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2/5
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
In the absence of genuine profundity, but with dazzling craft on frequent display, his most ardent devotees may summon enough loyalty to defend this one as a noble failure."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
For a while, the film gets by on silliness alone. But in the end, it all amounts to no more than a sniggery guilty pleasure."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Wicker Man - Final Cut (2013) |
"
The film's driftier interludes, however raggedly psychedelic, remain crucial to its aura, one of hypnotically sinister good cheer."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Mister John () |
"
Gillen is perfect at capturing the sense of a man's lost compass and jittery emotional state in a foreign land, even while he's holding it together just enough to fulfil his fraternal duties."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
Runner Runner starts off with a solid draw, then folds on the flop."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Nothing But a Man (1963) |
"
As a political statement, it's wholly implicit, without a hint of the soapbox."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Woody has snapped to wakefulness, his comic and dramatic synapses firing off with an old ease that's deeply gratifying. You needn't even place it in Allen's very top rank to call it his best in about two decades."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
It's the trashy premise that hooks you in."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
A special class of awful - too frivolous for offence, too epically miscalculated to add to our understanding. On the plus side, it's hysterical."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Love Punch () |
"
The movie's indulgeable while not really being much cop."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
One Chance (2013) |
"
For all the solid efforts of the cast, it's still one of those biopics with a totally canned story arc and as many head-slapping moments as intentional laughs ..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Sunshine on Leith () |
"
For all its rough edges and emotional shortcuts, the movie's nothing if not unassailably genial. It's hard to keep the grin off your face when MacKay and Guthrie - both fantastic - launch gamely into the endearingly scrappy song-and-dance routines."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 11, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
August: Osage County (2013) |
"
A vastly enjoyable theatrical banquet, if perhaps not a profound one, is served up in a bit of a rush here, as if they can't wait to get the next sitting in. But you certainly don't come away feeling hungry."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
The Double () |
"
Ayoade's care with the movie's craft is loving and infectious - the feel of a hermetic, Stygian netherworld is perfectly achieved on the budget, and a grippingly nervy chamber score by Andrew Hewitt keeps it ticking along."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 9, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) |
"
At just under two hours, it's a little long, but the blend of biting character study and campaigning pharmaceutical docudrama is zesty and memorable."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 9, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
The film is both better than you might imagine - in a doolally sort of way - and more trivial, for all its smog-like aura of utter, unremitting despair."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 9, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
12 Years a Slave (2013) |
"
It's the nobility of this remarkable film that pierces the soul."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 9, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Labor Day (2013) |
"
There's craft, care and sensitivity in every frame of Labor Day, so why does the movie feel so counterfeit? It's a puzzle."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 9, 2013
|
|
|
75%
|
Pieta (2013) |
"
Kim intends a parable about capitalism run amok, which is about as subtle as a wrecking ball aimed at the World Bank."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Invisible Woman (2013) |
"
Fluid, handsome and confidently contained, it benefits from the actor-manager air of Fiennes's presence as Charles Dickens, which is bustling and authoritative but frequently offstage."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
35%
|
The Fifth Estate (2013) |
"
Condon's given us a smart and absorbing picture, but his dogged games of info-dazzle don't quite belong in our decade either."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Museum Hours (2013) |
"
Cohen's vivid eye for forlorn urban spaces makes this as geographically evocative as his other work, but it's a film of clearly etched themes, too, about the solace of growing old as well as the slight sadness of unlived lives."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Any Day Now (2012) |
"
Redeeming Fine's film from telemovie obviousness is the same thing that surely motivated it: what the actors, all three of them, make of their roles. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
There's a difference between taut and dynamically confined, like Twohy's original film, and cramped, sluggish and unimaginative, like this one."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
The camera placement has the edgy verve of early John Carpenter, and the sound design throbs with an enveloping, avant-garde menace."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Along with comedy dismemberings, farcical GBH and the barbecuing of human hands, the movie offers the equally gruesome spectacle of a metaphor being clubbed to death."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1996) |
"
Highsmith had some doubts about the ending, which feels less daring than the one in her book, but there's a clever irony to it Hitchcock would have appreciated."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Mahanagar (The Big City) (The Great City) (1967) |
"
A bustling urban drama about the conflicts of work, gender and money, richly believable in the details and fascinating in its social vision."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Bachelorette (2012) |
"
It cuts to the quick with toxic glee, confronting us with a trio of the worst friends you could possibly want at your wedding."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Kuma () |
"
The film surmounts its limitations mainly through performance ..."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense) () |
"
The movie dawdles on, tying its loose ends into a limp knot, but when passive-aggressive text messages are the closest you get to dramatic friction, it's hard not to feel as though there's something missing."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Foxfire () |
"
There's a certain ragged sincerity to the enterprise, but as a feminist tract it relies too much on repetitive blunt force, and as a piece of film-making it's often wearyingly drab."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Silence () |
"
Even if filmmakers have trodden similar paths on other parts of the planet - Iran, for instance - and though a little patience is required, Collins draws you in with the suggestive power of hush."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
The Smurfs 2 (2013) |
"
The Smurfs 2 reaches an apex, of sorts, when Brendan Gleeson plummets from the sky into a dumpster, entirely naked and covered in Smurfs."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
A good cop/bad cop action comedy with the funniest two-women-above-the-title pairing in memory."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
"Retired & Extremely Dangerous" this lot may well be, but after two films proving they can't get it together, the emphasis really ought to be on retired."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
When is a film a throwaway sketch that's so good it's frameable? When it's Frances Ha."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Deep () |
"
[Gulli's] story's pretty remarkable. But this film achieves a real kind of lonely magic when he's bobbing on the waves under the night sky, talking to a gull."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Easy Money (2012) |
"
[The problem] is Easy Money's straggly plot, a story stretched thinly between two many characters, without the dynamism or momentum to keep itself charging onwards."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
57%
|
The Frozen Ground (2013) |
"
Might we call this dubious entertainment? Hardly: it's not even entertaining. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) |
"
Words on the screen, their power to free you, and also entrap you - if this isn't the internet's deadly blessing, what is? "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
Play (2011) |
"
We get what we're given in each frame, and are constantly made to guess what might be happening off-screen, why, and to whom. "
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)(Every Man for Himself and God Against All) (1974) |
"
One of [Herzog's] two or three finest films, not to mention surely his most humane."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
The Wall (2013) |
"
Call it a landlocked variant on Robinson Crusoe, but it's a hypnotic one, with a sense of mystery and interior life that are all its own."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
The Internship (2013) |
"
Almost nothing in the second half of the film is exactly funny, but consistent geniality counts for a fair bit."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
This movie is essential."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
Despicable Me, the animated supervillain comedy from 2010, was an average flick with a neat enough premise. In Despicable Me 2, it's gone."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The East (2013) |
"
When the movie's thriving on uncertainty, pinning Jane between two camps with equally sinister potential, it has a prickly ingenuity and promise. It's gripping, for at least an hour."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Before Midnight (2013) |
"
Hawke and Delpy, who are both credited on the script too, have never found co-stars to bounce off more nimbly or bring out richer nuances in their acting."
—
Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 20, 2013
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