Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Nowhere Boy (2009) | "
Hardly a cold turkey, but not a (Number 9) Dream of a biopic either." — Channel 4 Film Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Descent: Part 2 (2009) | "
It delivers the goods as they say. A third film is surely on the cards, no doubt in 3D. But in order to retain any good will, this series is going to have to do the one thing our Crawler friends have demonstrably failed to do. Evolve." — Channel 4 Film Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 56%
| Bunny & The Bull (2009) | "
A wildly inventive debut." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 50%
| 1 Day () | "
You could call this a 'hip-hopera', a mix of filmmaking and social work, or a shot in the arm for British independent cinema. Just don't call it Bugsy Malone with real bullets." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 47%
| The Horseman (2008) | "
Despite some good performances and technical flair, The Horseman remains stuck in the paddock." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Honestly, this really isn't some kind of Transatlantic stand-off on our part. But how much longer are we expected to stand impotently by while Hollywood arrogantly Americanises our every British children's icon?" — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) | "
Jaw-bustingly funny stuff, uproarious, delightful and unexpectedly touching, containing more laugh-out-loud moments than most Hollywood comedies twice the length." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| The Spell (2009) | "
It almost demands a debate about whether critics should even be allowed to pass judgement on films unless they (films and critics both) have attained a certain rudimentary benchmark of professionalism to begin with." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| The Firm (2009) | "
This shallow and pointless remake settles for rehashing Love's single idea, familiar from his previous three pictures, in which a young, weedy, working-class guy gets sucked into a violently glamorous world." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
A tooled-up Fisher always adds instant value to any movie. If only she could be arsed to script-doctor them all too." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Tricks (2007) | "
A film whose well-crafted side-attractions could divert attention from the finely-tuned engine of the story, ticking away softly in the background as it carries us quietly to our destination." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Greek Pete (2009) | "
The overriding image we're left with is that of a rather shallow young man, operating in a depressingly dreary, soulless and risky environment about which we glean no real insights. And that probably wasn't what Haigh was trying to achieve." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
This is a blast of a B Movie, featuring cool chase sequences, Peter Jackson-style gross-outs, and generally just good-old over-the-top, by-the-skin-of-the-fingernails fun. Good title pun too. And those Hawaiian vistas, of course, are sheer eye-pudding." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) | "
If one were to take a buzzsaw to The Ugly Truth, its arterial spray would drip down the wall to form the coagulated word 'generic'." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 74%
| Just Another Love Story (2009) | "
A fast, furious and fun homage to film noir with heart to spare." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| Gigantic (2008) | "
The kind of mumbling, lank-haired, achingly self-conscious indie rom-com that gives mumbling, lank-haired, achingly self-conscious indie rom-coms a bad name." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 83%
| Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2009) | "
Telstar is an embarrassing farrago, an amateurish, incoherent pantomime of a piece, stuffed with interchangeable characters, a sketchy, largely unsympathetic leading role, and - betraying its stage play origins - unspeakably stilted dialogue." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 42%
| The Last House on the Left (2009) | "
This year's model, lacking any meaningful context of its own, is reactionary, conservative - existing purely as a slick commercial venture, more grisly grist to the multiplex mill." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 19%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
If Obsessed were a perfume, it would ming like happy hour at a squids' brothel. This atrocious, and atrociously derivative affair is not only an early contender for worst film of 2009." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
This personality vacuum is a real problem in a film that purports to depict a day in the life of young pop stars whom audiences can actually relate to." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| Fireflies in the Garden () | "
This is a slog of a melodrama. And with at least four sob stories competing for space, characters are left dangling like untied shoelaces, as backstories remain unfertilised." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| Awaydays (2009) | "
A pretentious, grubbily voyeuristic paean to football hooliganism, kitted out with ubiquitous slo-mo violence, tactical post-punk hits and retro fashions." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Sounds Like Teen Spirit () | "
It is physically impossible to emerge from this film wearing anything other than a smile as big as an upside-down rainbow. Congratulations - and jubilations!" — Channel 4 Film Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 24%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
Ultimately, Little Ashes, a piece of commercial entertainment made on the other side of the twentieth century, lacks the courage of its case studies' convictions." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Coraline (2009) | "
Like the Tin Man of Oz, Coraline is a miracle of engineering - and absolutely heartless." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
It's a film to respect or admire from a distance, rather than like or, you know, actually enjoy." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| The End (2009) | "
A deliberately distressed and scratchy documentary of talking heads, sporting the same sinister techno score and added subtitles for non-cockneys." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 32%
| The Uninvited (2009) | "
Unremarkable, unimaginative and unnecessary. Check out the superior original instead." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Shifty (2008) | "
Creevy eschews the woozy, arthouse ambience of Duane Hopkins' Better Things - another portrait of a drug-decimated community - for naturalistic dialogue and performances within carefully framed and composed shots; properly cinematic, grown-up direction." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 35%
| Not Easily Broken (2009) | "
It is unspeakably naff, unintentionally funny and unapologetically Christian. Judged on its own terms, it's a resounding success. But for non-believers it will likely prove a living purgatory." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| The World Unseen (2008) | "
As drama, it's insipid. As erotica, it's useless." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
A weird and wonderful anti-biopic" — Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Clubbed (2009) | "
It's surprisingly good: well written, nicely acted and beautifully scored." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) | "
A warm-hearted if predictable rites-of-passage movie, enlivened by some surreal flourishes and a stomping glam soundtrack." — Channel 4 Film Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
Along with Downfall, with whom it shares a screenwriter, this is among the greatest of the recent new wave of German films." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | "
Bit of a hodgepodge, this. Its natural home will be on DVD, where the occasional desire to fast-forward can be indulged. However, fans of the contemporary animation scene will find much to admire here." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Wild at Heart (1990) | "
The result's mostly empty at heart and hollow on top." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 59%
| RocknRolla (2008) | "
Wading through this stuff is akin to peeping through one's fingers at a retired, punch-drunk boxer climbing into the ring, or a recidivist junkie ripping out their naltrexone implants." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Somers Town (2009) | "
Another beautifully crafted film, as well as a great London film, from the finest British director working today." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 32%
| My Kingdom (2002) | "
Leading man Harris and director Boyd are still capable of invigorating British cinema with style and flair." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Let's Get Lost (1988) | "
A wide-eyed love letter to a jazz great, very much of its time, sporting stylish visuals and a sublime soundtrack." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Quatermass II (1957) | "
A masterful near-satire of Cold War paranoia and, arguably, the best of the Quatermass series." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) | "
An enchanting, life-affirming animation of love and redemption, made with no small measure of maturity and care -- along with an all too rare respect for the art of storytelling." — Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 10, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 24%
| Shrooms (2006) | "
Mush." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Magic Christian (1969) | "
Save for some eye-popping cameos, there's nothing very magic about this dated dog's breakfast of a movie." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 10, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Withnail and I (1988) | "
The best British comedy ever made? Possibly. A masterpiece? Unquestionably." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 44%
| Hostel: Part II (2007) | "
Not worth the repeat check-in." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| This Is England (2007) | "
Meadows gets great, moving performances from his young cast." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 22%
| Outlaw (2007) | "
Death Wish meets the Daily Mail" — Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 8, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| Hannibal Rising (2007) | "
Akin to exhuming a once good-looking corpse; wholly unnecessary - and a bit of a mess." — Channel 4 Film Posted Feb 9, 2007 |
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