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2/5
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29%
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Erased (2013) |
"
This solid chase thriller uses a template that recalls Taken, without ever reaching the same heights."
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Radio Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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|
3/5
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40%
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Parker (2013) |
"
The film has some bone-crunchingly good action sequences, one decent one-liner and it's all daftly watchable, but one suspects that this is more of a career high point for Statham than for Hackford."
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Radio Times
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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3/5
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11%
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Sammy's Adventures 2 (Sammy's avonturen 2) () |
"
Fast, fun and cutely done, it tells the tale of two turtles who wind up stuck inside a Dubai aquarium and have to pool resources with their fish-mates to escape."
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Radio Times
Posted Feb 15, 2013
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|
2/5
|
0%
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Run For Your Wife () |
"
Unfortunately, there's no irony or retro self-awareness about this adaptation, which is played as if the last 30 years simply haven't happened."
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Radio Times
Posted Feb 15, 2013
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|
4/5
|
45%
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Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
Beautiful Creatures is perfect filler for teens left bereft by the end of the Twilight films."
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Radio Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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3/5
|
47%
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Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Of course, the plot is familiar and derivative, but some pithy one-liners and bone-crunching fights more than compensate in a film that's surely bound for guilty pleasure status."
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Radio Times
Posted Feb 1, 2013
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|
2/5
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
Even the usually reliable Dennis Quaid flounders as a fellow parent in a film that is at least slickly put together but is ultimately a sheer waste of talent."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 3, 2013
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|
2/5
|
6%
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So Undercover (2013) |
"
There's no sign as yet that the perky but otherwise unremarkable Ms Cyrus is going to find it easy graduating from teen star to grown-up actress."
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Radio Times
Posted Dec 7, 2012
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|
2/5
|
32%
|
The Oranges (2012) |
"
It's all mildly amusing, if fairly obvious, stuff and it's impeccably played by the superb cast. But you can't help feeling that they all deserve something rather more worthy of their talents."
—
Radio Times
Posted Dec 7, 2012
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|
1/5
|
0%
|
Confession of a Child of the Century () |
"
As dull and cumbersome as its title."
—
Radio Times
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) |
"
It may lack a little in charm and warmth, but the technical brilliance and decent use of 3D go some way towards compensating for the dimensions that the film otherwise lacks."
—
Radio Times
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
The Knot () |
"
If you can ignore the ill-judged slapstick and daft plot developments, it makes for diverting enough entertainment."
—
Radio Times
Posted Oct 7, 2012
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|
3/5
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
Shortcomings aside, this rattles along entertainingly and, at barely 90 minutes, doesn't outstay its welcome."
—
Radio Times
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Into the White (2013) |
"
This is clearly breaking no new ground. But it does what it does with some skill and likeability."
—
Radio Times
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
Cleanskin (2012) |
"
The film certainly has ambition and there are some memorable fight scenes, but it also lacks the extra oomph that could have done for Bean's action-movie career what Taken did for Liam Neeson's."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 23, 2012
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|
3/5
|
31%
|
The Dinosaur Project (2012) |
"
It's British, it's kind of fun and, at barely 80 minutes, it doesn't outstay its welcome."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
30%
|
The Man Inside () |
"
It's so mired in overwrought melodrama that, while it packs a few punches, it fails to deliver the knockout."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
Overall there's enough prehysterical fun to ensure that family audiences won't be disappointed. Just spare us Ice Age 5."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Blackthorn (2011) |
"
With westerns rarer than hen's teeth, and decent westerns even rarer, this is certainly one that genre fans should seek out."
—
Radio Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
If you're a military-hardware junkie or an obsessive player of video war games, this is the movie for you, because Act of Valor is nothing less than a ramped-up, live-action version of Call of Duty."
—
Radio Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Big Miracle (2012) |
"
The whales are so appealing, and the fight to free them from their ice prison so excitingly feel-good, that all cynicism is put aside, making this very decent family entertainment."
—
Radio Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
There are tears aplenty before the three plot strands are brought - rather too neatly - together."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
Goon isn't a life-changer, but it is a pleasant little surprise."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
91%
|
Wreckers () |
"
Wreckers blends spells of sheer, watching-paint-dry tedium with sparkier inter-sibling stuff and the odd bout of rural rumpy-pumpy."
