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5/5
|
100%
|
Archipelago () |
"
Hogg is inviting us to dismiss these people as fundamentally different to ourselves. But sat in a dark auditorium, we are merely laughing at each other."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 3, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Son of Babylon (Ibn Babil) () |
"
Sometimes a film deserves deference. Sometimes, the only justified response is to bend one's knee. This is one of those films."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 11, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Restrepo (2010) |
"
Film doesn't get more relevant."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (2010) |
"
After this, you may never want to see CGI again."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Aug 20, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Ill Manors () |
"
A guttural call from a place that, for most of us, remains as remote as a jungle."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Chemical Brothers: Don't Think (2012) |
"
Don't Think is an extraordinarily experiential account of that mildly psychedelic evening, with Smith's camera swooping and swooning over an audience going bananas to the throbbing force of The Chemical Brother's beats."
—
MovieScope
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Fire in Babylon (2011) |
"
As vibrant and exuberant as the subject deserves."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Submarine (2011) |
"
A shy, bright, wonderfully appealing film."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Vincere (2010) |
"
Masterly directed. Powerful and tragic. Pure cinema."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 13, 2010
|
|
|
66%
|
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) |
"
Wild Grass is a casual flexing of careworn but finely tuned creative muscles that playfully demands reverence."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
|
86%
|
The House of the Devil (2009) |
"
The power of this film lies in the approach to the inevitable final act, rather than the realisation of the act itself."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 22, 2010
|
|
|
90%
|
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2010) |
"
Documentarian Emmett Malloy is far more concerned with exposing the intimacies and insecurities at the heart of an enigmatic relationship."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 15, 2010
|
|
|
53%
|
Green Zone (2010) |
"
It is a welcome addition to an ongoing post-mortem."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 15, 2010
|
|
|
56%
|
She, a Chinese (2009) |
"
The sparse scaffholding of this film is at once enigmatic and illuminating, revealing a quiet political literacy."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
Worth catching for the stunning soundtrack and Sorrentino's mad direction."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
98%
|
The Island President (2012) |
"
Sure it's hagiographic, but this is environmentalist filmmaking at its best."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
Cleanskin (2012) |
"
With a better script editor, this could have been a character-piece comparable, maybe, to Showtime's Homeland."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
What the film lacks in intrigue or edge it atones for with subtle gradations of emotion from its leading man."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Hereafter (2010) |
"
Not his finest, but that's proof of how great this man is."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
The Mechanic (2011) |
"
Slick, swift and edgy enough to keep you glued."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Abel (2013) |
"
Abel may mark the beginning of a major new Latin American voice."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 6, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Catfish (2010) |
"
In the truth it finds, Catfish is a sad and troubling film that avoids cynicism."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Dec 16, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Africa United () |
"
It may be formulaic and linear, it may flinch by too readily blending into fable, but it doesn't hide from the realities. It just refuses to bow to them."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 21, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009) |
"
A heady and utterly unapologetic roller-coaster ride into a hyper-vivid, hyperactive world created from cheap children's toys."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Collapse (2009) |
"
Smith treats Ruppert both as exhibit and patient, and he comes across as an angry yet compassionate man, secure in his convictions but lost in his emotions."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 30, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
45%
|
Confucius (2010) |
"
For its faults and excesses, Confucius may be the trickle that turns into a flood. Western audiences will learn to love it. They will have little choice."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 24, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
London River (2011) |
"
This is a noble tribute to a day we all witnessed five years ago, and pray we will never see again."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jul 16, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
The Concert (Le concert) (2010) |
"
Mihaileanu owes his casting directors a drink, because they have saved this film."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jul 16, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Get Him to the Greek (2010) |
"
This is Brand's film, and every aspect of his persona is played to the max - the sexual magnetism, the multiple addictions, the doting but distant mum, the hangers-on and women who want to control him."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 25, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
A Boy Called Dad (2009) |
"
Shot adroitly, and combining Leone-esque close-ups with long tracking shots of the various urban and rural locations, the film prioritises the ambiguity of emotional ties over expository melodrama."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 30, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Cherry Bomb () |
"
Cherrybomb is an unaffected, if disposable, tribute to youthful misadventure."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
It's derivative, it's cheesy, it's fantastically unconvincing, its patriotism unabashed, its politics reductive, its morals binary."
—
The List
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
73%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Willfully tries to market itself as delightful and heartwarming, but ends up being neither."
—
The List
Posted Apr 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012) |
"
Too light for its own good."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
Acts of Godfrey () |
"
It chose the wrong form, and we're hiding a yawn."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
House of Pleasures (2011) |
"
Erotically charged but overlong and untroubled by too much plotting."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
Mother and Child is too dutiful, overly sincere and its impressions are easily washed away."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
The Debt (2011) |
"
Vaughn and Goldman chose the wrong vehicle."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
87%
|
Amreeka (2009) |
"
In attempt to sustain momentum, the film begins to lurch from comic-book realism to join-the-dots melodrama."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Eagle (2011) |
"
A boring Roman Top Gun."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Morning Glory (2010) |
"
A vehicle for an effortless performer, but void of conviction."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 20, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) |
"
As disposable as a paper cup and, for such promising directors, a serious regression."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 6, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Tron Legacy (2010) |
"
A wash of light, colour and sound that forgoes the most basic elements of cinema."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Dec 16, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
4.3.2.1 (2012) |
"
The multithreads, a la Pulp Fiction, weave and collide, but it's all too linear, too telegraphed, its influences too obvious, its edges sanded down by compromise."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 4, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
28%
|
Clash of the Titans (2010) |
"
Thank the Gods Gemma Arterton is very, very good looking."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 7, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
28%
|
Remember Me (2010) |
"
Put it this way, Coulter, there are over 3000 true stories you could have told, and this film may insult every single one."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 7, 2010
|
|
|
27%
|
Extraordinary Measures (2010) |
"
Vaughan and scriptwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs have plumped for the â~one man against all oddsâ(TM) plotline, the most reassuringly inoffensive of narrative archetypes."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
|
58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
Here the genre seems painfully clichéd and heavy handed, implausible in one scene, gratuitous in another, then in turn sentimental and trite."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Hard Boiled Sweets () |
"
A miserable mess of gangland cliches and narrative tangle that deserves to be dropped off the end of Southend pier, preferably attached to an anvil."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
76%
|
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (2010) |
"
A tiring, didactic manipulation of history."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 5, 2011
|
78%
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