|
1/5
|
4%
|
Abduction (2011) |
"
Agent Cody Banks meets post-shark jump 24, with what appears to be an 8-year-old Soviet body builder in the lead role."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 28, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
Everywhere and Nowhere (2011) |
"
Capturing the energy of club culture on screen is notoriously difficult. This stale production shouldn't even have tried."
—
Total Film
Posted May 10, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Pimp (2010) |
"
You wouldn't think a film could actually be both very boring and very offensive. Pimp is that paradox made flesh"
—
Total Film
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Lady Godiva (2008) |
"
Avoid like you would a naked nutter bouncing down the street."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 24, 2008
|
|
|
52%
|
The Walker (2007) |
"
Harrelson is an entertaining mix of Old South camp and quiet pathos but neither he nor the script's desultory attempts at post-9/11 commentary are enough to elevate it above the level of a pretentious John Grisham adaptation."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Aug 10, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
Sandler's brash, unpretentious and unsubtle family comedy might be more enjoyable if it wasn't so mean."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) |
"
Grown-ups will still struggle not to picture a post-puberty sequel featuring DUIs and rehab trips."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Never Let Me Go (2010) |
"
The pupils' failure to question their fate plays more like lethargy than tragically repressed emotion."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 31, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
46%
|
Hereafter (2010) |
"
Despite stand-out moments both epic and intimate, Clint's latest is a film about death that's likely to put many audiences to sleep."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Motherhood (2009) |
"
Motherhood is neither insight nor escapism. It's a yummy-mummy newspaper column splurged onto celluloid, like baby sick on your best cashmere sweater."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 16, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Dead Man Running (2009) |
"
The combined effect is amiable rubbish embodied by Dyer, who continues to walk a tightrope between laughing stock and national treasure."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 30, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
9%
|
My Life in Ruins (Driving Aphrodite) (2009) |
"
Vardalos' peppy charm and the postcard scenery make for pleasant diversions, but there's no getting away from the script's mawkishness."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
Bandslam (2009) |
"
Whether your nine-year-old niece will care about that is moot - but she'll definitely resent the poor ratio of musical numbers to clunky, contrived emotional scenes."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 14, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Make It Happen (2008) |
"
It's all just filler between the dance scenes, which are admittedly fun. Think Pussycat Dolls with slightly more clothes on. Unrepentantly formulaic, but enjoyable all the same."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 8, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005) |
"
By the end you'll feel like a bored parent trapped in the front row of the school play."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 1, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (2008) |
"
This kind of thing has been done before and it's been done better, too."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 18, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Anna M. (2007) |
"
Unfortunately, as director Michel Spinosa has discovered, making a Fatal Attraction-esque thriller that's also a serious study of mental illness is a lot harder than it sounds."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 14, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Friends With Kids (2012) |
"
Friends with Kids takes an unusual romantic premise and explores it in satisfying and perceptive depth."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 20, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
25%
|
Killer Elite (2011) |
"
Robust, does the job, but unrefined."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
30 Minutes or Less (2011) |
"
A tasty line-up, but a nihilistic tone and lacklustre script make for a fast-food action-comedy that's diverting but throwaway."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 6, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
Friends With Benefits (2011) |
"
If you see only one casual-sex-com featuring a Black Swan alumni this year, make sure it's this one."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
After the millionth lingering shot of a cave wall, you may be less enthused, but this is still a worthwhile trip."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Made in Dagenham (2010) |
"
It's jolly stuff, yet for all the bawdy banter, there's a Boat That Rocked-like sense of a genuinely interesting moment being regurgitated as a cuddly sitcom."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 30, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
22 Bullets (L'immortel) () |
"
Without a compelling plot to hold our attention, this only amounts to an impressively bloody bullet-a-thon: 22 seems a very conservative estimate..."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 9, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
Baarìa (2009) |
"
Baaria is like a pleasant package holiday: alfresco dinners, strolls through lemon orchards."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 29, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
StreetDance 3D () |
"
Skillfully pitched at its market, this is joyful in a way only the professionally grumpy (dads, film critics) could object to."
