|
3/5
|
84%
|
Dragon (2012) |
"
Yen again proves one of the few martial artists equally adept with subtler emotional beats."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) |
"
Funny, oddly affecting and cherishably personal: in a better world, this would be on 300 screens, and filler such as The Croods would have to be smuggled in under the radar."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday) () |
"
It's prone to burying its sharper observations under drift, but the performers, working almost in teams, are convincing, and Sotomayor elicits consistently charming responses from Ahumada in particular: bored, wistful, alert to the trouble ahead."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Papadopoulos & Sons () |
"
It's a throwback, but relaxed, sweet and funny with it: a first feature that makes an impression by not pushing too hard to make an impression."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
One of French cinema's foremost enfants terribles here finally grows up: this elegant and eloquent film weighs its words and images with commendably mature precision."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
Erased (2013) |
"
It doesn't entirely insult the intelligence, but often leans towards the indifferent."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
30%
|
King Of The Travellers () |
"
A flibbertigibbet: it arrives with a twinkle in its eye, but little else between its cauliflower ears."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
12 in a Box (2009) |
"
Refunds are inevitable."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
I Superbiker () |
"
Often resembles a fan video for a sport that remains resolutely blokey and unsexy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
50%
|
Hi-so () |
"
An oddly cleansing, even affirming experience."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) (2013) |
"
Plays like an update of the time-honoured Full Monty formula - public exhibitionism vanquishes English emotional reserve - for a post-Glee world."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
The Road: A Story of Life & Death () |
"
Marc Isaacs stakes a claim as documentary film-making's pre-eminent people person in a subtle film about the immigrants along the A5."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Fire In The Blood () |
"
The pharmaceutical giants make a horribly racist defence for their African misdemeanours in a solid piece of reportage."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Breath Of The Gods () |
"
There's plenty of stretching, but not much cinema, in this wearying history of yoga."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
"
Low-key and suggestive, Berberian probably isn't for gorehounds, but it's a persuasive study of breakdown."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
91%
|
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) |
"
his time-travel romcom wastes lead Aubrey Plaza and dithers until its geek-pandering finale."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960) |
"
Remains fascinatingly warped: an extended study in decaying flesh, set to a score mordantly trying to break into Hooray for Hollywood."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Dead Europe () |
"
Director Tony Krawitz pulls off several unsettling moodshifts, and takes extremely seriously the old-world traditions and superstitions a gorefest like Hostel could only sneer and snigger at."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Chasing Ice (2012) |
"
If any film can convert the climate-change sceptics, Chasing Ice would be it: here, seeing really is believing."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Baraka (1993) |
"
The only reaction permitted is gawping."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
Demme hasn't stopped seeking out new angles on this old warhorse, and even the odd speck of spittle on the lens cannot obscure the fact Young increasingly looks and sounds like one of the all-time greats."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
First () |
"
A stirring reminder, now the summer seems a distant dream, that yes, folks, this actually happened here."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Cinema Komunisto () |
"
A brash, diverting and slightly disorganised documentary that reveals how closely Yugoslavian cinema was tied to the Tito regime."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Happy, Happy (2011) |
"
Happy, Happy starts out cartoonish and ends up oddly endearing."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
Everyone's tying up loose ends, and demonstrating no particular enthusiasm about doing so."
—
Scotsman
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
56%
|
People Like Us (2012) |
"
Nothing Like Us would have been more accurate."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
The Wedding Singer's Frank Coraci retains an endearing fondness for funny-faced bit-parts, but it's fundamentally formulaic in construction and mediocre in execution."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Grassroots (2012) |
"
Proves very likable, if a little Sorkin-lite."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
East End Babylon () |
"
The film amply describes the unfocused rage that can fester in deprived communities."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
As ever, "fun size" translates to "no fun whatsoever"."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
The Tempest (2012) |
"
The kids energise it, but it's a choppy jumble of good intentions and half-realised ideas, too wind-tossed in its structure to function even as a useful teaching aid."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
For a Good Time, Call... (2012) |
"
Disarmingly sweet, defending the girls' enterprise and friendship in the face of all judgment."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Keep the Lights On (2012) |
"
Every frame pulses with hard-gained experience: it may be the most lived-in film of 2012, and certainly counts among the most moving."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Inbred () |
"
Both the comedy and horror rake over old ground."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
A Night in the Woods () |
"
It's unusual in using its 80-odd minutes to burrow down into these characters and match their psychic states with the (still underfilmed) location's physical terrain ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
The Women on the 6th Floor (2011) |
"
Luchini almost rescues it from its own complacency, but the script is equal parts blocked toilets and soft-boiled eggs."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
A Thousand Kisses Deep () |
"
A vaguely ambitious but finally wretched exploration of alternative poverty-row realities."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Kosmos (2010) |
"
Yesil makes a winsome savant, but his tendency to communicate with his beloved in loud squawks of birdsong proves trying, to say the least."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
29%
|
Red Lights (2012) |
"
It's the kind of semi-savvy pulp nonsense that'll do if your first choice is sold out."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Himizu (2013) |
"
Sono retains his go-for-the-throat approach, but the violence here somehow connects with the brutal economic conditions, and he fosters very tender, affecting performances from Shôta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidô as his crushed young lovers."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 31, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Tales of the Night (2012) |
"
The pick-and-mix approach is limiting, but there's no denying these are gorgeous amuse-bouches, likely to be devoured by older, more discerning children and dyed-in-the-wool stoners alike."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
Someday Hollywood will think of women as more than fallopian tubes in heels; until then, we're stuck with this kind of project."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (2011) |
"
Not for the first time, a Romanian film shows us an individual floundering within a system from which there can be no easy escape."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Iron Sky (2012) |
"
Marginally more inspired and certainly more likable than Snakes on a Plane or The Human Centipede as net-spawned exploitation fodder goes, but you can safely wait for the DVD."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Even the Rain (Meme La Pluie) (2011) |
"
There are striking performances from Luis Tosar as a cynical yet flexible producer and Juan Carlos Aduviri as the native who becomes a figurehead for those who don't have the luxury of playacting."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
62%
|
Café de Flore (2012) |
"
Remove the subtitles, and it's one of Cameron Crowe's head-in-the-clouds dramas, as scripted by M Night Shyamalan..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
11%
|
Gone (2012) |
"
It's daffy, but it works."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
24%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
In director Bill Condon's skilled hands, this instalment proves more intimate, confining its action to kids in rooms wrestling with the consequences of their own crushes."
—
Scotsman
Posted Nov 20, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
35%
|
Immortals (2011) |
"
It's encouraging to see a studio movie based on Greek legend that at least looks as if they have done some of the reading and visited a few exhibitions."
—
Scotsman
Posted Nov 13, 2011
|
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