|
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
In the 21st century the only intelligent people who can be pardoned for questioning evolution are those watching films such as 21 and Over."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
Even by the standards of sentimental nature documentaries, Disney's Chimpanzee borders on the pathetic."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
|
62%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
It makes for an urgent, clamorous, topically themed screen comedy, if not actually a good one."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
|
91%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
Isn't cinema wonderful?"
—
Financial Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Oplev, who made The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, can do this stuff in his sleep and somnambulism is largely the style here."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
34%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
Disney gone pathologically fey."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Home (Yurt) () |
"
Inertia all the way through."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday) () |
"
Is the film about innocence? Paradise gained or lost? It is certainly about the nuances at play in a family bottled together, like lighting ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Drink, drugs, sex and robbery with minor violence."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
Insightful and incandescent, this is a film for both music lovers and movie lovers."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Good Vibrations () |
"
An amiable period piece, set in Belfast before Jonathan Powell ended its troubles."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
Ozon, for all the prettiness of his comic and visual grace notes, runs out of ideas."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
73%
|
One Mile Away () |
"
Woolcock should have realised that somewhere amid all her shapeless "docu" there was a "drama" - this one, a human one - to be found and properly focused."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Screenwriters Joe Ahearne and John Hodge, seeking to spanner the psychodrama ever tighter, finally prang the whole assemblage."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
If the film feels like a video game that's because it is one."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Baffling is the default setting for this movie."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
The story lollops along, as old-fashioned as Neo-realism, as "targeted" in its satire as a mutt questing for a lost bone."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
The film edges forward diffidently, never quite matching strength of craft to strength of idea. It's creepily beguiling even so ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Neighbouring Sounds (2012) |
"
Neighbouring Sounds is scary, funny, mischievous, intelligent, magisterial: a picture of man and woman as social animal in which the animal never lurks far beneath the social."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
So bad it isn't even good-bad."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
68%
|
The Spirit of '45 () |
"
The film ends up as a tale told by an ideologue, full of sound and fury, of question-begging certitudes and the siege engines of self-righteousness."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Shell () |
"
[A] strange and poignant film, in which tragedy grows from smallest seeds of foible and foreboding."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
The film's final shot goes straight to the story's heart and the spectator's. Amazing grace. Now at last we know what those words mean."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley's slyly effervescent script almost makes amends for their Horrible Bosses."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
It's an overlong, arduous caper, drawn from the work of thriller writer Donald E. Westlake much as a patient's tooth might be extracted with much banter and minimal anaesthesia."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
Broken (2013) |
"
A dead-end movie in more ways than one."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
It is the makers who should feel guilty."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
If you can't equal a screen classic, prequel it."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Robot & Frank (2012) |
"
Frank Langella forms an engaging double act with a piece of moulded metal alloy in Robot & Frank."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
A mischievously enthralling trip ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Straight-to-download is the deserved fate. Don't hold it back by buying a ticket."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
A thin plot is taken further than it wants to go."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
90%
|
Caesar Must Die (2013) |
"
It is uncanny how Italy's film-makers keep failing to nail, or effectively to satirise, their country's strident political shortcomings."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
I am within a catfish's whisker of giving this film five stars; best to stop me before I elevate it to the ranks of Vertigo and Citizen Kane."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Gere is matchless in this kind of role. The lacquered crinkle of the smile; the corrugated silk hair; the eyes deep-pouched and glinting like coins in a rich man's wallet."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
73%
|
Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) (2013) |
"
Overacting while peering through goggly specs, Redgrave comes on like a drag-act Mr Magoo."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
The Road: A Story of Life & Death () |
"
All human life? Yes, and heroically dealing with inhumanity wherever it is found."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Lore (2013) |
"
Not even safety and sanctuary quite wipe clean the trauma slate. New autocracies lie in wait, ready to replace the old."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
The cloying, bliss-out pantheism that featured in The Tree of Life is virtually the only feature in Malick's new film."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
Three hours to solve the problems of providence, history, human existence and the conundrums of space/time is pretty good going."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
Beautiful Creatures is terrible twaddle."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
Imagine the funny bits left out of Long Day's Journey Into Night: that's this movie."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
This is a tremendous documentary: at once cool and scalding, outraged and meticulous; a must-see for everyone, both inside and outside the "House of God"."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Side by Side (2012) |
"
It's sweet and sparkling, as glassfuls of thought are provided by James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch, Steven Soderbergh and other champagne cinematic cerebra."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
It's as predictable as Christmas and, if you are in the mood, as enjoyable."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
No, sadly, is a no-no from Chile's Pablo Larraín."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
Jonathan Levine's horror rom-com gives the walking corpse genre a Twilight twist ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
I Wish (2012) |
"
Everything is fresh in this stations-of-childhood story lit up by stroboscopic flashes of wit, beauty and perception."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) |
"
The film is an engaging trip: miscellaneous, wittily surreal, with a sadness to lend it a structuring heartbeat."
—
Financial Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
42%
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