|
3/5
|
——
|
Blood (2013) |
"
It's a crisp, cold little thriller with a real sense of the noose tightening around otherwise unremarkable lives."
—
Total Film
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
Undoubtedly a challenging watch, but it's helped greatly by beautiful cinematography and music."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
The Look of Love () |
"
For the most part - filthy good fun."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
L'ordre et la morale (Rebellion) () |
"
At a compassion-sapping 136 minutes, it's far too long, and Kassovitz's characterless central turn makes a worthy personal statement veer close to vanity project."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
You can't help but thrum with adrenalin."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Movingly acted and extremely harrowing."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
46%
|
The Sweeney (2013) |
"
An intermittently exciting watch, thanks to some screeching car chases and a brilliant Central London shootout."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Sleep Tight (2012) |
"
Clever suspense cinema with a gleam in its eye and ice in its heart from an emergent Spanish A-lister. Hitchcock himself would be proud, and maybe shocked."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
All prologue and no pay-off, but compelling all the same, this curio plays out like Diary Of The Dead with more diaries and fewer dead."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Hollow () |
"
Proceedings switch from quietly creepy to loudly exasperating as relationship woes replace scares, the early promise proving a largely empty threat."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
Chained (2012) |
"
It certainly makes for a traumatic watch."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) |
"
You wonder if an actual documentary might have revealed more about a man so desperate to obscure himself."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Might be too much - and too bloody - for certain constitutions, but the rewards are plentiful. Be sure to hunt it down."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 18, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
May I Kill U? () |
"
A satire so blunt it makes an early - but compelling - case for most misguided film of 2013."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
What Richard Did (2013) |
"
An impressive study of guilt, responsibility and the bad things that happen to good people."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Grabbers () |
"
A bright, breezy Irish monster mash boasting gorgeous cinematography, appealing performances and great SFX, even if it's a little slight for can't-miss status."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
54%
|
V/H/S (2012) |
"
Screechy, surprising and, in places, proper scary, this glitchy genre mixtape puts invention ahead of attention span, representing a 4/6 victory for killer over filler."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
American Mary (2013) |
"
Katharine Isabelle is phenomenal in one of the most original and politically engaged horrors of recent years, even if the second half isn't a patch on the first."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 11, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Dead Europe () |
"
It's intriguing and pretentious in equal measure, capturing the feeling of being adrift in a foreign world, but then failing to capitalise on it."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Baraka (1993) |
"
Either an awesome vision of the world in all its time-lapsed wonder or visual whale music."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
The strangest, sweetest coming-of-age flick you'll see all year."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Hit So Hard (2012) |
"
What hits hardest is how, without Cobain's talent, grunge's veneration of self-obsession/destruction really curdles."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
The most fun Bond flick since about 1977..."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Nov 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Sightseers (2013) |
"
At first Father Ted cute, but then League Of Gentlemen cruel - a combination that Wheatley never lets curdle - this is a dark little delight."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 22, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
Engagingly off-centre, like Charlie Kaufman taking down Quentin Tarantino, this sunbaked shaggy-dog story is a place-holder film for McDonagh, and often closer to chaos than it is to genius."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Gritty, tense, funny, moving... one of the best, and saddest, of the year."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The Intouchables (2012) |
"
The cliches are so skillfully navigated only the heartless will fail to be charmed."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Buried (2010) |
"
With little more than one actor, a mobile phone, a (very full) Zippo and a few disembodied voices, director Rodrigo Cortés has created a 95-minute panic-attack-made-movie."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Into the White (2013) |
"
[The cast] acquit themselves well, forging convincing and ultimately moving relationships as they learn how little petty political differences mean when starvation's at the door."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 1, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Sinister (2012) |
"
An enjoyable, if boilerplate, boo-flick that maintains an enviable rate of scares per minute by throwing everything - demons, ghosts, snakes, loud noises - at the screen."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Queen - Hungarian Rhapsody: Live In Budapest '86 (2012) |
"
Playing anthem after anthem, Queen show off the full spectrum of their sound, from thrillingly pompous to poignant - sometimes both in the same song."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
39%
|
The Possession (2012) |
"
You're always painfully aware of how scared the characters are, even if you don't quite feel the same."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
46%
|
The Sweeney (2013) |
"
Might just be the guiltiest of guilty pleasures."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
When the Lights Went Out () |
"
Besides a couple of decent low-key jolts, hearsay and heroic art direction alone don't add up to t'Exorcist."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 28, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
A Night in the Woods () |
"
There's plenty of atmosphere, but both the leads and the location deserve better."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 27, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
36%
|
Iron Sky (2012) |
"
The film hasn't the budget to match its dizzying concept, nor the wit to fill the gaps between."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
The Devil's Business () |
"
Though it doesn't quite last the distance, even at a slender 69 minutes there's a spooky stillness to it that make the production shortcomings seem more like stylistic choices."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 6, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The Imposter (2012) |
"
Creepier than Catfish and as cinematic as Man On Wire, this is an unnerving story immaculately told and a strong contender for doc of the year."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 31, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Jackpot (Arme Riddere) () |
"
Although it can't help but feel a touch retro in comparison to Sweden's more sophisticated recent output, it gets by on good-humoured bad taste alone."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 31, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) |
"
The tale is better than the telling - and the soundtrack's better still - but music this monumental demands its moment. Now go and buy the album."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 16, 2012
|
|
|
70%
|
The Hunter (2012) |
"
The domestic and conspiracy elements are so perfunctory you sense the film, like its hero, can't wait to bugger off into the bush and forget about them altogether."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) |
"
Star of the show is Theron's wicked stepmother, who seethes with barely contained sexual jealousy."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
Lovely Molly (2012) |
"
Impressive, if messy, the film combines kitchen-sink drama with found-footage horror, perjuring itself with too many plot possibilities."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Polisse (2012) |
"
Not for the faint-hearted, but it feels like the truth."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
A Royal Affair (2012) |
"
The stand-out ... is Mikkel Boe Folsgaard as the King. Teetering on the edge of sanity, he is both detestable and sympathetic."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 13, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
32%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
...depending on your levels of credulity - and blood alcohol - it might just pass muster as a late-night six-pack flick."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
This is Chandor's triumph, and marks him out as someone to keep an eye on in the future."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
She Monkeys (Apflickorna) (2011) |
"
[It] may sound like a pocket-fiddler's dream, but proves rather sweeter than its synopsis."
—
Total Film
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
One of the strangest mainstream releases of recent times, Dark Shadows' demented gothic melodrama/fish-out-of-water comedy/creature feature feels like you've slipped into a Burton fever-dream."
—
Total Film
Posted May 10, 2012
|
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