|
0/5
|
0%
|
A Heartbeat Away (2010) |
"
Unspeakably bad...This film will do nobody any good and should not have been released. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 18, 2011
|
|
0.5/5
|
38%
|
Johnny English Reborn (2011) |
"
Witless, overlong, unfunny and stupid, it's a film so bad it defies understanding. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
0.5/5
|
74%
|
Fright Night (2011) |
"
Tedious, scareless, worthless."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
0.5/5
|
56%
|
Accidents Happen (2010) |
"
Accidents Happen quite easily commits the menu of sins that have long dogged Australian films: bad direction, unfocused story, thin characterisation, emotional incoherence and almost no idea what type of film it is supposed to be."
—
Sydney Morning Herald
Posted Apr 22, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
58%
|
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) |
"
It was precisely at the 70-minute mark, where Brad Pitt is repeatedly kicking Angelina Jolie in the stomach, that I figured, no. Stop hoping."
—
Sydney Morning Herald
Posted Jun 24, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
36%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
Takes a great premise and totally trashes it with limp storytelling and astonishingly bad filmmaking."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
92%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
Ultra-violent, ultra-tedious, bargain-basement rip-off of the classic 1978 Walter Hill film The Driver."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
84%
|
Contagion (2011) |
"
Think of Wolfgang Petersen's magnificently entertaining 1995 virus-on-the-rampage adventure Outbreak, take out the drama, excitement and involving characters, and that's Contagion in a nutshell. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Abduction (2011) |
"
The holes in the film's twist-filled story are often so big you could almost squeeze Lautner's sex appeal through them. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
63%
|
Here I Am () |
"
Sadly, the strong performances that were needed to sell this tough drama just aren't there."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
The finale is almost laughable. Even hardcore Goths will be bored."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
64%
|
Biutiful (2010) |
"
Javier Bardem was Oscar-nominated for his performance and the film got a nod for best foreign-language film, but don't let that fool you; it's a stodgy, self-important slog."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
The Rite (2011) |
"
The Rite is about as scary as watching two kittens fight over possession of a scrunched up piece of paper."
—
The Canberra Times (Australia)
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
59%
|
Wasted on the Young (2010) |
"
The icy, stone-faced performances from an obviously committed young cast don't help matters. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 5, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
53%
|
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010) |
"
The best thing that can be said about the excruciatingly dull, badly made closing chapter in this punishingly bad Swedish crime trilogy is that it really whets the appetite for the upcoming American version."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 2, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
A bland, badly directed, star-driven cinematic molestation of Jérôme Salle's tight-as-a-drum 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 27, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
71%
|
Somewhere (2010) |
"
(A) cosmically overrated, emotionally vacant micro-drama...that unspools as a limp, cynical attempt to replicate the nuance-rich tapestry of her 2003 gem Lost in Translation."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 27, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
66%
|
The American (2010) |
"
When you slow the pace of a thriller down to a slow crawl you'd better make sure all the air bubbles of implausibility have been squeezed out of your story, otherwise the audience is going to have too much time to pick at all the holes in the plot."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 10, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
87%
|
La Danse -- Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris (2009) |
"
It's not just boring, though, it's heart-breaking. Even hardcore fans of ballet might find themselves checking their e-mails or nipping out for another bucket of popcorn."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
Eat Pray Love (2010) |
"
A tiresome, humourless, lifeless, overlong dirge in which the lofty pretention to say something deep about the quest for self and the female condition all gets blown away by an insipid, off-the-shelf romantic-movie ending."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
43%
|
Dinner for Schmucks (2010) |
"
Steve Carell and Paul Rudd fizzle in this dire, painfully overlong comedy bomb."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 28, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
55%
|
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) |
"
A dizzying, jargon-strewn tangle of plotlines each of which are forced forward with an unmodulated, cadence-free abandon that often looks as though Michael Bay was directing."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 22, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
69%
|
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
Stuffed full of cliches and caricatures, the reigning one here being a large, blonde, over-muscled blockhead who feels no pain. If only audiences had the same advantage. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 22, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
This empty, misfired epic from M. Night Shyamalan is boring and strengthens the claim that he is the worst director working in mainstream cinema today."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
