|
1/5
|
15%
|
Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
Sex and the City has turned into a bloated juggernaut of pointlessness. Its female characters are now beyond unbearable, none more so than Carrie."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 3, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
26%
|
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"
There is indeed a secret, but it is not overly challenging to work out what's going on in this annoying film."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 9, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) |
"
There's nothing particular strong or telling about its comedy."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Priest (2011) |
"
Its visual style veers between bleached desert tones and slimy undercover dankness, but the 3D version is undistinguished."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
The explanation takes away a good deal of the mystery and menace, not to mention the comic energy, of the original story and the many versions it has inspired."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
This should be a potent combination, but it turns out to be a fizzer."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 22, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
Little Ashes (2009) |
"
The drawcard of Robert ''Twilight'' Pattinson as Dali is a mixed blessing for the filmmakers, given how ill-at-ease he is in the role. Javier Beltran, as Garcia Lorca, cast as the heroic centre of the film, cuts a more confident figure."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"
You get the feeling that the Aliens in the Attic video game probably has more to offer."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
Amid the fast-moving chaos, it gets a little repetitive: there's so much volcanic action, so much fire and brimstone that all that heat might leave you cold. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
27%
|
Green Lantern (2011) |
"
The green aesthetic misfires: the whole film looks as if it's been inspired by a particular shade of washing-up liquid, or the glowing screens of ancient computers."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
83%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
Its human characters are ciphers, even if the actors include Franco, Lithgow, Brian Cox and Freida Pinto, but its animal rebels are utterly convincing."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
35%
|
The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
The premise and the execution are numbingly familiar, and what was funny and unexpected about a guys-bonding-under-pressure movie the first time around becomes: ''Are they kidding? Again?'' "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 26, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
26%
|
Hop (2011) |
"
For the most part it tries too hard, lurching from one plot contrivance to another and never giving any of its cast (apart from the heroically hard-working Marsden) much to do."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 6, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
30%
|
The Kings of Mykonos () |
"
In this latest extension of the Wog Boy franchise, 10 years after the first film, the scenery is inviting and Alex Dimitriades makes an excellent villain, but the comedy, though amiable, often falls flat."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Harry Brown (2010) |
"
Stylishly filmed in a grimy palette of putrescent green and muddy brown, the movie seems at times almost to revel in the nastiness it depicts."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Brüno (Bruno) (2009) |
"
It can be entertaining, in a scattergun way. But its most extreme moments feel forced rather than revealed. Even its over-the-top finale, with echoes of Borat's rodeo escapade, seems over-calculated this time around."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jul 8, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
44%
|
Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) |
"
A perpetual Disney identity crisis that involves a blonde wig, a prepubescent Vertigo-meets Jekyll and Hyde-meets High School Musical."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 24, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
65%
|
Is Anybody There? (2009) |
"
Weighed down by a surrounding air of quirkiness."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
51%
|
What Just Happened? (2008) |
"
What Just Happened, despite an air of crisis, feels sluggish and plodding."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 21, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
56%
|
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2010) |
"
A sporadically entertaining portrayal of male humiliation and self-abnegation."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 27, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
59%
|
W. (2008) |
"
Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser have little...to offer us."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 6, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
61%
|
The Reader (2008) |
"
The film...hankers after something redemptive. But whatever difficult possibilities about guilt and silence it explores are dissolved into disconcerting blandness."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 20, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
Baby Mama (2008) |
"
An under-achieving, lightweight movie that settles for a few competent gags and doesn't bother to take risks."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 29, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"
It's high-energy, but oddly unsatisfying; the nature of Hulk's rage is left unexplored and undeveloped."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 13, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
53%
|
The Devil's Rejects (2005) |
"
As the body count rises, The Devil's Rejects tries hard to stay funny and nasty, but the effort shows..."
