|
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
|
|
0/5
|
44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) |
"
The density of inanity at the conceptual core of this crass sci-fi western starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford pushes outwards, inflating fatuous substance and propelling bric-a-brac in all directions."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
0/5
|
20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
Do anything. Arrange an appointment in Sumatra. Go to the moon. At all costs stay away."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 8, 2010
|
|
0/5
|
72%
|
Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) (2010) |
"
Noé has cut 45 minutes for the current release version. It is desperation surgery. The film I saw was inoperable."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 22, 2010
|
|
0/5
|
33%
|
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"
Underscripted, under-energised, a triumph of formula over flair, it stomps on for two hours in a nightmare of self-important inconsequence."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
88%
|
Even the Rain (Meme La Pluie) (2011) |
"
Bolleín and Laverty punch up every icon and wingding in the arthouse cliché dropdown."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
77%
|
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
A squandering of space, time and actor/part-time screenwriter Jason Segel, last seen revivifying the Muppets."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
So terrible it might, with antiquity, become a camp masterpiece."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
67%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
The film lost me at "hallo"."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
Screen hokum gets no hokier."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
79%
|
Michael (2012) |
"
There is a film to be made, grim and explorative, about paedophile abduction. Michael isn't it."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
77%
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
The Rum Diary (2011) |
"
A mirthless, sparkless "comedy" of galley journalism and tyro Bohemianism in 1960s Puerto Rico."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
78%
|
Red White & Blue (2010) |
"
Everyone comes out of the story badly, not least the audience. We should have felt shaken and stirred; we merely feel poured over rocks and impaled with cocktail sticks."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
"
Spy Kids - All the Time in the World is in four dimensions - the extra one being smell - and I hated the lot."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
38%
|
Beautiful Lies (Full Treatment)(De vrais mensonges) (2011) |
"
The film is full of sub-Marivaux comic contrivances, ersatz Gallic charm - the kind you can squeeze from a tube - and whimsical improbability."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
The Hangover Part II is what the label says: another day in which you sit there with blurred vision and a headache wondering how you came to be in the same room as several dozen other people debauched by Hollywood."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 25, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
71%
|
Hanna (2011) |
"
A surreal thriller needs a thrillmaker with a gift for the surreal, not the pedestrian talent (here) of Joe Wright."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 4, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
61%
|
Water for Elephants (2011) |
"
The supporting characters swarm towards the revenge-and-redemption climax like elephants to a salt lick. Here, though, it's a schmaltz lick."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 4, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
79%
|
Cold Fish (2011) |
"
Is it a black comedy? Is it a horror thriller? More wit and ingenuity might have made it Tarantino-esque."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 6, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
Mars Needs Moms (2011) |
"
Makes you long for the parentless state of the Martians the movie depicts, who kidnap a mother and inadvertently whisk up her little son during a mom-harvesting trip to Earth."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 6, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
70%
|
Oranges And Sunshine (2011) |
"
Emily Watson gives the only believable performance in a film beset by clunky dialogue and torpid mise-en-scène."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 30, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
44%
|
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) |
"
When I saw the words "Tin Ear Production Company" in the end credits, I wasn't sure if it was a joke or a piece of authorial honesty."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
71%
|
Paul (2011) |
"
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in a faltering extraterrestrial knockabout."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 9, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
56%
|
Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) |
"
Elton John songs and love-struck garden gnomes."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 9, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
30%
|
Sanctum (2011) |
"
At least we now know that in a subterranean hell we can still get Bad Acting Heaven."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
32%
|
How Do You Know (2010) |
"
A rom-com with too much rom (winsome) and far too little com."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 26, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
64%
|
Biutiful (2010) |
"
If the film were any more portentous, it would be laughable. In the event - partly redeemed by Bardem - it is merely stupefying."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 26, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
55%
|
Morning Glory (2010) |
"
Rachel McAdams, a once fetching actress, runs about as if "Fetch!" is the only cry coming from behind the camera. Fetch the joke; fetch the funny line-reading. Wave your arms about."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 20, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
68%
|
Conviction (2010) |
"
It's all dreadful, it's all glutinous, it's all trite. It's all pie-eyed beyond the dreams of Reader's Digest."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 12, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
71%
|
Somewhere (2010) |
"
Two hours of whimsical nothingness, playing variations on the superior Lost in Translation."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 8, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
Miral (2011) |
"
I kept wondering how this pie-eyed tract, which spends two hours proclaiming the obvious about peace, entente and togetherness, could be made any more windily trite. I couldn't think of anything."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
53%
|
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010) |
"
Is the Millennium Trilogy over? Can we go home?"
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 29, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
66%
|
The American (2010) |
"
Corbijn does inert tableaux icy with enigma. Aerial shots of ribbony roads; overlapping facial close-ups Bergmanesque with portent."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 29, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
67%
|
Fezekas Voice () |
"
Yes, even English people blub when listening to lovely music or saying farewell to guests from across the world."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 11, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
72%
|
We Are What We Are (2011) |
"
Unaccountably praised by some critics, the film is like a supermarket sandwich, flavourless as you consume it while leaving a slightly nasty taste in the mouth afterwards."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 11, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
Mammoth (Mammut) (2009) |
"
As woolly and elephantine as its title."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 4, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
34%
|
Burke and Hare (2011) |
"
A bad-taste comedy that isn't funny."
—
Financial Times
Posted Oct 28, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
Eat Pray Love (2010) |
"
Roberts' gorgeousness is served up sacrificially to 140 minutes of psychobabbling "insights", many of them trite or questionable, all of them wearisome."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 22, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
Scarcely even feature length, and bewilderingly chaotic."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 1, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
40%
|
The Expendables (2010) |
"
A piece of sclerotic all-star machismo about as exciting as Veterans' Arm-Wrestling Night at the Hollywood Bowl."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
51%
|
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010) |
"
Do I have to say it again? Celebrity is not drama."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 4, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
41%
|
Letters to Juliet (2010) |
"
The script, sighing, twittering and doing D.H. Lawrence lite, would be rejected as too whimsical by Mills and Boon."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jun 9, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
4.3.2.1 () |
"
Noel Clarke, blowing his promise as the debut director of Kidulthood, blends youth romp with international thriller."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jun 3, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
69%
|
[Rec] 2 (2010) |
"
Filmmaker Jaume Balaugueró should have been content with the first [REC], a claustrophobic tour de force. Now the franchise is out on the sidewalk, selling itself to the tired, the jaded, the kerb-crawling."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
Earth hath not anything to show more fatuous than this sequel to an already otiose movie of the hit television series."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
81%
|
Four Lions (2010) |
"
Does making jihadists seem semi-lovable twerps do anything, ultimately, but trivialise the conflict? Perhaps if the film were funnier, we wouldn't look for reasons why comedy and global cataclysm seem a less than perfect match."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
70%
|
Double Take (2009) |
"
Its laboured contention that the cold war era was an age of unique and privileged anxiety seems dubious. (Every age in its different but equal way is an age of anxiety.)"
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010) |
"
Matthew Vaughn, former Guy Ritchie producer, co-wrote and directed, and on this evidence is all flash and no flair."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
62%
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