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1/5
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11%
|
The Darkest Hour (2011) |
"
There's literally nothing here that works: the SFX are limp, the acting is dire and director Chris Gorak seems to be fighting a losing battle with the concept of narrative logic."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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1/5
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49%
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Last Night (2011) |
"
'Last Night' is an empty exercise in sheer self-regard, a tedious, lifeless trawl through the secret lives of the rich and beautiful."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 1, 2011
|
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1/5
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34%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) |
"
'On Stranger Tides' is simply lifeless, a reductive, insulting moneymaking exercise with as much charm and depth as a slot machine."
—
Time Out
Posted May 16, 2011
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1/5
|
4%
|
Vampires Suck (2010) |
"
A few broader references might have made this punishing one-note trawl through the eminently spoofable tween-vamp saga slightly more watchable."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 13, 2010
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|
1/5
|
13%
|
Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
At 81 minutes with credits, Jonah Hex feels crude, lazy and entirely perfunctory."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 1, 2010
|
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1/5
|
8%
|
Mega Piranha (2010) |
"
Bad-movie enthusiasts will doubtless have fun watching these oversized piscine predators leaping from the ocean and laying waste to Florida's coastal regions, but hasn't this tiresome, kitschy, so-bad-it's-good fad run its course?"
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Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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|
1/5
|
11%
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Killers (2010) |
"
Kutcher and Heigl are unable to bring any warmth to what is at heart a bitter, cynical script. Just awful."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 16, 2010
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|
1/5
|
12%
|
The Bounty Hunter (2010) |
"
There'll be worse films released in 2010 -- but not many."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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2/6
|
19%
|
Meet Dave (2008) |
"
Even for a high-concept, lowbrow summer release Meet Dave is drab, shoddy work."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 16, 2008
|
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2/5
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
Outside of porn, there has never been a movie with so many shots of grown men eyeing teenage girls' backsides. The result is fitfully amusing but more often just creepy."
—
Time Out
Posted May 1, 2012
|
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2/5
|
55%
|
Safe (2012) |
"
The occasional efficient action sequence means that 'Safe' never gets truly dull, but even Statham aficionados might feel short- changed by this one."
—
Time Out
Posted May 1, 2012
|
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2/5
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
The grim, grey-hued result is about as far from contemporary drag chic as it's possible to get - appropriate for the subject matter, perhaps, but hardly the stuff of satisfying cinema."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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2/5
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——
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388 Arletta Avenue () |
"
There's little new: the intimidation techniques (pet abduction, home invasion) feel clichéd and the film trundles towards an unenlightening conclusion."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
Hard Boiled Sweets () |
"
This is the kind of film that thinks it's feminist because the girls hit back..."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
The Decoy Bride (2012) |
"
The result is less a film, more a bland Britcom box-ticking exercise."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
A film that, despite a strong visual sense, has simply no grasp on its characters or its plot. 'Nevermore', indeed."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
Yet another case of Hollywood execs trying way too hard to give the audience what they think it wants."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Iron Sky () |
"
'Iron Sky' just proves that even the dumbest idea needs a smart mind behind it."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
The Sitter (2011) |
"
A noisy, unfocused, frequently annoying and intermittently offensive slapstick misfire."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 17, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Magic to Win (2011) |
"
Mostly this is just aggravating, as the volleyball girls flap and pout, the wizards glower and prance and the film trundles from one half-hearted and predictable action sequence to another."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
A fitfully amusing but largely unsurprising and uninvolving action-movie-by-numbers: elementary, and not in a good way."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
Niccol's major problem is timing: action sequences and dialogue scenes lie flat on the screen, while his tendency to play around with pacing means that any tension quickly dissipates. Life's too short."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Four () |
"
Mildly diverting, but quickly forgotten."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) |
"
This is witless, saccharine and lifeless..."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Tonight You're Mine (2012) |
"
Occasionally amusing but too often aggravating: pretty people in ugly places listening to crap pop and looking pleased with themselves."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
27%
|
Colombiana (2011) |
"
Tiresome and unconvincing."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
Conan the Barbarian (2011) |
"
Rent the original instead."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
Holy Rollers (2010) |
"
This is moviemaking on autopilot."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 6, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |
"
Mostly this is fairly agonising: long, loud, lurid and lacklustre."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Priest (2011) |
"
Did Paul Bettany know, when he donned the cowl of the albino monk in 'The Da Vinci Code', that he would soon be typecast as Hollywood's go-to guy for God-bothering multiplex action movies?"
