Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| Departures (2009) | "
Departures's whimsical take on the Japanese funeral industry proves surprisingly funny." — Radio Times Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 62%
| Love The Beast (2009) | "
Slight but unexpectedly sweet." — Total Film Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 39%
| 2012 (2009) | "
The script is nonsensical and while the actors do their best they are, inevitably, dwarfed by the breathtaking visual effects. Emmerich has outdone himself this time; this is a film that makes Independence Day look modest." — Radio Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 57%
| Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) | "
Weird, wacky and full of arresting promo images for bands like Arcade Fire, Teengenerate and Turbonegro." — Total Film Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| Mad, Sad and Bad (2009) | "
A British-Asian comedy that may not be mad or sad but is... Well, you’ve guessed it. another underachieving comedy to file and forget in British cinema’s already overstuffed bottom drawer. Yawn." — Total Film Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
It's the action that really suffers, the anime's dynamism fizzling out as every samurai duel falls back on fake-looking CG squibs and a blur of fast-cut, see-nothing camera angles." — Total Film Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 8%
| Red Mist (2008) | "
Beep, beep, wooooooo…: this moronic medical horror's so awful, you'll be willing yourself to flatline." — Total Film Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| The End of the Line (2009) | "
Director Rupert Murray brings the fear with disturbing stats‘n’graphics." — Total Film Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Slepe Lásky (2008) | "
Tender and moving, this offbeat gem isn’t afraid to swap its docu-realism for outlandish fantasy." — Total Film Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Apollo 13 (1995) | "
A rousing, flag-waving paean to American skill and courage, Howard's polished film panders to its target audience perfectly." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 57%
| Delta (2008) | "
Long, lyrical takes – including a startling shot of a floating funeral procession – and Schubert’s ‘Death And The Maiden’ on the soundtrack remind us that forbidden passion will only end in tears. The Danube’s rarely seemed so blue." — Total Film Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| Amarcord (1974) | "
Bloated, overblown and essentially empty, Fellini's last hit movie skims over the surface of the lives it depicts, substituting manufactured sentiment for genuine feeling or understanding." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) | "
Less dazed and confused than mumbling and mundane, this drama focuses on social awkwardness and twentysomething blues. Skipping aimlessly from scene to scene it offers little observations and rewards low expectations." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| La Zona (2007) | "
Latin American middle-class panic needs no translation in this strong thriller about the worries of the wealthy. Fans of JG Ballard's novels will relish it." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 16%
| Mutant Chronicles (2009) | "
Rubbish CGI, rubbish acting, rubbish storytelling. Throw in a few mutants and a better-than-it-deserves cast and you get this sci-fi timewaster." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Dead of Night (1945) | "
A dead scary horror movie that skimps on the blood but not the goose bumps," — BBC Posted Oct 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | "
Arty-smarty and impeccably French, this collection of horror ’toons delivers some short, sharp shocks amid the occasional misfire. It’s worth seeing for Burns’ section alone. Just repeat, it’s only a cartoon…" — Total Film Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Aladdin (1992) | "
Grants all three wishes and some more besides with a brilliant turn from Williams' genie and some beautiful animation." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 1, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Along Came Polly (2004) | "
The script just doesn't have enough comic moments to fill its 90-minute running time." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 72%
| Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) | "
Showcases Will Ferrell's comedy genius to perfection." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 31, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004) | "
It's the perfect cinematic vehicle -- or at least it would have been, if Radford's adaptation weren't so unremittingly cloddish." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 4, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Ran (1985) | "
A landmark of world cinema, this is a rousing, staggering epic and a haunting drama of timeless significance." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| The Last King of Scotland (2006) | "
Whitaker pulls off a spectacular thespian coup that has Oscar-winner stamped all over it." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| The Interpreter (2005) | "
It's a dumb movie masquerading as smart but failing miserably." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 27, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 69%
| The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004) | "
Brilliantly funny, inventive and delirious." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 20, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Charlotte's Web (2006) | "