43%
|
Robin Hood (2010) |
"
The film recasts the classic tale as a super-serious, social-realist tract about feudalism, tyranny, murky photography and how horrid those French were."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 13, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
82%
|
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"
Demonstrates that when filmgoers decide they want to be scared, they will forgive absolutely anything -- bad acting, cheesy dialogue, poor camerawork, bad editing, unconvincing effects, incoherent storytelling -- for the sake of a good scare."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 2, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
Amelia (2009) |
"
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank gives Earhart a convincing Kansas twang but little else in a performance that is unaccountably stiff."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"
Without any notion of what type of film it wants to be, The Time Traveller's Wife is neither funny nor charming, moving nor romantic."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 4, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
6%
|
All About Steve (2009) |
"
Her most irritating and unfunniest film to date."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
90%
|
Stone Bros (2009) |
"
Frankland's attempt at a broad stoner comedy misses the mark in so many ways the film almost qualifies as a tragedy."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 24, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
The film is simply a bore, a frustrating, yawn-inducing, 2 1/2-hour teaser with no pay-off."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jul 16, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
45%
|
Yes Man (2008) |
"
No, man."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 2, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
38%
|
Bonneville (2006) |
"
A film full of emotional false notes, bad dialogue and cardboard characters..."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 29, 2008
|
|
|
10%
|
Elektra (2005) |
"
Never mind giving 1000 chimps 1000 typewriters and having them produce a script in a week. Instead, give 1000 chimps $US100 million and see how long it takes them to come up with a blancmange blockbuster such as this."
—
Sydney Morning Herald
Posted Jan 17, 2006
|
|
1.5/5
|
74%
|
Norwegian Wood (2012) |
"
Looks great; moves like a steam roller with a flat tyre."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
27%
|
The Cup (2012) |
"
Let's face it, better to be a crowd pleaser than a critic pleaser. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 12, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
58%
|
Scream 4 (2011) |
"
Written and directed by the Scream duo of Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven (who really should have known better) the film makes painfully clear just how tired and tedious self-referencing horror films have become. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
79%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) |
"
The pervasive dark tone, the heavy-handed dialogue and the sloth-like pace of Deathly Hallows reflects the self-importance that has now overwhelmed the obligation to entertain."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 17, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
71%
|
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011) |
"
This plodding, largely uneventful biopic of French singer/songwriter/philanderer Serge Gainsbourg flails with its episodic structure and dire attempts at stylistic quirkiness."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 3, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
57%
|
Summer Coda () |
"
The themes of loss and moving on are sincere, but way too laboured. Angus Sampson brightens proceedings briefly as one of the fruit pickers -- will somebody please write a comedy lead for this guy? -- but otherwise it's an emotionally flat affair."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 21, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
16%
|
When in Rome (2010) |
"
Succeeds only in displaying Bell's lack of comic flair."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 22, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
80%
|
Bandslam (2009) |
"
A tedious, predictable tale about following your dreams and being yourself."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 14, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
35%
|
Pride and Glory (2008) |
"
Hard to watch, hard to listen to and hard to follow."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 13, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Whaledreamers (2008) |
"
The September 11 segment is one of the clumsiest works of montage you're likely to see."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 19, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
83%
|
Warrior (2011) |
"
Grainy, hand-held cinematography can't lend authenticity to the forced emotion."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
What's Your Number? (2011) |
"
The film's satirical jabs at people addicted to Facebook and Twitter raises a few smiles in what is otherwise a straight-to-cinemas DVD release."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Red State (2011) |
"
Kevin Smith fans will be curious about Red State, but few others will be able to endure its tub-thumping attempts at topicality or its lack of storytelling skill. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Jane Eyre (2011) |
"
The direction by Cary Fukunaga is real by-the-numbers rote. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
59%
|
El Bulli: Cooking In Progress (2011) |
"
Even docs need a third act."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
Chalet Girl (2011) |
"
Undemanding, forgettable, formulaic teen rom-com."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
63%
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