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4/5
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——
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I Am Nasrine () |
"
A valuable debut, shot with a fluent kind of poetry."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
The comic material really isn't there, and the plot transitions feel forced and uncomfortable ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Putting Much Ado into this Martha Stewart/Brooks Brothers world of tasteful furnishings and subdued upper-middle class suburban stylings is weirdly cramped and claustrophobic."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
This is a great, big, meaty, chewy superhero adventure, which broadly does what it sets out to do, though at excessive length."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Stuck in Love (2013) |
"
The sharp edges of the story are sentimentally sanded down; there's a fair bit of slush, and it's a pretty quaint view of what writers and a writer's life are actually like."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 12, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
6%
|
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"
Watching this unspeakably rubbish teen romcom is, to quote David Lodge's classic description of National Service, like a punishment for a crime you can't remember committing."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2013) |
"
It's an opaque performance from Tautou in many ways, understandably so, and perhaps the film does not fully get inside her mind and heart; a confident, robust work nevertheless."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone () |
"
[Meadows] has no agenda; he just loves the Stone Roses, and it's a great, heartfelt tribute."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
"
It's a bit disconcerting seeing the words "Part II" here."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) (1972) |
"
It looks more magnificent and mad than ever, one of the great folies de grandeur of 1970s cinema, an expeditionary Conradian nightmare like Coppola's Apocalypse Now."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
A sci-fi drama of such incredible boredom that your synapses will be turned to Bostik, featuring a triple-whammy of abysmal acting, directing and story."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
|
77%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
You'll need to have a very sweet tooth for this, and it makes light of those difficult sexual politics that Mad Men attacked with such fierce satire."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
Arterton's brash performance is arguably a little high-octane yet it balances with Ronan's wounded watchfulness. And Buffini's script has some savoury moments."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
|
2%
|
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"
With this journey into the heart of rubbish, this full-throttle adventure into the hyper-space of drivel, Travolta not only incinerates what is left of his own reputation, but takes someone else down with him."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 28, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
71%
|
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) |
"
The wintry Atlantic City is brilliantly evoked; the firecracker dialogue is a joy, and the final, chaotic denouement is genuinely unexpected."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
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——
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La Jaula De Oro (1991) |
"
It is a very substantial movie, with great compassion and urgency."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
The ideas get lost in the nostalgic, elegaic glow, but that glow is nurtured expertly."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Nebraska (2013) |
"
A thoroughly sweet and charming movie, and a reminder of Dern's quality as an actor."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) |
"
It's a long movie, and by the end you may well feel every bit as wrung out as the characters. But it is genuinely passionate film-making."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
|
38%
|
Grigris () |
"
This is a minor work set alongside something like Our Father, but the director's compassion shines out, and so does the charisma of Souleymane Deme."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
30%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
Winding Refn's bizarre infernal creation, an entire created world of fear, really is gripping. Every scene, every frame, is executed with pure formal brilliance."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
——
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Un château en Italie (A Castle in Italy) () |
"
Tiresome and insufferably self-regarding ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Weekend Of A Champion () |
"
I wonder if there isn't something a little bit placid and self-satisfied about the film, which is paced remarkably slowly, given the subject matter."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) () |
"
This movie looks and feels superb, it is pure couture cinema. But there is also a excess of richness and bombast and for all its sleekness I felt that the spark of emotion was being hidden, and there is a kind of frustration in the operatic sadness."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Behind the Candelabra (2013) |
"
As a black comedy, and as a portrait of celebrity loneliness, Behind the Candelabra is very stylish and effective, and Damon and Douglas give supremely entertaining performances."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
As I Lay Dying () |
"
Franco can chalk up a qualified but distinct success, and another chapter in what is becoming a very notable career."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Seduced And Abandoned () |
"
The 68-year-old Toback is asking himself, and us: can he have one more hit before he dies?"
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Monsoon Shootout () |
"
It's a moody, broody downbeat drama for most of the time, a rainy noir. But along with the plot trickery, there are some unexpected turns."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Like Father, Like Son (Soshite Chichi Ni Naru) (2013) |
"
This is a sweet-natured, but essentially undemanding film from Kore-eda."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
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For Those In Peril () |
"
This is a striking film from a valuable new talent."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
La Danza De La Realidad () |
"
In this movie, the director is bidding farewell to his past, and to his childhood, and perhaps to the world. It is an arresting spectacle."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
"
What an intense pleasure this film is, one of the Coens' best ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
——
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A Story Of Children And Film () |
"
This film is a treat."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Le passé (The Past) (2013) |
"
What a grippingly made picture it is, with real intellectual sinew ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
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The Selfish Giant () |
"
This is a fine film, which cements Barnard's growing reputation as one of Britain's best film-makers."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
Tian zhu ding (A Touch of Sin) () |
"
This is a bitter, jagged, disaffected drama, pessimistic about China, pessimistic about the whole world."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) |
"
Despite being the sixth movie in the petrol-head franchise starring Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, this film's got a fair bit in the tank; it's silly but enjoyable."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Kochegar (A Stoker) () |
"
It's full of idiosyncratic, almost suicidal directorial choices - a noodly guitar score, inexpressive, doll-like actors - yet weirdly cuts to the heart of a country that's been taken over by such unlovely characters."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
The Liability (2013) |
"
A flawed but interesting downbeat Brit thriller with some creepy, leftfield jolts, calling to mind Mike Hodges with a twist of Tarantino."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) |
"
We are always being told that books and movies have to have "sympathetic" lead characters - well, here's a documentary that does very well without one."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Young & Beautiful (Jeune Et Jolie) (2013) |
"
Jeune et Jolie plays a little like Belle de Jour, but quite without Buñuel's beady-eyed subversion; Ozon is more concerned with keeping the apple-cart tensely teetering, rather than crashing over."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
The final notes of irony and repudiation may be laboured and obvious, but this is an intriguingly intuitive and atmospheric movie."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954) |
"
There is real greatness in this movie."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
"
An intriguing film about the blowback involved when melting-pot America goes to war."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Village At The End Of The World () |
"
There a gentle sweetness and charm to this documentary by film-maker Sarah Gavron, her first film since the adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane six years ago."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
33%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
What an accurate title."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Our Children () |
"
[An] inexpressibly painful drama, with a classic resonance, which Belgian director and co-writer Joachim Lafosse based on a news story."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
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
|
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