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74%
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Conversations With Other Women (2006)
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66%
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Black Snake Moan (2007)
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"It's so profoundly, mind-blowingly offensive that you almost have to admire the writer/director Craig Brewer's nerve."
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Wendy Ide
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70%
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28 Weeks Later... (2007)
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"The film rapidly degenerates into an Escape From Canary Wharf video game."
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James Christopher
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99%
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La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) (1967)
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"Brilliantly directed set-pieces and remarkable thronging crowd scenes make the film a masterpiece; the ominous familiarity of its subject makes it a must-see."
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James Christopher
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44%
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The Color of Freedom (2007)
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"A rose-tinted homage. But affecting too."
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James Christopher
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93%
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This Is England (2007)
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"Few directors tap their damaged past as brilliantly as Meadows. This is England is by far his most personal and powerful testimony."
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James Christopher
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61%
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Dans Paris (Inside Paris) (2007)
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"It's rather irksome."
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Wendy Ide
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75%
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The Upside of Anger (2005)
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"A superior suburban chick flick."
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James Christopher
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89%
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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"A poetic, slow-burning tale of America's pioneering past, it's an off-beat western and one of Altman's finest films."
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Wendy Ide
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30%
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Goya's Ghosts (2007)
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"It's never entirely clear who or what the film is about."
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Wendy Ide
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84%
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
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"It's shamelessly manipulative, but also deeply moving."
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James Christopher
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88%
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Mutual Appreciation (2006)
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"The painful honesty and geeky cool draws you in, but the film's sweet-natured humour seals the deal."
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51%
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Fast Food Nation (2006)
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"Ultimately, Fast Food Nation is preaching to the converted."
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Wendy Ide
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63%
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Spider-Man 3 (2007)
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"It's a towering disappointment."
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James Christopher
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Kya Love Story Hai (2008)
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15%
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The Breed (2006)
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"The Breed is all bite."
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James Christopher
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40%
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Straightheads (Closure) (2007)
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"Straightheads has the pornographic ingredients of a first-rate cult thriller."
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James Christopher
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22%
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Typhoon (2006)
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"Bad acting butts heads with bad-ass action."
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28%
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Next (2007)
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"The best thing you can say about this blend of hard-boiled action and paranormal prescience is that it is inadvertently funny."
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34%
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Reno 911!: Miami (2007)
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"A morass of mediocrity."
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76%
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The Puffy Chair (2005)
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"There is very little of real substance in there."
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74%
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The Painted Veil (2006)
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"If the cholera doesnâ(TM)t get you, the dialogue will."
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James Christopher
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94%
|
Away from Her (2007)
|
"This is a difficult watch."
|
James Christopher
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|
93%
|
The Lives of Others (2006)
|
"Few films have dared paint East Germany and its legions of demons in such honest and unsparing detail. Von Donnersmarck puts a pickaxe into the past."
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63%
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Reign Over Me (2007)
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"It's as if 9/11 was simply coopted to bring an extra weight to a script that couldn't be trusted to deliver on its own."
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Ian Johns
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72%
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Fracture (2007)
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"It's enjoyable enough hokum"
|
Ian Johns
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88%
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
|
"If there's such a thing as anthropological poetry, this is it."
|
Ian Johns
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90%
|
Half Nelson (2006)
|
"It's the gritty script and sheer quality of the performances that distinguish this parable."
|
James Christopher
|
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54%
|
Alpha Dog (2007)
|
"True, Alpha Dog is a film with no manners. But it has great nerve. What's truly impressive is how the splintered story is buried by individual performances."
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38%
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Unknown (2006)
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48%
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Shooter (2007)
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"Ultimately, it's just a vigilante picture with ideas above its station."
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Wendy Ide
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66%
|
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
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14%
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Wild Hogs (2007)
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"A humiliating medley of ghastly slapstick stunts. Walt Becker is the author of this nonsense. He ought to be sued."
|
James Christopher
|
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60%
|
300 (2007)
|
"In this handsome pantomime, the performances are not what we are watching."
|
Wendy Ide
|
|
74%
|
Sunshine (2000)
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|
|
|
74%
|
Sunshine (2007)
|
"The only thing more dazzling than the angry star throbbing at the centre of our dying solar system is the production design on Danny Boyle's visually arresting sci-fi picture."
|
Wendy Ide
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69%
|
Blades of Glory (2007)
|
"I can't remember a time when I have laughed so long and hard at a decapitation gag."
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Wendy Ide
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39%
|
Il Caimano (2006)
|
"Some moments amuse but one's left wishing that Moretti had ditched his film-within-a-film framework and made either a documentary or a domestic drama."
|
Ian Johns
|
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66%
|
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
|
"Succumbs to the now standard overcaffeinated approach to storytelling that relies too much on rollercoaster thrills to stop the kids from fidgeting."
|
Ian Johns
|
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50%
|
Days of Glory (1945)
|
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Namastey London (2007)
|
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50%
|
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
|
"The jokes are weak. There's a complacency to the comedy that suggests that nobody could be bothered. Bean gyrating to Shaggy's Boombastic is a gag that was past its sell-by date ten years ago."
|
Wendy Ide
|
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65%
|
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)
|
"Hamilton is wonderful as the bruised victim of an oedipal insanity for truth."
|
James Christopher
|
|
87%
|
Funny Ha Ha (2003)
|
"Refreshingly unpolished, the film uses pained silences like punctuation."
|
Wendy Ide
|
|
19%
|
Factory Girl (2007)
|
"Miller is a genuine surprise as the damaged star. But the film leaves her very much as it finds her: a clueless naive."
|
James Christopher
|
|
32%
|
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
|
"Kidman delivers another standout performance, transparent and magnetic. Burrell is no match for Downey's hypnotic beast. The hairy romantic chemistry with Kidman is electric, the context inspired."
|
James Christopher
|
|
74%
|
The Illusionist (2006)
|
"Norton looks tortured and old before his time as the humourless Eisenheim."
|
James Christopher
|
|
100%
|
Eklavya - The Royal Guard (2007)
|
|
|
|
50%
|
Gone (2007)
|
"You may be able to work out where it's going, but it's an enjoyable ride nonetheless."
|
Wendy Ide
|
|
57%
|
Becoming Jane (2007)
|
"Austen's fans will recognise something of the author's playful wit in the film, and forgive the dramatic liberties."
|
Wendy Ide
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