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1/10
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48%
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S.W.A.T. (2003) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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1/5
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Breaking Wind (2012) |
"
An actual fart is infinitely more satisfying and thankfully shorter in duration."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
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1/5
|
5%
|
The Fog (2005) |
"
So concerned is the film with contriving at least one gratuitous jump-fright every five minutes that elements like character and story soon become lost in the fog."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 6, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
The Brothers Grimm (2005) |
"
everyone involved in the production appears to have become lost in the dark woods, hoping somehow to find their way out with an incoherent trail of compromises."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 2, 2007
|
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1/5
|
4%
|
Material Girls (2006) |
"
Forced to endure such casually offensive nonsense, the viewer ends up slumming it far more than the duff protagonists."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
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2/10
|
70%
|
Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (2004) |
"
In this goofball sportsfilm spoof there is something for everyone to laugh at - but a few too many cringeworthy own-goals."
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
2/10
|
75%
|
Ping Pong (2002) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Jul 30, 2004
|
|
2/10
|
36%
|
Duplex (Our House) (2003) |
"
Hard as it is to care about these homicidal homemakers, it is harder still to laugh at them."
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Apr 30, 2004
|
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2/10
|
13%
|
Uptown Girls (2003) |
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Movie Gazette
Posted Mar 16, 2004
|
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2/10
|
36%
|
Scary Movie 3 (2003) |
"
Leave your brain in the foyer, and your taste in the toilets."
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Jan 16, 2004
|
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2/10
|
76%
|
Respiro (2003) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 28, 2003
|
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2/10
|
30%
|
Hollywood Homicide (2003) |
"
... in this lacklustre affair, even (Harrison) Ford manages to put in his most wooden performance on record ..."
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 28, 2003
|
|
|
81%
|
City Island (2010) |
"
Its revelations come too early, and many of its scenes are too long, but City Island is kept afloat by its unusual location and fine-tuned performances."
—
Film4
Posted Jul 19, 2010
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|
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14%
|
H2Oil (2009) |
"
While H2Oil undeniably addresses important environmental and economic issues, it might, in keeping with its subject, have been more, well, slick."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 10, 2010
|
|
|
41%
|
Death at a Funeral (2010) |
"
If only LaBute had himself been allowed to rewrite the screenplay in his own inimitably mordant style, it might have been so much sharper and leaner"
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 2, 2010
|
|
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33%
|
20-seiki shônen: Honkaku kagaku bôken eiga (20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End) (2008) |
"
Tsutsumi...dazzles us with so many balls in the air, so many twists and turns, that there is not enough room left for his characters to develop as believable, interesting people, as opposed to comicbook archetypes."
—
Eye for Film
Posted May 31, 2010
|
|
|
57%
|
Wizards (1977) |
"
while having so little money may, paradoxically, have liberated Bakshi from studio interference, this freedom allows him to indulge in ideas that are, metaphorically and otherwise, away with the fairies."
—
Eye for Film
Posted May 24, 2010
|
|
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——
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Depositarios () |
"
Ordoñez's future drama... is a sedate, not always coherent construct that somehow seems less than the sum of its harvested parts"
—
Eye for Film
Posted May 20, 2010
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|
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——
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Geisha Assassin (2009) |
"
the film's distractingly cheap look, the total absence of characterisation and some very misguided decisions about the placement of the camera, all conspire to make the fights as drearily unengaging as possible."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Apr 16, 2010
|
|
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——
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Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan () |
"
while the film certainly grabs the attention with its opening sequence, it struggles to hold it over its excessively long duration."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Mar 15, 2010
|
|
|
72%
|
The Crazies (2010) |
"
The Signal went straight to DVD here, while Eisner's competent but point-missing Romero rip-off makes it to our big screens. Talk about crazy."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
|
84%
|
The Princess and the Frog (2009) |
"
like one of the characters at the film's masked ball, The Princess And The Frog is the Disney film that pretends not to be a Disney film, but in the end cannot help lowering its mask and reverting to type."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Feb 1, 2010
|
|
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——
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Fright (1972) |
"
more psychological melodrama than slasher.. Fright is a piece of history soon forgotten."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
|
63%
|
Exam (2010) |
"
manages to expand the candidates' relatively petty, self-made moral dilemmas into a broader discussion of the ethics of triage, but viewers will find themselves tested by much bickering, brawling and shrill overacting to get there."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Dec 29, 2009
|
|
|
78%
|
The Hangover (2009) |
"
The scant extras in this package will contribute little to your appreciation of the film itself... and you would need a few stiff drinks before finding yourself laughing out loud at much of this."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Dec 9, 2009
|
|
|
22%
|
Planet 51 (2009) |
"
Like the alien town of Glipforg at its core, Planet 51 offers attractions that are just a little too familiar to take the viewer out of this world."
