|
3/5
|
83%
|
The Conspiracy (2013) |
"
A satisfying found-footage spooker."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Wicker Man - Final Cut (2013) |
"
Still a classic, now enhanced by some judicious edits."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
InRealLife () |
"
A dense and serious-minded study. The results feel like an intermittently fascinating springboard for something lengthier."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
The Horror of Frankenstein (1971) |
"
Poor attempt by Hammer to create their version of Frankenstein, featuring the usually reliable Bates offering a rather irritating performance as the scientist who goes beyond the call of science."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) |
"
In its best scenes, it adds dynamism and British grit to a genre that had previously tried to get by on atmospherics and mood alone. It manages to be shocking without being especially frightening, and its virtues of performance and style remain striking."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
uwantme2killhim? () |
"
Interesting material let down by the occasionally pedestrian direction."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
A perfectly judged, strikingly beautiful film, but also a lunatic enterprise which invites - even welcomes - befuddlement as much as wonder. A true original."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
An entertaining, provocative biopic with good performances and many strong scenes - but it still doesn't feel like the full Lovelace story."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
It is a little more conventional than District 9 (what isn't?), but confirms Blomkamp as one of the potential science-fiction greats of this decade."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
Though Jackman's star turn is finally allowed to dominate, there's a sense that all this is too easy for actor and character."
—
Screen International
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
57%
|
The Frozen Ground (2013) |
"
There's plenty in this taut thriller for you to stick around for, not least the reuniting of the Con Air duo."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
A Field in England () |
"
Very physical, with intense performances and half-serious period talk, it's an impressive, haunting picture - though the sort of thing you have to meet at least halfway to enjoy."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The East (2013) |
"
This feels a little awkward and earnest, and perhaps not angry enough."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
Prepare to cringe and snicker whenever the characters are talking, but gasp when Shyamalan just shows amazing stuff."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
The ideal vampire movie for Twi-hards who've had their hearts broken for the first time and want to move on to a less cosy vision of eternal romance with a side order of addiction. "
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 27, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) |
"
Criminally underrated with two great performances from the lead males."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Easy Money (2012) |
"
There's plenty here to show why director Daniel Espinosa caught Hollywood's eye, even if this pre-Safe House crime drama holds few surprises."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
A pleasingly intricate double (or is it triple?) revenge plot anchored by excellent acting, with a terrific burst of action at the climax."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
Lacking a single honest laugh, this is shoddy by comparison with the other Scary Movie sequels... which throws it in a pit with Transylmania, Breaking Wind and Stan Helsing."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
A dazzling, absorbing entertainment which shows off Danny Boyle's mastery of complex storytelling and black, black humour."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Within its self-imposed limits as a remake, this is perfectly satisfactory, but the jury is still out on whether Alvarez can deliver on the promise of his shorts with more original work."
—
Screen International
Posted Mar 13, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Mila Kunis gets a gold star for excellence in bewitchery and Sam Raimi can settle securely behind the curtain as a mature master of illusion."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
|
33%
|
The Keep (1983) |
"
The Keep is a worthy successor to a mode of horror, as morally unsettling as it is spiritually devastating, that threads through films like Murnau's Nosferatu and Lewton and Robson's Isle of the Dead."
—
Electric Sheep
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
Blow-Up (1966) |
"
Despite its thriller hook, Blow-Up is less a mystery than a portrait of swinging alienation. "
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
46%
|
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) |
"
A moving and often funny self-portrayal of Chapman that will delight Python fans."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
A smart, subversive but rather cold debut from Brandon Cronenberg that's short of the dark wit that lit up his father's early work."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Movie 43 (2013) |
"
Just no."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Hollow () |
"
A so-so spookfest that offers few surprises."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Gripping throughout, with an impressive central performance, this is like a Dogme 95 redo of a Chuck Norris film ..."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
Midnight Son (2012) |
"
A bloody and well-acted vampire curio."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
Texas Chainsaw (2013) |
"
A clunky, lumbering sequel that, like its masked protagonist, has no redeeming features."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
Grabbers (2013) |
"
A near-irresistible Friday-night-out monster picture in the tradition of Lake Placid or Tremors, with a boozy Irish charm that makes it a distinctive addition to the catalogue of alien invasions."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 24, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
42%
|
Midnight's Children (2013) |
"
Thanks to Rushdie's sensitive handling of his own material, this is an adaptation big in both ideas and heart."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 24, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
78%
|
The City of Lost Children (La Cité des Enfants Perdus) (1995) |
"
The City Of Lost Children is as great a film as you thought Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was when you were five years old."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
Enormously entertaining, endlessly quotable, perfectly cast and packed full of the richest acting you'll see from an ensemble cast all year, but the result is ever so slightly hollow."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Cover Girl (1944) |
"
A creaking plot is made bearable by gorgeous colour, the even more gorgeous Hayworth, some oddly unsentimental and unsettling flashbacks with her playing her character's turn-of-the-century grandmother."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 28, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Sightseers (2013) |
"
Wheatley's film serves as a black-comic state-of-the-nation address."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
Gambit () |
"
A few smiles and some fraying charm, but big laughs are missing. This just about gets away with it rather than romps off with the loot."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Lawrence of Arabia (Restored Edition) () |
"
Lean's great Lawrence Of Arabia biopic honours him with a complex, sympathetic but a compelling portrayal."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
Excision (2012) |
"
Like the lovechild of Carrie and Napoleon Dynamite, Pauline is the oddball hero of a truly impressive, eccentric teen horror."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
Stitches (2013) |
"
Deeply icky on many different levels, with Ross Noble's feature debut illuminated by stomach-churning effects."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 21, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
24%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
Catfish pair Joost and Ariel Schulman keep the franchise firmly on track with a satisfyingly scary fourth instalment."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Pretty much all you could want from a 21st Century Bond: cool but not camp, respectful of tradition but up to the moment, serious in its thrills and relatively complex in its characters but with the sense of fun that hasn't always been evident lately."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Atlantic City (1980) |
"
A well observed and deeply tender tale."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Some Guy Who Kills People (2012) |
"
An oddball horror-comedy with bizarro B-movie appeal."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Sinister (2012) |
"
Derrickson bounces back from his insipid redo of The Day The Earth Stood Still with an effective chiller that's got a skeleton or two in its closet."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
Looper isn't perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
Ingenious and wonderfully detailed, though better in its imaginative horror than its slightly too-broad comic knockabout."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
5%
|
The Cold Light of Day (2012) |
"
It exists basically as a long showreel for Superman-to-be Henry Cavill, who gets to demonstrate a mastery of run-with-a-gun acting and flex his leading man charisma without really breaking a sweat."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 6, 2012
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