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4/5
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Of Good Report () |
"
It's edge-of-the-seat stuff."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
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|
4/5
|
——
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Ida () |
"
In a very short time, Pawlikowski's film tells us a powerful, poignant story with fine, intelligent performances from Kulesza and Trzebuchowska."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
At Berkeley () |
"
Running at a little over four hours, At Berkeley is so immersive and encompassing that it almost ceases to function as a documentary in the normal sense."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 11, 2013
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|
4/5
|
——
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Walesa () |
"
A movie with terrific force and irresistible storytelling gusto - and a first-rate lead performance by Robert Wieckiewicz."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
V/H/S/2 (2013) |
"
There are some dull stretches here, but also some grisly instant hits: nasty, deplorable, vulgar and sometimes brilliant."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Hae-Won) () |
"
Here is another opportunity to acquire a taste for the Korean director Hong Sang-soo, or having acquired it, to cultivate it."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 10, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
Romeo and Juliet (2013) |
"
It has a sort of soapy reliability, but compare it to the blazing passion of Baz Luhrmann's modern-day version with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in gangland LA and it looks pretty feeble."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
The Fifth Estate (2013) |
"
There's no doubt that Benedict Cumberbatch does a very good job as the impassioned, imperious and mercurial Assange ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 10, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
Romcom fans deserve something with more heart."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
L'inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake) () |
"
Guiraudie's sheer frankness about sex is refreshing when so many supposedly grownup films are content to hint coyly and timidly."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Le Week-End (2013) |
"
Duncan and Broadbent give warm and intelligent performances. In their faces you can see the ghosts of the kids Meg and Nick once were: stroppy, horny and happy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Captain Phillips (2013) |
"
This a quasi-war movie set in peacetime; these men are fighting to the death, but not for nation or principle or ideology - or at least, not a conscious ideology: they are caught in larger economic currents."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 9, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
A few laughs."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
How I Live Now (2013) |
"
I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic anxiety, a bit like Survivors on 70s TV: a world of farmhouses, Land Rovers and underground bunkers."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (2013) |
"
iek's flights of fancy are sometimes brilliant and sometimes implausible, but they are always airborne to some degree."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Thanks but no thanks."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Filth () |
"
For the first half-hour it's got a full-on horrible energy, but there isn't enough humour for it to qualify as comedy, and not enough reality or plausible characterisation to justify calling it any sort of procedural noir."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Sunshine on Leith () |
"
What makes it work are the performers, particularly Mullan and Horrocks, who give it their considerable all."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Nothing But a Man (1963) |
"
The performances are so fresh and natural - yet so subtle and delicately judged. The direction is superb in its control and the cinematography creates a gripping docu-realist vision."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Hannah Arendt (2013) |
"
This is an interesting film about ideas, and how explosive they can be."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) |
"
It is a splenetic, satiric attack on the formidable PR forces, spurious thinktanks and talking heads being mobilised in the US to attack the idea of man-made global warming."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Wicker Man - Final Cut (2013) |
"
Troubling, brilliant and unmissable."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
A certain dour realist vigour keeps the nightmare alive."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
InRealLife () |
"
It's a watchable film, though it tends a little too far to the moral-panic way of thinking ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Mademoiselle C (2013) |
"
A lively but exasperatingly incurious and obsequious work about Carine Roitfeld, the former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief who quit the Condé Nast empire in 2011 to start her own publication called CR Fashion Book."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Kelly + Victor () |
"
There's something very unsentimental and provocative being served up along with the romance in this love story from writer-director Kieran Evans."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
R.I.P.D. (2013) |
"
[A] goofy and derivative supernatural action-adventure, based on a comic-book series by Peter Lenkov."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
A promising picture turns into gibberish. Shame."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Hawking (2013) |
"
Hawking emerges from this as an inspirational man; with such a colossus, Finnigan could have afforded to be more questioning."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
It is pure movie-going pleasure."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Only Lovers Left Alive () |
"
Made with droll suavity - though sometimes quirkiness is still occasionally an alibi for lack of ideas, comic or otherwise. As with all his films, you have to let it grow on you. "
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
Real thrills - dependent on real, believable jeopardy - are not on offer: just cheerfully absurd spectacle and a little bit of humour."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
Well, it's engaging and eccentric, and Bell deserves her star turn."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Big Risk (Classe tous risques) (1960) |
"
This Franco-Italian production feels like a classic - with all the traditional punchings, slappings, shootings and coshings - and yet it's utterly unformulaic."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
Justin and the Knights of Valour () |
"
It doesn't look bad, but the spark of originality and interest is lacking."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Sir Billi () |
"
This appears so cheaply and unimaginatively made it would hardly pass muster on children's TV. The look of the thing mightn't matter so much if the writing was razor sharp - but this script is muddled and dull."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Hunt and Lauda's face-off is like the confrontation of wartime flying aces: there is low life expectancy, yet they are not competing for national honour but specious glamour and cash."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
2%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
An excruciatingly well-intentioned, reverential and sentimental biopic about her troubled final years, laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue - a tabloid fantasy of how famous and important people speak in private."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
More Than Honey (2013) |
"
An interesting, and interestingly laidback film, an almost restful look at honeybees and the way they are kept and cultivated across the world."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Stuart Hall Project () |
"
An absorbing account."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Pieta (2013) |
"
The film is far from a masterpiece ... but it bristles with Kim's trademark anger and agony."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
If it is a homage, this is an intelligent and accomplished one, a conscientious matching-up of style and substance."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
By turns boring and bizarre, although Diesel still has some presence."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
Bonjour Tristesse (1958) |
"
Underneath the endless round of parties and nightclubs, there is a desperate, secret sadness, and Seberg's stare at the camera is haunting."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
There's something inspired about putting Michael Bay in charge of a brazen action-comedy about gym-pumped knuckleheads who screw up their own criminal masterplan most royally."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1996) |
"
Delon is a terrifically good in the role: his almost unearthly perfection is creepy itself, as if he is imitating a human being."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) |
"
I could have done without [the] pointless framing device, but there is some funny and highly incorrect material here."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
Horror fans may indulge this movie; I found it derivative and forced."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
I suspect a previous, wackier idea for the film was ditched in favour of a slick promotional video about their jaw-dropping global tour, but I also have to admit that this is a rather watchable record of a phenomenon."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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