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3/5
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85%
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Chronicle (2012) |
"
A strong calling card for the talents of Trank and Landis."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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4/5
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82%
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Young Adult (2011) |
"
There is a raw honesty here rare in movies, and it's very funny too - excruciating at times."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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3/5
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79%
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Mother and Child (2010) |
"
What keeps the whole thing from toppling into an abyss of unwatchable TV drama histrionics is a pair of dynamite performances from Annette Bening and Naomi Watts."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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4/5
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94%
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Hugo (2011) |
"
It might be curtains for celluloid, but Scorsese, a boyish 69, clearly isn't leaving the stage any time soon. He directs every film with the passion of his first. And it shows."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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2/5
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19%
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Love's Kitchen (2011) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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3/5
|
50%
|
The Rum Diary (2011) |
"
It's funny as hell in places and touchingly warm."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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3/5
|
67%
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Jack Goes Boating (2010) |
"
In places it has the airless feel of an over-workshopped piece, but is rescued by excellent performances: in particular Amy Ryan as Connie, Jack's shy would-be girlfriend."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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4/5
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74%
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Like Crazy (2011) |
"
The acting, which looks improvised, is faultless; their natural, fearless performances will surely make stars of Yelchin and Jones."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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2/5
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13%
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Demons Never Die () |
"
It's a bit like being in a room with a group of stoned people at a YouTube party, replaying the best bits of their favourite movies."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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4/5
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76%
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The Help (2011) |
"
Yes, it gets a bit sentimental. Yes, some 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood' friendship clichés creep in. Yes, it glosses history. But it's also heartfelt, hilarious and the cast is a dream-team topped by Viola Davis."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 25, 2011
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2/5
|
17%
|
Cosi (First Night) (2010) |
"
The whole thing descends into oo-er bedroom farce when life begins to mimic the antics of Mozart's opera."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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2/5
|
33%
|
Texas Killing Fields (2011) |
"
Forget about murder: this moody cop thriller is guilty of a more heinous offence - criminal negligence of its dream-team cast."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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1/5
|
30%
|
Turnout () |
"
What went wrong for Ophelia Lovibond? It was all looking gangbusters after a string of entry-level Hollywood roles. Now here she is, bolt-on girlfriend in a third-rate Brit lad-flick."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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3/5
|
71%
|
Friends With Benefits (2011) |
"
The chemistry between Kunis and her co-star Justin Timberlake is electric."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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3/5
|
74%
|
Fright Night (2011) |
"
It's smart and funny, but (unlike the original) instantly forgettable, and, crucially, not remotely frightening - even with blood and intestines spattering out in 3D."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 1, 2011
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|
2/5
|
9%
|
Weekender () |
"
From the opening voiceover to the out-of-their-heads party scenes, it's utterly generic."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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2/5
|
58%
|
Villain (Akunin) (2010) |
"
While being classily acted and handsomely shot, something appears to have been lost in translation from page to screen."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2011
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1/5
|
23%
|
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
"
Sadly it's all fart jokes and smart-alec preteens - the stuff that can make taking kids to the pictures a chore."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2011
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|
2/5
|
52%
|
The Devil's Double (2011) |
"
Even more tasteless than its main character's gold 'n' marble palace."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2011
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3/5
|
73%
|
Sarah's Key (2011) |
"
Scott Thomas is tremendous ... the emotional detail of her performance is never less than gripping, even as the film falters."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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3/5
|
85%
|
A Better Life (2011) |
"
Bichir carries it all with a measured performance of considerable emotion as the dad, clenched by so many years holding his breath, waiting for the knock at the door."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2011
