|
3/5
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
It's not bad, despite its runaway length, and Cavill looks likely to be the poster boy for a whole new generation of fans."
—
Independent
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Star Trek Into Darkness gets the job done without ever threatening to raise one's pulse. It's a thoroughly professional entertainment."
—
Independent
Posted May 10, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
It displays a level of intelligence that will not tax a 12-year-old boy."
—
Independent
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Chariots of Fire (1981) |
"
What fails as drama are the races themselves, shot front-on so that we don't know who's winning until the tape is breasted, but Hugh Hudson's decision to use slow motion and David Watkin's beautiful lighting lend them a proper heroic burnish."
—
Independent
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Fracture (2007) |
—
Independent
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
The Tempest (2010) |
—
Independent
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Le Passager (The Passenger) (2005) |
—
Independent
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Cloud Nine () |
—
Independent
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
Would you like your head thoroughly messed with? Then check straight into The Cabin in the Woods."
—
Independent
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
A Dry White Season (1989) |
"
A thumpingly didactic script, but Palcy has crafted a watchable - if not particularly important, given its competition - one."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Lymelife (2008) |
"
A slight feeling of déjà vu pervades its depiction of unhappy families. But it has a tender heart, and the imprimatur of Martin Scorsese as executive producer."
—
Independent
Posted May 11, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Hunky Dory (2013) |
"
The earnest playing of the orchestra and the lo-fi warbling touch the heart in a way that a more polished production might not."
—
Independent
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
I know we're supposed to tut-tut about levels of cinematic violence, but this seems to me one of the rare occasions when the film needed to be bolder, and nastier."
—
Independent
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
|
91%
|
Arthur Christmas (2011) |
"
Aardman films' yuletide offering is both a heartwarmer and a sly dig at the gospel of family togetherness."
—
Independent
Posted Dec 5, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Tau chut (The First 7th Night) (2009) |
—
Independent
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
It's worth pointing out that Ramsay's film is a bold one in terms of current sensibilities."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
38%
|
Monte Carlo (2011) |
"
A dull fantasy-farce of luxe hotel suites, hot guys and product-placement jewellery, a pretty unappetising mix that the film tries to justify at the end with some blather about Romanian orphanages."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Real Steel (2011) |
"
Battling to be heard above the metal-on-metal clangour is a heartwarming (read: terribly soppy) story of a broken family."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Reuniting The Rubins (2012) |
"
Give me an oy. Give me a vey."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
Restless (2011) |
"
The downward curve of Gus Van Sant's career continues with this awful slice of morbid whimsy."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
73%
|
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) |
"
He gets celebrity interviewees to blah on the subject -- Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Quentin Tarantino -- and still fails to dispel the mood of utter pointlessness."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Footloose (2011) |
"
The patent absurdity would be forgotten or at least forgiven if the songs and the moves were any good, but aside from the title track it's a sorry farrago of blandness."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
Albatross (2012) |
"
Niall MacCormick's debut feature has a puppyish eagerness that doesn't quite deliver."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 14, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
24%
|
The Three Musketeers (2011) |
"
A dead cert for a slot in the Top Ten Worst of 2011."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Dolphin Tale (2011) |
"
Two hours of redemptive hugs, triumphant whoops and tearful smiles later we learn that pinning a tail on a dolphin is, on the scale of human achievement, not far behind winning the Nobel Peace Prize and discovering a cure for cancer."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 14, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
52%
|
Perfect Sense (2012) |
—
Independent
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
58%
|
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
Del Toro's influence is apparent in the CGI of the bulbous-headed goblins, but the story has none of the shiver-inducing otherness of Pan's Labyrinth."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Tyrannosaur (2011) |
"
It's hard to watch at times, though made with an intensity and artfulness you never for a moment doubt."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
The Lion King (2011) |
"
Huge fun for the kids; some acceptable laughs for the adults."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
38%
|
Johnny English Reborn (2011) |
"
It lasts about 90 minutes, during which time I heard not a single laugh in the whole room."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
Unglamorous, yes, and, as we shall see, unreconstructed. But certainly not unexciting."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 16, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti) (2010) |
—
Independent
Posted Sep 16, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Kes (1969) |
—
Independent
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
A Lonely Place to Die (2012) |
—
Independent
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Trollhunter (2011) |
"
The film begins strongly, but once past the half-hour mark loses energy and direction."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
71%
|
Friends With Benefits (2011) |
"
You can tell this romantic comedy thinks it's a cut above from the way it keeps sniggering at the feebleness of other romantic comedies -- a risky strategy, as it turns out."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Jane Eyre (2011) |
"
Some works of art are inexhaustible, and this is proving one of them."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Attenberg (2012) |
"
Perhaps viewed under the influence of drugs or drink the film might spring to comic life, but taken straight it is far more likely to get on your nerves."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Fright Night (2011) |
"
This is a pretty droll and well-made entertainment."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
18%
|
The Art of Getting By (2011) |
—
Independent
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Kill List (2012) |
"
Strong meat, this. Even those who cackled and cringed through Ben Wheatley's Brighton-based crime satire Down Terrace (also the best British picture of 2010), may find themselves recoiling at certain moments in his second film, Kill List."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
88%
|
The Hedgehog (2011) |
"
The fate of a goldfish provides a subplot in a film strong on tender characterisation and rather wishful about the remedies for loneliness."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Trust () |
—
Independent
Posted Sep 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Villain (Akunin) (2010) |
—
Independent
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
"
The mind boggles before being lulled into a stupor of inanition by this latest instalment of Robert Rodriguez's increasingly cheap-looking franchise."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 24, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
—
Independent
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
60%
|
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011) |
"
I'm afraid my heart wasn't warmed by their tales of personal growth, and I can't forgive the cast for what they did to that Journey song."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) |
"
Jon Favreau handles the big setpieces with competence if no great flair; whenever the plot backs itself into a corner something else will make a sudden, inexplicable interruption."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Mickey's House of Villains (2002) |
—
Independent
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
74%
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