Hides a big heart beneath a small piglet." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| Death Note (2006) | "
Fiendishly unusual, it's an offbeat time-waster that genre fans will definitely want to make a note of." — BBC Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 74%
| The Illusionist (2006) | "
Never quite the sum of its parts, this would-be intelligent thriller coasts by on strong supporting performances from Giamatti, Sewell and Biel." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 21%
| Employee of the Month (2006) | "
This vapid, laugh-lite romp won't satisfy anyone. Except die-hard Jessica Simpson fans." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 70%
| Private Property (2006) | "
Huppert is superb, her lonely heroine both sympathetically vulnerable and yet also slightly culpable for her sons' terribly selfish behaviour." — BBC Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 11%
| Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (2008) | "
Lacking gags, proper characters or any comprehensible plot, it never rises above a one-joke movie - and that joke's on us. It's humour Jim, but not as we know it." — BBC Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
A lush and lavish love triangle that has Asia Argento at its tip." — BBC Posted Apr 15, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
Like all Breillat's films it's obsessed with sex, power and gender, its protagonists reduced to tragedy as they desperately wield their weapons of seduction." — BBC Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| The Go Master (2006) | "
The rapturous camerawork and Chang Chen's performance as Wu both delight, but there's little insight into what makes a game about white and black pebbles so utterly absorbing." — Total Film Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 26%
| Drillbit Taylor (2008) | "
It’s not Superbad (and definitely not supergood) but this throwaway romp teases out some laughs as its Frat Pack star heads back to the classroom. Drillbit could try harder but it’s definitely not a candidate for exclusion." — Total Film Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| The Book of Revelation (2006) | "
Shot like a lush, hypnotic waking dream, it's boldly beautiful and plays some half-smart games with sex, power and gender politics." — BBC Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| The Orphanage (2007) | "
Haunting and heartbreaking, The Orphanage delivers a double whammy of chills both real and supernatural." — BBC Posted Mar 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) | "
The zombies may be dead but George Romero's taste for social commentary certainly isn't in Diary of the Dead, the latest instalment in his long-running walking corpse series." — BBC Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Passion of the Christ (2004) | "
More sensational than spiritual, this blood-soaked take on the Stations of the Cross retells the Gospels as a horror movie. You can't help asking: where has all the love gone?" — Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 79%
| The Bank Job (2008) | "
Fun but instantly forgettable, this retro heist movie illuminates a long-forgotten British blag. Despite a smart set-up, its smash ‘n’ grab raid on ’70s nostalgia leaves little to dissect over a post-movie pint." — Total Film Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Killing Gene (2008) | "
Although he struggles to make the British-feeling production convince, UK helmer Tom Shankland gets the faux-Fincher nihilism just right." — BBC Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| Rambo (2008) | "
Less a war movie than a turkey shoot in a ketchup factory." — BBC Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| The Dead (1988) | "
[A] deeply reverent, deeply affecting adaptation." — BBC Posted Feb 5, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Libero (2005) | "
Letting the drama gradually unfold, Rossi Stuart proves an adept helmer and captures the anxieties of childhood brilliantly." — BBC Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
With its sly wit, dark intelligence and tense action sequences this film re-establishes the Coens as two of American cinema's most talented directors. It's also the best adaptation of McCarthy's work to date and an unmissable crime movie." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 13%
| Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) | "
Fans deserve better." — BBC Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 64%
| Dan in Real Life (2007) | "
An off-centre rom-com with unlikely stars, this indie drama is neither too funny nor too romantic in its balance of laughs and tenderness. The perfect date movie for middle-aged romantics (and we mean that as a compliment)." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Lady Vanishes (1938) | "
Both a neat comment on Britain's dilemma in the build-up to the impending war with Germany (to appease or not to appease?) and also a cracking piece of entertainment." — BBC Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 64%
| Dan in Real Life (2007) | "
Touching, tender and laugh-out-loud funny, this little rom-com will melt your heart then rebuild it afresh. It’s so warm and inviting, you’ll want to spend a week in its company. But you only get 99 minutes. Treasure them." — Total Film Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 67%
| The Duchess of Langeais (2008) | "
No lavish costume drama, it's instead a theatrical dissection of the spiteful games lovers play." — BBC Posted Dec 28, 2007 |
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