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67%
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The Fox (1967)
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"Overdone adaptation of DH Lawrence's novella, making explicit everything that was implicit."
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63%
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
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" Interesting for its demonstration of how exploitative capitalism leads simple-minded farmers' boys into outlawry, though somewhat marred by Duvall's manic interpretation of the role of Jesse James."
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Village At The End Of The World ()
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"Much like its subject, this film by Sarah Gavron has a leisurely, warm pace."
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Dave Calhoun
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53%
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
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"There's much to enjoy in 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist': fine photography, juicy supporting turns from Kiefer Sutherland and Om Puri, and a powerfully sustained sense of a man adrift in a world going mad."
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Tom Huddleston
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——
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Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954)
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"Rossellini stealthily ushers us towards a sense of heady affirmation so primal that 'romance' isn't a strong enough word for it."
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Trevor Johnston
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33%
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Deadfall (2012)
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"Like all over-ambitious B-movies, this features solid performances by a mix of seasoned talent and promising young actors, all of whom deserve better."
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Nigel Floyd
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40%
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A Royal Scandal (1945)
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"There are hints of what might have been in the performances of Coburn and Price."
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100%
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A Hijacking (2013)
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"From this classy hostage movie, we learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates, and - perhaps more usefully - how to do male public displays of affection, Scandi-style."
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Cath Clarke
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29%
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Hurry Sundown (1967)
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"The Preminger flair which made The Cardinal so enjoyable, despite its hackneyed script, seems to have deserted him in this lumbering melodrama."
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Tom Milne
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25%
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
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"The script is little but a series of smart aleck exchanges/platitudes."
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0%
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The Art of Love (1965)
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"The script's few good ideas are soon flogged to death, although it all becomes interestingly tasteless towards the end."
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80%
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Breaking the Sound Barrier (The Sound Barrier) (1952)
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"Unfortunately, Terence Rattigan's script, while solidly structured, never probes beyond the basic conceit that an obsession which works towards the glory of mankind in general may wreak havoc on private lives."
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Geoff Andrew
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59%
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The Eye of the Storm (2012)
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"Has taken almost two years to reach the UK; you'd be forgiven for thinking it was far longer, given its sub-Joseph Losey pretensions and doily-like styling."
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Guy Lodge
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Robosapien: Rebooted ()
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"Despite the tissue-thin plot, slipshod performances and predictable single-mum family dynamics 'Robosapien' is surprisingly easy to endure - a freewheeling kids' film. Nothing more, nothing less."
|
Derek Adams
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100%
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
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"It's a bold attempt to get inside the mind of someone who's losing theirs, and Hertzfeldt has a grip on the idea and reality of death that's deeply unsettling."
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Dave Calhoun
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60%
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I'm So Excited! (2013)
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"With its sprawling satire and knockabout tone, 'I'm So Excited' is the closest Almodóvar has come in years to early romps like 'Labyrinth', 'Pepi, Luci, Bom' and 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?'"
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Ben Walters
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91%
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Gimme The Loot (2013)
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"'Gimme the Loot' is ... meandering and a little shallow. And even at 79 minutes it feels a little too long for what's essentially the film equivalent of a short story."
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Dave Calhoun
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36%
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Dead Man Down (2013)
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"A way-too-leisurely thriller whose destination is fairly obvious from early on, but to which the talented cast apply themselves with effortful seriousness."
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Trevor Johnston
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50%
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All Stars ()
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"'All Stars' is funny and enthusiastic enough to entertain kids, if not their elder siblings, who may not buy this scrubbed-up version of teenaged Britain."
|
Anna Smith
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88%
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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"A stop-gap tale that's modest, fun and briefly amusing rather than one that breaks new ground or offers hugely memorable set pieces."
|
Dave Calhoun
|
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100%
|
White Elephant (2013)
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"'White Elephant' throws us into the fray of an urban slum without in any way demonising or romanticising the theatre within which Trapero's meandering story unfolds."
|
Dave Calhoun
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71%
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The Look of Love ()
|
"There's something a bit over-familiar here - in a solidly entertaining, made-for-telly, nothing-we-haven't-seen-before, way."
|
Cath Clarke
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39%
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The ABCs of Death (2013)
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"Gives a sense of horror movie making learned by rote - at a boy's school where girls have been admitted under sufferance."
