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46%
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Step Up 3-D (2010)
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"There are moments of energetic charm here, but the script is so painfully poor, and the plot's creaky turns so unintentionally comedic, that they're all but lost in the noise."
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52%
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010)
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"Mouglalis lacks Audrey Tautou's feisty pluck but makes up for it with Gallic froideur, while Mads Mikkelsen broods as a tortured artist."
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Neil Smith
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50%
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South of the Border (2010)
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""I've never seen such energy!" gushes Stone of his new best friend, setting the tone for a film as "fair and balanced" as the right-wing media it so roundly castigates."
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Neil Smith
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73%
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011)
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"A gifted iconoclast brought low by his demons, addictions and inability to compromise."
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Neil Smith
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85%
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Down Terrace (2010)
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"Down Terrace is a Brit-gangster film that rarely feels like one - and is much the better for it."
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Rob James
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83%
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Beautiful Kate (2009)
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"Ward weaves a deft hidden family tragedy, but you'll see the revelations coming a country mile away."
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Kate Stables
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55%
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Baarìa (2009)
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"Baaria is like a pleasant package holiday: alfresco dinners, strolls through lemon orchards."
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Ellen E Jones
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62%
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Salt (2010)
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"Jolie in particular doesn't disappoint. Action suits her like a split skirt -- and this may be her best-fitting role to date."
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Aubrey Day
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78%
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Bluebeard (2010)
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"Catherine Breillat's move from arthouse provocations to ponderous period dramas continues with this austere, slyly experimental adaptation of Charles Perrault's grisly classic."
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Kate Stables
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8%
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Mega Piranha (2010)
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"We can ridicule every frame."
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Matt Glasby
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86%
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Rough Aunties (2008)
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"A moving tribute to the dedication, humanity and camaraderie of its female subjects."
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Tom Dawson
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83%
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Frownland (2007)
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"Imagine a less upbeat Taxi Driver remixed mumblecore style."
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Kevin Harley
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86%
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Inception (2010)
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"A conceptual coup that, in dealing with the shifting logic and fractured reality of dreams, frees itself from the need to satisfy any conventions, formulae or expectations."
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Neil Smith
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69%
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Heartbreaker (L'Arnacoeur) (2010)
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"Worth seeing for Duris' athletic, charismatic and quick-witted performance, not to mention his snake-hipped recreation with Paradis of Dirty Dancing's pas de deux. And yes, he does dance like Patrick Swayze."
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Tom Dawson
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68%
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Leaving (Partir) (2010)
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"Moving fluently between the film's contrasting worlds, writer-director Catherine Corsini's emphasis is less on exploring her characters' psychological motivations than showing how they are overwhelmed by their emotions."
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Tom Dawson
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49%
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
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"Not as good as Twilight, not as bad as New Moon, Eclipse is decent teen cinema that will thrill fans and mollify their accompaniers. Can't wait for the caesarean-by- teeth in the next one..."
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Jane Crowther
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64%
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Predators (2010)
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"Better than Predator 2, not a patch of the original. A throwback game-of-death, Rodriguez and Antal's sequel hurls out plenty of gore but few surprises. Left wide open for unlimited sequels, could this be a vehicle for RR to blood new directors?"
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Jonathan Crocker
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75%
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Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2010)
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"Jerusalema remains an elegant third venture from director Ralph Ziman."
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Josh Winning
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72%
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Get Him to the Greek (2010)
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"Prepare to have a bawdy, taboobusting good time. Just don't expect it to resonate anywhere except your funnybone."
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Kate Stables
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31%
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The Collector (2009)
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"A ludicrous, gratuitous torture porn with an idiotic ending. But within those boundaries it's absolutely at the top of its game."
|
Rosie Fletcher
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88%
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White Material (2010)
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"Emphatic confirmation that Denis is one of the world's finest filmmakers. Equal parts terrifying and tense, punchy and ambiguous, direct and disorientating, White Material marshals its resources with great intelligence and visceral clout."
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Kevin Harley
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62%
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When You're Strange (2010)
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"This is a fan's film, with all the flaws that entails, but doubters might emerge converted."
|
Kevin Harley
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57%
|
Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010)
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"This fourth ogre outing delivers plenty of 3D razzle dazzle and has fun messing about with its alternate-reality storyline, but it never troubles the modernclassic status achieved by the first Shrek. Still, a chunky step up from Shrek The Third."
|
Tony Horkins
|
|
62%
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Lymelife (2008)
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"Dysfunctional adults and disaffected kids tear chunks out of each other in a hazy '70s purgatory of drab copper hues and horrible brown clothes. Brave, intelligent and bitingly witty."
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79%
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Skeletons ()
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"Though there's a little narrative drift in the middle, as a portrait of lives wrecked and remedied by memory's narcotic pull it's both strange and strangely moving."
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Matt Glasby
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66%
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Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010)
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"A wonderfully eccentric offering from Resnais, with fine ensemble performances to match."
