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1/5
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47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Having stayed up much of the night to watch the hunt for, and ultimate take down, of Suspect 2 in the Marathon Bombings, it was particularly distressing to watch this vile abomination of a movie whose "relevance" only adds to its dishonor."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 20, 2013
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|
1/5
|
22%
|
The Words (2012) |
"
Sometimes you're flabbergasted when very good actors are in very bad films. But no-one sets out to make a bad movie. They just turn out that way. But, seriously, there's no way that the script of The Words could have appeared good to anyone, could it?"
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Sep 8, 2012
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|
1/5
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
How much did they pay Pacino to do this? Four million dollars? Ten million? Who knows. But let's be very clear straight up: this is not Pacino's Being John Malkovich."
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ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Wildly inconsistent in tone, it is impossible to know whether the film aspires to comedy; it's certainly not funny."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Oct 6, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
A drippy romance, spending the vast majority of its time in private, two-hander scenes imagining inane dialogue between a dead Princess and a famously reclusive, private surgeon; it only exists because it knows neither of them is going to complain."
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ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
Excruciating dialogue is only the tip of the iceberg of this film's dunderheadedness, but it's the sin that keeps on giving throughout the way too many 108 painful minutes it takes to get through it."
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ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Sep 7, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
35%
|
The Internship (2013) |
"
Each scene builds the plot without leaving air for jokes. It's like a "perfect screenplay" as punched out by a computer program ... It's a bullet-point movie. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Sam Raimi made his first feature film, The Evil Dead, for $90,000. Now he has made Oz The Great and Powerful - a prequel to The Wizard of Oz - for 2,222 times that. The result is a thousand times less entertaining."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Mar 13, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
43%
|
To Rome with Love (2012) |
"
There are four "stories", linked by the fact that they all take place in Rome. None of them are funny, interesting or in the slightest way connected to how real people exist."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
12%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
This remake has none of the cultural currency of the original, nor its violence nor campy panache. It is a cowardly, irrelevant thing ... one of those really ill-advised remakes that should never have happened, but at least will be forgotten very quickly."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
"
Don't believe the marketing: this is the same old boring origin story all over again. Watch Peter Parker get bitten! Watch him discover his spider-powers! Watch him use them on the "school bully" before taking them to the street to fight crime!"
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
Besides being a blatantly obvious Transformers rip-off, Battleship is essentially explosion porn - a practically endless litany of stuff being blown up, with the destruction of Hong Kong thrown in for good measure."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 22, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
44%
|
Bad Teacher (2011) |
"
Weirdly ill-conceived. Diaz is good and very believable as ... the most dislikable character I've encountered in a film in a long time ... [which] makes for a lousy movie."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 27, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
It feels like Malick made the film for himself, rather than for an audience."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 6, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
A serious misfire, unfunny, unexciting, uninvolving and, perhaps the worst sin of all, incredibly self-indulgent to the detriment of the audience's enjoyment."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 28, 2013
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2/5
|
——
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Le prénom () |
"
Four of the five characters are really unlikeable, and the effect is of being trapped in a small place with five hideous people yelling at you - it's crushing, oppressive and claustrophobic."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
Drive, and many of Refn's other films, were thrillingly kinetic; here, by gluing his actors to their spots, he gives us beautiful images but nothing to watch. About halfway through, there is a brief foot chase. At least it moves."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
Part Scientology tool, part extremely ill-conceived familial gift (wouldn't it be better to let your kid go to school than ask him to endure endless takes in a greenscreen studio?) and part blatant money-making attempt."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012) |
"
If you're seriously white-knuckling for a dose of English Period Countryside Romanticism while waiting for Downton's next season to roll, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding will be like methadone: it's not going to satisfy you, but it may relieve your itch."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 20, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
If you were to tell me that Danny Boyle had told his long-standing First Assistant Director to go make a movie "in the style of Danny Boyle", and he had done so, and that the result had been TRANCE, I would've believed you. This is him slumming, badly."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 6, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
You know you're in trouble when an action film opens in Moscow showing a Russian criminal being held prisoner in a cell playing chess by himself. This is the kind of obvious cheesy badly scripted trope A Good Day to Die Hard is rampantly infected with."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
Great young actors ... are encouraged to seriously overplay their particular stereotype, which makes the film grating and repetitive ... Obviously green-lit in the wake of Glee, it makes a joke at that show's expense, setting a challenge it fails to win."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