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3/5
|
92%
|
The Light Thief (Svet-Ake) () |
"
Director Kubat stars as Mr Light (the rest of the actors are mostly non-pros), giving a performance of profound warmth and humanity."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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2/5
|
25%
|
Break My Fall () |
"
The acting is patchy, episodes of kitchen-sink drama flat-footed, and - this could spell kiss of death to its cult potential - thuddingly earnest in places."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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3/5
|
83%
|
Treacle Jr. () |
"
This is low budget and it shows, but it's clear Thraves has still got something to say."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2011
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3/5
|
89%
|
Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin (2010) |
"
She still dances beautifully, with dignity and the intensity to the marrow that takes your breath away."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
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4/5
|
77%
|
Trust (2011) |
"
An exercise in sober drama and a middle-class cautionary tale which explores a family ripped up by the roots after the rape of a 14-year-old girl."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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3/5
|
75%
|
Stake Land (2011) |
"
An angsty, bleak fantasy of America the lost."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Screwed () |
"
The violence is unrelenting, scene after scene of it, and spectacularly unenlightening: like watching rottweilers gone feral."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Life, Above All (2011) |
"
Hypocrisy, ignorance and fear are seen with almost unbearable clarity through the eyes of a South African girl in this unflinching study of Aids stigma."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 26, 2011
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|
2/5
|
——
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Planeat (2011) |
"
Possibly it ought to come with a warning: contains traces of smugness."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2011
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|
|
46%
|
Blitz (2011) |
"
Who knows, we might be looking at the evolution of the guilty-pleasure movie - padded out with top-drawer talent to spare audience blushes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Red Hill (2010) |
"
What an effective calling card for debut writer-director Patrick Hughes this is - if not for the Australian tourist board."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
80%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
It goes on and on, and just when you think you can't take any more insufferably trite good intentions, it keeps on going."
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Time Out
Posted May 10, 2011
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|
2/5
|
8%
|
Everywhere and Nowhere (2011) |
"
Melodramatic soap opera."
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Time Out
Posted May 3, 2011
|
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3/5
|
85%
|
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2010) |
"
This is a satisfyingly sober thriller, almost melancholy in tone - and as morally complex as a John Le Carré novel."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
68%
|
Insidious (2011) |
"
Good for a handful of jumps and guilty giggles before it quickly reaches for the slipshod, hokey contrivances you don't expect until number 2 or 3 in the franchise."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Adèle Blanc-Sec () |
"
It all plays on one note of droll flippancy, which, while pleasingly mordant, is all style and very little substance."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 20, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Winnie the Pooh (2011) |
"
A gentle, modest pleasure."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012) |
"
This has a stand-out, star-making performance from Neighbours' Caitlin Stasey - if only she didn't always emerge from battle looking as if she'd just stepped out of a L'Oréal advert."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 7, 2011
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|
3/5
|
94%
|
Passenger Side (2010) |
"
Funnier and more intelligent than there are any grounds to hope for: an entertaining, wry tour of LA's scuzzier sights."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Blooded () |
"
A hokey idea, and badly botched."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Country Strong (2011) |
"
Paltrow gives it her best but is so conspicuously doing country. We're meant to believe she has spent half her life staring into a vodka bottle, but she glows like she's just stepped out of a yoga retreat."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
The Resident (2011) |
"
Generic and intermittently silly..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
His & Hers () |
"
You would need to be made of stone not to be charmed by the wit and warmth of these women."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
Patagonia () |
"
A topcoat of enforced lyricism creates an emotional soft-focus that is unsatisfying and unconvincing."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 4, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
43%
|
Ironclad (2011) |
"
Historically accurate? It's not certain everyone involved is even on the same script."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
29%
|
The Tempest (2010) |
"
You expect Nicolas Cage to pop up from behind a sand dune on a Harley brandishing a rocket launcher."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
No Strings Attached (2011) |
"
Portman can look smug in light-touch comedy, but her chemistry with Kutcher is believable (though to be fair, Kutcher is the golden retriever of male leads: blandly irresistable)."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 23, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Yogi Bear (2010) |
"
Poor old Yogi has a rough time of it in this miserable 3D assault of humour-free live action and lumpy animation."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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