|
2/5
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
By the time Dead Man Down descends into ultra-violence, you'll be long past caring."
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Digital Spy
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
An exhilarating, emotionally rich and utterly pleasurable journey that wears its love for Trek fans old and new on its sleeve."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
Swooning, frightening, intoxicating, and a cinematic experience that feels genuinely new."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
First Position (2012) |
"
If you thought Black Swan made ballet look grim, this festival-fave documentary offers an earthier but no less griping portrait of the profession's crippling realities."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 9, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
The Place Beyond the Pines is one of the most ambitious and accomplished films of the year, a sweeping, searing family drama that packs a devastating emotional punch."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Apr 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
However self-aware Spring Breakers' sleaze is, there's something creepy about it as a male perspective on young women."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Here's hoping X-Men: Days of Future Past can restore Singer to his former glory - it's become easy to forget that he was essentially the JJ Abrams of the noughties - because this dim-witted action fable isn't going to cut it."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Broken (2013) |
"
Roth is charming and Laurence is an intriguing young talent to watch, but Broken is a shaggy dog story wallowing in emotions that it seldom earns."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
What Punch lacks in character, it makes up for in energy, inspiration and rampant ambition."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
While it ultimately has less to say than it initially promises, Side Effects is a taut, disciplined thriller that's consistently and thrillingly a step ahead of its audience, shot through with a current of justified paranoia. "
—
Digital Spy
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
A psychological thriller that doesn't walk or talk like any other, and a fairy tale in which the princess is indistinguishable from the monster."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
It's hard to imagine a blander duo than Hough and Josh Duhamel as they knock awkwardly against one another in their painfully telegraphed love scenes, and a third-act twist is unintentionally hilarious."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
Everything about A Good Day to Die Hard, from the gratuitously destructive car chases to the obligatory series in-jokes to Bruce Willis's weary, half-hearted central turn, feels like an obligation."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
63%
|
I Give It a Year (2013) |
"
Anybody familiar with London will appreciate Mazer's anti-Curtis approach to the city, more Soho than South Bank, but regardless of region it's hard to resist I Give It a Year's spiky charms."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
[Washington is] painful to watch in the very best sense, first portraying a man who can function only within aggressively-held layers of denial, and making it impossible to look away as the psychological house of cards begins to fall."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Jan 30, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
As far as the so-called humour goes, we're operating on a sliding scale from lazy to downright offensive."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Smashed (2012) |
"
Smashed is a smart, sensitive and appropriately uncomfortable watch, offering an unrelentingly clear-eyed view of dependence, both emotional and substance-based."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Dec 15, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Emotionally rewarding, imaginatively detailed and made with a genuine sense of joy, the first Hobbit chapter succeeds despite its structural and formatting mis-steps."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Dec 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
32%
|
The Oranges (2012) |
"
The dialogue's much saltier and sharper than you expect from a drama that's essentially playing it safe."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Dec 8, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
The Hunt is a terrifying film, anchored by Mikkelsen's poignantly poised turn and saturated with uncomfortable truths about society, childhood and our susceptibility to mass hysteria."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Dec 1, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
32%
|
The Oranges (2012) |
"
An off-kilter script and winning turns from Laurie, Janney and Meester help disguise how much the film is hedging its bets, flirting with a darkness it never quite dares to embrace."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
Between its farcical script, soulless relationships and waxwork performances, this is a final chapter that will please only the most devout fans."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Nailing the tension, the terror and the gallows humour of its story without resorting to jingoism or losing sight of its political context, Argo is a close-to-flawless thriller with a devilishly smart mouth."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Nov 6, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Shining (1980) |
"
Re-cut or not, The Shining remains one of the most viscerally disturbing films ever made."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Nov 2, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
With potent performers and poetic visuals, Anderson has made the boldest American picture of the year."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
Its impact becomes blunt and devastating, once Ayer allows us to forget the irritating found-footage device."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
Megaton's sequel will pass a spare 90 minutes just fine, but will leave you with absolutely no lasting impression beyond a sense that the title might as well have been Taken 2 The Bank."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Director Sally Potter shrewdly weaves the domestic drama ..."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
Looper is up there with Duncan Jones' Moon and Source Code in the ranks of this century's most genuinely exciting sci-fi films."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Now Is Good (2013) |
"
It's subtly acted by both Fanning and Irvine, who seem to realize that the only way to work with material this potentially melodramatic is to underplay."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Hysteria (2012) |
"
Too unsexy for a date movie, too much fingering for a see-with-your-mum movie."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
In Your Hands (Contre Toi) (2010) |
"
Kristin Scott Thomas impresses, but the third act turns everything to mush."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Aug 15, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
35%
|
The Players (Les infidèles) () |
"
While there's undeniably a streak of misogyny at its center by virtue of its flippantly unfaithful characters, there's also a healthy dose of equal contempt for them..."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Jul 11, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
Killer Joe is emphatically not to everyone's taste, but it is among the purest cinematic experiences you'll have this year. It will also ensure that you never, ever look at fried chicken in quite the same way again."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
Rock of Ages (2012) |
"
When these kids sing "I love rock 'n' roll", you believe them, and chances are in that moment, you'll love it too."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Jun 12, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
A Fantastic Fear of Everything () |
"
Mills must as least be credited with a vision that feels more or less entirely unique."
—
Digital Spy
Posted Jun 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
She Monkeys (Apflickorna) (2011) |
"
A deftly measured, deeply unsettling portrait of a power struggle."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
A through-and-through weepie that's unlikely to convert any Sparks naysayers. The darker hues of its war-based story nonetheless make the sugary excesses easier to swallow."
—
Total Film
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
At once stilted and melodramatic, this is a desperately ill-conceived adaptation of a fascinating story."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Lockout (Unrated) (2012) |
"
Shallow, silly yet infectiously good-natured, this is as guiltily pleasurable as dystopia gets."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 20, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Ecstasy (2012) |
"
Billy Boyd's distinctly un-Pippin turn as a psycho drug dealer aside, there's little of interest in this misjudged, miswritten mess."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Delicacy (2012) |
"
[Tatou's] romance with sad-sack Markus (François Damiens) charms, never veering into kook but remaining in the realms of the recognisable."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Titanic (2012) |
"
Leo and Kate give good doomed romance but it's the human horror of the collision, botched evacuation and final sinking that devastates most."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Tiny Furniture (2010) |
"
A painfully authentic anti-coming-of-ager."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
If Not Us, Who? () |
"
This is a shrewd two-pronged portrait of psychological unravelling against a vast political backdrop, with a daring, disturbing performance from Lauzemis."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Urbanized (2011) |
"
A rich, ambitious exploration of the ways our surroundings are shaped, and the subtler ways they shape us."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 22, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
30%
|
The Vow (2012) |
"
For all its clunky scripting there's an essential sweetness at work here, thanks partly to McAdams and partly to an unusually chaste love story that ultimately keeps melodrama at bay."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
26%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
Watching really attractive, really charismatic people be really funny seldom gets old, and they're served reasonably well by a tight, disciplined script that capitalises on their game charms."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
A stunningly assured, elegantly crafted and profoundly disturbing portrait of a traumatised mind..."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 23, 2012
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