|
4/5
|
91%
|
Scandal (1989) |
"
While Bridget Fonda fails to nail Mandy Rice-Davies' accent as effectively as she depicts her cheeky brio, it's made up for by quality extras and the restoration of orgy footage considered too racy by the American censors."
—
Total Film
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
All Stars () |
"
Some day, God willing, there will be a moratorium on films about plucky kids putting on talent shows to save their schools/parks/yoof centres from predatory developers."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
59%
|
The Eye of the Storm (2012) |
"
Had Merchant Ivory ever gone Down Under, they'd probably have fashioned something in the vein of this mannered chamber piece."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
A laughter vacuum whose race to parody the likes of Mama and the new Evil Dead remake didn't stretch to writing actual jokes."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
It's a frothy affair ... albeit one that still manges to be rueful and sombre when occasion demands."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
Flying Blind () |
"
Sex, suspicion and unmanned drones make for an intriguing mix ..."
—
Total Film
Posted Apr 9, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
The leads make sweet music in an affecting four-piece that, if not note perfect, plays well to their individual strengths."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Dragon (2012) |
"
Peter Ho-Sun Chan's frenetic, high-kicking thriller runs a full 20 minutes shorter than it did at Cannes in 2011 and feels all the better for it."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
The doltish, messy and frequently incoherent result bears all the hallmarks of a botched and compromised endeavour."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Michael H. Profession: Director () |
"
An insightful portrait of the Austrian auteur that combines footage of him piecing together scenes from Amour, The White Ribbon and Code Unknown with typically brusque interviews."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Chances are that a younger audience with little knowledge of the '39 The Wizard Of Oz will find much to captivate them - and if it makes them curious enough to check out the original (or the books), then that can only be for the good."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Acoustic Routes () |
"
There's enough artistry on display here to leave even the uninitiated grudgingly impressed."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Broken (2013) |
"
The result believably charts a girl's coming of age but is eventually capsized by lurid melodrama even Brookside would have found excessive."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Sammy's Adventures 2 (Sammy's avonturen 2) () |
"
Turtley average."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Gere's charm offsets his character's amorality in what's both slick entertainment and cautionary fable."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 18, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Casablanca (1943) |
"
Whether you return to Casablanca for a nostalgia fix, a guilty pleasure or for the waters, you can be certain there'll be something you didn't notice last time out."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 16, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Starting off in one place and ending somewhere else entirely, Soderbergh's sleek mystery takes pot-shots at Big Pharma while still delivering a polished genre product that's rarely hard to swallow."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
Good Day in a nutshell? Father-son bonding with heavy artillery, a lot of big bangs, a triple-figure body count and little else."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
Only comes to life during a Texan steak-eating contest that has Babs ingest a mountain of meat."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
U.F.O. () |
"
No amount of fiscal ingenuity can excuse the wooden acting and crummy dialogue in what is a feeble offering."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Run For Your Wife () |
"
Doesn't even count as a missed opportunity."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
66%
|
For Ellen (2012) |
"
[A] glacially paced indie from Treeless Mountain director So Yong Kim, a Sundance special whose muted emotions take a while to access."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
The Liability (2013) |
"
Craig Viveiros' witty, grisly Brit flick about a weary assassin reluctantly mentoring a cocky upstart."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
"We have to find a product that's appealing to people!" says Garcia Bernal at one point. And that's just what Larraín's created with this Latin spin on Mad Men."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Breathlessly tense, thrillingly orchestrated and intellectually complex, this damn fine piece of rigorous, meticulous filmmaking enhances Kathryn Bigelow's status as one of her generation's most accomplished directors."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
45%
|
Zaytoun (2013) |
"
Eran Riklis' road movie - its title means 'olive' - neatly juxtaposes the beauty of the landscape with the enmities it engenders, locating an optimism in the central relationship that subsequent history ... would cruelly dash."
—
Total Film
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Chinatown (1974) |
"
Unforgettable."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Monsters, Inc. 3D (2012) |
"
[A] sparkling cartoon ..."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
Hoffman's film couldn't offend if it tried. Age, however, has yet to wither its veterans' undimmed star appeal."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 11, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Will send the devoted home happy and likely demonstrate to the few uninitiated what all the fuss is about."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Boxing Day () |
"
Bleak as it is, its rigour proves darkly compelling."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
False Trail (Jägarna 2) () |
"
A film stocked with more atmosphere than action."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Gremlins (1984) |
"
A subversive parable on the dangers of irresponsible pet care that doubles as an antidote to small-town Americana and Yuletide sentimentality."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Chasing Ice (2012) |
"
Visually spectacular montages of ice floes receding that will make you gasp and move you to tears."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
A solid heart-tugger that plays with a straight bat when it comes to plot, character and message."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 23, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Gambit () |
"
[A] leaden, lethargic affair, based on a 10-year-old script by the Coen brothers that feels like a first draft at best."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
First () |
"
A rollercoaster of triumph, heartbreak, elation and despair ..."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) |
"
There are plenty of laughs and a host of memorable songs crooned by everyone from Miss Piggy to Statler and Waldorf."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
East End Babylon () |
"
Older if not especially wiser, the brothers prove engaging guides through the "Oi!" subgenre."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
Forceful and arresting, Ayer's follow-up to Harsh Times and Street Kings sees him confidently playing to his strengths."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 29, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
The Daniel Craig era comes of age with a ballsy Bond that takes brave chances and bold risks. Guess what? Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (2012) |
"
Untold? Hardly. Yet as Skyfall appetisers go, this thorough survey of how Ian Fleming, Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman created a phenomenon could barely be bettered."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
Private Peaceful () |
"
It's left to the leads to keep us engaged, a tall order given their film's old-fashioned, fusty feel."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 2, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
Shoot-outs, lovers on the lam, a villain with dreadlocks: yes, this hit-and miss comedy sure does want to be True Romance."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 2, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
House at the End of the Street (2012) |
"
Its talented lead is reduced to being just another scantily clad babe getting stalked by a psycho."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 23, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark (2012) |
"
The boulder has never looked bigger, the guns have never sounded louder and Indy's whip has never cracked sharper than they do here."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
Taken was no masterpiece and was often thoroughly objectionable. But it still had a drive and a sense of urgency that's absent here ..."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
Rather than involve us in the story Wright's grandiose concept keeps it at arm's length, forever highlighting the smoke, mirrors and meticulous stage management that have been pressed into service to make his big idea a reality."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
More lukewarm haggis than piping-hot broth, Pixar's 13th feature might fall short, but is still head and hair-covered shoulders above most of its CG competitors."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 31, 2012
|
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