|
2/5
|
72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
A short and trifling thing."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
51%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Almost hysterically inadequate."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Bridesmaids (2011) |
"
Really, bottom line: it's the best thing Apatow's put his name to in years."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
The Fighter (2010) |
"
Russell throws so much at the screen that there is little time to make your mind up."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
Miral (2011) |
"
Is this a joke? Or a film art 'happening'?"
—
Little White Lies
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
StreetDance 3D () |
"
Like a full-length version of Britain's Got Talent -- but in the best possible way. "
—
Times [UK]
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
83%
|
The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
[Contains] a series of fundamentally dispiriting moments that are seemingly insulated from criticism by the Polanski brand."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Blind Revenge (2012) |
"
A Closed Book is directed by Raoul Ruiz, a "revered member of the European avant-garde" who decided to tackle "the Anglo-Saxon tradition" - with execrable results."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
72%
|
La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) (2008) |
"
The pacing is so leaden, and the direction so heavy-handed, that it's fundamentally hard to care."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
The Unloved (2009) |
"
The camera is held at kiddie height, the close-ups are all Lucy's, and the adult world is viewed with deep suspicion as a cold and unforgiving place. It's a tough watch, and justifiably uncompromising."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
The Last Station (2010) |
"
A comforting, Sunday-night costume drama, with some epic performances."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Crazy Heart (2009) |
"
This turn from the perennially settled and contented Bridges is pure acting. It is the best performance of the past 12 months, and indeed possibly the next."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
The Princess and the Frog (2009) |
"
The closest yet that Disney's traditional 2-D animation has come to threatening the supremacy of the computer-generated Pixar-style tales."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) |
"
Precious is a big-screen "misery memoir" that is so keen to trace the hellish pathology of familial abuse that it risks glorifying its own subject, or at least shooting it with horror-movie verve."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"
Ninja Assassin is final proof that the once innovative Wachowski Brothers have indeed lost their creative mojo."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
57%
|
Burlesque Undressed () |
"
A startlingly sycophantic documentary about the art of stripping that is produced by its central subject."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Armored (2009) |
"
A host of charismatic character actors, including Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne and Matt Dillon, slum it about amiably in Armoured, a B-movie action thriller, before it all implodes in the final unbelievable act."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Brothers (2009) |
"
Brothers is a movie of moments (some of which are fine indeed) that never quite coalesce into a credible or satisfying whole."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
A deliciously self-referential treat, and perhaps even [Clooney's] best movie yet."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking) (2008) |
"
A beautifully measured melodrama that owes much to Yasujiro Ozu's Japanese classic Tokyo Story."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Crude (2009) |
"
Although the real-life outcome may be known to some, Crude still, at its best, unfolds like a courtroom thriller."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
The Book of Eli (2010) |
"
It's as if someone who saw last week's apocalyptic drama The Road said, "Let's do it again, but this time let's make it rubbish"."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
Fireball (Muay Thai Dunk) (2009) |
"
Fireball is a preposterously idiotic Thai movie about an illegal underground blood sport that mixes martial arts and, er, basketball to produce four incredibly long, and hugely tedious, fight sequences."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Daybreakers (2010) |
"
The foolhardy Spierigs spend so much time setting up Daybreakers for a sequel, or possibly a franchise, that they leave the movie itself mostly in disarray."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
It's Complicated (2009) |
"
It's Complicated is the kind of wholesome adult-oriented entertainment that once formed the bedrock of classical Hollywood."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Exam (2010) |
"
Fundamentally pointless."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
The Road (2009) |
"
A Trojan-horse blockbuster that promises the wham bam of apocalypse while actually delivering the quiet pain of human intimacy, The Road might just be one of the most heartfelt end-of-the-world movies yet made."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Spread (2009) |
"
The ghosts of Shampoo, American Gigolo and even Alfie (both versions) cruelly haunt the ripe and raunchy frames of Mackenzie's Spread - another "shallow-stud-in-need-of-redemption" movie that pales in the face of its predecessors."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
Ostensibly a snapshot of postwar Japan in the midst of profound cultural change, it is the movie's painful depiction of familial disintegration that remains universal today."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) |
"
Cheap, ramshackle entertainment that's nevertheless imbued with affection."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
Nine (2009) |
"
Someone call Geneva. Torture has a new name, and it's called Nine. For there are few more agonising experiences this holiday season than squirming through the painfully misfired ambitions of this star-studded Rob Marshall musical."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Humpday (2009) |
"
Humpday is a high-concept comedy made for low-budget money that might just be one of the funniest films of the year."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Avatar (2009) |
"
Avatar, essentially, is a film we've seen before, boldly made to look like nothing we've seen before. It is truly the Star Wars of our age."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"
It's bold, confrontational cinema that will, as its author intended, have you questioning at every turn just what it is you expect from a modern movie, and more importantly, why."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
12%
|
The Stepfather (2009) |
"
If the movie's attic-bound climax is a little predictable and the plot holes rather gaping, The Stepfather, unlike many of its more prestigious A-class competitors, is never less than entertaining."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
98%
|
The Red Shoes (1948) |
"
Truly spectacular, and yet dull."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Planet 51 (2009) |
"
A hideously annoying and emotionally blank tale."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
The Merry Gentleman (2009) |
"
The film never quite convinces as anything other than a puff-piece for Keaton, but it is bolstered by another deeply empathetic turn from Macdonald."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"
The film fails as a character portrait, a drama or a snapshot of an era, while simultaneously offering tantalising hints of each. Apart from watching the rising star McKay strut his stuff, there's little to recommend in Me and Orson Welles."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Okuribito (Departures) (2009) |
"
Fascinating, witty and heartfelt."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
43%
|
Cracks (2011) |
"
A film about the eruption of desire in an all-girls boarding school that marks the beguiling feature debut from Jordan (daughter of Ridley) Scott."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Mr. Right (2006) |
"
Mr Right must surely be the first gay movie that manages, by virtue of its overwhelming ineptitude, to be curiously homophobic."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 27, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
Bunny and the Bull (2011) |
"
Bunny is an acquired taste. But there's gold here, and it is certainly one of the most inventive British comedies of the decade."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 27, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"
Not since David Lynch's Lost Highway has a movie manipulated so skilfully the disturbing power of black screen space and the potential horror hidden within."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 27, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Ulysses (1967) |
"
An utterly definitive work."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 20, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Examined Life (2009) |
"
Never dull, but it will make your head hurt."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 20, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
27%
|
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"
The cinematic equivalent of a Jonas Brothers concert, The Twilight Saga: New Moon is slickly packaged entertainment that's nonetheless predicated on a creepy vision of teenage sexuality that is desiccated of, well, sexuality."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 19, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Tulpan (2009) |
"
[A] beguiling feature debut."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Magic Hour () |
"
Some of the tales are compelling...some need serious pruning."
—
Times [UK]
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
74%
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