|
4/5
|
88%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Star Trek Into Darkness remains great fun for non-fans, but especially the faithful, with nods to some of their favourite tropes ..."
—
Scotsman
Posted May 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
60%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
Almodóvar has made his country a little cocktail which toasts their woes, yet manages to make things seem a little brighter too."
—
Scotsman
Posted May 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
Mud has some interesting things to say about southern manhood, and is observant about the struggle between head and heart, even if it is less forthcoming on how you get a boat out of a tree."
—
Scotsman
Posted May 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Polished, tart and smart, Iron Man 3 buffs up to an entertaining, subversive two hours that enjoys supplying rugs simply to pull them from under the audience's expectations."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Maybe some of its ambition got lost in translation?"
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
For all its dystopian sweep and moody posturing, Oblivion is too underpowered and underwritten to linger for long in the memory."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
I'd rather have Butler getting shot at than treating women like silly hens in Playing For Keeps."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Lacking Raimi's transgressive invention and wit, there really are some things that man should not meddle with."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
L'ordre et la morale (Rebellion) () |
"
It gets bogged down in detail at times, but there's no mistaking its sense of injustice."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
You can't say Cianfrance lacks ambition and reach, but you start to wonder if the writer-director lost interest in his own project, or someone told him to hustle his bustle and forced him to race to the finishing point during the script stage."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 8, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
This
is wholesome whimsy, but only the very green can fail
to spot where the plot is heading after the first leaf drops and the symbolism needs pruning."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
It's easy to dismiss Zilberman's film as a bit soapy and self-conscious, but I enjoyed the script's bookish digressions ..."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Papadopoulos & Sons () |
"
An undemanding comedy drama, but Stephen Dillane and Georges Corraface give crowd-pleasing performances."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
All Things To All Men () |
"
Stylishly shot, but drained of power by flavourless writing."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Where's the provocation in a long, slow build-up to nothing in particular? Korine's movies have no answers or solutions. They just push buttons."
—
Scotsman
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
GI Joe Retaliation isn't so much a sequel as a reboot."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Good Vibrations () |
"
[The] storytelling is predictable and pedestrian, and the film never gets to grips with Hooley's frequent acts of self-sabotage."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
Gibney tracks a disgraceful cover-up within the Catholic church."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Trance isn't a bad film, just an underwhelming one, yet still worth catching if you are in a susceptible mood."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Bloodless violence and fart jokes suggests this is aimed at kids - but the swearing, and fee-fi-ho-hum plot, are not."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Stolen (2012) |
"
Far more fun when it was called Taken."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
An undeniably tough watch."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Mexican experimentalist Carlos Reygadas offers a perplexing, plotless plod about a dysfunctional family living in the countryside."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
Mild 3D animated adventure about a prehistoric family who leave their cave for the big wide world."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Fitfully amusing, but does its own disappearing act from your mind as soon as you leave the cinema."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
The film's best moments are when McCarthy is left to her own improvisational devices with the camera still running, and that doesn't happen often enough."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
This is a squirmy watch - but of course, it is supposed to be."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
Welcome To The Punch would be a lot more welcome if the action was less relentlessly generic and its characters less off-the-peg."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Missing is any sense of urgency about the murder case it is supposed to be investigating. Also missing is coherence, and any sense that this profane potboiler deserves much more than some disbelieving snorts ..."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Shell () |
"
A father and daughter run a petrol station in the Highlands, but their relationship is fuelled by something more unsettling, in Scott Graham's promising feature debut."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
It's
got heart and nerve (you can spot some clever efforts to avoid infringing the 1939 film's copyright) ..."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Robot & Frank (2012) |
"
Jake Schreier's first feature is a slight story - it's maybe something that could have turned up in an episode of the Twilight Zone - but it's also tender and rather charming."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Like all Soderbergh films, it operates at a level of sophistication, with its cool colour palette, elaborate alliances and double-crosses, and nudges that not everyone may be quite what they seem."
—
Scotsman
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
Sudsily romantic, sometimes unintentionally hilarious, and bound to be a hit."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
There's the occasional reasonable joke, a very game Arterton in leather trousers, and enough gore to make even a Grimm brother shudder."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
Even though it reminds you of any number of other, better pulpy variations on this theme, it's pretty watchable and at least Crowe doesn't get to sing."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Fundamentally this is an exercise in genre and overripe style, but if only one in 20 American horror films were this well made."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
This may be the role that Gere has been suited for since he first threw on the Armani for American Gigolo."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Will Malick ever tire of his soulful child-women? How long can you linger on feet bouncing off sea-soaked mudflats before it becomes a poetic indulgence?"
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
This must have sounded great at some point, but it's really terrible to watch."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
A bit rubbish, but enjoyable none the less."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
Mostly it's a charming, funny, beautifully animated little kick ..."
—
Scotsman
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Certainly noisy, occasionally amusing, but chiefly a reminder that the cinematic legacy of dull 1980s storytelling deserves a bullet of its own."
—
Scotsman
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (2012) |
"
The film doesn't convey a sense of danger to Cirque's trapeze ballets and you'll struggle to find any sort of narrative logic to the Mexican wrestlers bouncing to Elvis numbers."
—
Scotsman
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Bullhead (2012) |
"
Michael R Roskam's first film is not purely about Jacky, and that's a pity, because no-one else is as good as Schoenaerts ..."
—
Scotsman
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Bill Murray isn't bad as the polio-afflicted 32nd commander in chief. The trouble is that the rest of the film goes adrift in its choices."
—
Scotsman
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Alas, director Robert Zemeckis opts for the least exciting arc - a voyage into the Days Of Wine And Roses."
—
Scotsman
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
This is handsome-looking history, but Spielberg's worshipful treatment slows down its pulse."
—
Scotsman
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
American Mary (2013) |
"
This won't break the Soska sisters out beyond their current nerd following, but they have a twisted spark that makes them worth keeping tabs on in future."
—
Scotsman
Posted Jan 13, 2013
|
44%
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