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10%
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St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) |
"
Strident, clumsy and pointless."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 6, 2010
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20%
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
Fan boys will no doubt love it, but for the uninitiated it's loud, tedious and, at 147 minutes, way too long."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 16, 2009
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63%
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
A carnival show with a mirror to the imagination allows Gilliam to employ his remarkable gift for imagery, but the worlds he creates will not take the breath away of children or grown-ups."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 1, 2009
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83%
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Polytechnique (2009) |
"
Filmed in black and white, the French-language film does not set out to comprehend the crime other than to suggest that the shooter (played with a vacant stare by Maxim Gaudette) was a pathetic loser who chose to blame women for his empty life."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 20, 2009
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60%
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Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
The film is far too long, and between the tracks, the episodic adventures of a group of disc jockeys broadcasting rock 'n' roll from a rusty old clunker anchored just beyond the three-mile limit from the British Isles is heavy going."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 30, 2009
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90%
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Hunger (2009) |
"
Trite, grim and feebly provocative."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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75%
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Elegy (2008) |
"
Penelope Cruz is outstanding in an otherwise lame male fantasy."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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71%
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) |
"
The film lacks the wit and drama that might pitch it beyond the target demographic, though judging from what makes the girls squirm in the film, it might not succeed even there."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 25, 2008
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42%
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
"
Shot in high definition and filmed at many historic locations, the film somehow still lacks the splendor of an epic."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 19, 2008
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52%
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Ping Guo (Lost in Beijing) (2008) |
"
Lost in Beijing might have the Chinese censors trying to wield their scissors, but Li Yu's muddled sex drama is unlikely to cause an uproar, or make much of a stir, anywhere else."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 22, 2008
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30%
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Youth Without Youth (2007) |
"
Handsomely made on a low budget, the film has the polished look of a Coppola film with expert contributions from some master craftsmen. But the story is full of arcane references that many will find nonsensical, and the performances are a letdown."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 6, 2007
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72%
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Lust, Caution (2007) |
"
The film looks gorgeous but the plotting is clumsy and the acting is flat."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 16, 2007
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67%
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"
A train ride without laughs or charm."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 4, 2007
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67%
|
Soom (Breath) (2007) |
"
[Director Ki-duk] creates some startling images within the curious logic of his tale. It has something to do with inhaling badness and exhaling goodness but those expecting it to make sense shouldn't exactly hold their breath."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 25, 2007
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45%
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Mister Lonely (2007) |
"
It's never clear what it all means or even if it's supposed to mean anything. Music and silliness get the picture through to its circular ending."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 25, 2007
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83%
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Import/Export (2006) |
"
A tawdry little film ostensibly about the cultural clashes resulting from the proximity of former Soviet states, such as the Ukraine, to western nations such as Austria. There is a film to be made on the topic, but this isn't it."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 22, 2007
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25%
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Tehilim (2007) |
"
Narrow focus will limit the film's appeal severely."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 22, 2007
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95%
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No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
The Coens' typically superior filmmaking sustains the electrifying mood for most of the picture, but they are undone by being too faithful to the source novel by Cormac McCarthy."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 19, 2007
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87%
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Control (2007) |
"
It features lots of music from that time, and it has decent performances, but it fails to make the case for its fallen star."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 17, 2007
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91%
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Hot Fuzz (2007) |
"
All the action is staged with energy, but it gets relentless without anything really funny going on."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 20, 2007
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86%
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006) |
"
There might be genuine Walker fans who wish to see their forgotten hero given his due, but those who have not acquired that strange taste will find the film hard to take unless it is viewed as a dead-on parody."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 10, 2007
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72%
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Inland Empire (2006) |
"
An interminable bore."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 30, 2006
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38%
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Summer Love (Dead Man's Bounty) (2007) |
"
The first Pierogi Western, Summer Love is such an observant sendup of the Spaghetti variety that it falls into the trap of parody in becoming almost too serious for its own good."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 20, 2006
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31%
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The Hottest State (2007) |
"
Lacking depth or anything that's actually funny or sad, and with lead performers who are given more responsibility for the success of the film than they can handle, the film will be a tough sell."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 13, 2006
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27%
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Fallen (Falling) (2006) |
"
It's all quite noisy, but there doesn't seem to be very much going on as the shared confidences and female bonding are not especially convincing."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 5, 2006
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51%
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The Fountain (2006) |
"
Zardoz anyone?"
