|
2/5
|
29%
|
The House of the Spirits (1994) |
"
Given the talents involved, the film's hesitations in style and consistent failure to really move must be counted as a major disappointment."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
A slow burner; intense, utterly engrossing and believable."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Bernie (2012) |
"
Linklater's Fargo, it's funny peculiar and funny ha ha, with Black a delight and Linklater in impressive control of superbly judged content and tone."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Pleasingly endearing."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
Measured performances from the seasoned cast balance out a script that errs towards the melodramatic."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Reygadas' big ideas translate with mixed results."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Watch it with Killer Joe for the ultimate sweaty, twisted double-bill."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Disappointing given the talent and situation, dull as ditchwater and historically suspect ..."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
Formulaic but uplifting, positive and accessible."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
Grassroots (2012) |
"
Strange to think that Gyllenhaal's film is based on a true story because the idea of anyone voting for someone as unlikable as Grant seems a stretch."
—
Empire Movies
Posted Nov 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
Very sweet, very funny, really quite touching and exquisitely handmade, by a film lover with humour and a heart, for a like-minded audience."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Private Peaceful () |
"
With the feel of prestige telly, it's nicely done, sweet and moving."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Lorenzo's Oil (1992) |
"
Exhausting, intelligent and undeniably moving."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
Very funny, it's also penetrating on the ravages of time on love and marriage and sweetly touching, but with abundantly incongruous randy content to heartily amuse."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
The Wedding Video () |
"
Not quite Four Weddings-funny but always entertaining and endearing in equal measure. Less so if you're preparing for a wedding."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
41%
|
The Flowers of War (2011) |
"
As you'd expect, it's beautiful, emotional and exciting, if florid in style. Bale, beauties and English dialogue widen Yimou's appeal."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
57%
|
Detachment (2012) |
"
Incredible performances from the cast, but Detachment is perhaps just too pretentiously depressing for its own good."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
Lay the Favorite (2012) |
"
Particularly disappointing given the names involved, it's only mildly amusing at best, and more often downright tedious."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
Poor Kirk Jones, who directed Nanny McPhee and Waking Ned, can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear of a script. But he could have left out the golf cart chase."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Return (2012) |
"
Skipping the usual flashbacks-and-cold-sweats cliches, Return has an understated power, even if the story traverses pretty well-trodden ground."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
Not only sad, sad, sad but dreary and unpleasant, peopled with largely unsympathetic characters but for McTeer, who is great."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
Determinedly quirky and cool, arresting and ultimately too baffling to be satisfying, although Penn is priceless. Cultdom beckons."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Hunky Dory (2013) |
"
There's lo-fi charm in the musical numbers and heartfelt turns from the young cast but the story drifts along without offering much that we haven't seen before."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Day of the Falcon (2013) |
"
Ambitious but very tedious and talkatively hackneyed, redeemed just a smidge by the money shots of a swarm of extras on horseback sweeping across the sands."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
46%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
It's challenging, divisive and has moments of beauty but leaves you cold."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
Smart, honest, sickeningly funny and supremely well judged in the writing, direction and acting."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
Exciting, ironic, with assured direction, accomplished performances and the tension of topical themes, this is Shakespeare as relevant as you like it."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 15, 2012
|
|
|
36%
|
Diamond Skulls (Dark Obsession) (1991) |
"
Estranging and frustrating."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
6%
|
Dream House (2011) |
"
Like most of its ilk, this starts off nicely but doesn't hold up to close rational scrutiny."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
At moments hilarious and others touching, it's a sweet, slight affair, more pretty pageant than pithy biographical drama."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
Terrific. Michael Shannon delivers a fractured everyman who'll stay with you long after the final frame."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 20, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Pride and Prejudice (2005) |
"
oe Wright should be applauded for delivering a vividly realised Austen adap -- one which confirms Knightley has graduated from the Jackie Bisset of the '00s to this decade's Julie Christie."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 15, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Jack Goes Boating (2010) |
"
Philip Seymour Hoffman puts his oar in with a tender, thoughtful adaption of Robert Glaudini's stage play. A little too measured to deliver an emotional punch, it's nevertheless beautifully acted and at times rather lovely."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 31, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
Entertaining while you're watching it but, as deceptive as a party's election promises, there's less to it than meets the eye."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
Utterly absorbing, extremely smart and - considering this is a sad, shabby, drably grey-green world of obsessives, misfits, misdirection, disillusionment, self-delusion and treachery - quite beautifully executed."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
Sarah's Key (2011) |
"
Exceptional turns by Mélusine Mayance and the ever-excellent Kristin Scott Thomas illuminate a tense and compelling story. The contrived modern-day framing works less well."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
Bad Boys (1995) |
"
A frantically slick and thoroughly enjoyable extravaganza."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 13, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) |
"
A richer plot, life lessons and loving Chinese cultural references rendered by turns sweet, scary and charming, with yet more fantastical kung fu, make this an engaging winner."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 6, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Scent of a Woman (1992) |
"
While fairly predictable and unoriginal, it is nevertheless entertaining."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
99%
|
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
"
This disturbing vision of the harrowing effects of war and violence continues to shock and haunt audiences."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 24, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Win Win (2011) |
"
Funny, agreeable and thoroughly enjoyable, if a little bit too neat and fortuitous in sorting out its entangled strands."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
Gentle, likable and profoundly touching, it makes you want to dig out the hiking boots and make the same journey."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 9, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Water for Elephants (2011) |
"
Familiar but enjoyable."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 3, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Adèle Blanc-Sec () |
"
A romp magnifique, with enough thrills, giggles and pretty pictures to reward adventure-lovers who wouldn't normally entertain the idea of taking in a treat with subtitles."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Whisky Galore! (Tight Little Island) (1949) |
"
Sharp and snappy Ealing comedy."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
A League of Their Own (1992) |
"
The agenda here is clearly along the lines of good-natured vignettes, smart one-liners and a healthy dose of heartstring tugging."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Major League (1989) |
"
If you're looking for sophisticated wit keep going, but Major League is pleasant, undemanding fun."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Bull Durham (1988) |
"
Classic performances, witty and insightful script, this is about so much more than baseball and will no doubt prove to be a quiet classic."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Carmen 3d (2011) |
"
A kaleidoscopic spectacle enhanced by the eye-popping 3D."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2011
|
73%
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