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1/5
|
33%
|
It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010) |
"
These spirits are just gory enough to be out of place in a film that is otherwise designed for fans of bland, creakingly old-fashioned humour."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
51%
|
Chloe (2010) |
"
The general hamminess implies a low estimation of our intelligence."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Mar 15, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
62%
|
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) |
"
It's not a story that could ever move me: all I see in it is a dumb animal who doesn't know any better."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Mar 15, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
Valentine's Day (2010) |
"
Set on February 14 in a sunny, smog-free Los Angeles. Its makers doubtless see it as a love letter to that city, but it's an utterly feeble one, assembled from tired old phrases."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 16, 2010
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|
1/5
|
8%
|
Fireball (Muay Thai Dunk) (2009) |
"
If fireball had an idealistic, Jimmy Hill-style commentator, he'd describe this film as a poor advertisement for the game."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Dogging: A Love Story (2009) |
"
Sordid, squelchy, bare-bottomed comedy is still the order of the day. And pretty feeble it is, too."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
10%
|
Dead Man Running (2009) |
"
If Guy Ritchie lost interest while making another cockney-geezer caper and tried to get himself sacked by deliberately turning in half-hearted work, the result of his non-efforts might look something like this film."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) |
"
The number of remotely chucklesome jokes in Neal Brennan's comedy is way too low, and the stuff in between them is grimy and depressing."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Oct 30, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
My Life in Ruins (2009) |
"
The film and all its characters are as tacky and charmless at the end as they are on first impressions."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Jack Said (2009) |
"
A dull, poorly acted affair that doesn't deserve the brief release it's getting."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Sep 25, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
64%
|
Adam (2009) |
"
It comes across simply as a bit of bland do-gooding."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Aug 11, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"
By and large, it's knockabout kids' stuff (and has been advertised on that basis), but it has some quite risqué smut."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
G-Force (2009) |
"
Obtain a human-sized version of a hamster wheel, then spend a couple of hours scurrying around inside it, and you'll have had an experience far more varied and stimulating than what's on offer here."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
16%
|
Crossing Over (2009) |
"
The film manages to sustain a general air of dull preachiness without ever having much to say for itself."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Aug 4, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
48%
|
My Sister's Keeper (2009) |
"
You should consent to having treacle intravenously injected into your system sooner than go to see this Hollywood weepie."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jul 3, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
54%
|
Viva (2007) |
"
There is barely an out and-out gag - and certainly none that's funny - in the whole two hours of deliberately bad acting."
—
Times [UK]
Posted May 17, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
69%
|
Delta (2009) |
"
Strikingly shot though it is, this Hungarian film, by Kornel Mundruczo, is sunk by a drama that represents art-house cinema at its worst: a dull, gloomy tale that skirts questions of plausibility."
—
Times [UK]
Posted May 13, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"
The whole concept founders on McConaughey's unalterable cheesiness. Flimsy though it is, the film has a couple of okay jokes, and might have been passable with a more endearing star."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted May 7, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
24%
|
The World Unseen (2008) |
"
If Sarif improves with experience, she might regret ever having allowed this effort to be seen by the public."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Apr 9, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
I Can't Think Straight (2008) |
"
She is still some way short of making a movie that deserves a ticket-buying audience."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Apr 9, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
33%
|
Knowing (2009) |
"
As well as being perversely pessimistic for a blockbuster, it's rendered tedious by a dense plot and lifeless characters. Even M Night Shyamalan would have done a better job. How dare such an empty film ask us to endure many realistic scenes of carnage?"
