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2/5
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33%
|
Benjamin Britten: Peace And Conflict () |
"
The purest, most sincere fan letter ever written."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
The hectic theories that have spiritual and erotic dominion over these young people and compel an elaborate network of secret meetings feel astonishingly inert."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
The film is only endurable to those who can blank out the memory of what [De Niro] did when he was young and what he once meant to us."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 23, 2013
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|
3/5
|
62%
|
Epic (2013) |
"
Its explosive, almost psychedelic colour is first rate, especially in 3D."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
The Hangover Part III's running time feels like a death sentence."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
30%
|
Vehicle 19 (2013) |
"
Every line that comes from Walker's stiff mouth sounds like a failed aphorism."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 9, 2013
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|
4/5
|
100%
|
Village At The End Of The World () |
"
The mind boggles at the thought of how it was here pre-electricity and motor boats, although elderly villagers don't exactly recoil from the memory of sputtering blubber lamps."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 9, 2013
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|
3/5
|
100%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
Calmly made but ultimately lacerating ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
90%
|
Bernie (2012) |
"
Almost vaudeville in spirit, it delights in American social clichés and kinks."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
White Elephant (2013) |
"
The film tries to do too much and its power is on a sliding scale downward, but at times it is ultra-vivid."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
2/5
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Just things blowing up, a great big endless boring noisy confusing nothingness given occasional zip by Gwyneth Paltrow in a temper."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
The Look of Love () |
"
It's all basically a way of getting some exceptionally nice knockers onto the screen."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
In the Fog (2013) |
"
Though he is more often a documentary maker, In the Fog marks a profound shift for Loznitsa: there is nothing ad hoc or casual here."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Me and You (Io e te) () |
"
The film is oddball and sad, with occasional touches of that characteristic Bertolucci forlorn dignity. You know it's a goodbye."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
Not confident or bolshy enough about the subject, too aware of eco versus economic pros and cons ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Fuck For Forest () |
"
The FFF group are so humourless, so lost, they are surely too-easy targets. Why are we required to judge them quite so harshly?"
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
You wonder exactly when and how Butler became today's accepted go-to action hero - and can something officially be done about it?"
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Tonally the whole thing is pretty nuts, but you can just about dig it."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Flying Blind () |
"
McCrory wears her pain well, as though from a lifetime of accumulated injuries. Disillusioned and weary, she carries the film."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
First Position (2012) |
"
A griping documentary following several ballet hopefuls as they prepare for an international competition."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
While memorable in sometimes unexpected ways (1980 head Avraham Shalom's long unwashed nails), there is always the nagging feeling that any revelations are being pushed or sold a little too hard."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Starts as a kind of Silent Running or Omega Man (bliss) but collapses into a noisy Matrix-y Independence Day."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
It's an intriguing, long, imperfect film that loosens in the middle and then again towards the end - but those are the parts some will come out liking the most."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
95%
|
Midnight Son (2012) |
"
The film plugs its holes with a curdled blankness."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
What Richard Did (2013) |
"
Its power tails away significantly ... but before this the film has a magnificent hold."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
The themes of age and appalling loss give the film a freakishly affecting lyricism."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
69%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
This is a movie about suffering with no jagged edges."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
So catastrophically juvenile and style-fixated there is no detectable trace of any talent involved."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
81%
|
Excision (2012) |
"
McCord's elfin face has been transformed here with fake heavy eyebrows into something disturbingly simian and her low, uncouth voice provides a really weird sexual charge."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
A fantasia of hackneyed conceits about education ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
It's too naive, and most of the vocal dubbing is weirdly, distancingly poor."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan () |
"
The most fascinating point made in the film is that it was Harryhausen who invented the way we all think dinosaurs moved. Those gestures - adopted as truth even by palaeontologists - first came from him."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
Aurora (2011) |
"
A murder movie languishing in a suicidal stupor. Save some strength to crawl out of the cinema."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012) |
"
Surrounded by the most clichéd and craven kind of New York and UK hipsters, journos and schmoozers, Murphy remains adorably low-key, sincere and witty."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
The Queen of Versailles (2012) |
"
[Siegel] ultimately emerges as someone who belongs more in The Little House on the Prairie: ever cheerful, and triumphantly unimpeachable."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
Tabu (2012) |
"
There are times when you feel the whole thing is better listened to than watched."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
67%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
[It] is thoroughly corrupt in its lip-smacking love of violence and has a script, written by Nick Cave, so transparent it verges on the comic."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
A film made with love for the simple, cool and assured cult genre classics such as Rollerball, Robocop and Escape from New York."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
Keira Knightley as Anna is supremely brilliant."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
Total Recall (2012) |
"
People got up, left and returned, casually, without urgency or guilt, as though passing the time between trains: it clearly did not remotely thrill them."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
"
You never get to the point where you think this is it, or that the film has even truly begun. Not that you ever want things to end."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
A Few Best Men () |
"
Bed, barf and beyond ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
73%
|
Cockneys vs Zombies (2013) |
"
Richard Briers, Honor Blackman, Dudley Sutton - what were you or your agents thinking of?"
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Personal Best () |
"
The film feels rather thrillingly like a work in progress: some of the people featured here will not make it in the end and, like mayflies, will have already had their moment come July."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Free Men (2012) |
"
Free Men tells the little-known true story of a mosque in Paris that sheltered Jewish citizens hiding from the authorities during the second world war. "
—
Financial Times
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Barbaric Genius () |
"
This is a sad film about the fate of the writer John Healy, who survived a brutal childhood and spent the whole of the 1960s drunk in the parks of London's Camden Town."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
Mutual loathing and eye-rolling sustain - horribly - many of the couples involved."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Only now and again does one get a wash of something unifying, deep - a suggestion of adult depression and disillusion."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Men in Black III (2012) |
"
Smith looks younger than ever, and remains impossible not to like, just as it is impossible not to like ice-cream or the first intimations of summer."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 24, 2012
|
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