—
Total Film
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
21%
|
Leap Year (2010) |
"
Golden Age Hollywood charm with the obligatory modern Hollywood schmaltz thrown in, this will rile anyone who's been within 100 miles of the real Ireland, but run with it and it's an enjoyable fantasy all the same."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009) |
"
Away We Go is the cinematic equivalent of Innocent smoothies: it appears to talk like 'us', while all the time reducing us to another consumer demographic."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
Tormented (2009) |
"
A slasher for the Twitter generation, Tormented catches the spirit of the times without being too try-hard. Quips and snogging take precedence over scares, but its commentary on new technology's power to intimidate is chillingly apt."
—
Total Film
Posted May 22, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Flammen & Citronen (Flame & Citron) (The Flame and the Lemon) (2008) |
"
Director Ole Christian Madsen has opted rather to make a kind of action thriller-meets-film noir hybrid, and yet visually, at least, it works."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 7, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Angel (The Real Life of Angel Deverell) (2007) |
"
Like Ozon's 8 Women, the costumes are magnificent and Angel's mansion is a shrine to the gods of bad taste. All that's missing is a heroine worthy of Bette Davis in her heyday."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 29, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
The Waiting Room (2007) |
"
Instead of an exciting big-screen debut, this feels like a Cold Feet episode, written by a fan of Brief Encounter. Duff deserves a bigger challenge."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 2, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
The sunniest, happiest film in the world - and if the under-10 in your life can't appreciate that, it might be time to put them up for adoption."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
50/50 (2011) |
"
This is the terminal illness weepie for people who don't watch terminal illness weepies, and it's much the better for it."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 15, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
A cleverer script could have made its point and remained tactfully agnostic, but it's still amusing to see mumblecore's trademark naturalism leavened by some old-fashioned movie magic."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
My Dog Tulip (2010) |
"
More Harold And Maude than Marley & Me; amusing, insightful and a little perverse."
—
Total Film
Posted May 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Submarine (2011) |
"
Smart and sly, funny and fourth-wall-breaking... but above all, an excruciatingly accurate coming-of-ager."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Chico & Rita (2012) |
"
All buzz, colour and sublime jazz, Chico & Rita is an instant design classic -- and cracking cinema too."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 17, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
The Secret of Kells (2010) |
"
Hand-drawn and watercoloured, the animation is as sublime as a stained-glass window."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 30, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
World's Greatest Dad (2009) |
"
We can't wait to see what Goldthwait does next."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 24, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Winter's Bone (2010) |
"
With a face as impassively beautiful as the landscape she trudges through, Ree Dolly is a heroine you won't forget. Tenacious and stoic, she holds her own in a vernacular that's equal parts hillbilly and hard-boiled."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
White Lightnin' (2009) |
"
A psychedelic, sepia-toned horror show, touring the dark corners of his mind and those of the white trash world in which he lives."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 25, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) |
"
It's impossible to capture the complex whole of a person in one movie (or novel), but Miller uses this limitation to her advantage, by making the mystery of Pippa Lee's true identity the heart of the film."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Looking for Eric (2010) |
"
It's got all the heart and humour of a mainstream comedy-drama, with none of the tedious predictability."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Shifty (2008) |
"
Mercifully free of Danny Dyer cameos or Guy Ritchie mockneyisms, this works as both an entertaining gangster thriller and a hard-hitting piece of social realism. Absorbing, moving and authentic, Shifty never once strikes a false note."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 25, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"
You'll be very glad you were invited because this is a friendly, unpretentious bash, with not a meringue dress in sight. The speeches are funny, the music is ace and the mood falls just the right side of sentimental mushiness."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 23, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
51%
|
Good Dick (2008) |
"
The Kevin Smith-esque dude banter might place Dick in a US indie tradition, but there's also an honesty to the script and performances that's genuinely original and touching."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 3, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
45%
|
Mister Lonely (2007) |
"
In a choice between traditional and safe and experimental and flawed, opt for the latter every time."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 12, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Inside Planet Earth (2009) |
"
Every frame shouts, "save the planet!" louder than a roaring pride of Kalahari lions - and when you've seen the film, you'll know just how loud that is."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 14, 2007
|
62%
——
97%
