|
2/5
|
32%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
Like all over-ambitious B-movies, this features solid performances by a mix of seasoned talent and promising young actors, all of whom deserve better."
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Time Out
Posted May 8, 2013
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|
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36%
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Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
A lifeless attempt to fuse a taut crime thriller and a complex psychological drama."
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Film4
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
The ABCs of Death (2013) |
"
Gives a sense of horror movie making learned by rote - at a boy's school where girls have been admitted under sufferance."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
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3/5
|
62%
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Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Despite much old-school splatter, it's seldom frightening and oddly unfunny."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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|
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90%
|
Good Vibrations () |
"
An engaging portrait of a lovable, shambolic music fan turned reluctant impresario."
—
Film4
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
A mash-up of old-school heroism, pantomime villainy, starstruck lovers and post-'Shrek' archness, it's more exhausting than exhilarating."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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|
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80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
Despite its stumbling storyline, lack of logic and sparse comedy, this ZomRomCom has a beating romantic heart."
—
Film4
Posted Mar 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
More coherent and thought-provoking than most 'found-footage' horror movies, this should appeal to genre fans and eco-activists alike."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
By splitting the action between several different characters and locations, the plot dissipates the suspense and lacks focus, as if it has been bolted together from disparate, ill-fitting pieces."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
'Antiviral' never wholly succeeds as either a surgical satire or a medical conspiracy thriller, and its tedious last third is like a diseased body dragging itself slowly to the grave."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 30, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
Hollow () |
"
The post-'Blair Witch' shaky-cam horror movie, already teetering on the edge of oblivion, drops off a cliff with this micro-budget British effort ..."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
31%
|
Night of the Demons (2010) |
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
American Mary (2013) |
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) |
"
As pointless as one feared it might be."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
In the end, Bayona's film is more frustrating and exhausting than inspiring."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
Eastwood and Adams do the best they can with the cornball sentimentality and cheesy dialogue, but first-time director Robert Lorenz merely photographs the on- and off-field action. Give it a pass."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Excision (2012) |
"
An overripe mélange of Cronenbergian 'body horror' and alienated Lynchian weirdness."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Stitches (2013) |
"
It's like a twisted balloon animal filled with blood and guts, waiting to burst."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 23, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
When the Lights Went Out () |
"
A film that not even the formidable Gary Lewis can save is a scary thing indeed."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
A Night in the Woods () |
"
No amount of shaky-cam footage or imaginative sound design can lend coherence to these improvised scenes, which were shot on location before being patched together in the editing room."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
Cockneys vs Zombies (2013) |
"
This Zimmer-zomcom is as subtle as a brick in the gob, but it's also a laugh riot."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 28, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
[REC] 3 Genesis (2012) |
"
For all its gleeful limb-severing, offal-scoffing and chainsaw-wielding, this disco mirrorball of a movie scatters ideas in all directions, rather than focusing the spotlight on what counts - the scares."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
Shares crucial DNA with the earlier films but is drawn from the shallower end of the gene pool."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 14, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Storage 24 (2013) |
"
Feels like the germ of an idea with stuff lifted from 'Alien' et al and bolted on."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Lovely Molly (2012) |
"
[Its] cynical hedging of its psychological/supernatural bets seems mostly designed to breed sequels."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
"
Essentially a lot of balls."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 20, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
Chernobyl Diaries (2012) |
"
Once the annoying, two-dimensional characters start getting bumped off one by one, it's just a relief that the actors have stopped improvising their own banal dialogue."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
The Pact (2012) |
"
This haunted house movie achieves a frightening intensity with limited means, but also feels under-characterised and overstretched."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 6, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Piranha 3DD (2012) |
"
Even the gore is sporadic, poorly staged and unimaginative: as a result, this is neither fish nor foul."
—
Time Out
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) |
—
Time Out
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
Juan of the Dead (2012) |
"
The 'Evil Dead' and Romero nods are fun, but characters appear for no reason and are bumped off without warning; there's just not enough flesh on these funny bones."
—
Time Out
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
Filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau ('Open Water') should have plugged the original's plot holes and straightened out its logic."
—
Time Out
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
Ride the Divide (2010) |
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
The Monitor (Babycall) (2012) |
"
It's the naturalistic intensity of Rapace's performance that stays with us."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
59%
|
Wanderlust (2012) |
"
You know you're in trouble when not even the improvised scenes and fluffed out-takes are funny."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
While director Espinosa hones in on the ambiguous battle between Weston's idealism and Frost's cynicism, British cinematographer Oliver Wood - who filmed the last two Bourne movies - shoots the hell out of everything."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 21, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Shadow (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) |
"
Supernatural fantasy movies often work best when the film-maker's tongue is planted firmly in the cheek."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
X: Night of Vengeance (2011) |
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
32%
|
Intruders (2012) |
"
As these parallel supernatural mysteries begin to meld into one another, all semblance of credibility dissolves, leaving behind an impenetrable and frustrating fog of unanswered questions."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 24, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Underworld Awakening (2012) |
"
Crude, cheap and pointless, this surely drives a stake through the heart of the 'Underworld' franchise."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
45%
|
Yes Man (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988) |
"
The powerful performances and sharp script augment this revealing human drama."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Another Earth (2011) |
"
Cahill's visually inconsistent first feature tries to beam epic sci-fi concepts into a micro-human drama, refracting its thought-provoking ideas through the prism of the central emotional relationship."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Camp Hell (Camp Hope) (2011) |
"
Budgetary limitations, a plodding script, ropey visual effects and an excruciating score undercut a heartfelt cautionary tale about a confused teenager wrestling with his religious faith and the dogmatism of his overzealous elders."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
51%
|
Doomsday (2008) |
"
Marshall's adrenalin-fuelled skill and enthusiasm propel the action forward with reckless abandon."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
6%
|
Dream House (2011) |
"
A well-acted but ramshackle mess."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
38%
|
Saw VI (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
47%
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