|
3/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Tonally the film is all over the rink, but it leaves you more convinced and entertained than you'd expect."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
The To Do List is an American teenage sex comedy set in 1993, which may have been the last year in which any of the cast members could have convincingly passed for a teenager."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Sunshine on Leith () |
"
Leaves you with cask-strength, capillary-reddening tingles of happiness that run to the very tip of your nose."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Filth () |
"
I loved every minute of Filth, and couldn't have stomached another second of it."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Metro Manila (2013) |
"
It begins as a swirling drama of survival in the Filipino capital - but then suddenly it slips off down an alleyway, only to emerge a scrupulously engineered, Christopher Nolan-ish crime thriller."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Bethlehem () |
"
Most of the film plays out as a solid if uninspiring police procedural."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
You raise your eyes to the sky in futile hope. Where are the alien death rays when you need them?"
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
35%
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
"
The scares are mostly very scary indeed, and that means the film does its job."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Locke () |
"
There are no car chases and no car crashes, and no-one else appears on screen. Around half of the dialogue is about concrete. It's one of the most nail-biting thrillers of the year. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 8, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Stray Dogs () |
"
Every shot of Stray Dogs has been built with utter formal mastery; every sequence exerts an almost telepathic grip. This film could have been beamed to Venice from another planet. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Kill Your Darlings (2013) |
"
Unlike Walter Salles's recent adaptation of On The Road, which embraced the Beat philosophy with a wide and credulous grin, Kill Your Darlings is inquisitive about the movement's worth, and the genius of its characters is never assumed."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Moebius () |
"
While it feels odd at first, the film's wordlessness fits its premise perfectly. There is a primal nastiness going on here that language would somehow dilute."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
The Armstrong Lie (2013) |
"
Where Gibney's film succeeds is in the way it lays bare the theatre of the Tour de France to mug bystanders like me who assumed it was a straightforward cycling competition."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
The Unknown Known () |
"
When you leave the cinema you feel as if you have been listening to a very long after-dinner speech."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 4, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Under the Skin () |
"
If my legs hadn't been so wobbly and my mouth so dry, I would have climbed up on my seat and cheered."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) (2014) |
"
There are visual flights of fancy here as glorious as anything Miyazaki's studio has created, but the story is rooted in a country trudging towards its own destruction."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
The Zero Theorem () |
"
Raucous but fatally confused, openly pilfering its central themes from Gilliam's own 1985 masterpiece Brazil, but with no idea how to develop them."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Tracks () |
"
This is a simple and beautiful journey undertaken purely for its own sake, and approached in that spirit, Tracks will lead you to a place of quiet wonder."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Jigoku de naze warui (Why Don't You Play in Hell?) () |
"
A grease-glistening banquet of crash-zooms, gore plumes, gurning and chopping..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Joe () |
"
Green may not have found a distinctive voice quite yet, but Joe suggests he's getting closer."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
The Canyons (2013) |
"
A fascinating passion project that fails for boring reasons: the dialogue is hellish, the plot goes nowhere slowly and most of the cast can't act."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Night Moves () |
"
As tightly wound and gripping as a thumb-screw."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Philomena (2013) |
"
Frears' film breaks your heart and then repairs it."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
With nothingness pressing in on all sides, in a place where the grip of someone else's hand is all that keeps you from the void, life really does seem like a miracle."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
56%
|
Morrissey 25: Live (2013) |
"
Quibbling and prevarication be damned: Morrissey 25: Live is the worst concert film I have ever seen."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
This is a fine collection of cheap and sleazy jokes, well-told ..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
The Kings of Summer (2013) |
"
It lollops along to its own lazy drumbeat, perfectly evoking that too-brief time of life when you could pass the evenings drunk on stolen beer and all the spare time you could dream of."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
In lesser hands, Elysium might have played like a Lib Dem manifesto with extra spaceships, but the South African filmmaker wants to explore ideas, not wave placards, and whether or not you agree with the film's politics, the fire in its belly is catching."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
One of the most disastrous page-to-screen adaptations in memory."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
They rattle through all the hits, like Kiss You, Rock Me and I Would: songs that leave you pining for the harmonic complexity and lyrical daring of Justin Bieber."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Call Girl () |
"
This is another whip-smart Scandinavian noir: slightly uncomfortable in its own skin, perhaps, but no less compelling for it. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
DisneyToon Studios have borrowed so much from Pixar here, and yet they seem to have learned almost nothing."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
2 Guns is at Zen-like peace with the fact that it doesn't matter one bit, and I chucked and gasped through every not-mattering minute."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
Your ass is constantly braced in readiness and hope, but it remains un-kicked."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 13, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
Grown Ups 2 (2013) |
"
Somehow, the word 'sequel' doesn't fit: it would be like describing three months of agonising spinal surgery as the sequel to falling off a cliff."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
About Time (2013) |
"
It's great to be challenged and needled and stung by cinema, but watching a film needn't always be a battle; Time is on your side."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Top Cat:The Movie (UK) () |
"
It is a grievous insult not only to the original cartoon but animation in general, and also arguably cats."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
Wan's film is a sturdily built supernatural chiller, with next-to-no digital effects or gore, and it delivers its scares with a breezy lack of urgency."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
My Father and the Man in Black (2013) |
"
Holiff assembled this memoir from his father's papers and audio diary, although the portrait of Cash that emerges is that of a pill-popping religious nut, and there is next to no insight into his music or creative process."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
56%
|
Heaven's Gate (1980) |
"
Its status as a true wonder-work of American cinema is now surely beyond doubt."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
You don't watch a Studio Ghibli film so much as sink into it like a hot spring, with groans of delight."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Viramundo () |
"
Pierre-Yves Borgeaud's film is something that you might find screening on the wall of a visitor centre. It is well-meant, but chronically dull - no, even worse: chronically nice."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
Behavioural experts describe the orca brain's advanced capacity for emotion, while former trainers reveal the stories spun by SeaWorld to convince its visitors that the whales enjoy their work. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () |
"
This is the Alan Partridge film that Alan Partridge would make."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Springsteen And I (2013) |
"
This isn't really a film, it's memorabilia."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
73%
|
Breathe In () |
"
The whole thing unspools at such an unremittingly earnest pitch that it leaves you groping under your seat for a ventilator. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
Sorry, but didn't superhero films outgrow all of this five or so years ago? "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
This is boundary-pushing cinema in all the best ways, and what a thrill it is to hear those boundaries creak."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Monsters University (2013) |
"
The story is so fully and elegantly realised that to call it a prequel would somehow feel like an insult. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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