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3/5
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89%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Above all, Quinto is enduringly great: his Spock is vulnerable, sensitive, emotionally constricted, but idealistic and heroic as well. The franchise will always have life with him on board."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
Some of the movie doesn't exactly convince, and some of the scenes have an actors-improv feel to them, but there's always plenty of humour and energy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
The final five minutes give location interviews with the hardworking camera crew, and this is the only time when this plasticky film comes alive."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
It soon collapses into violent and boring nonsense."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
Dire."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
All Stars () |
"
It seems derivative and lacklustre, and really inferior to almost anything on CBBC or CITV."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
59%
|
The Eye of the Storm (2012) |
"
The movie proceeds at a measured and reverent pace, a little unfocused, but with intelligent performances from three heavyweight acting talents."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
Almodóvar's intention is just to use it all to get a genial and good-natured comedy of sex airborne; this he does, and he makes it look easy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
Scarecrow (1973) |
"
This is a jewel of American cinema."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
The Look of Love () |
"
This is a shallow but watchable movie, and it nicely conveys the world of semi-respectable Soho porn, sadder and tattier than its sleazier end, with its desperate champagne lunches and dreary afternoon hangovers."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
This film has turned out to be bleak and unrewarding soil for both Bahrani and Quaid."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
|
80%
|
Fight Club (1999) |
"
Fight Club jettisons its sense of humour 60 minutes in, and, so far from satirising the tiresome "crisis of masculinity" stuff sloshing around the airwaves either side of the Atlantic, the film simply endorses it."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
To use a recondite term in professional film criticism: whoo-hoo!"
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
It looks weirdly like a romcom pastiche, not cynical, but not properly inhabited; it doesn't taste of romance or comedy any more than Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans taste of soup."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
A full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Fuck For Forest () |
"
There's an unintentional comedy in this curious, entertaining documentary ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Bait (2012) |
"
It is all very silly, and more Corman than Spielberg, but entertaining."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
L'ordre et la morale (Rebellion) () |
"
The movie doesn't delve too deeply into the mentality of Legorjus or indeed anyone else, but it's a tense, involving tale of France's forgotten imperial trauma."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
A no-stereotypes-barred, red-scare disaster movie of the sort Jerry "Airplane!" Zucker might write after a head injury."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
94%
|
First Position (2012) |
"
A blandly feelgood documentary about aspiring young ballet dancers."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Flying Blind () |
"
Right the way through to the fence-sitter of an ending, the movie looks like it was written by committee at a screenwriters' seminar."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Teorema (Theorem) (1968) |
"
It is as if Pasolini has imagined how Italy's bland, complacent, stagnant governing class could be blown wide open: like putting a hundredweight of dynamite in the San Andreas fault."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Gosling gives his most open and engaging performance yet, his sleepy, woozy mannerisms developing into a complex interior world of hurt, resentment and disappointment."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Oblivion goes on for a long time, moving slowly and self-consciously, and it looks like a very expensive movie project that has been written and rewritten many times over."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
35%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
An old-fashioned scary movie; a sci-fi horror that is a workmanlike piece of film-making, with some effective shocks, cheerfully borrowing from other sources, most obviously Spielberg."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
34%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
The Odd Life Of Timothy Green made me shiver, like having a lizard crawl over your face when you're asleep."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Home (Yurt) () |
"
An exercise in technique - but not much else."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
A movie with clarity and grownup complexity."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
29%
|
All Things To All Men () |
"
It's a stylish and involving experience, with an intriguing touch of Mike Hodges. Isaac is a film-maker with a future."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
For all its absurdity and voyeurism, Korine brings to it a real authorial style."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
We Went To War () |
"
This sad, unhurriedfilm is like a short story by Larry McMurtry."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
It would be nice to report that this movie, based on the Hasbro toy soldier line, was amiably daft or engagingly silly. But actually it's dull and aggressive, steroidally humourless."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Point Blank (1967) |
"
An intriguing, disorientating 60s artefact."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
A black-comic psychological drama with poise and self-possession. Featuring Fabrice Luchini and Kristin Scott Thomas, how could it have anything else?"
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
86%
|
The Servant (1963) |
"
It is a brilliant, subversive account of class relations and the changing times."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
It is reliant on McCarthy's comedy chops and her ability to deliver improv-type character material, but almost every single one of her scenes looks like an outtake."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Watchable in a ridiculous way, and director Bryan Singer supplies quite a bit of entertainment bang for your buck."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
A sort of methadone for die-hard Ice Age fans."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
An irritating, baffling, fascinating film."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
Zobel's feature film brings out the creepy, banal horror of this culminating event, and the awful contemporary insights."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Even the greatest directors can falter. This is just a minor blip in Boyle's remarkable career."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Bab el hadid (Cairo Station) (The Iron Gate) (1958) |
"
All human life is here: the phrase really does apply to Chahine's tragicomic masterpiece from 1958."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
As ever with comedies like this, all the really funny stuff is in the opening 20 minutes. But it's entertaining stuff, with a scene-stealer from Alan Arkin."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
The Spirit of '45 () |
"
This film reminds us that admiring the health service has become a distinctively patriotic virtue."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
59%
|
Maniac (2013) |
"
I found it intestine-squishingly horrible, but also dreary."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Michael H. Profession: Director () |
"
A must-see for anyone who admires this director."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
It runs out of steam, with plot revelations visible from a mile away and a bit of a plausibility gap."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
This has to be the year's most pointless remake: a boring and badly acted reboot of John Milius's gung-ho red-scare actioner from 1984."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Babeldom () |
"
Paul Bush's debut feature-length film is a fascinating meditation on the cities of the future."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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