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80 Waves (2011)
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Geoff Andrew
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Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na (2004)
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Life Goes On ()
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David Jenkins
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How To Re-establish A Vodka Empire ()
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Adam Lee Davies
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100%
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Girl Model ()
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"A sensible affair, even if its point of view clearly nods towards accusations of exploitation."
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Dave Calhoun
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72%
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Big Miracle (2012)
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"By-the-book dialogue and lame performances do the film no favours but, hey, worse things happen at sea."
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Derek Adams
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28%
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The Vow (2012)
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"Both stars make decent use of the script's gently humorous potential. As a superficial look at a weird situation, it's reasonably diverting."
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Anna Smith
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64%
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The Woman in Black (2012)
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"'The Woman in Black' is old-fashioned, ornate, imposing, occasionally creaky - and possessed of more than a few enjoyably nasty surprises."
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Tom Huddleston
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77%
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A Dangerous Method (2011)
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"Knightley gives a fair performance but lumbers herself with a distracting accent, and her gurning in the early scenes may be too much for some to bear."
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Dave Calhoun
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97%
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The Muppets (2011)
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"A film bursting at the seams with sheer, unadulterated joy: watch it, and the world seems just that little bit brighter..."
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Tom Huddleston
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83%
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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
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"It's a pretty long, gloomy haul, though lavishly mounted (with photography by Ernest Haller) and sensitively acted."
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Geoff Andrew
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67%
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America, America (The Anatolian Smile) (1963)
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"The entire movie benefits from its authenticity, geographical, historical and emotional, and may be seen as one of the peaks of Kazan's career."
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Geoff Andrew
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100%
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Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
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"This romantic weepie is both moving and effectively stylish."
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Geoff Andrew
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69%
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X: Night of Vengeance (2011)
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Nigel Floyd
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43%
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
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"It's a harmless family film with an old-fashioned spirit of adventure, but the writing doesn't live up to the promise of the premise."
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Anna Smith
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85%
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Chronicle (2012)
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"A strong calling card for the talents of Trank and Landis."
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Cath Clarke
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Awaara (The Tramp) (The Vagabond) ()
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Anil Sinanan
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50%
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Best Laid Plans ()
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"This might be uneven, but it's well filmed, with a clutch of affecting scenes - a more thoughtful affair than your average Brit fight flick."
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Anna Smith
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80%
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The Citadel (1936)
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"Sweetened with a happy ending, it's still an effective piece of work, thanks to Donat's typically sturdy performance and Vidor's powerful direction."
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Geoff Andrew
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71%
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Sons and Lovers (1960)
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"A slack and superficial adaptation of Lawrence's novel."
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Tom Milne
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76%
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Bombay Beach (2011)
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"Har'el's film is at times bizarrely uplifting, at others crushingly sad..."
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Tom Huddleston
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3%
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Jack and Jill (2011)
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"Totally mediocre..."
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Matt Singer
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90%
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
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"Once we've got over the frustration of this promising film's abrupt ending, we're left with the feeling that you can escape a cult but you can't escape yourself."
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Dave Calhoun
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71%
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Carnage (2011)
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"Brief, brutal and barmy."
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Dave Calhoun
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82%
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Young Adult (2011)
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"There is a raw honesty here rare in movies, and it's very funny too - excruciating at times."
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Cath Clarke
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32%
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Man on a Ledge (2012)
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"This embraces its own lunacy readily enough, never aiming for anything more than the disposable thrills it delivers thick and fast."
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Anna Smith
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42%
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Intruders (2012)
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"As these parallel supernatural mysteries begin to meld into one another, all semblance of credibility dissolves, leaving behind an impenetrable and frustrating fog of unanswered questions."
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Nigel Floyd
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10%
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Acts of Godfrey ()
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"The results are slight but old-fashioned fun, Think less TS Eliot, more 'Carry On'."
|
Edward Lawrenson
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75%
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House of Pleasures (2011)
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"Seductive on the surface, steely underneath, this is an angry, fascinating, highly political film all wrapped up in costumed frilliness."
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Trevor Johnston
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81%
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A Monster in Paris ()
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"'A Monster in Paris' borrows some of its tics from silent cinema, but it also reaches out to films such as 'Frankenstein', 'Phantom of the Opera', 'The Fly' and 'King Kong' for inspiration."
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Derek Adams
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77%
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The Grey (2012)
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"After the excesses of 'The A-Team', this is Carnahan stripping it back to basics - seven men, one wilderness, countless beasts."
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Tom Huddleston
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90%
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The Descendants (2011)
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"Payne is an unobtrusive director, a filmmaker who lets the script do the walking - in this case, perhaps too much."
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Dave Calhoun
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67%
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The 11th Hour (2007)
|
|
Trevor Johnston
|
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71%
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Il Momento della Verita (The Moment of Truth) (1965)
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"It's a colourful, cruel world of senseless exploitation (of animals and humans alike) and tyrannical traditions, rendered with vivid brilliance by this uncommonly unsentimental director."
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Geoff Andrew
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29%
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Underworld Awakening (2012)
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"Crude, cheap and pointless, this surely drives a stake through the heart of the 'Underworld' franchise."
|
Nigel Floyd
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74%
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Hadewijch (2010)
|
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Geoff Andrew
|
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71%
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The Nine Muses (2011)
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"A fragmented but highly engrossing cinepoem on the related subjects of migration and exile, isolation and memory."
|
Geoff Andrew
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22%
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The Sitter (2011)
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"A noisy, unfocused, frequently annoying and intermittently offensive slapstick misfire."
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Tom Huddleston
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13%
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W.E. (2012)
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"Riseborough's acting offers total commitment in the face of lunacy, but it's a shame she's flapping around in a film with such a terrible script and warped sense of purpose."
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Dave Calhoun
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93%
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Coriolanus (2011)
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"A committed and worthwhile celluloid version of a play so few of us really know."
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Trevor Johnston
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80%
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Haywire (2012)
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"Only Steven Soderbergh could produce a slick, modern, cineliterate deconstruction of the Hollywood action caper that also manages to be a rollicking good ride."
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David Jenkins
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44%
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J. Edgar (2011)
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"A pleasing, intelligent film happy to describe Hoover's behaviour as monstrous but too balanced and searching to damn him as a monster."
|
Dave Calhoun
|
|
100%
|
Tatsumi ()
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"If Khoo's film doesn't amount to more than its parts, more often than not those parts are vivid and arresting."
|
Trevor Johnston
|
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88%
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Margin Call (2011)
|
"Chandor proffers a cross-section of a Lehman Brothers-esque company as the realisation dawns that sub-prime speculation has brought the market to an ominous tipping point."
|
Ben Walters
|
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93%
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A Useful Life (2011)
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"[A] short, sweet, slow-tempo Uruguayan film..."
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Dave Calhoun
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12%
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The Darkest Hour (2011)
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"There's literally nothing here that works: the SFX are limp, the acting is dire and director Chris Gorak seems to be fighting a losing battle with the concept of narrative logic."
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Tom Huddleston
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76%
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War Horse (2011)
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"Spielberg still manages to surprise and impress."
|
Dave Calhoun
|
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80%
|
Shame (2011)
|
"It reconfirms McQueen as a filmmaker with an unflinching, microscopic gaze on the world."
|
Dave Calhoun
|
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81%
|
Carancho (2011)
|
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Geoff Andrew
|
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67%
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Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978)
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David Jenkins
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