|
2/5
|
35%
|
Young Einstein (1988) |
"
A rather lame, awkward and amateurish movie, only fitfully funny and made in such a remorselessly low-brow way that it makes Crocodile Dundee look like Citizen Kane."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Despite DiCaprio's prize performance, purists will fume, but even as lit-crashing razzle-dazzle entertainment Luhrmann's adaptation is a candelabrum too far."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
On the Town (1949) |
"
Delightful, athletic stuff with some unusual -- but wonderful -- location shooting. New York never looked better. "
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
Northern Exposure with Jason Bourne. Which is a backhanded way of saying this is far from the challenging movie it promised to be."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Easy Rider (1969) |
"
This is a glorious widescreen vision of a hot and bothered America, at once beautiful and lost. Yes, it has dated, but its pessimistic last gasp ("We blew it...") still carries a prescient sting."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
It's an adventure into the very concept of storytelling: magical, enthralling and thrilling as much as bewildering, pompous and potty. In other words, up in the clouds."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Hitchcock for dummies: brisk, jolly, well-played but oversimplified."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
As unexpected as it is intelligent, thanks to virtuoso work from Spielberg and Kushner, Lincoln is landmark filmmaking, while Day-Lewis is so authentic he pulls off that stovepipe."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) |
"
For sheer old-fashioned, childhood rekindling adventure you really can't go past it."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Wings of Desire (1987) |
"
A beautiful, literate and romantic piece of cinema."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
The Neverending Story (1984) |
"
This was sweet and charming at the time but now it just lacks either the comedy or sophistication of kids' fantasy film that we've all become accustomed to."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Dragonslayer (1981) |
"
An unknown treasure of a fantasy film and well worth a look for fans of the genre."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Witches (1990) |
"
Deliciously cruel to children, Roeg remains true to Dahl's underlying sense of real horror."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
The Big Blue (Le Grand bleu) (1988) |
"
This simple tale of love, friendship and the sea lingers in the mind long after the final credits."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
An uneven mix of impressively executed, violent clichés about good ol' boys defending the American right to flout the law."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
No less lovely than former films, in many ways lovelier, but Brave is boutique Pixar: less ambitious, more succinct, excellence at a lower ebb."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
Everything Gilroy and crew concoct only serves to mock the excellence and passion with which Greengrass delivered his films."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
Thanks to McConaughey's oily power and Friedkin's unflinching purpose it's a compelling beast."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
A part hypnotic, part profound, part send-up meditation on our financially imploding time."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Passport to Pimlico (1949) |
"
An entertaining effort from the Ealing studios that sadly hasn't proved as enduring as its peers."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Prometheus (2012) |
"
Buffeted by a lack of suspense, threadbare characters, and a very poor script, the stunning visuals, gloopy madness, and sterling Fassbenderiness can't prevent Prometheus feeling like Alien's poor relation. "
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 30, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Blackthorn (2011) |
"
Sam Shepard illuminated the old West - or at least the South American parts - with creaky charisma. He unleashes a growly old timer to rival Rooster Cogburn or Will Munny."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Heaven's Gate (1980) |
"
Flawed but interesting piece of art in the form of an anti-Western."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
16%
|
Assassins (1995) |
"
The action is stilted and infrequent, reduced to indifferent gun play, car chases and one standout explosion when a gas main ignites."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
All the President's Men (1976) |
"
As smart and cautionary now as it was in the '70s."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Captain Blood (1935) |
"
Lavish pirate adventure that launched Errol Flynn onto 1930's screens and ensured that buckles would be swashed for a good few years to follow."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) |
"
With so many films adapted from novels, it's nice to see cinema paying homage to unheralded greats of literature like Sebald."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
A sequel confident in what it's about - bigger, better, funnier, without stretching the joke."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 11, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Sound It Out (2011) |
"
Proof that, in the right hands, documentaries boast as much heart as any feature. This one got soul too. Wonderful."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 31, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Carry on Spying (Agent Oooh!) (1964) |
"
More sprightly and less encumbered with the need to titillate that would ring-fence the Carry Ons in later life, there is a youthfulness about Spying that still remains fresher than the colour films."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Island of Lost Souls (The Island of Dr. Moreau) (1933) |
"
This may have been made (and banned) in the 1930s, but it remains a neatly disturbing horror with a definitive ending."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
Action-packed, gorgeous, and faithfully whimsical: Hergé thought Spielberg the only director capable of filming Tintin. He was onto something."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Midnight in Paris (2011) |
"
Light, assured, and utterly charming: Woody Allen's sublime gifts are still intact."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Jane Eyre (2011) |
"
There's no question it's stunningly mounted, and Wasikowska makes a much stronger Jane than Alice, but the romance is overripe and the climax underdone."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
Final Destination 5 (2011) |
"
Time for death to call in sick?"
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 24, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Home Alone (1990) |
"
A hilarious comedy (although not a very believable one -- there can be no eight-year-olds this ingenious) that kids will love and adults won't mind sitting through either."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
Dune (1984) |
"
It's not for everyone, but if you don't mind the brain-bending confusion of the plot and occasional feeling of '80s high camp, this isn't as bad as its detractors would have it."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
There is simply nothing like it out there: profound, idiosyncratic, complex, sincere and magical; a confirmation that cinema can aspire to art."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 4, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
"
If you don't love Shawshank, chances are you're beyond redemption."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Hanna (2011) |
"
An absurd-sounding concept rendered wholly believable and thrilling by a fearless young actress and a director at the top of his game."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 3, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2010) |
"
Slightly underpowered as an espionage thriller, this is nonetheless a fascinating story told with real panache."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Moby Dick (1956) |
"
The film takes flight as a grand chase movie, and leaves its ambition in its wake. "
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 5, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Quo Vadis (1951) |
"
Enough large-scale spectacle scenes to outweigh the inevitable religiose sludge that creeps in between them."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
53%
|
Brighton Rock (2011) |
"
It really needed a stronger director than John Boulting, but Brighton Rock perfectly embalms the seediness of its era."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
Think the blazing joys of Chariots Of Fire where the race is to the end of a sentence. Can it be that the British are coming?"
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 3, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Unstoppable (2010) |
"
Some days a runaway train movie just hits the spot."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Africa United () |
"
The intention is Spain, the kids are Uruguay, but the direction and script are England."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 20, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
Case 39 (2010) |
"
Manages to be both very silly and highly forgettable. Only for those who collect killer-children films."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) |
"
By turns fascinating and mysterious."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2010
|
72%
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