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5/5
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82%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
This might just be Assayas' masterpiece."
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Little White Lies
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday) () |
"
What distinguishes Castillo's film is the facility and accuracy with which she understands, remembers and recreates the fish-bowl vistas and claustrophobic intimacy of a long car-bound journey."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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4/5
|
70%
|
Keyhole (2012) |
"
A bravura journey into a noirish nightmare world and a lock that even paid-up Maddinites won't be able to pick on a single viewing."
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Little White Lies
Posted Sep 13, 2012
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|
5/5
|
95%
|
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1928) |
"
One for Hitch fans, one for thriller fans, one for cinema fans. Do not miss."
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Little White Lies
Posted Aug 9, 2012
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|
4/5
|
93%
|
The Apartment (1960) |
"
Directed by Wilder with attention to detail and emotional reticence that belie its inherent darkness and melodramatic core, it's lifted considerably by the performances."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2012
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5/5
|
95%
|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) |
"
Staggering and heartbreaking. Still."
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Little White Lies
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Angel & Tony (Angèle et Tony) () |
"
This is a sprightly and economical debut from French former journalist and writer-director Alix Delaporte."
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Time Out
Posted May 3, 2012
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2/5
|
69%
|
Hadewijch (2010) |
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 16, 2012
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3/5
|
88%
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Waitress (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
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5/5
|
89%
|
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
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3/5
|
76%
|
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"
A more satisfactory adaptation of the spirit of Stan Lee's Marvel character."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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4/5
|
79%
|
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"
Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set-pieces."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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|
—
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69%
|
Close to Home (Karov La Bayit) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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3/5
|
83%
|
Frownland (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
—
|
83%
|
Offret (The Sacrifice) (1986) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
——
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Throw of the Dice (Prapancha Pash) (1930) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
I Served the King of England (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
|
93%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
A more or less conventional Los Angeles-set hot-rod/getaway-driver movie with neo-noir decoration -- albeit satisfying enough on its own terms."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Sep 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Post Mortem (2012) |
"
Larraín's clever use of almost humorously unconventional framings, expressively washed-out colour tones and mysterious low-key performances brings together human comedy and historical tragedy to unique, and surprisingly emotional, effect."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
The Salt of Life (2012) |
"
Wittily observed, humorously understood and keenly felt."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
Kill The Referee (les Arbitres) () |
"
Even for footy fans, the film's a game of guesswork."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009) |
"
No, not a Toho creature feature, but a diverting, slightly meandering, mini- DV-shot documentary on the Japanese love for insects."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
|
97%
|
Animal Kingdom (2010) |
"
An ambitious and effective thriller."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) |
"
Provides rousing enough young family entertainment - though there's less to engage maturer Lewis fans and possible disappointment for older teenagers."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
Tamara Drewe (2010) |
"
The dullness of British mainstream cinema is epitomised by this Stephen Frears -- didn't he used to be an auteur? -- adaptation of Posy Simmonds's gently teasing 2005-2007 Guardian comic strip about rural goings-on."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 8, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Black Dynamite (2009) |
"
The portentous dialogue, two-track-recorded soundtrack (by Adrian Younge) and eager performances are all highly diverting."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 12, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Rapt (2011) |
"
A tense hostage-thriller with a difference."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
London River (2011) |
"
In the film's latter stages, Blethyn's heart-on-the-sleeve acting style finally combines with the marvellous Kouyaté's watchful intelligence and frail dignity to moving effect."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest. "
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Time Out
Posted Jun 2, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
——
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The Killer Inside Me (1998) |
"
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom, the genre-swapping director of A Mighty Heart, Genova and The Road to Guantanamo, is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 2, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
Remember Me (2010) |
"
Be warned, if you're vulnerable to outrageous, cringe-inducing implausibilities -- not least the ludicrous stand-up row between Tyler and his father in the latter's Twin Towers boardroom -- you'd best give this one a miss."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Tony (2009) |
"
Not a reassuring vision, for sure, and no tourist plug for Dalston, Hackney or Haggerston, but the film's a fair calling card for Johnson's talent."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Lost in Rio) (2010) |
"
It's the grooving to composer Ludovic Bource's fab xylophone beats and Dujardin's hyena laugh and heroic self-regard you'll remember."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
44 Inch Chest (2010) |
"
Aiming for black comedy and a redemptive satire on self-deluding male machismo, ham fisted debut director Malcolm Venville instead gives his cast enough rope to hang themselves rather than the characters they play."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Hofshat Kaits (My Father My Lord) (2008) |
"
You could say this film is at once a secular fable on a religious dilemma and an almost religious parable about an all-too-human tragedy."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
This remains one of the most approachable and moving of all cinema's masterpieces."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"
Cinematographer Robert Presley and the design team provide many instances of graphical triumph, influenced by silent cinema."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
BirdWatchers - La terra degli uomini rossi (2008) |
"
Writer-director-producer Marco Bechis's absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Chiko (2008) |
"
Impressive directorial skills, if a trite plotline, are on offer in Turkish-German writer-director Özgür Yildirim's occasionally violent debut feature."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Home (2009) |
"
A first film of laudable ambition and Meier's directorial confidence suggests promise for the future."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 7, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
Mad, Sad & Bad () |
"
A disconcerting fluctuation in tone - from sorrowful satire to cheesy sitcom - proves the film's fatal flaw."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Kærlighed på Film (Just Another Love Story) (2007) |
"
Ambitious cross-cutting and occasional bursts of strident music hint at psychologically complex parallels and readings that the film fails to deliver."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008) |
"
Denis magically evokes a liberal meditation on family, harmony, loyalty and belonging and their corollaries - loss, transgression, loneliness and separation - and achieves a sweet unity."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
Longer than the last, the sixth episode of the adventures of the increasingly burdened magic warrior of Privet Drive is a more human affair than its predecessors."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
45%
|
New Town Killers (2008) |
"
A seemingly self-mocking jumble of sour literary, cinematic, class and genre affectations."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Accident (1967) |
"
'Accident' now seems a little self-conscious in its modernist, 'quality' art-cinema pretensions."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
4/6
|
69%
|
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"
One of the most delicate, approachable and rewarding Holocaust movies of recent years."
—
Time Out
Posted May 29, 2009
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