—
Film4
Posted Nov 30, 2009
|
|
|
59%
|
Love the Beast (2009) |
"
'non-car people' will find themselves forced into the position of disengaged anthropologist, observing all the vehicular bump and grind without gaining any real insight or emotional connection from the experience."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
|
——
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Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009) |
"
amid all its man-traps, macho posturing and monetary moralising, this is an overfamiliar exercise in by-numbers filmmaking that always seems merely to be coasting on auto-pilot. No wonder it took the wrong turn..."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Nov 4, 2009
|
|
|
79%
|
Nowhere Boy (2010) |
"
There is something a bit bland, a bit kitchen sink, a bit telemovie, about this portrait of the artist as a young man."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Oct 30, 2009
|
|
|
50%
|
Automaton Transfusion (2006) |
"
ineptly scripted, amateurishly edited, poorly acted, ugly looking and determinedly adolescent in its focus. Worst of all, it is entirely without subtext - and a zombie flick without subtext is like a bottle without the wine."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Oct 20, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II (2008) |
"
Often there is a concept that positively zings, but then has little follow-through."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
|
——
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Shirin () |
"
for all the probing beauty of Kiarostami's close-ups, Shirin depends entirely on a concept better suited to a shorter duration. By the 20-minute mark, the viewer has got it - and from there on in, the film is just a pretty face (or several)."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 26, 2009
|
|
|
20%
|
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
There is nothing - nothing - in Bay's film that can be taken seriously - although that becomes something of a problem in itself, given Bay's relentless exploitation of imagery from 9/11 and the Second Gulf War..."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jun 15, 2009
|
|
|
33%
|
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"
feels more like a stopgap than a return to the franchise's past form... relentlessly (and uninspiringly) efficient - like a sleek new model Terminator."
—
Eye for Film
Posted May 27, 2009
|
|
|
43%
|
Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) |
"
a scattergun trawl through human (albeit mostly American) history and culture, with the emphasis more on entertainment than instruction."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 25, 2009
|
|
|
——
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Friendship's Death (1987) |
"
The excellent performances of Paterson and Swinton... lend Friendship's Death a credibility it does not always deserve."
—
Eye for Film
Posted May 4, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Hanzo: The Razor 3 Disc Box Set (2005) |
"
More outrageous than funny, the Hanzo trilogy is an unruly mix of bloody violence, soft porn and political intrigue, with a hero whose intentions are (largely) admirable, but whose modus operandi will repel any but the most hardened misogynists."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 1, 2009
|
|
|
55%
|
Funuke Domo, Kanashimi no ai Wo Misero (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!) (2007) |
"
This dark comedy is more twisted (and twisty) than it first appears, but as with any family album, it is a few individual scenes that make it memorable rather than the whole, overlong package."
—
Film4
Posted Apr 27, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Adventures of White Tuft () |
"
Blends spectacular wildlife footage with a sentimentalising, storybook narration that is rife with pathetic fallacy."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Apr 13, 2009
|
|
|
27%
|
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"
Everything here cuts to the chase, with personalities presented in a streamlined shorthand, and dramatic plausibility sacrificed to the need for speed... Fast & Furious, Fatuous & Forgotten."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 10, 2009
|
|
|
56%
|
Encarnação do Demônio (Devil's Reincarnation) (Embodiment of Evil) (2009) |
"
Half the problem with this trippy mix of sadism, satanism and social commentary is that so little is unexpected... [Coffin Joe] is a spent force."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Mar 18, 2009
|
|
|
50%
|
Dying Breed (2009) |
"
If Geoffrey Hall's cinematography is eerily beautiful, capturing the isolation and subdued menace of the Tasmanian hinterlands, then there is little else in Dying Breed that, to quote protagonist Nina, "nobody's ever seen before"."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Mar 13, 2009
|
|
|
27%
|
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) |
"
Films rarely come as lowest common denominator as this reductive Hammer parody, where wit is replaced with endless knob jokes, and where there are far more mammaries than memories on offer."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Mar 9, 2009
|
|
|
52%
|
Shuttle (2008) |
"
Anderson focuses entirely on cat-and-mouse capers, while failing to reflect in any serious way upon the real-world issues that his plot exploits, so the end result is a disappointingly empty exercise in genre."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Mar 9, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Blackout (2008) |
"
Blackout gets stuck between genres, without enough decent characterisation (or uninterrupted tension) to take it to the next level."
—
Film4
Posted Feb 9, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Yah Chayka! () |
"
ends up... packaging human existence as a photo album of tenuous associations and treacly banalities."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jan 16, 2009
|
|
|
87%
|
Un Conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale) (2008) |
"
The cast expertly incarnates this family haunted by loss, lovelessness and (literal) bad blood, but the film's unduly protracted duration makes the Vuillards feel like Christmas guests who just will not leave."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 16, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Gnaw (2008) |
"
Unlike its malicious tool-wielding antagonist, Gnaw simply fails to make the cut."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Nov 12, 2008
|
|
|
45%
|
New Town Killers (2008) |
"
If its deadly game of cat-and-mouse is styled like a fancifully violent video game, the social divisions it exposes are real enough."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Nov 7, 2008
|
|
|
40%
|
My Name Is Bruce (2007) |
"
no matter how much Campbell fans may like the amiably daft and cheesy My Name Is Bruce, they would probably prefer to be liking it a little more"
—
Eye for Film
Posted Nov 4, 2008
|
66%
——
97%
