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1/6
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21%
|
The Lodger (2009) |
"
This serial-killer procedural is about a West Hollywood slasher who apes Jack the Ripper, but the real crime is the travesty writer-director David Ondaatje perpetrates on Hitchcock."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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1/6
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12%
|
War (Rogue Assassin) (2007) |
"
What is it good for? Absolutely nothing."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 28, 2007
|
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1/5
|
19%
|
Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
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47%
|
Shooter (2007) |
"
The film's weird, thin politics become harder to swallow as it lurches from set-up to set-up."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 12, 2007
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21%
|
Outlaw (2007) |
"
What were the capable cast thinking?"
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Time Out
Posted Mar 8, 2007
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15%
|
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"
Lecter is all relish, which is fine for a side dish but unsatisfying in a main."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 7, 2007
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|
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65%
|
Apocalypto (2006) |
"
This is by no means a boring film, then, but it is a grotesque one, and that brings it pretty close to camp."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
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76%
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The Prestige (2006) |
"
Not only does it tell you how it's all done, it takes so long about it that you've got time to look up its sleeves and work it out for yourself."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 9, 2006
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50%
|
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"
Although it scores some easy laughs, Guest's latest is a disappointment."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
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80%
|
Little Children (2006) |
"
Little Children ultimately seems to display the conformity to convention that so alarms its central characters."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
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|
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86%
|
The Namesake (2006) |
"
The episodic structure grows rather rambling over two hours."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
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|
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32%
|
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
"
Ellroy's prose crawls into characters' secret hearts and under the reader's skin, but its foetid horrors become kitschy here, the script too streamlined and the lead performances too shallow to dredge the story's depths."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 23, 2006
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|
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67%
|
Right at Your Door (2007) |
"
What starts out as a horrible, even tragic set-up ends up feeling more like a so-so episode of The Twilight Zone."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 23, 2006
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28%
|
Trust the Man (2006) |
"
It's a pity, because few romcoms pull off the basically sympathetic mining of personal vanities and social embarrassment that the film manages in its opening hour."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 21, 2006
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56%
|
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) |
"
A portrait of the centrefold as a closed book."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 3, 2006
|
|
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54%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"
As the film heaves from one muddily motivated set-piece to the next, McGuffins accruing like barnacles all the while (the sketch! the key! the papers! the chest! the heart!), it takes on the sinking feeling of a vessel adrift, sending out flares."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 6, 2006
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25%
|
Bewitched (2005) |
"
Despite the intriguing set-up, formula proves as hard a habit for Ephron to kick as magic is for Isabel."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
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57%
|
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) |
"
Aa tighter focus might have enhanced the set-up's latent allegorical powers, and its emotional resonance."
—
Time Out
Posted May 25, 2006
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15%
|
The Amateurs (The Moguls) (Dirty Movie) (2005) |
"
If there's something hypocritically coy about a sex comedy without sex (let alone a porn industry without victims), there's also something refreshing about the characters' unabashed good nature -- at least until the grievously saccharine finale."