—
Time Out
Posted May 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2010) |
"
Well-acted but plodding..."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
Mars Needs Moms (2011) |
"
The 'Polar Express'-style CG-meets-live-action visuals are creepy and flat, the characters are largely nonexistent and the story takes so many short cuts that it becomes meaningless..."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 6, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage () |
"
The characters are thin, the dialogue is bland and the animation is plasticky, though the 3D effects are sometimes interesting in a lurid, sub-Pixar fashion."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
Patagonia () |
"
Predictable and tedious, and it all wraps up in an unconvincing would-be emotional climax."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 2, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
32%
|
I Am Number Four (2011) |
"
The door is left wide open for a sequel, but it's hard to imagine there'll be much call for it."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Never Let Me Go (2010) |
"
Pretty, empty, and immediately forgettable."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
Rabbit Hole (2010) |
"
The problem with 'Rabbit Hole' is that it plays at one unrelentingly gloomy frequency: occasional moments of humour or tension are simply unable to puncture the overriding sense of oppressive sadness."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Fred: The Movie (2010) |
"
Fred is a withering, unerringly precise satirical pastiche of the me-first 'American Idol' generation. The only question is why an audience would choose to spend 83 minutes with him."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Adrift (2009) |
"
The film's biggest problem is its repetitive, meandering script, a catalogue of coming-of-age clichés -- the first date, the first kiss, the first sip of booze -- that can't find anywhere new to go."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
16%
|
Skyline (2010) |
"
Imagine it's 1953 and you're watching a movie called 'Brain Suckers from Planet X', and you might even have a good time."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
Due Date (2010) |
"
There are some decent laughs scattered throughout Due Date, but Phillips can't find a way to make his two leads likeable: they remain obnoxious and ill suited right to the schmaltzy finale."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 3, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Release (2010) |
"
Perhaps the biggest problem is that there's nothing we haven't seen before: shower room shenanigans, cruel wardens and holy innocents marching towards an unconvincing date with destiny."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) |
"
It becomes clear why Oprah is such a huge Perry fan."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 1, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) |
"
Casts a superficial and short-lived spell."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 12, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
The Rebound (2012) |
"
The romantic trials of two wealthy, good-looking people, whose only barriers to happiness are their own petty insecurities, become tedious, and it's not helped by some stilted dialogue and awkward, mannered performances."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) |
"
The biggest problem remains the characters: neither Slade nor Stewart are capable of turning manipulative whinger Bella into anything more than a joyless black hole sucking the life from every scene."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
It's unlikely Gilliam's own, undeniably brilliant career will be revitalised by this rambling, undisciplined and indulgent piece of work."
—
Time Out Sydney
Posted Oct 28, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
The Hangover (2009) |
"
It doesn't help that the central cast is almost entirely forgettable, from the smug lounge lizardry of Bradley Cooper to the boisterous Jack Black-lite of Zach Galifianakis."
—
Time Out Sydney
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
65%
|
Watchmen (2009) |
"
There's something admirable about the entire enterprise: its ungainly size, its unrelenting weirdness, its willful, challenging intensity."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 2, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
68%
|
Paris (2008) |
"
Perhaps the film's key problem is the feeling that Klapisch lets his ambition obstruct his storytelling."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 22, 2008
|
63%
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