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1/5
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3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
A tasteless, breathless Hello-tastic romance that plays fast and loose with the facts. Any more creepily reverential, and it would be curtseying."
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Total Film
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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3/5
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
Witty, wry, and just a little bit scattershot, this good-natured satire takes on cinema's last taboo with small-screen plotting, but big-screen gusto."
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Total Film
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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|
3/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
What keeps the show on the road are the three male lead performances, which are commendably stripped-down and honest."
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Total Film
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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|
3/5
|
80%
|
Any Day Now (2012) |
"
The actors excel, particularly Levya, whose turn will knock you sideways."
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Total Film
Posted Sep 2, 2013
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|
|
97%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
As well as the film's almost documentary realism (it's required viewing for shipping personnel), here the brief but telling extras show off Lindholm's dedication to accuracy."
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Total Film
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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3/5
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
Seyfried and Sarsgaard excel in a biopic that focuses on the hard times rather than the hardcore, and leaves you feeling that there's a lot more to say."
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Total Film
Posted Aug 12, 2013
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|
5/5
|
88%
|
When Harry Met Sally (1989) |
"
What knocks it out of the park is the combination of Ephron's insights and Reiner's matchless comic chops."
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Total Film
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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3/5
|
94%
|
The Deep (Djúpið) (2013) |
"
It's all a pretty obvious metaphor for the icy plunge that the Icelandic economy took recently, but is none the worse for it."
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Total Film
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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|
3/5
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
A sly true-crime drama."
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Total Film
Posted Jul 8, 2013
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3/5
|
55%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Well-crafted, wellintentioned and well, just a tad dull, Redford's radical-chic-road-trip will appeal to the Senior Railcard crowd."
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Total Film
Posted May 17, 2013
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3/5
|
82%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
A pitch-perfect period setting can't compensate for the presence of the lithe but terminally listless leads."
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Total Film
Posted May 15, 2013
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|
3/5
|
81%
|
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday) () |
"
The images of North Chile's lunar landscapes sing - if you can stand the mercilessly long takes."
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Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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4/5
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Steven Spielberg's masterly, high-minded recreation of Abraham Lincoln's long-shot battle to get the 13th amendment outlawing slavery through a hostile Congress."
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Total Film
Posted Jan 15, 2013
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|
3/5
|
68%
|
Great Expectations (2013) |
"
Its glossy looks, first-rate playing and famous pedigree will be cat-nip to book-groupies."
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Total Film
Posted Oct 22, 2012
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|
2/5
|
0%
|
The Knot () |
"
Nothing if not predictable."
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Total Film
Posted Sep 28, 2012
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|
4/5
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
An ambitious love letter to a Louisiana way of life that's being literally washed away."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
El Bulli: Cooking In Progress (2011) |
"
Legendary chef Ferran Adrià's philosophising about pushing new food frontiers is fascinating, but barely glimpsed, so keen is the film on recording the appliance of science to innocent ingredients."
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Total Film
Posted Jul 16, 2012
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|
3/5
|
83%
|
Cloclo () |
"
Dardenne brothers favourite Jérémie Renier is uncannily good as the tightly wound star, as well as a dead ringer for him."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 21, 2012
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|
|
19%
|
Lay the Favorite (2012) |
"
Frears seems to be in something of a slump, and his giddy, surface-skimming adaptation of Beth Raymer's memoir about her trajectory from stripper to bookie isn't reversing the trend."
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Total Film
Posted Jun 13, 2012
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|
3/5
|
82%
|
Fast Girls (2013) |
"
Noel Clarke, who co-scripted and co-stars, doesn't get any Kidulthood-style grit going, though Crichlow's gutsy performance has you rooting for her."
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Total Film
Posted Jun 13, 2012
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|
5/5
|
93%
|
The Apartment (1960) |
"
No one does the pitchblack flipside of funny like Wilder, and 1960's The Apartment is the darkest he ever made."
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Total Film
Posted Jun 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
All In Good Time () |
"
Its stagey mix of East Is East-style father/ son conflict and bouncy bedroom farce is endearing, though a tad stereotyped."
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Total Film
Posted May 10, 2012
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|
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71%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
The characters' all-round unpleasantness, and the film's merciless mirth-making with their failings, keeps things buoyantly, bleakly funny."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Feb 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
Moving, if heavy-handed, it's an emotional walkabout with real heart."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
|
68%
|
Wuthering Heights (2012) |
"
Andrea Arnold's stark, defiantly naturalistic new version succeeds brilliantly in injecting the shock of the new into this well-thumbed English classic."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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|
|
77%
|
The Debt (2011) |
"
The result is a sturdy, often suspenseful piece, but one that delivers less than it promises."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Oct 4, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
10%
|
Horrid Henry: The Movie (2013) |
"
Kids will enjoy the gobby tween attitude and energy, but the paper-thin plot and extraneous 3D antics don't provide the solid laughs of, say, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid."
