|
2/5
|
32%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
Spacek, a boon to any movie, hardly needs do anything to be the only one you don't want to see with a shotgun pointing at her head ..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
The movie is unpolished, and it matters not a jot, because Leon has written super roles for these kids and invests their relationship with such sly feeling."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
If we must have three horny fools getting their rocks off during a wild all-nighter prefabricated for cult appeal, at least it's these three, whose combined bonhomie could get just about any party started."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
White Elephant (2013) |
"
[A] potent drama about the lawless slums of Buenos Aires - it feels like The Mission with all exoticism firmly excised."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Me and You (Io e te) () |
"
It's a pleasing if minor piece of work, like a semi-precious stone that you'd still keep."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
I was left clamping my hand to my open jaw, not so much in terror, more in shocked hilarity at how grand the guignol was willing to go."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
|
96%
|
Persepolis (2007) |
"
You could ask for a more hardcore adaptation of her bitterly funny, sad and angry book, I think, but not for a more enjoyable one."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
The trouble with Oblivion is that it never gets past second gear, and most of the ideas feel cloned."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Papadopoulos & Sons () |
"
It gets by almost wholly on hangdog charm, but that's an underrated asset, and so is Dillane, delivering a terse and rueful performance that's typically excellent."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
If the dour home-invasion chiller Dark Skies needs one thing, it's aliens with more novel ideas."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday) () |
"
While the dramatic content is taxingly minimal, the cinematography by Bárbara Álvarez (The Headless Woman) is full of emotional clues."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
The trouble is all in the film's wildly anxious structure, which feels largely dictated in the cutting-room by Korine going out of his way not to be accused of a message."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Finding Nemo 3D (2012) |
"
Every frond and fin pokes out at you."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
It's a scintillating intellectual tease, rigorously controlled, but terrific fun at the same time."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Suggests Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life refracted through Tarkovsky's Mirror: terminally self-conscious, intermittently breathtaking."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Neighbouring Sounds (2012) |
"
An absorbing and extremely promising film."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Feeble as comedy, the movie is needlessly violent, too, as if half the crew misguidedly thought they were making a foul-mouthed action thriller."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
It wants celebrity culture to be understood as the new religion: a worshipping of false idols."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
The Spirit of '45 () |
"
Demanding balance from a Ken Loach film is a little like wanting a goat to do a handstand."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
With this much comic talent on show, the chuckles aren't lacking so much as insufficient: Don Scardino's film has a cramping smallness of spirit, and it's nothing at all to look at."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
It deserves respect as a kind of instructive failure - an honest showcase for the various ways Creevy can and should keep getting better."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
The movie wants to explore looming crises of faith, but for Malick fans it's in serious danger of entailing one."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Gloria () |
"
A richly funny, mordant and empathetic comedy-drama about an ageing divorcee hitting the moribund singles scene in Santiago."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
When all's said and done, it'll go down as minor Soderbergh - clever sleight-of-hand, really - but it reminds you of so many Soderberghy virtues as to be an oddly compendious pleasure."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 12, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Grandmaster (2012) |
"
A ... studied, narratively elliptical creation."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
47%
|
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) |
"
Bafflingly unfunny, and made with a ruinous lack of guiding intelligence."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
I Wish (2012) |
"
Undeniably beguiling, but more manufactured-feeling than Kore-eda's top-drawer work."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
The chubby 3D animation, smart-alecky product placement and potty humour all capped my enthusiasm about halfway to total delight."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
73%
|
Chained (2012) |
"
Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David, does the filmmaking equivalent of drunkenly totalling dad's prized Ferrari."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
73%
|
A Place in the Sun (1951) |
"
Montgomery Clift's performance as upward-striving pauper George Eastman is a career peak, and Elizabeth Taylor is a gleaming paragon as his high-society paramour."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
Proof that there's room for more than one brainy provocateur in the Cronenberg gene-pool."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
The real shock of Bullet to the Head isn't Stallone's reliable inability to speak, but Walter Hill's shoddy job in the director's chair. The editing is brutal in all the wrong ways, as if whole scenes were lopped out at the last minute."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
The forces of unionism are mainly pilloried as lazy sell-outs, which is a pity, because a lot of other tangy issues come into play here."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
It's tiresome to describe Day-Lewis as brilliant, so let's push the boat out: his Lincoln is absolutely wonderful."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
V/H/S (2012) |
"
Several of the shorts build ingeniously, and their brevity solves the serial problem of found footage, which is how to maintain interest and plausibility in shaky-cam antics for a whole feature."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
You could maybe see it working as a play, though the tactile detail of these scenes needs close-ups on the actors' faces to communicate what the transaction means to them both."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Underground () |
"
A fond and tautly handled curio."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
What Richard Did (2013) |
"
Laced with ambiguities, the scenario isn't just skin-crawlingly plausible but morally fascinating."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
The trouble is how adolescent it all feels. The sets are squeaky-clean, the violence garish and digital."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Repulsion (1997) |
"
It's been an inspiration ever since for films about claustrophobic hysteria, but not necessarily in a good way ..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 3, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Chinatown (1974) |
"
Trust Polanski to make disillusionment seductive - rather more luxuriantly so than Billy Wilder ever managed."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 3, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
Jack Reacher tips constantly into self-parody and doesn't know how to signal it, like someone trying to wink at you without the benefit of eyelids."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
Amusing though the movie can be, there's something missing in the warmth department. Like songs without accompaniment, its jokes lack any charm or liking for the characters."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
[It is] about the weighted scales of US justice, and amounts to a fight for fairness: when you have to settle for the best redress a corrupt judicial system can give you, it may be time to clean house."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
There's no more perfect title for a film this year, because it manages to suggest a witching hour, a veil of deadly secrecy, and a pinpoint-honed logistical operation all at once."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
U.F.O. () |
"
Bad, but honest about it."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Dead Europe () |
"
A promising drama of alienation that slides into portentousness."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960) |
"
The ultimate camp-Gothic bitchfight. Vastly entertaining."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
Jonathan Demme makes his third concert film with Young, including shots practically right up his nostrils."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
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