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41%
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No Reservations (2007)
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"Bland remake of tasty German romcom."
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Christopher Tookey
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70%
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Year of the Dog (2007)
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"John Cusack gives the performance of his life in this top-class horror."
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Christopher Tookey
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91%
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Knocked Up (2007)
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"A satire on American infantilism - or an example of it? Either way, it's funny."
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Christopher Tookey
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28%
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Copying Beethoven, (Klang der Stille) (2006)
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"Boring and pointless."
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Christopher Tookey
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94%
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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"Top-class direction lifts ho-hum script."
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Christopher Tookey
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78%
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Surf's Up (2007)
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"This isn't an unpleasant experience, and may well appeal to small children, but the first 20 minutes promised much better."
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Christopher Tookey
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53%
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The Walker (2007)
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"The thriller plot is over-dependent on coincidence and virtually impossible to follow, still less care about. Schrader's sniping at the Bush-Cheney administration seems obtuse rather than sharp, and badtempered instead of scintillating."
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Christopher Tookey
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7%
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License to Wed (2007)
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"This bewilderingly bone-headed movie convinces that Ben and Sadie, should be kept as far apart as possible, if only to prevent them from breeding the kind of morons who would see nothing wrong with a movie such as Licence To Wed - or worse still, make it."
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Christopher Tookey
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18%
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Rush Hour 3 (2007)
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"The curse of the terrible 'threequels' continues with Rush Hour 3. Infecting this third movie is an extra, deeply unpleasant level of racism that we haven't seen before in the series."
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Christopher Tookey
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88%
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Waitress (2007)
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"Waitress isn't perfect, but it has sincerity and warmth, and feels like a labour of love - which is more than can be said of any other movie this week."
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Christopher Tookey
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23%
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Evan Almighty (2007)
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"A comedic disaster of biblical proportions."
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Christopher Tookey
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85%
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The Hoax (2007)
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"Richard Gere is repellently smug."
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Christopher Tookey
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38%
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Firehouse Dog (2007)
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"Needs hosing down."
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Christopher Tookey
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79%
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Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2006)
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"Dark, dreary, depressing documentary"
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Christopher Tookey
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91%
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Hairspray (2007)
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"Big, bouncy, brainless musical."
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Christopher Tookey
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79%
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
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"Kids grow up fast these days - possibly a bit too fast."
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Tom Cox
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48%
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Macbeth (2006)
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"Double, double toil and trouble, handgun burn and jacuzzi indifferently percolate."
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Tom Cox
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70%
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Molière (2007)
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"When the French do period drama well, they tend to do it very, very well."
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Tom Cox
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81%
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
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"Older, balder. Better"
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Tom Cox
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20%
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Dead Silence (2007)
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"This is Days Of Our Lives for the living dead - possibly the only film in history to prompt the reaction, 'That would have been worse, if not for Donnie Wahlberg's acting talent!' and far more predictable than you'd expect from the director of Saw."
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68%
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Flanders (Flandres) (2007)
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"In the gutter, looking at something or other, but definitely not the stars."
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56%
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Grow Your Own (2007)
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"Director Nimrod Attal manages the setting-up of this situation with some skill, but it's never developed. Nor are any of the characters."
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37%
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
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"Less than fantastic."
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Christopher Tookey
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70%
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28 Weeks Later... (2007)
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"Zombie lovers, come out of your closets!"
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63%
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Spider-Man 3 (2007)
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"Strangles itself in a web of pomposity."
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Christopher Tookey
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74%
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The Painted Veil (2006)
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"A great pleasure!"
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Christopher Tookey
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8%
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The Reaping (2007)
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"Here, for all fans of the world's most pathetic movies, is an apocalyptically disastrous horror flick set in the Bible belt."
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Christopher Tookey
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19%
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Factory Girl (2007)
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"Sienna Miller brings bright eyes and shapeshifting commitment to a script that doesn't always deserve it."
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Christopher Tookey
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8%
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The Number 23 (2007)
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"Carrey gives the worst performance of his, or indeed any other actor's, career."
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Christopher Tookey
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91%
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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
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"Worthy but dull - and dangerous to boot."
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Christopher Tookey
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91%
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Hot Fuzz (2007)
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"It's the lack of any serious intent that means too much of it is desperately unamusing, and unamusingly desperate."
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Christopher Tookey
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63%
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Music and Lyrics (2007)
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"This is a highly entertaining little comedy that soars far above the usual level of chick-flick."
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Christopher Tookey
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89%
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Venus (2006)
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"Not even O'Toole can salvage this script."
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Christopher Tookey
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51%
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The Fountain (2006)
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"Aronofsky's last effort, Requiem For A Dream, was a heartfelt film about drug addiction which I greatly admired. Here, alas, he addresses a big, metaphysical topic with pitiful naivety. And he goes on and on and on, with nothing interesting to say."
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Christopher Tookey
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46%
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Bobby (2006)
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"So, yet again, Hollywood's elite has produced a political tract that plays fast and loose with history from an empty-headed, politically correct perspective."
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Christopher Tookey
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62%
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Blood Diamond (2006)
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"In the ongoing conflict between Hollywood glamour and telling the truth about Africa, it's the former that wins."
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Christopher Tookey
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87%
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
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"Whitaker fully captures the menace of the man who murdered more than 300,000 of his fellow citizens, but also - and this is the difficult part - his humour, charm and charisma."
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Christopher Tookey
|
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95%
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Casino Royale (2006)
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"Daniel Craig is probably the best and most serious actor to have been cast as 007 and this film makes full use of his range."
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Christopher Tookey
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76%
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005)
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"Expect your heart -- and the hearts of your children -- to soar."
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Christopher Tookey
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84%
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King Kong (2005)
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"This gorilla of a film is blockbuster of the year."
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Baz Bamigboye
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0%
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The Calcium Kid (2004)
|
|
Christopher Tookey
|
|
46%
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Secret Window (2004)
|
|
Christopher Tookey
|
|
22%
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Taking Lives (2004)
|
|
Christopher Tookey
|
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65%
|
Wondrous Oblivion (2006)
|
"The story is just too simpleminded, as though aimed not quite at grown-ups."
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Christopher Tookey
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46%
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Hidalgo (2004)
|
|
Shaun Usher
|
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33%
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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
|
|
Shaun Usher
|
|
55%
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The Girl Next Door (2004)
|
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82%
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Monster (2004)
|
|
Christopher Tookey
|
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20%
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Honey (2003)
|
"A preposterously transparent attempt to market hip-hop in as anodyne a way as possible, but -- for its target audience of pre-teenage girls -- it works."
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Christopher Tookey
|
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79%
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Open Range (2003)
|
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Christopher Tookey
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78%
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