—
Radio Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
As a crazy mix of Cinema Paradiso, Cronos and David Copperfield it's unusually stimulating family fare."
—
Radio Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
The Big Year (2011) |
"
A feather-light tale that never really takes off."
—
Radio Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
6%
|
Dream House (2011) |
"
It's daft and nonsensical. But it's that silliness and the sheer calibre of cast that ensure this has a certain car-crash watchability about it."
—
Radio Times
Posted Nov 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
This is one of those remakes that feels like the product of lazy thinking."
—
Radio Times
Posted Nov 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Monte Carlo (2011) |
"
So corny that a cereal company could have sponsored it..."
—
Radio Times
Posted Oct 26, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
The Debt (2011) |
"
An entertaining addition to the recent wave of retro spy films."
—
Radio Times
Posted Oct 5, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
45%
|
Soul Surfer (2011) |
"
Sure, the film has its mawkish moments, but it's a remarkable, well-intentioned tale that deserves to ride its wave rather than to wipe out on it."
—
Radio Times
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Tonight You're Mine (2012) |
"
Rather more quirk than quality."
—
Radio Times
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2011) |
"
Partly compensates for its shortcomings by adopting a deeper, more analytical approach to its portrayal of endemic police and political corruption."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Beautiful Lies (Full Treatment)(De vrais mensonges) (2011) |
"
The French, perhaps, like this sort of comedy of chaos a mite more than we do, but Beautiful Lies is enjoyable enough."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Kill The Referee (les Arbitres) () |
"
The lives of football referees and linesmen have always been a bit of a mystery, but this fine, no-frills documentary provides some long-overdue insight."
—
Radio Times
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Poetry (2011) |
"
Yoon's performance, nuanced and subtle, is superb, while the film is long and languid so adjustments and allowances must be made both for its pace and, at times, for its poetry. But the effort is well worth it."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
10%
|
Horrid Henry: The Movie (2013) |
"
Not quite Horrid, but this Henry comes close. Accompanying adults may wish they'd opted for triple detention."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
One Life (2013) |
"
Four years in the making, this is simply a staggering achievement, with a standard of photography that continues Britain's excellence in the field of wildlife film-making."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
88%
|
The Big Picture (2012) |
"
Eric Lartigau's film is glossily watchable, but it's hampered by a central conceit that never really convinces, and not even a cameo from screen legend Catherine Deneuve lifts proceedings."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 21, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Trust (2011) |
"
It may not change your life, but it may just make you wonder what your child is up to on that computer, and just who he or she is "talking" to."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
The Conspirator (2011) |
"
The acting from the top-notch cast is good. So, too, is the attention to period detail. The whole thing is just a little dry and ponderous."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jun 30, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Swinging With The Finkels (2011) |
"
Dear, oh dear - there should be a law banning British directors from making so-called sex comedies."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Screwed (2012) |
"
Noel Clarke shines as a cocky prisoner, and the film's best scenes are those in which he goes eyeball to eyeball with D'Arcy's greenhorn guard."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Prom (2011) |
"
Even younger viewers would surely relish a little more raunch. It's hard to hate, however, and parents can take confidence in the fact that it could never be accused of being a corrupting influence."
—
Radio Times
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules (2011) |
"
The pre-teen angst, sibling squabbles and broad comedy should guarantee that it goes down well with five- to ten-year-olds."
—
Radio Times
Posted May 26, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
Sheen is on good form, the Basque-country locations look great, and the gentle, meditative messages put out make this hard to dislike."
—
Radio Times
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
13 Assassins (2011) |
"
The controlled set-up effectively explores notions of honour and servitude in a time when the bushido era was drawing to a close, before giving way to a terrific, 40-minute climax that's sheer martial artistry in all its mud-and blood-splattered glory."
—
Radio Times
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2010) |
"
It's a compelling story of how one disillusioned idealist helped change the world - and all for a Sony Walkman and some Queen cassettes!"
—
Radio Times
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
TT3D Closer To The Edge (2011) |
"
This is first and foremost, of course, a high-octane, thrills-and-spills documentary for bikers and biker fans. But it will also be enjoyed by anyone who wants to see likeable loons indulging an obsessive desire for speed."
—
Radio Times
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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