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4/5
|
96%
|
Sunshine on Leith () |
"
It's a jukebox musical that strings together a winning romantic comedy with catchy tunes and heartfelt lyrics."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
How I Live Now (2013) |
"
Meg Rosoff's young adult novel about a teenager struggling to survive in the aftermath of nuclear war was a big hit with readers, but here director Kevin Macdonald mishandles it."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
76%
|
Filth () |
"
McAvoy tackles the role with gusto, but it doesn't play to his strengths. He lacks stature."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
A riveting film, a humane but brutally frank character study, perfectly achieved despite its narrow objectives."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
It has the slightness of a Mills & Boon novella, but treats the tale with ponderous solemnity, as though it were chronicling a meeting of minds between Mother Teresa and Abraham Lincoln. It's slow and terribly, terribly dull."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
The Call begins as a moderately effective thriller, showing us a side of the LA police we haven't seen before. Then it gets dumb. Then it gets much dumber."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
14%
|
R.I.P.D. (2013) |
"
R.I.P.D. is so wrong-headed that the people who made it couldn't even manage a decent rip-off of Men In Black; they decided to copy the abominable Men In Black 2 instead."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
The Great Beauty () |
"
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) is a master of cinematic imagery, even if his plots leave a great deal to be desired."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
62%
|
About Time (2013) |
"
Curtis's purpose in the second hour of About Time is simple but serious: to show how we should live our lives. It is a not-so-small miracle that he does so persuasively, and without preaching."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
The film's big problem is only too familiar. The victims are so cliched that we never care about them, still less identify with them."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
[Bay] tries to be funny, and it turns out to be even more brutal, loathsome and crude than his previous efforts."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
Collette and Carell endow their characters with poignancy and authenticity, while Rockwell and Janney are superb at wringing every possible bit of humour out of the sparky dialogue."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
This pretty much defines the kind of movie that is critic-proof."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
The script development is funnier and more ingenious than you might expect, and the actors have the comic timing to pull off most of it."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Jurassic Park (1993) |
"
A very welcome memo to Hollywood that blockbusters don't have to be stupid."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
[A] beautifully acted, thought-provoking drama that skilfully updates Henry James's little-read 1897 novella to the modern era."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
The characterisation and plot developments are painfully unimaginative."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
You'd think this might be a shocking, even paranoid scenario, but instead it comes across as too ridiculous to be even slightly believable."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Call Girl () |
"
It's like Britain's Profumo affair but much sleazier and with more to say about the corruption of ideals."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
15%
|
Top Cat:The Movie (UK) () |
"
Abysmally scripted, crudely drawn and cheaply made, with astonishing inattention to detail, Top Cat: The Movie is one of the worst-ever spin-offs of a TV series."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
The Moo Man () |
"
The Moo Man is a very old-fashioned documentary, a gentle, bucolic account of a man at peace with himself and his environment."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
If I'd had anything to do with it, I'd be wearing a balaclava and writing under an assumed name."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
At last, a blockbuster that delivers the goods!"
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
An astonishing documentary that's essential viewing for anyone wishing to understand the darker aspects of the human condition."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
In which a bunch of drugged or drunk superstars, played by themselves, use the end of the world as a pretext for projectile vomiting, bodily fluids and every kind of grossness."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
If Snitch ultimately perishes from over-ambition, at least it's an honourable death."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Before Midnight (2013) |
"
This is one of the few sequels for which the cliche 'eagerly awaited' is truly applicable."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
Brad Pitt's hero lacks personality. All we know is that he loves his family, but no one has given him or his relations any exceptional qualities."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 18, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
I can't recommend it highly enough."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
48%
|
Summer in February () |
"
A plodding, sub-Merchant Ivory costume drama, not terribly convincing even though it's based on a true story, about a romantic triangle in Edwardian Cornwall."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
It is ... perilously short on laughs, and the few that do come are generated by Lily Tomlin as the heroine's ferociously feminist mother."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
It's a triumph of spectacle over content."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 12, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Behind the Candelabra (2013) |
"
Made for TV usually means 'not good enough for the cinema'. Here's the exception."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
The dialogue is platitudinous and delivered in stilted accents. The structure is that of a very dull video game made by someone who once watched The Lord Of The Rings."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
Unfortunately, the movie runs out of things to say about its monosyllabic hero within a half-hour, after which the killings become repetitive."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
Not since The Artist has there been a French film as delightful or commercial as Populaire. If you're looking for a happy, feelgood romantic comedy, here it is."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
The Purge (2013) |
"
It's clever in the way it takes some disagreeable elements from our own time - fear of racial minorities, envy of wealth, needless aggression and gun crime - slightly exaggerates them and projects them into the near future."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
Byzantium doesn't add enough that's new to the genre. I was never bored by it, but I wasn't excited, either."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
19%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
At the screening I attended, not one person laughed."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
Epic (2013) |
"
The quality of the animation is exceptional, and will open many eyes - young and old - to the beauty of natural woodland."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
7%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
Involves four Academy Award winners, all cruelly wasted on roles unworthy of them."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Luhrmann lovingly titivates the fake and superficial, and never gets round to serving the meat of the novel, which involves cutting into sham and heartlessness."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
Resembles Fargo in its geography and atmosphere, but fatally lacks its sense of humour."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Abrams approaches the subject-matter with the zest, imagination and humour of Steven Spielberg on top form."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
56%
|
The Look of Love (2013) |
"
Director Michael Winterbottom has achieved the impossible: he has made a biopic of Paul Raymond, Britain's most colourful porn baron, that's unobservant, unerotic and dull."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
90%
|
Bernie (2012) |
"
I didn't find it very entertaining, but it is at least trying something different."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Comic-strip superhero movies are not exactly noted for intelligence, wit or humour. Iron Man 3 is the welcome exception."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
47%
|
The Lords of Salem (2013) |
"
Overlook the abysmal acting, unattractive nudity, awful dialogue, laughable effects and diabolical direction, and there are a few memorable shocks and images."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
There's no suspense, and it isn't scary."
—
Daily Mail [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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