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95%
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Suspiria (1977) |
"
From stormy start to fiery finish, it's a stylish, compelling, phantasmagoric movie."
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Observer [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2013
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——
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Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives) (1931) |
"
It's a lively, funny, exciting tale of a country mouse collaborating with streetwise city kids, and it creates a splendid picture of bustling life in the capital of Weimar Germany."
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Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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30%
|
Hammer Of The Gods (2013) |
"
A nasty, brutal and relatively short entertainment, aimed at middle-of-the-woad Conanists."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 2, 2013
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64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
This is the rock revolution reduced to the level of the Eurovision Song Contest."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 2, 2013
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85%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
Upstream Colour has the makings of a cult movie, though it's not a cult I feel inclined to join."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 2, 2013
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75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
It has some truly creepy moments early on, as well as an authentic ruthlessness and some black humour."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 2, 2013
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63%
|
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) |
"
I'd rather attend a Norman Wisdom tribute concert in downtown Tirana than see this film again."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 2, 2013
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85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
Not a subtle film, but honest, intelligent and very funny."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Sep 2, 2013
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76%
|
The Kings of Summer (2013) |
"
Quirky, funny, occasionally too whimsical and at times implausible, it's rather like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn meeting the cast of Rebel Without a Cause."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 25, 2013
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47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
Often funny but not extravagantly or consistently so."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 25, 2013
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93%
|
Jurassic Park (1993) |
"
I loved every fascinating, suspenseful, frightening, skilfully calibrated minute of it."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 25, 2013
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50%
|
Devil's Pass (2013) |
"
If you know nothing of this incident you'll be intrigued, as I was. But the explanation, which involves another curious tale from the 1940s that continues to fascinate conspiracy theorists, is difficult to swallow."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 25, 2013
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54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
[A] dubious, dislikable film ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 25, 2013
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68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Depressingly predictable in its ideas and tedious in its boneheaded brutality."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 25, 2013
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88%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
This accomplished film is closer to Kramer vs Kramer or middle-period Woody Allen than it is to James. But that is no bad place to be."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 25, 2013
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63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
America's public agencies come very badly out of this slick thriller."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2013
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27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
A forgettable, though not dislikable, affair."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2013
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80%
|
Call Girl () |
"
It's overlong and spends too much time on the careers of troubled teenagers recruited from state juvenile institutions before getting to the political nitty-gritty."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2013
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30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
A movie that resembles Bugsy Malone with real weapons."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2013
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93%
|
Kuma () |
"
The plot is a dramatic, or melodramatic, way of revealing the turbulent passions and prejudices beneath the surface of homophobia, patriarchy, matriarchy and resistance to change."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2013
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89%
|
Mahanagar (The Big City) (The Great City) (1967) |
"
Ray's Calcutta is a bustling Dickensian city of disappointment and hope, of new possibilities and old temptations, of entrepreneurs seizing opportunities in a changing society ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 18, 2013
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84%
|
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () |
"
Colm Meaney commands our sympathy; Coogan gets the guilty laughs. It's all very English in its recognition of the mean smallness of so much of British life."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 12, 2013
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79%
|
Foxfire () |
"
The acting is often frighteningly good, and a little coda set some years later is fascinating."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 12, 2013
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50%
|
Looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense) () |
"
It's like a Haneke plot turned into a comforting boulevard play, but it's subtly observed and extremely well acted ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 12, 2013
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38%
|
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
A smart, derivative load of Bulfinch, its director Thor Freudenthal has a name perfectly suited to link the mythical and the psychoanalytical."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 12, 2013
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|
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90%
|
Silence () |
"
An uneasy mixture of fact and fiction ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 12, 2013
|
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83%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
It's a lively, touching story, full of sadness and optimism, drawn with an unaffected simplicity."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
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87%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
It's scare-to-medium stuff with the usual ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
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93%
|
Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope) () |
"
It's a revealing, often bitterly funny study in embarrassment and disillusion."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
|
|
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65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
As poorly scripted as Beverly Hills Cop and not as funny."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
|
|
|
61%
|
My Father and the Man in Black (2013) |
"
This film is rather like BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, but with altogether too many scenes re-enacted by lookalikes."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
|
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56%
|
Heaven's Gate (1980) |
"
I will leave others to pick nits off this epic panorama."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
|
|
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
[A] tiresome sequel ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
|
|
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
The story unfolds in a series of carefully composed tableaux accompanied by a mixture of western and oriental music, and what is enacted is a dreamlike fable of revenge and retribution."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 4, 2013
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|
|
96%
|
Unforgiven (1992) |
"
There is unlikely to be a better movie from the States or anywhere else this year."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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58%
|
Viramundo () |
"
It's a heartwarming experience, a little reminiscent of Wim Wenders's Buena Vista Social Club, and the music is attractive and authentic."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2013
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88%
|
Dial M for Murder (1954) |
"
Rather than let someone else mess with a play that has a formal perfection, Hitchcock did the adaptation himself, his only such credit while in Hollywood."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2013
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69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
It's loud, spectacular, dull, humourless and predictable."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2013
|
|
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
[An] impressive, often gripping documentary ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2013
|
|
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69%
|
Days Of Grace (Dias De Gracia) (2011) |
"
This is all very impressive in its scope and moral reach, and the movie, with its extensive use of handheld cameras, sweaty close-ups and violent encounters, is visually striking."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2013
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|
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93%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
There's little doubt that many people will find her insufferable, and almost everyone will experience moments of acute discomfort. But this is a wonderful performance that never becomes ingratiating."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2013
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86%
|
Easy Money (2012) |
"
With pounding synthesised music on the soundtrack, Easy Money moves like a razor-edged Frisbee that could cut off a player's hand or sever his jugular if he doesn't see what's coming."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
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89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
A little too long, perhaps, but highly amusing, and handsomely photographed (Bill Pope) and designed (Marcus Rowland)."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
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98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
The story is an admirable necklace on which to string facts, anecdotes and insights that illuminate in a good-natured way the lives of women in an unthinking, patriarchal, totalitarian society."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
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73%
|
Breathe In () |
"
This is the kind of movie conceived as a tasteful attraction for people who consider themselves superior to the similar but vulgar Richard Dreyfuss vehicle Mr Holland's Opus. Give me Mr Holland any day."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
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82%
|
Eden (2013) |
"
It's chilling, convincing, matter-of-fact realism."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
|
|
|
98%
|
Roman Holiday (1953) |
"
Only the big screen can do justice to its scintillating monochrome images."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
|
|
|
14%
|
Suspension Of Disbelief () |
"
[A] convoluted noir thriller that interweaves a variety of narratives."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
|
|
|
57%
|
The Frozen Ground (2013) |
"
[An] efficient police procedural ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 21, 2013
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