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Tom Dawson
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56%
|
Trash Humpers (2010)
|
"As close to unwatchable as cinema gets, Harmony Korine's latest stab at alienating his audience seems perversely designed to test the loyalty of those who stuck with the underground auteur through Gummo and Mister Lonely."
|
Neil Smith
|
|
47%
|
MacGruber (2010)
|
"Throwaway but genuinely funny throughout, MacGruber plays like Hot Shots: Part Trois or a live-action Team America: World Police -- a summer six-pack movie that makes up for in laughs what it lacks in longevity."
|
Matt Glasby
|
|
88%
|
Journey to Mecca (2009)
|
"The storytelling may be pedestrian, but the swooping aerial images of the massed pilgrims journeying on camels and circling the Kabba are wondrous to behold."
|
Tom Dawson
|
|
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010)
|
"One of the best films of the year, Pixar's long-awaited latest scores in every department. Funny, affecting and dramatically fearless, it's as fine a threequel as you could hope for. Bring tissues -- lots of tissues."
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Neil Smith
|
|
87%
|
Please Give (2010)
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"Exploring class, generations and misbehaving bodies, Holofcener's dramedy refines its character studies with warmth and wit as she creates warts-and-all individuals whose flawed humanity we warm to."
|
Kevin Harley
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|
74%
|
Greenberg (2010)
|
"Everybody hurts, all the time, as Ben Stiller aces his dramatic turn in another witty, discomforting comedy drama from Baumbach. No happy endings here, but a climactic note of hope feels hard-earned."
|
Jonathan Crocker
|
|
68%
|
Black Death (2011)
|
"Having set his characters adrift in a world gone-to-hell, Smith proceeds to leave them (and us) hanging. The result is a brave, serious-minded but odd film that promises more than it delivers."
|
Matt Glasby
|
|
0%
|
Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (2010)
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"The CGI is beyond ropey (we're talking 1995 computer game levels); the script reads as though it was half-heartedly written during a hangover and every single main character is obnoxious."
|
Rob James
|
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
|
"Taking a cold, cruel plunge into its sociopath's world, Winterbottom's latest genre swerve is an accomplished neo-noir."
|
Kevin Harley
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|
34%
|
4.3.2.1 (2012)
|
"Lacking the polish of the Tarantino frescoes he's striving to emulate, Clarke's multistrander still packs enough infectious gusto, humour and surprising detours to paper its obvious cracks. He's still on the way up, but the future is bright."
|
Rob James
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18%
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The Tooth Fairy (2010)
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"There isn't a kid alive who could possibly buy into the soulless treacle that serves as sentiment here. Forgettable mush."
|
Ken McIntyre
|
|
84%
|
The Time That Remains (2011)
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"Where other Palestinian filmmakers have given vent to anger, grief or indignation over the travails of their people, Suleiman relies on a wry, deadpan gaze that recalls his mentor, Jacques Tati."
|
Philip Kemp
|
|
15%
|
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
|
"Disposable, glitzy fun lacking depth or staying power, Sex And The City 2 is the cinematic version of karaoke: a giddy, silly hoot best enjoyed in tipsy groups."
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Jane Crowther
|
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69%
|
[Rec] 2 (2010)
|
"Every empty corridor is full of unease. The carnage is frantic, bloody, relentless. The drama comes veined with black humour. And when the jolting finale hits, you realise this could easily be horror's next big franchise."
|
Jonathan Crocker
|
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49%
|
The Losers (2010)
|
"Powering forward on a punky soundtrack and a don't-give-a-damn grin, this comic-book actioner never stops moving long enough for you to think about how little sense it makes."
|
Jonathan Crocker
|
|
35%
|
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
|
"Slick Bruck-buster dynamics anchored by Jake 'n' Gemma's sparring and sex appeal. But the scripting needs to take another leap if they want this Prince to produce some heirs."
|
Jamie Russell
|
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0%
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Pimp (2010)
|
"You wouldn't think a film could actually be both very boring and very offensive. Pimp is that paradox made flesh"
|
Ellen E Jones
|
|
77%
|
StreetDance 3D ()
|
"Skillfully pitched at its market, this is joyful in a way only the professionally grumpy (dads, film critics) could object to."
|
Ellen E Jones
|
|
92%
|
Vincere (2010)
|
"Writer/director Bellocchio boldly orchestrates a whirl of archival newsreel footage, silent-movie clips and fictional re-enactments."
|
Tom Dawson
|
|
88%
|
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands ()
|
"Little narration is needed: sweeping shots of the truly overwhelming natural terrain are as awesome as anything in Avatar."
|
Kevin Harley
|
|
90%
|
Lebanon (Levanon) (2010)
|
"Forget heroics, forget glory -- this is war as fear and stench and panic."
|
Philip Kemp
|
|
84%
|
Eyes Wide Open (Einaym Pkuhot) (2010)
|
"A sensitively directed and movingly acted story of forbidden love."
|
Tom Dawson
|
|
82%
|
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2011)
|
"An intimate tribute that pays as much attention to Bill the man as it does to Bill the stand-up."
|
Neil Smith
|
|
43%
|
Robin Hood (2010)
|
"It's like an episode of 24 with furrier overcoats."
|
Andy Lowe
|
74%
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