|
2/5
|
60%
|
The Liability (2013) |
"
The film goes nowhere much in affably elaborate patterns - like a deranged SatNav ..."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) |
"
It's all insanely enjoyable."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
For much of its length, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby has the terrible endlessness of films where everything is too short. We are jabbed with effect after effect, in our faces and up our noses in 3D"
—
Financial Times
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
"
[It] proves what we all knew or suspected. Good art isn't about ideological bookkeeping."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Our Children () |
"
As the walls close in we believe this young wife might end up gasping for air. We even believe she might yearn to take the kids, not just herself, to a better place."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
The screen explodes with all the colours of the universe in Star Trek Into Darkness."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
Somewhere in the dreams of Mud creator Jeff Nichols, Huckleberry Finn met Aguirre, Wrath of God."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
|
27%
|
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
|
|
|
37%
|
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
|
88%
|
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
|
37%
|
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
|
60%
|
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
|
59%
|
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
|
91%
|
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
|
71%
|
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
|
93%
|
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
|
67%
|
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
|
46%
|
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
|
75%
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