The longer the movie plays, the more disjointed, episodic, and incoherent it becomes. It has no idea what it is."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Romantics Anonymous (2011) |
"
If you really like French ambience, this film is drowning in it. But don't expect Amelie or Chocolat. This film is far less witty, charming and moving than those films, no matter how desperately it tries to emulate them."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Special Treatment (2011) |
"
The tag line for the advertising campaign is bold: 'A film that dares to tell the truth about women.' I, unfortunately, missed whatever truth that was."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 13, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
It certainly doesn't break the mould, but coming-of-age drama The Way, Way Back, from writer / directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, is sweet, gently funny, and full of terrific attention to detail."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Paltrow, who plays love interest Pepper Potts (and in a much bigger showing here) said in an interview I heard recently ... that Downey improvised hugely in the first two films but stuck more to the script here. They should have let him flow. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
68%
|
God Bless America (2012) |
"
It's an intriguing satirical idea, and it works very effectively in places, while being tremendously didactic and heavy-handed in others."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
58%
|
Hysteria (2012) |
"
It's a tall tale that happens to be true, and, in the right hands, it could be wonderfully funny. I'm not sure that Wexler's were the right hands."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
41%
|
Rock of Ages (2012) |
"
Two films in one: the good film, which is composed of extremely proficient, highly energetic production numbers (of which there are many), and the clichéd, surprisingly non-energetic other film, which is composed of all the talky bits."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 18, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
22%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
I wasn't expecting how warmly I'd feel towards the characters by the end of the movie - and I certainly wasn't expecting to tear up a little bit during one of the couple's denouements. How in hell did that happen?"
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
57%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
The whole love story shackles the movie, forcing it to ultimately and ruinously fit into the strict confines of the rom-com genre, whereas Cohen has always been at his best, like any rubber chicken, when allowed to be free range."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
86%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
This is the first time I've gone to an Aardman film and left feeling that there wasn't anything in it for me."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 22, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
74%
|
The Human Resources Manager (2011) |
"
The long, long journey that makes up the bulk of the film is bizarrely undramatic."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 13, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
81%
|
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) |
"
Go for a beer in the middle forty minutes; come back refreshed for the ... [final] extraordinary battle sequence."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 29, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
I liked the mood of Stoker: gothic, dark, strange and melancholy. It's like a really creepy Sunday afternoon."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
100 Bloody Acres (2013) |
"
Crossing Sweeny Todd with Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, the Cairns boys deliver a lot of laughs, nice and realistic dollops of sticky gore, and quite a lot of heart to boot."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
It contains some of the most inspiring, moving, goosebump-inducing moments, scenes and speeches that I've seen thus far this year, but also some truly cringeworthy ones. It's as though two different creative teams made the film, and only one was good."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
The Look of Love (2013) |
"
Winterbottom and Coogan redefined the modern biopic with 24 Hour Party People. Here, they try and squeeze themselves into an old-fashioned one, awkwardly."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
An extremely unholy child of 28 Days Later and Contagion, the uncompromisingly bleak zombie epidemic epic World War Z is nowhere near as good as those two films but is not without its merits ... [including] an undeniably awesome second act."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
Ping Pong (2013) |
"
The actual matches themselves, as they approach the Finals and still contain some of our characters, become really quite exciting."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
This is an interpretation of Gatsby (minor spoiler alert) that revels in the idea of Gatsby and Daisy as two psychopaths (or at least social sociopaths), lovers whose disregard for others, as they pursue their own twisted desires, is bonkers. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
If you're in need of a couple of bursts of all-over goosebumps, Kon-Tiki is your surest bet at the moment."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Sleepwalk With Me (2012) |
"
Really, this film lives or dies on the charm of its protagonist. Luckily, Birbiglia is very charming indeed."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
Hit and Run has a bouncy, goofy charm."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
It's like a cheap, nasty dessert: completely devoid of nutrition, probably very bad for you, but kind of delicious while it briefly lasts."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
if you haven't seen any of them - why not see this one? It's crazy fun for less than two hours ... It's all very tonally specific, and the tone is bonkers. But it's so intriguing, and everyone looks so good ... the guiltiest pleasure of the year."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Bachelorette (2012) |
"
Bachelorette is all about these very fine actresses playing some pretty sad, desperate women who have some pretty funny lines to say."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
Tonally one-note, and that note is grim, nihilistic, super-stylized, violent and humorless. But it's a spectacular technical feat, hugely loyal to its source ... an extremely expensive arthouse action flick for the die-hard crowd."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Savages (2012) |
"
Veers way off course in its second act, becoming confusing and vague - indeed, stoned. But it all comes good in the end."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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