|
Nigel Floyd
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78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"It's undeniably entertaining - and worth seeing for Kingsley alone - with the misfires never fully overshadowing the moments of glory."
|
Tom Huddleston
|
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48%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
|
"The thrills and the effects are cheap, but this is in hard-driving, good-humoured command of its own silliness."
|
Guy Lodge
|
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95%
|
L'ordre et la morale (Rebellion) ()
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"It's superbly structured and consistently suspenseful, offering keen insight into a conflict most of us won't even be aware of. Welcome back, Mathieu."
|
Tom Huddleston
|
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75%
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Love Is All You Need (2013)
|
"The cliché-averse will doubtless resist, but the laughter and tears here are never less than fully earned. A lovely film."
|
Trevor Johnston
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50%
|
Fuck For Forest ()
|
"A fascinating, timely film."
|
Tom Huddleston
|
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62%
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Evil Dead (2013)
|
"Despite much old-school splatter, it's seldom frightening and oddly unfunny."
|
Nigel Floyd
|
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74%
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Simon Killer (2013)
|
"The overall sense
of chilly disengagement becomes trying, and there's a last-minute switch that suggests that Campos is trying to have his croissant and eat it."
|
Tom Huddleston
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42%
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Flying Blind ()
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"As drama, it's thin and unconvincing, but still, more McCrory please."
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Cath Clarke
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94%
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First Position (2012)
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"Undeniably effective as drama, as we ponder the varying degrees of ambition and talent driving these young people to push their bodies beyond the limit in the hope of grasping a future in the spotlight."
|
Trevor Johnston
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81%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)
|
"Carefully observed and consistently compelling, it feels like an instant American classic, if a minor one."
|
Tom Huddleston
|
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56%
|
Oblivion (2013)
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"Kosinski continues to lavish far more thought on how his elaborate fantasy worlds look than how they work, and neither the politics nor the human stakes here coalesce into rational or relatable drama."
|
Guy Lodge
|
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29%
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Erased (2013)
|
"It's as distinct from its genre forerunners as Aldi is from Lidl, but German director Philipp Stölzl keeps things moving at a fair clip."
|
Guy Lodge
|
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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."
|
Wally Hammond
|
|
34%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
|
"Odd indeed."
|
Trevor Johnston
|
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66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013)
|
"It's campy and comic at times, but Korine also gives the film a downbeat, melancholic edge, with voiceovers, pointed repetition of dialogue and images, and hallucinatory camera work, sound and editing."
|
Dave Calhoun
|
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33%
|
Home (Yurt) ()
|
"The scenery is suitably magnificent, but this well-meaning film scarcely says enough to fill its 75-minute running time."
|
Guy Lodge
|
|
35%
|
Dark Skies (2013)
|
"Time and again, Stewart squanders the opportunity to do anything remotely interesting or worthwhile ..."
|
Tom Huddleston
|
|
29%
|
All Things To All Men ()
|
"The spiralling plot becomes increasingly academic while it seems to think it's being terribly clever."
|
Trevor Johnston
|
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012)
|
"The result is a perfectly serviceable, well acted melodrama - but why so serious?"
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Tom Huddleston
|
|
——
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Marketa Lazarová (1967)
|
"It's stark, daring and often astoundingly dynamic."
|
|
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29%
|
What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams) (1973)
|
"All suitably throwaway, it's held together by our own curiosity and Polanski's obvious delight in observing such strange goings-on in rich summer villas."
|
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20%
|
Gobots - Battle of the Rock Lords ()
|
"Save your pennies and watch the GoBots on TV instead."
|
|
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73%
|
One Mile Away ()
|
"Genuinely eye-opening."
|
Dave Calhoun
|
|
87%
|
In the House (2013)
|
"A witty, naughty, insight-packed provocation which never takes its seriousness too seriously."
|
Trevor Johnston
|
|
90%
|
Good Vibrations ()
|
"An impassioned, funny and monumentally likable myth-making comedy."
|
Tom Huddleston
|
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
|
"It looks as though some bright spark at Joe HQ decided that what the series needed was to lose its fun, post-'Team America' self-awareness and replace it with unironic jingoism, military-fetish hardware and heavy-handed nods to real world events."
|
Tom Huddleston
|
|
78%
|
F.I.S.T. (1978)
|
"Stallone's performance is a superb blend of stubborn-jawed gravity and ironic hamming."
|
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47%
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