—
Times [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
The Unborn (2009) |
"
Cue a creepy toddler, various demonically possessed adults and a Jewish exorcism conducted by Gary Oldman. He's a vastly better actor than the film deserves, but he can't make the script seem even slightly better than it is."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Mar 6, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
New In Town (2009) |
"
The film starts off as a tedious, lifeless ordeal and it stays that way with a vengeance."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Mar 6, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"
The only thing in Steve Carr's fatuous movie that earns a few giggles is John C McGinley's silliness as a new-age builder."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jun 9, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
The Number 23 (2007) |
"
Spookily, it must have been in about the 23rd minute that my spirits began to sink and I thought: "There'd better be an awfully clever pay-off at the end of this." Well, there isn't."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"
Only toward the end of the film do the hostilities reach a level of recklessness with any potential to be funny. If things had started at that pitch and been ramped up from there, Phillips might have had a movie worth making."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
5%
|
Because I Said So (2007) |
"
As well as providing lifestyle porn, the many scenes set in stylish kitchens mean there is usually a cake on hand for somebody to be splattered with. That's the level of the bland attempts at comedy."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 19, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
53%
|
The Kreutzer Sonata (2009) |
"
The shark-grinned Huston can be a charismatic presence, but this particular performance has no kind of aura."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Mar 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Exam (2010) |
"
Despite their supposed cleverness, all the candidates here make mistakes that would be avoided by anybody with even the slightest knowledge of how these situations usually pan out in movies, and the whole thing gets very silly by the end."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) |
"
It's another panto for 10-year-old girls, in which any given scene could - with only the addition of canned laughter - pass for something from children's television."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
Okuribito (Departures) (2009) |
"
This Japanese film's receipt of the award for best foreign-language picture at this year's Oscars was a case of the Academy favouring bland sentimentality."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"
This may one day be an interesting time capsule, but it's a lacklustre drama."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
The Merry Gentleman (2009) |
"
The subdued relationship that develops between the two characters is out of balance with the fanciful contrivances that bring them together."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
Mr. Right (2006) |
"
A patchy film."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
What sours F Gary Gray's film is the drawn-out sadism of its violence - a depressing case of torture-porn methods infecting another genre."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"
Jennifer is dead-eyed and impassive, but a good actress might yet have played her in a lively, knowing way. Fox's dead-eyed impassiveness seems all too much her own."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
57%
|
Paper Heart (2009) |
"
It's not the worst cutesy, lo-fi love story you'll ever see, but it's shown up by all those genuine true-life tales. Alongside them, its falseness is too glaring."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
87%
|
Welcome (2010) |
"
Such a melodramatic set-up is no way to win round viewers who aren't predisposed to sympathise with immigrants - or with gloomy middle-aged men."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
90%
|
Love Exposure (2011) |
"
It's different, but it's exhausting. Without ever being funny, it keeps up a strident, cartoonish tone for all of its four hours."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
The Horseman (2008) |
"
For such a film, The Horseman is too short of flair - there's not enough of it to distract us from the nastiness."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
46%
|
Colin (2009) |
"
I've seen crisper, better-lit images on CCTV screens."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Oct 30, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
Pandorum (2009) |
"
There are some well-executed sequences, but the story makes nothing but a mess of its borrowed ideas."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
The Red Baron (Der rote Baron) (2008) |
"
Nikolai Müllerschön's film about the German flying ace has nothing like the sort of flair it needs to get away with its sentimental departures from the historical facts."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Sep 7, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Greek Pete (2009) |
"
If the film truly were a documentary, we would at least know we were getting a picture of real life, albeit a not very enlightening one. Instead, we're stuck with an undramatic drama."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Sep 7, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
84%
|
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) |
"
Declaring yourself bored by a movie full of explicit sex may sometimes mark you out as a dreary pseudo-sophisticate, but in this case it's fair enough."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"
Twohy seems to think the eventual revelation is clever enough to be worth the price of admission by itself. It isn't. To give better value, he should have souped up the cartoonish violence of the final scenes."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Aug 17, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"
Cue some uninspired but reasonably entertaining mayhem. The aliens are mediocre CGI bipeds who wouldn't last 10 seconds against a horde of Gremlins."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Aug 17, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
72%
|
Kærlighed på Film (Just Another Love Story) (2007) |
"
It's done with some style, Bornedal telling much of the story in nifty montages set to insistent music, but I couldn't get into the spirit of it."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jul 28, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
Charles Dickens's England (2009) |
"
He's a ghost of documentaries past: an actorly tour guide reciting lines not written by him, putting on glasses with a scholarly flourish, staring into space to underline poignant moments in the narrative."
—
Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jul 28, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
The End of the Line (2009) |
"
Sobering stuff, but presented with no more flair than a television news item."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jun 16, 2009
|
78%
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