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77%
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
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"The action sequences are uniformly excellent and immaculately choreographed, although Justin Lin does edit the chase scenes with a touch too much haste and fury."
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Ali Gray
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86%
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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"It goes quickly, it goes loudly and it goes spectacularly. The only problem is that it never seems to live up to the franchise's original mission statement and go boldly"
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Matt Looker
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"A summer blockbuster that, in this era of saturating trailers and set-piece spoiling TV spots, genuinely takes you by surprise."
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Matt Looker
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62%
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Evil Dead (2013)
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"This could easily have been the best demon possession film released in decades. Instead it is just a very effective, still-terrifying, evil retread."
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Matt Looker
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47%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
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"Once the film stops taking itself too seriously and gives in to over-the-top entertainment, it becomes a vastly superior movie - albeit one with some head-shakingly stupid moments. "
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Matt Looker
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56%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"A sci-fi that's always a little more inclined to have the heart racing instead of the grey matter working. As an upgrade from the cold, emotionless Tron: Legacy, however, it's outstanding."
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Ali Gray
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28%
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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"The most fun I have ever had watching one of the worst films I have ever seen"
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Matt Looker
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68%
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Trance (2013)
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"Trance is a film so twisty and slippery that it almost succeeds in making you lose interest in its outcome."
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Ali Gray
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51%
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Welcome to the Punch (2013)
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"I wish all my local plods were brutal no-nonsense renegade cops."
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Matt Looker
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40%
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Parker (2013)
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"Slick, refined and so polished you can damn near make out your reflection on Statham's forehead. "
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Ali Gray
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60%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
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"It may not have much courage in its adherence to the 1939 classic, [but] the film still manages to find both a brain and heart somewhere along the way."
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Matt Looker
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14%
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
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"Ironically, despite its lack of humour, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a film destined to be remembered as a laughing stock."
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Ali Gray
|
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86%
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Manborg (2013)
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"Manborg works first and foremost by being genuinely, legitimately funny."
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Matt Looker
|
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63%
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Hitchcock (2012)
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"All we mostly get to see is the sad, silent contemplation of an old, weary, prosthetically constructed man"
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Matt Looker
|
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012)
|
"A very clever, delightfully funny and visually stunning Disney film. And yet we end up watching it having already seen its potential to be something much more enticing."
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Matt Looker
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38%
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
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"Even Murray, who never fails to be the most watchable actor in any film, can't prevent Hyde Park On Hudson from being too insipid. "
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Matt Looker
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15%
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A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
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"Not a good day exactly, but not a goodnight to Die Hard either."
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Ali Gray
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74%
|
Prometheus (2012)
|
"The mishmash of grotesque body-horror and chin-stroking existentialism does not always make for the most coherent movie, but it is at least an entertaining one and certainly no black mark on the franchise. "
|
Ali Gray
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48%
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
|
"Thank God for Charlize Theron, who dials the crazy up to 'Warning: Panto!' As a result, she's the only one who looks like she's having any fun."
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Ali Gray
|
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23%
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The Raven (2012)
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"The Raven is a movie with its wings clipped; a murder mystery that feels strangely subdued."
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Ali Gray
|
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63%
|
I Give It a Year (2013)
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"Here we have an adult comedy that dares suggest that love is not always eternal. As it happens, that's a goldmine of untapped comedy potential. "
|
Ali Gray
|
|
78%
|
Flight (2012)
|
"Every time Denzel eyes up a hotel bar, Zemeckis puts another coin in a jukebox that's stuck permanently on Now That's What I Call Addiction"
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Matt Looker
|
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52%
|
This is 40 (2012)
|
"I only hope that, while my body gradually deteriorates and I slowly chip away at the planet-sized boulder that is my mortgage, I can still find time to be just like Paul Rudd."
