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4/5
|
100%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
A very charming, beautifully wrought, if somehow depthless film - eccentric but heartfelt, and thought through to the tiniest, quirkiest detail in the classic Anderson style..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
66%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
It doesn't, in truth, offer much of a twist on the genre. It does, however, deliver laughs and weapons-grade offensiveness."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Get the Gringo () |
"
[A] lively, non-PC caper-thriller, with touches of Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Beloved (Les Bien-aimes) (2012) |
"
For me, the brooding Garrel is pretty insufferable, but his mannerisms are at least reasonably in check here."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Charlie Casanova () |
"
Charlie is unbearably and unintentionally obnoxious. I guess we are supposed to see some devilish charisma or glamour or wit, but he is just a tiresome prat."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
The entire action of the film, right up to its final revelation, could be played as a dead straight, emotionally choked drama of the cosmic supernatural."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Faust () |
"
This Faust is part bad dream, part music-less opera: sometimes muted and numb, though with hallucinatory flashes of fear."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
It whelms you. Its effect is whelming. The film delivers precisely the satisfaction a sympathetic audience could expect from its director, not one degree above or below. The audience is whelmed. It's a whelmer."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Juan of the Dead (2012) |
"
This wacky zombie comedy exploits to the full this genre's juicy potential for satire: a more solemn kind of movie maybe couldn't get away with being quite as irreverent about the Castro government."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Two Years at Sea () |
"
Quietly enigmatic, valuable work."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
It's still atmospheric enough, and like the original, has a quasi-theatrical event status. But it feels like a copy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) (1939) |
"
Pessimistic, yet strangely sublime."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei) () |
"
This has the lineaments of a classic and would make a great double-bill with Miike's 1999 film Audition on the theme of revenge."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
A tsunami of syrup and a Niagara of nonsense here in this mind-blowingly ridiculous romdram..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
There are a few gags. But inevitably, the guys wind up sentimentally telling each other they should do this every year. Please no."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
The unromantic pain and euphoria of love are instantly revived in this outstanding film."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
He simply seems to be a good guy who created something that little children love. Fair enough."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
African Cats (2011) |
"
Some nice moments here, but this is a film that looks like a kids' TV featurette from an earlier age."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
The Monk () |
"
It is not a story of great depth or passion, but there are intriguing and unsettling moments on its well-crafted surface."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
A rare pleasure to watch, and a pleasure to have Stillman back."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
It's a film whose unrelaxed body language screams: "Give me prizes!""
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
It's an enjoyably absurd and absurdly enjoyable extravaganza, both delirious and surrealist."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) |
"
Hollywood here looks diabolically seductive."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Skoonheid () |
"
Lotz gives the story a tragic dimension."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Elfie Hopkins () |
"
It doesn't totally take off until the final act, but there's evidence here that Ryan Andrews will become a force to be reckoned with."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Elles (2012) |
"
Binoche does some embarrassing "arguing with her editor on the phone" acting. The final dinner-party sequence is toe-curlingly predictable."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012) |
"
The weakest part of this film is the ferocious government PR chief, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, with much lip-pursing and eye-rolling, but nothing funny or believable in the script for her to say."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Atmen (Breathing) (2011) |
"
Markovics's script circles around the themes of death and life in thoughtful and elegant ways: it is a well-carpentered screenplay which bears every sign of having been a labour of love, worked on fruitfully over many years."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Marley (2012) |
"
[Marley] emerges as driven, industrious, competitive, a natural leader of charisma who was political in the broadest sense, but never boxed in by politics and who never sold out."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Edge () |
"
A brooding, atmospheric drama with themes and ideas that intersect revealingly with the rest of Morley's films."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
Mozart's Sister (2011) |
"
The exchanges between Louise and Nannerl are sometimes laborious, even stilted. Making the casting of these two characters a family affair was probably not the best idea."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
The Cabin in the Woods is a shrewd, ingenious look at the programmatic elements of the genre, a satire that is also a lenient celebration, and it could wind up being a set text in any MA course in horror."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
La Grande illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937) |
"
A vividly humanist, anti-war classic."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Titanic (in 3D) (2012) |
"
Only the snobbish or the obtuse could deny its ambition, verve and entertainment firepower."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
99%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
It's a satisfying and distinctively lovable film."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
The film sleepwalks along confidently enough in its numb, semi-unfunny, semi-unserious way. But the tale's passion and subversion have been removed."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 2, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
The Island President (2012) |
"
Ex-Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed comes across in this documentary as a kind of climate-change Prospero."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
Not quite wrath, more a persistant crossness, and in the case of Rosamund Pike's Andromeda, a kind of pained, headmistressy dismay."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Bonsái (2012) |
"
Jiménez's drama is crisply imprinted; another fine recent Chilean effort."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
It is effortlessly and unassumingly funny - and terrifically smart."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Tiny Furniture (2010) |
"
Dunham's critics are circling but this is well-written and funny."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
It's a decent film, though I felt that a clearer, sharper light could have been cast on the defendants themselves."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
Babycall () |
"
It's a great idea for a thriller - but then other plotlines get muddled in, and everything unravels into a cop-out."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Corpo Celeste (2012) |
"
An accomplished debut."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
46%
|
StreetDance 2 () |
"
Streetdance 2 has brash energy; it does not neglect to do what it says on the tin and the lack of realism is no problem."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
This film is a samizdat cine-poem in defence of cinema and freedom: the only response is contempt for those government bullies and bureaucrats ranged against Jafar Panahi."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
In the 1980s, Top Gun reportedly sent young men rushing to join the military; this hilariously bad film is going to get them clamouring to join the Jon Stewart Appreciation Society."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Wild Bill () |
"
Why can't all British crime dramas be so well written and well acted, and have a splash of comedy as confident as this?"
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
The Hunger Games is a very enjoyable futurist adventure, presented with a compelling, beady-eyed intensity."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
85%
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