic zeal."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
2/5
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
When you start to feel nostalgic for the late Ken Russell, you know something is wrong . . . "
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
2/5
|
28%
|
The Vow (2012) |
"
Winsomely scripted, longwinded and squandering talent in small roles."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
2/5
|
32%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
Strictly for acrophobes with masochism."
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Financial Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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3/5
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
From the Juno team of screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman comes this likable but odd - seriously odd - character portrait."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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|
4/5
|
71%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
Polanski directs with an alertness and mordant wit we haven't seen from him for decades."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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|
2/5
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
If 8mm and Cloverfield mated, they might produce Chronicle."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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|
4/5
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
A psychological thriller premised on the self-contagion, and schizoid to-ings and fro-ings, of a mind suffering spiritual culture shock."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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|
3/5
|
100%
|
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) |
"
Grant Gee's documentary is very winning."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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|
3/5
|
77%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
Only the weirdly mesmeric momentum of Neeson's Ulster accent stands against danger and death. He sounds like a demented Ian Paisley blessed with the looks of a snow-battered Lohengrin."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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|
3/5
|
90%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
The saving notes are the film's minutiae. There are dialogue moments in Payne's drollest, enemies-on-edge style."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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|
4/5
|
74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
Wit, tenderness and outmanoeuvrings: that's what we get from a film setting out, with thoughtfulness and charm, to test the chestnut that true love is impervious to time and space."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
0/5
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
You need a diploma in Gobbledegook to know what is going on, never mind to care."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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|
3/5
|
71%
|
The Nine Muses (2011) |
"
Much of this is majestic. But a thought kept fidgeting in my head. Do we need quite so many dead white males singing the tragedies and trials of the black experience?"
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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|
2/5
|
13%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
For some, the film will be paper hankie time, for others paper bag."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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|
3/5
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
J. Edgar is earnestly watchable. But it makes no contribution to a better understanding of Hoover..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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|
5/5
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
The play needs a gritty embrace and gets it. That and a flawlessly chosen cast."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
A Useful Life (2011) |
"
The film is short, at 67 minutes, but teasing, mazy, memorable."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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|
4/5
|
100%
|
Tatsumi () |
"
It is loose in shape, but alluring in style and storytelling."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
It has intelligence and dry wit, but also a sly wink of designer trashiness."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
No one will fail to find, in this strange, disturbing jewel, some reflecting facet of himself or herself."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
76%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
We are marched through cloying kidult rhetoric for 150 minutes, ending with the inevitable pull on our hankie pocket, as wheedling as a beggar pulling on our change pocket. The only difference: the beggar is more deserving."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Streep gets everything right."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
García may have a good movie in him; Iñárritu may have another (he once made Amores Perros). But as collaborators they should be divorced and sent, like their characters, to far-flung corners of the creative planet."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
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|
3/5
|
64%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
At the end the audience disperses in a daze, saying "Dude, where's my brain?", but also feeling a warmish glow around the heart."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Lady (2011) |
"
The inspiring true story soon suffers respiratory failure."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Cruise "does his own stunts". These include the smirk, the hair-toss, the head jut, the finger-jab and all the other Cruise athleticisms we know and, if hard pressed by Hollywood, love."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
We know what will happen and it's still riveting."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
Is the film more than a novelty plaything? Perhaps not. But within its confines it multi-achieves."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Wreckers () |
"
The structure rambles. The plot sometimes bewitches, sometimes bemuses. The cast works valiantly to keep us caring."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Dreams Of A Life () |
"
It isn't just the mystery that mesmerises, it is the misery or the apprehension of it: the sense of some untold, secret pain that had been Vincent's constant companion."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
You could put Will Smith in this and call it Wild Wild West Europe or Nicolas Cage and call it International Treasure."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
88%
|
Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)) (2010) |
"
A hit-the-ground-dead Freudian romp about an office worker's dream life."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
83%
|
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) |
"
This über-snooze of a costume epic, based on a Portuguese novel, has flickers of surreal invention like valedictory memory spasms."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Puss in Boots (2011) |
"
Puss in Boots is very jolly for an hour. Then, like Santa Claus misjudging a chimney, it gets stuck at the moment we hope it will break free and distribute the festive gifts."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
64%
|
Another Earth (2011) |
"
The camerawork and acting are both "handheld": wobbly, ill-focused, exploratory, uncertain where to go next."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Las Acacias () |
"
It's very touching: a road movie with every kind of changing scene and mood, both inside and outside the cab."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
68%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
No group of actors in a film ever had so little time to establish so much complexity or succeeded with such consummate skill."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
It is glorious to be thrown and blown about in this make-believe metropolis. The digitally enhanced shapes and colours suggest Jeunet and Caro reworked by a polychromatic Piranesi."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
92%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
Like a laissez-passer to our apocalypse sensors."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
Williams's portrait of dippy pulchritude and to Branagh's spectacularly funny Olivier."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
Moneyball (2011) |
"
Brad Pitt in a dugout. Oh dear; oh dear. Here is baseball, reel upon reel and inning upon inning."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 25, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
The movie is mostly wonderful."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
50/50 (2011) |
"
So well-meaning you want to hug it."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Seeking Justice (2012) |
"
The skies turn dark with melodrama; claptrap crackles in the clouds."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
Welcome to the Rileys (2010) |
"
The dialogue and ponderous drama got lost even before the camera rolled."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
Magic Trip (2011) |
"
Touching, even minor-key-tragic."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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