—
Time Out
Posted May 6, 2006
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13%
|
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) |
"
Whether you find all this inane or offensive will probably depend on whether you buy the Dukes' defence of 'never meaning no harm'; either way it's pretty hard going."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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72%
|
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) |
"
The picture seems reverse-engineered, as if, having conceived his spectacular milieu, Conran created monsters to populate it, then heroes for them to fight, then reasons for the heroes to be there, with emotional plausibility some way behind that."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Nov 2, 2004
|
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2/6
|
8%
|
New York City Serenade (2007) |
"
The reason this 2007 drama has languished for so long could be that it's a bromance whose moment has only now arrived; more likely, it's because Frank Whaley's lightweight slice of life is so crashingly ordinary."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 4, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
60%
|
Senki (Shadows) (2007) |
"
Shifting between garish city and bucolic scenes, Shadows offers some arresting images but fails to make good on its intriguing early scenes, with frissons of uncanny menace sunk by a glib, awkwardly paced and increasingly cliché screenplay."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jan 29, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
68%
|
Redbelt (2008) |
"
The plotting is contrived, the supporting characters two-dimensional, and the ending slides from predictable to absurd to maudlin."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
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2/6
|
16%
|
Untraceable (2008) |
"
You know something ain't kosher when a movie purporting to offer a critique of sadistic voyeurism opens with a hand-rubbing scene of kitten abuse."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 28, 2008
|
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2/6
|
74%
|
Planet Terror (Grindhouse Presents: Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror) (2007) |
"
Aficionados will appreciate the po-faced wordplay and self-consciously gnarled-up aesthetic (missing reels, bad syncing, etc) as much as the fleshy centrepieces and gross-out grace notes. Others will struggle to find much appeal."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
35%
|
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) |
"
Making soap of statecraft, the film has plenty of juicy moments, but offers an inconsistent rather than complex view of Elizabeth."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2007
|
|
2/6
|
48%
|
Macbeth (2006) |
"
Unfortunately, 'Romper Stomper' director Geoffrey Wright's take on the play fails to do it justice: both lumpen and flashy, it convinces neither as drama nor as stylistic exercise."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
They might have just got away with it as a Sunday night mini-series but from a cinematic perspective, this trip shouldn't have been embarked upon."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 21, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
Less a film about communication, in the end, than one with its fingers in its ears."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
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Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
The Dilemma (2011) |
"
It lacks faith in its story, characters and audience."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
Try to make 'Showgirls' for 12 year olds and you please no one. What a tease."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
Bunny and the Bull (2011) |
"
Much to appreciate, then, but less to enjoy."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 27, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
Gilliam struggles to create a coherent frame for his visual ambition."
—
Heat Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009) |
"
That every supporting character is depicted as insufferable or pitiable or both would be bad enough; what's worse is that the couple discover nothing about themselves that wasn't obvious from the opening."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Fired Up (2009) |
"
Clichéd execution, paper-thin characters."
—
Heat Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
80%
|
Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (2009) |
"
Surely Glaser the trailblazer warrants a more stylistically adventurous tribute than this."
—
Time Out New York
Posted May 20, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
76%
|
Objectified (2009) |
"
For all its intriguing observations, the documentary struggles to develop a strong argument about its subject, or to demonstrate the hidden cultural power of design in such a way as to make the subject compelling to those without a prior interest."
—
Time Out New York
Posted May 6, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
31%
|
Bob Funk (2009) |
"
Bob Funk is terrifically cast and performed, with some good lines. Shame the story and character development are so cliché and banal."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Mar 25, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
24%
|
Halloween (2007) |
"
It's inanely-scripted exploitation, sure, but this 'Halloween' doesn't trivialise; it even returns with sympathy to one victim minutes after the attack that has left her bleeding on the floor."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 28, 2007
|
|
3/6
|
64%
|
Death Proof (2007) |
"
Smart attention is paid to some interesting tensions between old and new in areas as varied as pop culture, photography, effects work, automobile construction, telephony and audio recording technology."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
3/6
|
52%
|
The Walker (2007) |
"
The Walker is at its best observing surfaces."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2007
|
|
3/6
|
91%
|
Hairspray (2007) |
"
Though not as scabrous, as sharp or even as musically memorable as John Waters' original, it retains much of his filthy, big-hearted sensibility."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 17, 2007
|
|
3/6
|
81%
|
Taxidermia (2006) |
"
'Taxidermia' undoubtedly has its own unsavoury humour and gratuitous shock value, but its extremities and enormities yield less than the sum of their dismembered parts."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Hunky Dory () |
"
Driver delivers a characteristic combination of savvy and likeability and the period and sun-dappled photography are nicely handled."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
Chandor proffers a cross-section of a Lehman Brothers-esque company as the realisation dawns that sub-prime speculation has brought the market to an ominous tipping point."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
31%
|
Bob Funk (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Objectified (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
31%
|
Bob Funk (2009) |
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
66%
——
97%