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Matt Looker
|
|
59%
|
The Last Stand (2013)
|
"Arnie stomps his way through a role in which every punch looks clumsy and every line of dialogue sounds like it has been learnt phonetically. "
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Matt Looker
|
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013)
|
"Compared to recent self-important Oscar epics, Bullet To The Head is tight, focused, no-nonsense fun. I can't tell you how much Les Mis would have been improved if Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe had settled their differences by axe fight."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012)
|
"Lincoln is okay: a well-acted, nicely shot, perfectly watchable biopic that I assume has one hundred times more resonance when viewed from the opposite of the Atlantic."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013)
|
"It's basically the movie adaptation of the trashy comic-book adaptation of The Untouchables."
|
Matt Looker
|
|
69%
|
Les Misérables (2012)
|
"Les Misérables? More like Meh Misery-blah-blah."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012)
|
"Haywire rips along at a fair old pace, crunches all the right bones and is capable of drawing sharp intakes of breath during the fantastic fight scenes, so in that regard, Steven Soderbergh can call it a success."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
92%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
|
"The best movie of the year so far."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
70%
|
Men in Black III (2012)
|
"It's been ten years since the last underwhelming Men In Black movie and 15 long years since the brilliant original - and no one particularly asked to have it back."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
|
"It's almost impossible to watch the film without thinking of what could have -- and what already has -- been, therefore it's extremely difficult to enjoy on its own merit."
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Ali Gray
|
|
86%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
|
"The Pirates! is the first truly great animated film of the year: a painstakingly-modelled laugh riot that boggles the mind while tickling the funnybone."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012)
|
"It is both refreshingly funny and teen-panderingly cheesy. Ladies and gentlemen ... it seems we have here what all the young kids these days refer to as a 'mash-up'."
|
Matt Looker
|
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012)
|
"While the film does revel in eye-rolling cliché ... there is one important difference that makes up for all of it: it doesn't take itself too seriously."
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Matt Looker
|
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
|
"The Hobbit may be a different story to The Lord Of The Rings ... but there is really nothing all that unexpected about this journey."
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Matt Looker
|
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012)
|
"You might as well no longer bother with the book. Seriously, this is pretty much the gist of it. And reading takes ages anyway. "
|
Matt Looker
|
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
|
"It's basically Moanyball."
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Matt Looker
|
|
64%
|
Hit So Hard (2012)
|
"While this film documents drummer Patty Schemel's struggle with drug addiction, you can't help but feel that her main role in rock 'n' roll history has been as a first-hand witness to events more important and interesting than her own story."
|
Matt Looker
|
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012)
|
"Overall though, it is a hugely ambitious and impressive undertaking, the mere attempt of which should be applauded, let alone the lengths at which the Wachowskis et Tykwer actually achieve this vision."
|
Matt Looker
|
|
82%
|
De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012)
|
"Achingly romantic in ways that only the French know how."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
20%
|
Employee of the Month (2006)
|
"Quite frankly, it makes perfect sense that Employee Of The Month is a terrible comedy - there's no one funny involved. "
|
Ali Gray
|
|
75%
|
White Noise 2: The Light (2007)
|
"Insultingly bad at times, its only saving grace is the fact that director seems to be ever-so-slightly mental."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
29%
|
Smokin' Aces (2007)
|
"A guilt-free return to the kind of stylish action thrillers that rely on strong characters just as much as they do carnage."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
87%
|
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
|
"The Last King Of Scotland will no doubt be picking up an armful of gongs come award season, and rightly so; it's not only lovingly shot and acted, but it evolves into one of the best thrillers of recent memory too."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
60%
|
Them (Ils) (2007)
|
"Lean, mean and will leave your underpants anything but clean."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
51%
|
Fast Food Nation (2006)
|
"Linklater is preaching to the converted."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
51%
|
For Your Consideration (2006)
|
"For Your Consideration is not Guest at his best, but it's still an enjoyable way to spend a few hours and the company you'll keep is memorable enough."
|
Ali Gray
|
|
71%
|
The Science of Sleep (2006)
|
"The Science Of Sleep is truly a delight at times, a startlingly original piece of work that's not as accessible as Eternal Sunshine but is every bit as magnificent when in full flow. "
|
Ali Gray
|
|
65%
|
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)
|
"Don't be put off by its offbeat credentials, because this is a warm-hearted and hilarious dissection of relationships, and how honesty isn't necessarily always the best policy. "
|
Ali Gray
|
77%
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