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Total Film
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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|
|
84%
|
Beginners (2011) |
"
One can only regret this writer-director's decision to cram so much material into the mix that some fine understated performances, and much of the film's emotional impact, are obscured along the way."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Jul 26, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Prom (2011) |
"
Inhabits Glee and High School Musical territory without mustering their wit or creativity."
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Total Film
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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|
|
44%
|
Third Star (2010) |
"
Underneath Third Star's classy cladding, which camouflages its maudlin streak and conventional melodramatic underpinnings, there lies a TV movie first and last."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted May 24, 2011
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|
3/5
|
59%
|
Vidal Sassoon: The Movie (2011) |
"
The breathless account of Sassoon's '80s stint as hair-product mogul would have benefited from some September Issue-style detachment, and ironically, the whole film could do with a good trim."
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Total Film
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Water for Elephants (2011) |
"
A swoony, enjoyable, old-time romance whose best acts are a period-perfect Pattinson and a playful pachyderm."
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Total Film
Posted Apr 26, 2011
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|
|
85%
|
Meek's Cutoff (2011) |
"
Meek's Cutoff is simultaneously cerebral and astonishingly cinematic, a historical road movie that stretches the inhospitable landscapes and marginal living of Wendy and Lucy in intriguing directions."
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Sight and Sound
Posted Apr 19, 2011
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|
3/5
|
25%
|
Hop (2011) |
"
Witty scripting spices up a sugary scenario, giving this fluffy family comedy some adult-pleasing bite. It ain't Shrek, but it ain't dreck either."
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Total Film
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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|
3/5
|
68%
|
West Is West (2011) |
"
A cross-cultural sequel that's as gently comical as the first was satirical. Despite lashings of Eastern promise, it's as British as a chip butty."
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Total Film
Posted Feb 18, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The Be All and End All () |
"
Both plotting and playing are a bit ragged and the visuals are telly-tastic, but the film's fresh, unvarnished take on male friendship is altogether winning."
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Total Film
Posted Dec 8, 2010
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|
2/5
|
64%
|
Secretariat (2010) |
"
Like Secretariat himself, the film is a glossy, big-hearted slow- starter, but lacks his ability to power home ahead of the competition."
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Total Film
Posted Dec 6, 2010
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|
3/5
|
64%
|
Adrift (2009) |
"
The real standout here is newbie Laura Neiva who plays Filipa with a convincing mix of minxy manipulation and blundering vulnerability."
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Total Film
Posted Nov 10, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009) |
"
Studded with surreal and unexpectedly tender touches (kamikaze cows, an elegantly lovestruck horse), this is plastic and fantastic."
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Total Film
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) |
"
Kiarostami keeps us guessing, while Binoche drives the movie with a performance that earned her Cannes' Best Actress award."
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Total Film
Posted Sep 9, 2010
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|
3/5
|
83%
|
Beautiful Kate (2009) |
"
Ward weaves a deft hidden family tragedy, but you'll see the revelations coming a country mile away."
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Total Film
Posted Jul 29, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Bluebeard (2010) |
"
Catherine Breillat's move from arthouse provocations to ponderous period dramas continues with this austere, slyly experimental adaptation of Charles Perrault's grisly classic."
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Total Film
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Get Him to the Greek (2010) |
"
Prepare to have a bawdy, taboobusting good time. Just don't expect it to resonate anywhere except your funnybone."
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Total Film
Posted Jun 30, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Samson and Delilah (2010) |
"
Filled with brusque tenderness and dusty beauty, director Warwick Thornton's first feature is a fine and moving example of outback neorealism."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 2, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Nightwatching (Nocna straz) (2007) |
"
Martin Freeman's chippy, cocky artist is riveting, as tender to dying wife Saskia (a knowing Eve Birthistle) as he is tricky with his militia patrons..."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Leonera (Lion's Den) (2008) |
"
No melodrama, no thriller twists, just Trapero's camera sticking to his lead actress like sweat."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
27%
|
Extraordinary Measures (2010) |
"
An extraordinary story receives a decidedly ordinary treatment in this worthy weepie, which can't get either Ford or Fraser to catch fire. Heartstrings get tugged and tear-ducts tickled, but it's more Lifetime movie than movie of a lifetime."
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Total Film
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Treeless Mountain (2009) |
"
A film of small gestures closely observed, it's surprisingly unsentimental, despite its heart-tugging qualities."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
The Proposal (2009) |
"
A pedigree cast, fun premise and punchy dialogue make Bullock's return to romantic comedy look a great catch, and Reynolds is sharper than a diamond solitaire. Pity, then, that its penchant for sentimentality makes it miss congeniality."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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