Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 8%
| St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold () | "
If there is a cinematic equivalent of a Christmas panto this season, it is surely St Trinian's 2, which is broad and ramshackle, cheap and gaudy." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 64%
| The Merry Gentleman (2009) | "
[Michael Keaton is] the pained and taciturn star of a pained and taciturn drama." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 81%
| Departures (2009) | "
Yôjirô Takita's bitter-sweet tale of the Japanese funeral trade plays a bit like a formal service itself." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Cracks (2009) | "
Cracks totters on high heels and strikes all manner of poses in the mirror. Sooner or later it's bound to fall over." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Séraphine (2008) | "
A measured, soulful and tactile work; a film with gouache beneath its fingernails." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
So infuriatingly coy, and so desperate to preserve the modesty of its soulful victim that it amounts to an ongoing clean-up operation." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Glorious 39 (2009) | "
A ripping, old-school conspiracy thriller." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
[Timoner's] film – cobbled together over 15 years – has grown so beguiled by its wonky, disquieting hero that it has lost its distance and mislaid all scepticism." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Amelia (2009) | "
A tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Welcome () | "
Phillippe Lioret's drama turns heavy-handed at the end. What keeps it afloat are the sharp performances, together with a pungent, docu-style portrait of the dockyards." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) | "
Eileen Yaghoobian's indulgent, cut-and-paste documentary hangs loose (and slightly awry) with the unsung titans of the concert poster." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 0%
| The Baker (2007) | "
The normally wonderful Kate Ashfield bags a supporting slot as Milo's love interest only to spend the film's climax ruthlessly gagged with a strip of gaffer tape. Given the state of the dialogue, this is probably for the best." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 57%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
His comedy pretends to be unthreatening, a harmless little wheeze, and then pushes the envelope to its logical conclusion." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 0%
| The Spell (2009) | "
A bewilderingly awful horror film." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 27%
| Pandorum (2009) | "
Pandorum is less a story than a prolonged bout of paranoid hysterics, exuberantly played out on metal gangplanks and inside Stygian tunnels. As such, it works just fine." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | "
A veritable buffet of the bland and the bizarre, the sweet and the sour, and all tastes are catered for along the way." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 8%
| 31 North 62 East (2009) | "
[The] fiendish scheme crumbles under an onslaught of machine-tooled plot twists and a barrage of expository dialogue." — Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Ichi () | "
Fumihiko Sori's film contains flashing blades and great sprays of arterial blood. The pacing, however, is as languid and soothing as a lullaby." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Fired Up (2009) | "
Five, six, seven, eight; Fired Up is not so great." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
Sugar is a revelation, not least in the way it ducks an onrush of cliche to expose the whole rags-to-riches mantra as a bright and shining lie." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Max Manus (2008) | "
An entertaining, old-school war thriller." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 19%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
Idris Elba, so good in The Wire, looks a long way from Baltimore in this overcooked Fatal Attraction-style yarn about a cocksure executive laid low by the office temp." — Guardian [UK] Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 28%
| 12 Rounds (2009) | "
It remains to be seen whether this crude, dumbly entertaining outing will encourage the director to tackle more of the Greek myths." — Guardian [UK] Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
If the film is never quite as inert as The Da Vinci Code, I hesitate to call this a thriller. It's big, bombastic and glossy - but it is also stiff and sometimes ludicrous." — Guardian [UK] Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 24%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
It's quite an achievement to make a discreet, diffident film about the rumoured love affair between tyro artists Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca - but I'll be damned if Little Ashes doesn't manage it." — Guardian [UK] Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 32%
| The Uninvited (2009) | "
They are all just guests at a camp masked ball - poised to unveil themselves in a denouement that somehow manages to be more outlandish - and more comic - than all the bumps and rattles that went before." — Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 28%
| The World Unseen (2008) | "
A curiously strait-laced, timid and self-conscious affair." — Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 54%
| Martyrs (2008) | "
You may well feel in need of a shower after sitting through Martyrs, a slick essay in Gallic torture porn." — Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 24%
| The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) | "
Vadim Perelman's drama is both tasteful and tedious. With its honeyed visuals, affluent air and coy portents of disaster, it's like an advert for private health care played out on an endless loop." — Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 55%
| Surveillance (2009) | "
A violent B-movie bamboozler that, while fun for a spell, is finally unconvincing." — Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Push (2009) | "
In time this would-be thriller comes to rest with a fist fight, a hanging ending and the implicit promise of a sequel. Of all the calamities that Fanning predicts, Push 2 is one she missed." — Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) | "
Now in blows the myth of the myth: a brashly entertaining biopic." — Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| King of the Hill (2008) | "
It's at its best in a tense middle section that plays as a pared-down existential nightmare." — Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 21%
| Faintheart (2008) | "
Faintheart, which bills itself as the world's first user-generated movie, is a middling sitcom that could have crawled fully formed from the head of a jaded TV executive." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Role Models (2008) | "
Role Models is exuberantly staged, fitfully funny and boasts a glorious supporting turn from Jane Lynch as the demagogic onetime addict." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 56%
| Defiance (2008) | "
Defiance makes a noise but leaves no echo. It feels progressively more bogus and less significant the further it recedes from view, and myths are meant to wax in the memory, not wane." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 12%
| Bride Wars (2009) | "
Our deepest condolences to Hudson as the ironically named "Liv". Her dead eyes and rouged cheeks suggest she's bypassed the wedding and gone straight to the funeral." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| The Spirit (2008) | "
Frank Miller's adaptation of the antique comic strip by Will Eisner is brash, noisy and so alarmingly ill-paced that it should, by rights, come with a software package that allows viewers to recut it as they see fit." — Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 28%
| Trade (2007) | "
Is it possible to agree with what a film is saying while disliking the way it says it? Trade leaves no arm untwisted and no message unrammed." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| The Secret Life of Bees (2008) | "
This fairytale of the civil rights era is all honey and no sting." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 62%
| The Express (2008) | "
Gary Fleder's sporting drama has its heart in the right place but, sheesh, that title grows more ironic with each crawling minute." — Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 90%
| Special People (2007) | "
At times Special People feels hobbled by the very political correctness it wants to poke fun at; still, it's nicely observed and crisply played, gently confounding a gaggle of prejudices during the course of a svelte 81-minute run." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| Quarantine (2008) | "
Good news for those who missed the Spanish zombie horror [REC] when it opened here a few months back. Here comes the inevitable fast-tracked Hollywood remake, which covers the same ground without the burden of all those subtitled hysterics." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| Choke (2008) | "
For all its flaws and fumbles there is a certain guilty pleasure in Choke." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
Body of Lies is big and bombastic, confused and irritable - a 20th-century blockbuster struggling to adapt (too little, too late) to a 21st-century terrain." — Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
— | Rotten 42%
| The Bucket List (2007) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 72%
| Definitely, Maybe (2008) | "
It's sweet natured and brightly played." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Kenny (2008) | "
Old-fashioned toilet humour gets a postmodern makeover in this laconic Australian mockumentary about a mobile toilet installer." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 33%
| Mouth to Mouth (1995) |
Click here to read article — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 75%
| City of Men (2008) | "
It's all perfectly serviceable -- but it wants for freshness and vitality." — Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
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