|
1/5
|
23%
|
The Samaritan (2012) |
"
Surely there were sheepish faces all round in Jackson's camp when they saw this?"
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Time Out
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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|
1/5
|
——
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Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2012) |
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
Gone (2012) |
"
Everything about 'Gone' has the plasticy, leatherette feel of an imitation thriller."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
It raised my moral outrage heckles in ways I didn't think possible."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
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."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
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."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
81%
|
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."
—
Time Out
Posted May 10, 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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
The Final (2010) |
"
You've probably had bloodier encounters with a vegetable peeler."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 13, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) |
"
Not even an exceedingly cute beagle in a roll-neck pullover and spectacles can rescue this charmless live-action and 3D animated kids' caper."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Pimp (2010) |
"
With nil insight - into the sex industry or anything else - you might conclude Pimp is a film for men who get their kicks watching Dyer strut around leering at topless women who -- in the parlance of the film -- look like "the basic pleasure model"."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
The Back-up Plan (2010) |
"
If this is a comeback, let's hope J-Lo's got something else up her sleeve."
—
Time Out
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
The Spy Next Door (2010) |
"
Even the outtakes barely raise a smile."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
44%
|
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
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
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
|
|
|
1%
|
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"
Criminally lazy follow-up to the syrupy family comedy Daddy Day Care."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 19, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
79%
|
He Was A Quiet Man (2007) |
"
Slater does well to soften the lines of his no-hoper caricature, but writer-director Cappello steers his film to nowhere particularly memorable."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
43%
|
Lagerfeld Confidential (2007) |
"
A drippy documentary."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 24, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Hara ga kore nande (Mitsuko Delivers) () |
"
The acting is at times unwatchably broad, ultimately squeezing the life and charm out of the whole enterprise."
—
Time Out
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Piggy () |
"
A dime-a-dozen, not entirely terrible London thriller."
—
Time Out
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
Love's Kitchen (2011) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
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."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
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."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
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."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
9%
|
Weekender () |
"
From the opening voiceover to the out-of-their-heads party scenes, it's utterly generic."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
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
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
The Devil's Double (2011) |
"
Even more tasteless than its main character's gold 'n' marble palace."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2011
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Planeat (2011) |
"
Possibly it ought to come with a warning: contains traces of smugness."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
Everywhere and Nowhere (2011) |
"
Melodramatic soap opera."
—
Time Out
Posted May 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
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
|
|
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."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 7, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
The Resident (2012) |
"
Generic and intermittently silly..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 10, 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
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
The Dilemma (2011) |
"
This collapses into comic mayhem, falling-out-of-trees slapstick, snore-bore misunderstandings and a sizeable distance between laughs."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 20, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Cuckoo () |
"
Creepy claustrophobic for a bit, it dissolves quickly into suspenseless drift - not all of it coherent."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 16, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Slackistan () |
"
It's somewhat stiffly acted by non-professionals, and its earnestness might leave you with a hankering for the sly humour of mumblecores."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Mammoth (Mammut) (2009) |
"
An interesting idea, but Mammoth's good intentions -- like its characters' -- are lost somewhere in the delivery."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 3, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Little Big Soldier (Da bing xiao jiang) (2010) |
"
Now 56, having broken pretty much every bone in his body, [Chan] sits out some of the rough stuff, and there is a noticeable twilight mood in the air."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 30, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
46%
|
Step Up 3-D (2010) |
"
If only there were more drop kicks and fewer banal lines."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 5, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Shelter () |
"
Is it a psychological thriller or a giddy horror of the evil-in-them-there-hills persuasion? This split-personality number can't quite decide."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Raavanan (Villain) (2010) |
"
Bollywood golden couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan star in this absurdly extravagant melodrama, rife with cliches, song-and-dance showstoppers, macho action sequences and lush tourist board-approved landscapes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
[Rec] 2 (2010) |
"
As for the scariest bit, that comes right at the end, when the door is left ajar for Rec 3. Pray for divine intervention."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 28, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
Dear John (2010) |
"
A sucker for a cheap sob, it left me cold."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Perrier's Bounty (2010) |
"
Assemble[s] a likable if flavourless comedy out of scraps of this and knocked-off bits of that."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 26, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Shank (2010) |
"
Just when you thought grimy gang drama had run out of steam, along comes this dystopian variation, set in a recession-ravaged London 2015."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 26, 2010
|
62%
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