|
5/5
|
89%
|
Gandhi (1982) |
"
While Kingsley (who took one of eight Oscars) is the glue that holds this epic piece together, you must relish a cast that includes John Gielgud, Edward Fox, John Mills, Martin Sheen and Roshan Seth."
—
Radio Times
Posted Feb 20, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Moulin Rouge! (2001) |
"
You will either fall in love with every camp flourish, or find yourself exhausted after 20 minutes. It's a singular achievement either way."
—
Radio Times
Posted Feb 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Despite amusing moments and a sprinkling of catnip for film buffs, Hitchcock is disappointingly inconsequential."
—
Radio Times
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
As well as being dramatically and visually engaging, the film conjures a living ecosystem that pulses, grips and ultimately enchants."
—
Radio Times
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
The French Connection (1971) |
"
Hard as nail crime saga with a blistering central performance."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
Warm, subtle and gentle, The Descendants demonstrates what can happen when indie talent is nurtured to mainstream success."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
The violence is effectively tailored around Carano's undeniable skills..."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
Ralph Fiennes makes a strong directorial debut with this full-blooded contemporary restaging of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy set in a conflict-ravaged city."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
The claustrophobic, VDU-illuminated isolationism of the financial services industry is cleverly implied, as the central disaster is humanised by individual ones..."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Without the award-worthy Streep, it's just high-quality historical karaoke."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Wuthering Heights (2012) |
"
It's a boldly modernist approach designed to irritate purists, and although it's pleasingly tactile, it's perhaps too avant garde; its fractured narrative and glimpses of lens flare constantly break the spell of the period fiction."
—
Radio Times
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
The Inbetweeners (2012) |
"
Fans of E4's cult sixth-form sitcom The Inbetweeners are laser-targeted by this feature-length excursion."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
Many will find it ponderous and indulgent, but too often modern cinema is efficient and focus-grouped. The work of Terrence Malick becomes ever more vital as an antidote."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Attack the Block (2011) |
"
The argot, drugs and council-estate setting may put some audiences off, but they would be missing a socially conscious, energetic horror comedy that's scary and very funny."
—
Radio Times
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Upside Down: The Creation Records Story () |
"
O'Connor captures the hedonistic mood of a particular time - although anyone who wasn't there might find it a bit impenetrable."
—
Radio Times
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Pina (2011) |
"
The 3D adds a depth and clarity to the images that is entirely cinematic."
—
Radio Times
Posted Apr 21, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) |
"
Broadly a two-hander, Kiarostami's film touches on love, marriage and art, feeling at times like a dry seminar."
—
Radio Times
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Knight & Day (2010) |
"
Toes in one side of the brain and out the other, leaving little trace."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 5, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
57%
|
Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) |
"
It's a neat enough way of closing the book -- and one hopes it is closed now."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
The Unloved (2009) |
"
Actress Samantha Morton's powerful directorial debut is an often painfully sad account of a young girl's experiences."
—
Radio Times
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
Their roles are played largely for easy laughs in James Schamus's script, which meanders in an echo of the freewheeling vibe of peace and love."
—
Radio Times
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"
It lacks the control of the Coen brothers, in whose image the movie has been only serviceably created by first-time director Grant Heslov, and merely encourages the audience to stare at an all-star cast for 90 minutes or so."
—
Radio Times
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Wild Wild West (1999) |
"
A film where the concept came first and the script -- and everything else -- seems to have finished a poor second."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 18, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Planet of the Apes (1968) |
"
A film rich with unforgettable imagery, killer lines and physical thrills."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Carrie (1976) |
"
The reason Carrie is still held in such high regard as a horror classic is very simple: it's all in the sheer directorial bravado. De Palma at the top of his game."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Exorcist (1973) |
"
It stimulates and rewards, time and time again."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) |
"
A product of its time, certainly, but like the myths that informed it, Star Wars will outlive the lot of us."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
Batman (1989) |
"
The movie that gave birth to the summer blockbuster remains impressive."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
The Producers (1968) |
"
It's the ultimate punchline, the killer gag, that a proto-novel that turned into a proto-play that ended up as a movie about the worst musical in history, is now the most popular musical in town."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Sexy Beast (2000) |
"
Snaps the restraints of a knackered sub-genre and emerges from the heat haze of negative preconception like a prize fighter."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 28, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
The Game (1997) |
"
Fincher's worthy and equally dark follow-up to Seven."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
The Towering Inferno (1974) |
"
Much more than a way to pass a rainy bank holiday afternoon, this is rocking good superleague disaster adventure..."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Kurt & Courtney (1998) |
"
Haunting, bleak, tragic, occasionally unintentionally funny, Kurt And Courtney makes a mockery of TV documentaries where slick editing creates only artifice."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Enemy of the State (1998) |
"
A truly substantial looker for the holidays, it's that rare Bruckheimer project in which style is matched by content."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
82%
|
American History X (1998) |
"
The film's most incongruous and embarrassing scene is a black-on-white basketball game: shot like a Nike ad, it trivialises the subject."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
A Room for Romeo Brass (2000) |
"
Add a breezy indie soundtrack, an offputting bewigged cameo by Meadows in the chippy, and a sense of time and place to rival Gregory's Girl (1980), and you've got a proper treat for lovers of real life."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Men in Black (1997) |
"
The guns and gadgets threaten but never succeed in eclipsing the human talent, and for that, we must praise director Sonnenfeld."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
81%
|
A Few Good Men (1992) |
"
Jack Nicholson comes in at the beginning and end and punches a hole in the screen both times."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
The Ice Storm (1997) |
"
Spot-on performances, some icicles that are pure visual poetry, and enough symbolism to fuel a thesis, make The Ice Storm anything but a gloomy ride."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
The Eel (Unagi) (1998) |
"
What starts out as intriguing turns into simply baffling."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Wild Things (1998) |
"
...Bacon's pork sword alone is not worth the price of admission."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) |
"
While the action interludes are impressively staged and edited, they strain for originality..."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3/5
|
2%
|
Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997) |
"
A pedestrian thriller that never captures the thrill of the first, and even more criminally sidelines Bullock."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Get Shorty (1995) |
"
By turns satirically glamorous and seedily dark."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
57%
|
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) |
"
After a ropey patch, Bond is categorically back."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
80%
|
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) (1997) |
"
The Holocaust requires no dramatisation to shock us. But this irritating little Euro-Chaplin has found a new way to present something we'd all rather look away from."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
95%
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark (2012) |
"
Ford, in a career-minting performance, plays what would've been a cardboard cut-out in the 1930s as grubby, coy, impertinent, imperfect, phobic of snakes and agnostic (describing the Ark's magic as "the power of God or something")."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
73%
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