|
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
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
Acts of Godfrey () |
"
The script's too busy being arch to give its characters anything to do but act as postmodern mouthpieces, a flaw which makes this unbearable."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 16, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
Nevermind how the animals learned to yak - the real question is who this loud, dull elephant dung is aimed at."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 12, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
By the time Dead Man Down descends into ultra-violence, you'll be long past caring."
—
Digital Spy
Posted May 3, 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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
The Sitter (2011) |
"
At 81 mins, The Sitter literally and figuratively falls short, flirting sporadically with real laughs but confining itself largely to bland fish-outof-water gags and romcom clichés."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
7%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
Nothing wrong with an unashamedly sentimental holiday flick, but there's no excuse for these nails-on-a-chalkboard characters and manipulative heartstring yanking."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
[An] oddly joyless affair centred on an 18-year-old girl voluntarily destroying herself from the inside out, this might work as a standalone horror piece with a stronger directorial hand. As a so-called epic love story, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
The Three Musketeers (2011) |
"
Too many characters, too many plotlines, too little wit. Anderson throws everything at the wall, but ultimately none of it sticks."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Swinging With The Finkels (2011) |
"
Brits and sex comedies have never been easy bedfellows (Sex Lives Of The Potato Men, anyone?), and this laugh-free effort is no exception."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
Bad Teacher (2011) |
"
Diaz's game charms are semi-squandered on a script that's two-thirds filler. Not quite detention, but on thin ice."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Cooking with Stella (2009) |
"
Biswas aside, performances are uninspired and director Dilip Mehta mars his third act with a moralising ending that's neither plausible or earned."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
Life as We Know It (2010) |
"
In case you haven't seen Katherine Heigl play uptight, quirky and terminally single often enough, another chance awaits in Greg Berlanti's awkward slapstick/melodrama mash-up."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
9%
|
Bonded By Blood (2011) |
"
Everything from script to performances goes through the motions, with only Vincent Regan's Mickey registering in more than one dimension."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 9, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Director Sally Potter shrewdly weaves the domestic drama ..."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 28, 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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
3/5
|
36%
|
One Day (2011) |
"
Much of Nicholls' sharp dialogue and emotional truth remains intact, but the over-faithful translation does little to compensate for what can't be lifted from the page."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 17, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
4%
|
A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) |
"
What's most unexpected about this mishmash of elements is how well it all ultimately hangs together."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
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
|
88%
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
78%
|
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
|
|
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
|
65%
|
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
|
|
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
|
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