|
2/5
|
52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
A few laughs."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
How I Live Now (2013) |
"
I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic anxiety, a bit like Survivors on 70s TV: a world of farmhouses, Land Rovers and underground bunkers."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (2013) |
"
iek's flights of fancy are sometimes brilliant and sometimes implausible, but they are always airborne to some degree."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Thanks but no thanks."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
Filth () |
"
For the first half-hour it's got a full-on horrible energy, but there isn't enough humour for it to qualify as comedy, and not enough reality or plausible characterisation to justify calling it any sort of procedural noir."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Sunshine on Leith () |
"
What makes it work are the performers, particularly Mullan and Horrocks, who give it their considerable all."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Nothing But a Man (1963) |
"
The performances are so fresh and natural - yet so subtle and delicately judged. The direction is superb in its control and the cinematography creates a gripping docu-realist vision."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Hannah Arendt (2013) |
"
This is an interesting film about ideas, and how explosive they can be."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) |
"
It is a splenetic, satiric attack on the formidable PR forces, spurious thinktanks and talking heads being mobilised in the US to attack the idea of man-made global warming."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Wicker Man - Final Cut (2013) |
"
Troubling, brilliant and unmissable."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
A certain dour realist vigour keeps the nightmare alive."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
InRealLife () |
"
It's a watchable film, though it tends a little too far to the moral-panic way of thinking ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Mademoiselle C (2013) |
"
A lively but exasperatingly incurious and obsequious work about Carine Roitfeld, the former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief who quit the Condé Nast empire in 2011 to start her own publication called CR Fashion Book."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Kelly + Victor () |
"
There's something very unsentimental and provocative being served up along with the romance in this love story from writer-director Kieran Evans."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
R.I.P.D. (2013) |
"
[A] goofy and derivative supernatural action-adventure, based on a comic-book series by Peter Lenkov."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
A promising picture turns into gibberish. Shame."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Hawking (2013) |
"
Hawking emerges from this as an inspirational man; with such a colossus, Finnigan could have afforded to be more questioning."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
It is pure movie-going pleasure."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Only Lovers Left Alive () |
"
Made with droll suavity - though sometimes quirkiness is still occasionally an alibi for lack of ideas, comic or otherwise. As with all his films, you have to let it grow on you. "
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
Real thrills - dependent on real, believable jeopardy - are not on offer: just cheerfully absurd spectacle and a little bit of humour."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
Well, it's engaging and eccentric, and Bell deserves her star turn."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Big Risk (Classe tous risques) (1960) |
"
This Franco-Italian production feels like a classic - with all the traditional punchings, slappings, shootings and coshings - and yet it's utterly unformulaic."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
Justin and the Knights of Valour () |
"
It doesn't look bad, but the spark of originality and interest is lacking."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Sir Billi () |
"
This appears so cheaply and unimaginatively made it would hardly pass muster on children's TV. The look of the thing mightn't matter so much if the writing was razor sharp - but this script is muddled and dull."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Hunt and Lauda's face-off is like the confrontation of wartime flying aces: there is low life expectancy, yet they are not competing for national honour but specious glamour and cash."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
An excruciatingly well-intentioned, reverential and sentimental biopic about her troubled final years, laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue - a tabloid fantasy of how famous and important people speak in private."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
More Than Honey (2013) |
"
An interesting, and interestingly laidback film, an almost restful look at honeybees and the way they are kept and cultivated across the world."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Stuart Hall Project () |
"
An absorbing account."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Pieta (2013) |
"
The film is far from a masterpiece ... but it bristles with Kim's trademark anger and agony."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
If it is a homage, this is an intelligent and accomplished one, a conscientious matching-up of style and substance."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
By turns boring and bizarre, although Diesel still has some presence."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
Bonjour Tristesse (1958) |
"
Underneath the endless round of parties and nightclubs, there is a desperate, secret sadness, and Seberg's stare at the camera is haunting."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
There's something inspired about putting Michael Bay in charge of a brazen action-comedy about gym-pumped knuckleheads who screw up their own criminal masterplan most royally."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1996) |
"
Delon is a terrifically good in the role: his almost unearthly perfection is creepy itself, as if he is imitating a human being."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) |
"
I could have done without [the] pointless framing device, but there is some funny and highly incorrect material here."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
Horror fans may indulge this movie; I found it derivative and forced."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
I suspect a previous, wackier idea for the film was ditched in favour of a slick promotional video about their jaw-dropping global tour, but I also have to admit that this is a rather watchable record of a phenomenon."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
If Upstream Color is not quite the masterpiece we were hoping for, it's a film with its own affectless mystery and chill."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
|
85%
|
The Sixth Sense (1999) |
"
Dr Crowe gradually comes to believe that little Cole can indeed commune with the unquiet souls, who are reaching out to him for help. And, yes, the scenes where Cole does so can be very creepy indeed."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 27, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
56%
|
Morrissey 25: Live (2013) |
"
A deeply entertaining spectacle."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
88%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
A rather sentimental, precious tale, and the important sense of Maisie growing up and learning about the world and its failings doesn't come through."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
It's a goofy road movie with some nice gags."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
El Sheita Elli Fat (Winter of Discontent) () |
"
A fascinating film."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Once the narrative grinds into gear ... the film's distinctive quality is lost."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
Lovelace may be a little contrived and unoriginal as drama, but it's a useful exercise in de-sentimentalisation."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
|
95%
|
Don't Look Now (1973) |
"
It's a ghost story; it's a meditation on time, memory and the poignancy of married love. And it's a masterpiece."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Call Girl () |
"
If this is based on fact then why not make a documentary, naming names? Well, it is food for thought."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
Not much firepower."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
It's an amiable enough entertainment, gentle and good-natured ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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