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 5, 2006
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33%
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Stormbreaker (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker) (2006) |
"
A lame and disappointing affair."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 25, 2006
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85%
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Colossal Youth (Juventude Em Marcha) (2006) |
"
Colossal Youth (Juventude em Marcha), has some arresting images and an interesting central character but its lack of narrative pace will exhaust the patience of most audiences."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 1, 2006
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63%
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Zidane, un Portrait du 21e Siècle (Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait) (2006) |
"
The World Cup-winning god of French soccer, Zinedine Zidane, is brought crashing to the ground in Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon's ill-conceived documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 26, 2006
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82%
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L' Amico di Famiglia (The Family Friend) (Friend of the Family) (2006) |
"
The film fails singularly to provide any character worth caring about."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 26, 2006
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88%
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) |
"
Atmospheric but pedestrian."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 18, 2006
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57%
|
Confetti (2006) |
"
Gloss and stupid, the film was made without a script, which is a good idea almost never."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 4, 2006
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29%
|
Silent Hill (2006) |
"
Witless, soulless and joyless."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 21, 2006
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73%
|
Glastonbury (2007) |
"
The rest is a mishmash of sequences from many different sources including homemade video going back to the 1970s and stitched together at random."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 13, 2006
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86%
|
L'Enfant (The Child) (2006) |
"
Bland and predictable."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 25, 2006
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73%
|
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"
Thompson is impossible to dislike, but her ineffable grace and sympathy are not as evident as usual."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 18, 2005
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44%
|
Goal! The Dream Begins (Goal!: The Impossible Dream) (2005) |
"
A cliche-a-minute howler."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 15, 2005
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——
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Perfect Day () |
"
The film is a litte too enigmatic to be thoroughly absorbing, however, and there are scenes where nothing much appears to be happening."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 29, 2005
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0%
|
Rag Tale (2005) |
"
A dreadful misfire that assaults the eye and offends the ear with a scattershot cinematic style that suggests it was made using David Letterman's monkey-cam."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 20, 2005
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——
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Riviera (2005) |
"
Slow and sometimes incoherent."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 20, 2005
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63%
|
Mary (2008) |
"
Murky and forgettable."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 13, 2005
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72%
|
Bubble (2006) |
"
An embarrassment to all concerned, the film was written, directed and produced by Soderbergh for reasons that are not readily apparent."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 12, 2005
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86%
|
Pride and Prejudice (2005) |
"
With the BBC's 1995 miniseries starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle still regarded as the definitive treatment of the book, it will be an uphill struggle to win audiences to what is neither a faithful rendition nor a very interesting new interpretation."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2005
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53%
|
Romance and Cigarettes (2007) |
"
A karaoke nightmare."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 6, 2005
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28%
|
Elizabethtown (2005) |
"
Tedious humor and sentimentality bury what could have been a pretty good road picture."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 6, 2005
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86%
|
Election (Hak se wui) (2005) |
"
A repellant movie filled with gratuitous violence, Election is bound to find an appreciative audience among those who like their cinematic criminals noisy, stupid and deadly."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 17, 2005
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——
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Sangre (2005) |
"
Escalante's snail-paced depiction of how Mexican 'telenovelas' might cause an essentially decent, if spineless and unimaginative, man to react to a family disaster with an act of reckless melodrama fails to convince."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 17, 2005
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31%
|
Valiant (2005) |
"
A plucky little bird that just won't fly."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 5, 2005
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56%
|
Dead Man's Shoes (2006) |
"
The film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 6, 2004
|
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42%
|
Palindromes (2004) |
"
Doesn't seem to know if it's coming or going."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2004
|
66%
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