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4/5
|
57%
|
Nebraska (2013) |
"
This is a resounding return to form for Payne: there are moments that recall his earlier road movies About Schmidt and Sideways, but it has a wistful, shuffling, grizzly-bearish rhythm all of its own."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 23, 2013
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|
3/5
|
100%
|
All Is Lost (2013) |
"
The film's scope is limited, but as far as it goes, All Is Lost is very good indeed: a neat idea, very nimbly executed."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
Some of the most adrenalising moments in motor racing are not the victories but the crashes, and Only God Forgives is the spectacle of a brilliant young director spinning out in style. It's a beautiful disaster."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 22, 2013
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|
5/5
|
——
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La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) () |
"
When the credits began to roll at the press screening, some critics rose to their feet and just stared dumbly at the screen. I'm happy to admit I was among them."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Behind the Candelabra () |
"
This is luxury cinema in the lucid Soderberghian style. His analytical camera turns Liberace's Vegas mansion, with its golden furnishings and marble columns, into a terrifying mirror-hall of opulence: a place where guilt has somehow morphed into gilt."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 21, 2013
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|
3/5
|
44%
|
Wara no tate (Shield of Straw) () |
"
An enjoyably silly police thriller ..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 20, 2013
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|
5/5
|
90%
|
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
"
This is instant A-list Coens; enigmatic, exhilarating, irresistible."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
For Those In Peril () |
"
Wright's film is about the surreality of bereavement - the way grief can fold past into present, creating an illogical, inescapable Moebius ribbon of sadness."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 18, 2013
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|
5/5
|
——
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The Selfish Giant () |
"
The Selfish Giant is cinema that tells an unsure nation who we are."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
63%
|
Tian zhu ding (A Touch of Sin) () |
"
The horizon-stretching scenery, shimmeringly captured by cinematographer Yu Lik-Wai, will make you draw breath, in awe but also fear."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
Heli () |
"
Heli may be the most optimistic film you will ever see in which one young man sets another's genitals on fire."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Young & Beautiful (Jeune Et Jolie) (2013) |
"
As fizzy and quenching as a pint of lemonade."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
55%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
Everything comes together for the good here: visuals, performances, raucous soundtrack, Coppola's teasing flirtation with, yet ultimate lack of commitment to, some kind of concrete morality."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
There is surely no contradiction in praising the Australian director's batty ambitions for this story while admitting that they often work against it."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
"
You leave the cinema with your teeth clenched, muttering: "at least it meant well"."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
Lindholm ... infuses every frame of his second film with the slow-burn, high-tension pungency of a particularly addictive DVD box set."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
This feels like a film Almodóvar had to get out of his system - a kind of cinematic kidney stone - and your gut will twinge in sympathy."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
All Stars () |
"
"Oh, not the talent show thing again," groans Ashley Jensen's social worker when the youngsters announce their plan. Well, you said it."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
This is too dull to function as a thriller and too silly to qualify as anything else."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
That pioneer spirit? It's gone."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Black has an instinctive feel for balancing action set-pieces against the passages of soap-opera that are required to make them matter."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
It rattles along with no little vim, and there is one excellent joke about the difficulty of finding a computer's hash key when time is tight."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
This is great American cinema of the type we keep worrying we've already lost. Behind its puppy-dog eyes burns a fierce intelligence."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
It isn't great art, but it is patterned after great art, and there are worse ways to make a film than that."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Erased (2013) |
"
In a supporting role as a CIA bureau chief, Olga Kurylenko looks half-asleep. Who can blame her?"
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
Has ever a film battled more fruitlessly against the creepiness of its own premise than The Odd Life of Timothy Green?"
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
30%
|
King Of The Travellers () |
"
The world of bare-knuckle Irish boxing feuds between bitterly opposed traveller families makes for depressing and unilluminating dramatic material."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Point Blank (1967) |
"
Has aged as well as Lee Marvin's brown jacket and tangerine shirt ensemble - that is to say, spectacularly."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
We Went To War () |
"
The film conjures a profound sense of space and peace, and contains not a single shot of conflict."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
73%
|
One Mile Away () |
"
This is a vital and important film - just not to watch."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Trance is what happens when one of our finest filmmakers himself regresses into a past life: it's far from perfect, but you can hardly begrudge him the trip."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Good Vibrations () |
"
Richard Dormer is a hairy tuffet of charisma in the lead role, and Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson's script gives Hooley some lovely lines to say, while perhaps cutting him a little too much slack."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
The question remains as to what, exactly, the film is retaliation for. Four million years of human evolution?"
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
30%
|
Reincarnated (2013) |
"
You suspect the camera crew returned from Jamaica with about 20 minutes of usable footage."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
An honest swashbuckling romp with appealing pantomime overtones, and one of the better fairy tale films to date."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
You do rather wonder if an American studio will ever again have the nerve to make a children's animation with the simple, unblunted power of Dumbo or Bambi."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
Needs more than its "based on a true story" disclaimer to short-circuit our sceptical instinct."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Shell () |
"
Shell, the captivating debut from the young Scottish filmmaker Scott Graham, finds claustrophobia in the widest-open landscape, and isolation in the closest-knit relationship."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
The instability bleeds into the fabric of the film itself, and until the very end, it is thrillingly hard to prise open its puzzle-box lid."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
It may not be wonderful, but it will do for now."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
When it comes to long-form tales of political intrigue, television serials are fast encroaching on cinema's patch, and if this very ordinary thriller is the best Hollywood can do, it might as well cede the whole territory."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
What elegant pulp this is, and how inelegantly I gobbled it up."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Park's film is head-spinningly kinky stuff, even by Korean standards, and the fact it has somehow emerged from the American studio system in all its unhinged glory is itself a marvel."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
Tykwer and the Wachowskis have laboured long and hard to turn Mitchell's very literary material into something cinematic."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
The film shocks you to the marrow, and every frame burns with a righteous fire, itself religious in its intensity."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
Every scene feels like an airbrushed composite of dozens of rambling takes, and 133 minutes is drainingly long for a story this sitcom-slight."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
Even though the ride finally stalls, A Good Day To Die Hard has been thrustingly outrageous enough in its earlier moments to coast to the finish line on momentum."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
The Fall Of The Essex Boys () |
"
This is the fourth film to have been inspired by the 1995 execution of three drug dealers in a Range Rover just outside Chelmsford, and it is every bit as ninnyish as the other three."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
No is hugely smart and intricate, but it also comes from the gut."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
73%
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