|
3/5
|
100%
|
The Blue Black Hussar () |
"
An upbeat comeback story for an enduring legend of British pop."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
More terrible and tacky than one could have imagined, it will soon be forgotten and consigned to the True Movies channel to play alongside television movies about Karen Carpenter, Jayne Mansfield and Jackie Kennedy."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
A Pixney misfire."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Foxfire () |
"
Cantet's latest is long but never drags, offering a frequently thrilling evocation of teen lives. Proof that The Class and Time Out were no pan flashes."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
Talk about a pleasant surprise! Real storytelling, well thought-out and beautifully, at times insanely, executed, with excitement, laughs and fun to make you feel seven years old again."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
The Secret Garden (1993) |
"
The film is not as enchanting as it should be."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982) |
"
It was Star Trek II that put the franchise on the right track as the spirit of Gene Roddenberry's 60s television series was harnessed to spectacular effect."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
The Bridges of Madison County (1995) |
"
Streep and Eastwood's chemistry makes the film."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
A Rage in Harlem (1991) |
"
It's largely a cheap looking, tawdry affair, with tortuous interludes in which the humour devolves on gratuitous unpleasantness or tired old bad jokes at the expense of women."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
|
|
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
|
97%
|
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
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Pleasingly endearing."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
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
|
54%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Reygadas' big ideas translate with mixed results."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Watch it with Killer Joe for the ultimate sweaty, twisted double-bill."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
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
|
61%
|
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
|
56%
|
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
|
83%
|
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
|
55%
|
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
|
66%
|
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
|
47%
|
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
|
93%
|
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
|
92%
|
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
|
68%
|
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
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