—
Sydney Morning Herald
Posted Jan 17, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Santa's Apprentice (L'apprenti Pere Noel) () |
"
Bright, amiable traditional animation with an old-school flavour and solid storytelling. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Love Crime (2011) |
"
Rather than contemplating the tension of performance, we are resigned to watching the elements of the story click mechanically and rather drearily into place."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Los ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes) (2011) |
"
Julia's Eyes becomes a little incoherent as it plunges towards resolution, but it's unerringly stylish and whole-heartedly suspenseful along the way."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Barney's Version (2011) |
"
If Giamatti's performance is rigorously unsentimental, director Richard Lewis and writer Michael Konyves (adapting Morechai Richler's novel) succumb, a little too often, to slow-moving warmth and wryness."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
The Next Three Days (2010) |
"
It's an all-consuming task, and Crowe makes this obsessiveness plausible."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Tamara Drewe (2010) |
"
There's something about the desperation of Jody that gives the film its most uncomfortable and surprising moments. Otherwise, it's a bit of a stroll down familiar paths."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Shaolin (2011) |
"
An expansive, energetic, big-budget martial arts action film that encompasses combat, explosions and moments of introspection."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) |
"
It gleams and glistens but it has no substance. It is, in the end, a missed opportunity."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
27%
|
Charlie St. Cloud (2010) |
"
Has its poignant moments but does not trust them, and does not explore its darker potential. It lays on the sentiment too thickly and underlines the uncanny with a heavy-handed touch."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) |
"
Conveys, in a good-humoured, sharply observed way, the small, painful cruelties and unpredictable rules of early adolescence, and it celebrates awkwardness without feeling the need to convert it into cheap triumph."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
Director Daniel Alfredson taking over from Niels Arden Oplev, maintains the sometimes disconcerting mixture of violence and righteous investigation that characterise the series."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010) |
"
The neatness of the movie, however, hems it in. It is plotted almost to a fault."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 9, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Cairo Time (2010) |
"
Nadda has managed to create space for two performances that feel wistful, serious and self-aware."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Salt (2010) |
"
There's still a lot to enjoy in Jolie's performance, and in the undercurrents of ambiguity in Salt, the questions of identity that repeatedly surface in the film."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009) |
"
Feels a little repetitive and predictable in its depiction of the ordinary and the domestic. But there's something stubborn and gritty about Heiskanen's performance."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 11, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
The Special Relationship (2010) |
"
The relationship between Blair and Clinton never seems capable, dramatically speaking, of bearing the weight the film assigns to it."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
The Hedgehog (2011) |
"
There is a fairytale quality to the story that Achache brings out: it is as if the apartment block, whose spaces and elements are vividly depicted, becomes some kind of enchanted tower, within which transformation is possible."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jul 9, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
The Horseman (2008) |
"
Marshall's performance, as the desperate, driven father, is striking; it gives the film an emotional centre without ever diminishing the horror of his character's actions."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jul 7, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Alice in Wonderland (2010) |
"
Amid the visual pleasures, the plot additions feel limiting."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 3, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Religulous (2008) |
"
Rather disconcertingly, the film builds towards a vision of the apocalypse, the destructive fate that religious conflicts have in store for us -- a version of the future any hellfire preacher would be proud of."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 9, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is visually inventive and exuberant, and has some neat running gags. But its characterisations are a little disappointing."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 26, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
28%
|
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"
Weitz brings a few more flickers of humour to the narrative, but the essential, appealing earnestness of the book remains, whole-heartedly embraced."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 17, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Okuribito (Departures) (2009) |
"
Departures is about life, death, grief and loss, but it's also, in a quietly effective way, about coming to terms with expectations."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 15, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"
What makes this film memorable and pleasurable, above all, is the ebullient performance of Meryl Streep as Julia Child, unlikely culinary trailblazer and TV star."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 8, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Valentino: The Last Emperor (2009) |
"
Stays firmly, admiringly, on the surface of things -- which is where all fashion kings should reign."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
63%
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