Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Yes Men Fix the World (2009) | "
Their preposterous presentations are like art performances as much as political interventions." — Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
Despite obvious good intentions, this feels dishonest, and I suspect not very true to life. Worst of all, it risks trivialising mental illness into lovable quirks." — Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | "
The pile-up of effects is like watching someone else playing videogames; neat moves, but where's the fun?" — Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| Momma's Man (2008) | "
This enjoyable lo-fi indie pictures an extreme example of a failure to sever the apron strings." — Guardian [UK] Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 30%
| 20th Century Boys (2008) | "
The original may have sold 20m copies but they should have kept creator Naoki Urasawa away from this script - whole swathes ought have been gutted, making for a very long and unfailingly shallow 142 minutes." — Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 45%
| Hotel for Dogs (2009) | "
The schmaltz is laid on thick, but kids love this sort of stuff and, refreshingly, the dog bits are done the old-fashioned, fun way: with animal trainers rather than CGI." — Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 73%
| Hansel & Gretel (2007) | "
Revenge by abandoned children on the treachery of grown-ups ought to be unsetting at the very least, if not spine-tingingly terrifying. But it's done so clumsily that nothing remotely spooky emerges." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 53%
| Stone of Destiny (2008) | "
Writer/director Charles Martin Smith is American, which wouldn't matter if this didn't feel so much like a wee-dram-and-bagpipes invitation to a mythical Scotland of yesteryear." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 19, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| Summer (2008) | "
There are a few literal-minded scene-by-scene explanations too many; how undiagnosed dyslexia made a bad kid out of Shaun. It's a shame as they put the emotional heart of film at arm's-length." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 26%
| The Lost City (2006) | "
The script is scrupulously even-handed, but Garcia can't seem to get a grip on this sprawl." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 69%
| The Girl in the Park (2007) | "
while there is a lot to like in Auburn's tightly focused film, it never fully pulls together." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Conversations with My Gardener (2007) | "
These are two very good actors and they do well to get over some shocking script cliches of the artistic variety as Auteuil earnestly instructs his old friend on the creative process." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Belle Toujours (2006) | "
There is something reductive in all these talky explanations, nailing down the mysteries of fantasy and dream life that Buñuel so audaciously left hanging." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| 'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007) | "
Paris himself is a tight-lipped interviewee of the old school; that all changes the moment he steps on stage, when we see what they have all been talking about." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Bandit Queen (1994) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | Son of Man (2006) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 79%
| XXY (2008) | "
Unexpected and wonderfully thoughtful." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 54%
| Intimate Enemies (2009) | "
It's all rather conventional, drawing on the blockbuster big bangs and special effects he must have picked up in Hollywood making the Bruce Willis thriller Hostage." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 60%
| Kamikaze Girls (2005) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 48%
| Cashback (2007) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | The Ugly Duckling and Me (2006) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 80%
| Colossal Youth (2006) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 88%
| A Wedding (1978) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | Dangerous Parking (2007) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 40%
| The Banquet (2006) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | Seachd - The Crimson Snowdrop (2007) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | Change of Address (2006) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| The Escapist (2009) | "
About as plausible as platform 9 3/4 for the Hogwarts Express." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 67%
| The 11th Hour (2007) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 59%
| Lonesome Jim (2006) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 49%
| Smart People (2008) | "
Smarter than your average romantic comedy it may be, but this family-dysfunction indie is playing it a bit safe." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Out of the Blue (2007) | "
A claustrophobic dramatic reconstruction of a 22-hour shooting spree in the sleepy coastal town of Aramoana, New Zealand, that left 13 people dead." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 15%
| Underdog (2007) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 63%
| In Memory Of My Father (2005) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 20%
| Bunny Chow (2006) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 31%
| Nights in Rodanthe (2008) | "
Indoors, there is elegant if unconvincing emotional drama you can see coming from half a mile down the beach, with very little com to lighten the rom." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Heavy Load (2008) | "
The only difference is that three of the five have a learning disability - but in this documentary, which is very funny in places, it's not disabilities that define them." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| Swing Vote (2008) | "
But away from the cutesy stuff there are some surprisingly sharp digs at the political process." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Appaloosa (2008) | "
Photographed handsomely with wide-angled majesty, the film does precious little myth-making, though Harris subtly twists some of the genre's conventions." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Alexandra (2008) | "
A bone-weariness pervades every inch of the film; even the light is bleached dry of vitality." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 51%
| Then She Found Me (2008) | "
It's not the only misstep in Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt's first film as director, which is a shame because she does a lot of things right." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 43%
| Live! (2007) | "
Triumphs, humiliation, barmy monologues and temper tantrums - reality television is scarcely in need of parodying. Certainly not from a preachy film like this." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| Partition (2007) | "
But this is a film that lumbers under its epic ambitions and at nearly two hours long - with some awkward plotting to boot - scenes drag, grand and momentous, but crushing anything so fragile as human feelings." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Daylight Robbery (2008) | "
Daylight Robbery has the away day, the-sun-shines-outside-of-Walford feel of an Enders special. All told, a bit of a Regi Blinker." — Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| Little Box of Sweets (2006) | "
Meneka Das, a British-based Indian actor, has written and directed a love story that is polite, proper and just a little flat-footed, although beautifully shot in Uttar Pradesh." — Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| Space Chimps (2008) | "
Space Chimps isn't so terrible - unashamed kids stuff that addresses no bigger question than how to pee in a space suit." — Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Pope's Toilet (2007) | "
This is a heartfelt and deadpan portrait of the knife-edge poverty of people who are not so much greedy as desperate." — Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 90%
| Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007) | "
Builds up an overwrought symbolism that fails to hit the mark dramatically." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 11%
| Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (2008) | "
In the end there is something rather depressing about a film willing itself to be so crappy." — Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3
| Fresh 75%
| The Book of Revelation (2006) | "
There's a fine and committed performance by Long, who looks like a pretty, young Nick Cave, but the women are never anything more than agents of the central conceit, the missing link in an otherwise psychologically intriguing film." — Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
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