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2/5
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39%
|
The ABCs of Death (2013) |
"
It presents 26 disparate (read: in need of an editor) slices of dicing from 26 directors you've almost certainly never heard of (and indeed, the one you have - Ben Wheatley - feels tainted by association)."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
2/5
|
71%
|
Crawl (2013) |
"
A squeaky door steals the show."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
It is, in its way, a curious sort of auteurist cinema, in which a lone wolf (Cruise produces as well as stars) has taken an impeccably mainstream product and made it strange around him."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2012
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|
1/5
|
27%
|
Life Just Is () |
"
Gogglingly boring and appallingly acted: if this is east London's answer to mumblecore, god help us."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
By the end, you feel like a piñata on the dancefloor: empty, in bits, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Some Guy Who Kills People (2012) |
"
In the sober light of day, the flaws here seem to glare and screech; under the right conditions, this is cheery genre fun."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
Almost every frame is astonishing."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Much Ado may be a bit of a B+ staple on the Shakespeare circuit, but Whedon - as well as improving student grades the world over - makes it feel second to none."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2012
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|
4/5
|
79%
|
Everyday () |
"
This is a strange and stirring film, which combines a Malick-ish concern with the emotional import of nature with a rare charm and levity. Everyday is a red letter treat."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2012
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|
4/5
|
100%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
Noah Baumbach, making his most compassionate movie since 2005's The Squid and the Whale, gives these lives the full French new wave/mid-period Woody Allen treatment, conferring charm and substance on even their most mundane interaction."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2012
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|
3/5
|
79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
Hoffman has delivered a love letter to the elderly thesps of his adoptive country. We can forgive him its falsehoods."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 11, 2012
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3/5
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Linney is terrific, and Murray, too, but he doesn't shy in showing that, in some respects, Roosevelt was as much the product of an earlier age as his buttoned-up house guests."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
57%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
There's a generous pinch of very funny lines, mostly bestowed on Robbins."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
Midnight's Children (2013) |
"
Director Deepa Mehta slathers proceedings in a haze of period whimsy - sometimes engaging, sometimes less so."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
There are scenes of complete brilliance, Walken is better than he's been in years, cute plot loops and grace notes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Potter proves as good on the wonky logic of parents as she does on the self-righteousness of youth."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Circumstance (2011) |
"
Keshavarz uses a trowel to feed us her ideas about living under a repressive regime when all you required was a teaspoon. But she has enough promise to keep you curious for her next offering - if she can just get a lighter grip on the ladle."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
16%
|
The Watch (2012) |
"
It's got a cast to kill for, a Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg script (they wrote Superbad) and a promisingly Ghostbusters-ish premise. And yet it's catastrophic."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Jackpot (Arme Riddere) () |
"
It lays on lashings of crim-bickering and jauntily scored arterial spurting when all you can stomach is some crispbread."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
I Against I () |
"
The script acts on the film as a rock does when strapped to a corpse, but there's a certain noirish sheen to the cinematography that means the whole thing slips down sweeter than it really ought."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
In The Dark Half () |
"
As a calling card for director Alastair Siddons, it's polished and impressive. As an experience, it requires slightly more patience than it consistently rewards."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Truth or Die (2012) |
"
Robert Heath's horror is riddled with plot holes and atrocious dialogue, but has a couple of brilliantly bananas performances and the odd crunchy jump."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Electrick Children (2013) |
"
Rebecca Thomas's gauzy debut about a 15-year-old Mormon who believes she's had an immaculate conception is deftly done."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
You've Been Trumped (2012) |
"
It treads lightly on the earth: an example, as well as an education."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
"
An unshakeable tune, delivered by a director operating at rare pitch and purpose."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
Todd Graff's film sags badly in the middle and is clunky with social context (recession, Asperger's), but there's enough good heart to see you through."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 28, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Planet of Snail (2012) |
"
Neither the subject nor director ask for sympathy; what emerges is a nuanced hymn to the human spirit that still saddens, even when it inspires."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 22, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Where Do We Go Now? (2012) |
"
It's machine-tooled to raise smiles, swell hearts, and tickle tear ducts, yet it does so with sufficient cross-cultural cred you don't feel too yanked."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
|
33%
|
The Harsh Light Of Day () |
"
Snappy editing helps sustain some pace, and Giles Alderson has charisma as the mysterious "Infurnari", but after a spell the interest sag is unstaunchable."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Mission To Lars () |
"
The peripheral interviews with the extended Spicer family are as compelling as the central quest; this is a film with rare honesty and nuance in a field that frequently feels queasy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 7, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Confession of a Child of the Century () |
"
Doherty hints at his charisma. But for the time being, he'd be advised to stick to the strumming."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Buck (2011) |
"
There's a whole heap of Americana to wallow in here, but it's testimony to the director and subject that Buck still trots along at such a lick."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Transit (2012) |
"
Transit delivers little of value, and never with a smile."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
A Night to Remember (1958) |
"
A restrained, nearly austere ensemble drama that manages to intertwine a dozen different stories without tripping up on any of them, it relies on real-life survivor testimony for almost every line and incident, to immensely moving and dignified effect."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 13, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
If you found Transformers just a touch too subtle, this is the film for you."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Delicacy (2012) |
"
Despite some tonal wobbles, and a vague sense of deja vu, it's rather charming, and sometimes genuinely sad."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Natural Selection (2012) |
"
Natural Selection ticks all the boxes with a firm grip. Its opening alone is a lovely cinematic coup."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
89%
|
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2011) |
"
Jools and Linda left my giggle chain unyanked and their backstory, for all its nuance and aspects of tragedy, failed to stir my soul."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Even those allergic to Cruise would struggle to resist his magnetism grinning one-handed from the highest skyscraper in the world, cool as a cucumber, ripped as celery."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 11, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Romantics Anonymous (2011) |
"
In order for the script to crackle and the heart to move, you need to suspend more disbelief that proves possible here."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Revenge: A Love Story (Fuk sau che chi sei) (2010) |
"
A genuinely grotesque horror film that lurches between gleeful sadism and tedious romance without apparent validation..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Reuniting The Rubins (2012) |
"
Rubins ultimately sinks beneath the weight of its own gubbins."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
29%
|
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) |
"
This is tension-free torture porn, whose perpetrator's actions aren't just banal and consequence-free, they're endlessly justified by an abusive back-story."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
4%
|
Abduction (2011) |
"
Sigourney Weaver? After Avatar, surely she doesn't need the cash?"
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
Broken Lines () |
"
There's a stonking cast - Paul Bettany as the waitress's disabled partner, Rita Tushingham as a knackered caff worker, Olivia Williams as the glossy fiancee - but they're saddled with dialogue sagging with thematic relevance or site-specific colour."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) |
"
It ties its strands together a touch too tightly two-thirds of the way through - but still leaves enough hanging at the end to be credible."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Killer Elite (2011) |
"
Jason Statham is matched with Robert de Niro and Clive Owen in this headcracking hitman yarn, but it's a bit overcomplicated for its own good."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
35%
|
Butter (2012) |
"
There's a badly ill-judged cameo from Hugh Jackman, but also a good spoonful of laugh-out-loud gags, particularly those involving the red tape of local civic talent contests."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
William Freidkin's film is full-frontal in every sense, an unabashed pulp romp stuffed with ugly acts and primal screams."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2011
|
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