Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 10%
| Dead Man Running (2009) | "
Too dark and cumbersome as a comedy, too weak and unlikely as a drama, this retro Ritchie wannabe has an eye-catching cast but can't decide between the cartoon and the kitchen sink." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
A baroque shocker of sensuous unease and cinematic excess marbled with veins of jet-black comedy, Thirst is far from a perfect film, but it might still prove to be a great one." — Total Film Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| Pontypool (2009) | "
Big on atmos, low on incident, this claustrophobic chiller captures the hysteria of a town flailing on the frontline of disaster." — Total Film Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Toy Story (1995) | "
Turns out the real magic is nothing to do with technology: it's in the words, the voices, the story. But then, a child could have told you that." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 78%
| I P Man (2009) | "
Man’s extraordinary biography makes for an awkward, inauthentic-feeling biopic." — Total Film Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Heart of Fire (2008) | "
Offering nothing more probing than a child’s eye view of this “fanatical, fratricidal war”, it depresses where it should devastate; an honorable effort that ultimately fails to ignite." — Total Film Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Three Miles North Of Molkom (2009) | "
Funny, but ruinously snarky, the film, like its subjects, seems to be seeking something it never quite finds. In this case, a story." — Total Film Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 47%
| Dorian Gray (2010) | "
Wilde survives intact - and with some flair - although the results will do more for sixth-form literature students and their teachers than for film connoisseurs." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 18%
| Dance Flick (2009) | "
As indignity and amateurishness battle for depressing precedence, Dance Flick becomes the comedy equivalent of torture porn, albeit with worse SFX and notably fewer laughs." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
Before you can say ‘plot hole’, the mood shifts from boredom to disbelief as a crazy-assed climax erupts from nowhere – a memorably mental end to an otherwise exasperating trip." — Total Film Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Burma VJ (2009) | "
Transcending all questions of quality, this remarkable expose raises integral questions about human rights and investigative journalism. Can a film bring down the government? Not likely. Can it change the world? No doubt." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Kisses (2008) | "
Curry and O’Neill are adorably unadorable, and though the film ultimately leaves them as we found them, buried alive in beautiful B&W on a dead-end estate, we know their worlds have changed forever." — Total Film Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| Year One (2009) | "
Twenty times longer than its (excellent) trailer, and with about the same number of decent jokes, this underachieving effort boasts another brilliant Michael Cera performance, plus Jack Black licking a turd. Or is he polishing it?" — Total Film Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 53%
| Embodiment of Evil (2008) | "
Beginning in prison, ending in a fairground house of horror, and taking in torture chambers, slums and Purgatory on the way, this is the bad-taste trip of a lifetime." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 53%
| Embodiment of Evil (2008) | "
Like a Vincent Price film for the torture porn generation, albeit closer to the grand guignol of Dr Phibes than the genuine distress of Witchfinder General." — Total Film Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 43%
| Doghouse (2009) | "
Like going on a stag-do with people you hate, this beta-male bilge is far too Neanderthal to do much more than drag its knuckles on the ground and sniff the rears of other, better films." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| The Last House on the Left (2009) | "
This clanging cover version believes in nothing, not even its own nihilism, and the horrors it portrays leave us colder, but not wiser." — Little White Lies Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 45%
| New Town Killers (2009) | "
Racing from lawless tenement to loveless townhouse, it’s grittier and gutsier than the cut-price Running Man clone it threatens to become, a spiky little speedball of caustic social commentary and guerrilla thrills." — Total Film Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
Raimi’s return to the splatter genre is absolutely, unrelentingly mental. Terrifying in places, screamingly stupid in others, it’s a riot from OTT start to ADHD finish." — Little White Lies Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 66%
| Fugitive Pieces (2008) | "
But while there’s life, there’s hope, and Jeremy Podeswa’s delicate, deliberate adaptation of Anne Michaels’ novel follows Jakob’s heartrending progress from the darkness to the light." — Total Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Tormented (2009) | "
A for effort, C for artistry, this wayward teen of a movie is confusing, amusing and scary - a bit like school itself." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Imagine Watchmen unafraid to engage with its own idiocy, or Commando with claws - this is an honourable addition to the most consistently enjoyable comic-book franchise of the lot." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| The End (2009) | "
They’re eloquent, witty and quietly terrifying, the glitchy visuals and chilly score undercutting the laughs with a tremendous sense of foreboding." — Total Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Before I Forget (2008) | "
Geriatrically paced but genuinely compassionate, Before I Forget introduces a world of ageing bodies, fading libidos and lives spent in thrall to fleeting pleasures." — Total Film Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Afghan Star (2009) | "
Tracking the rebuilding of this decimated, divided country through the prism of trash TV might seem trite, but Havana Marking’s ambitious if overstretched documentary is sobering stuff." — Total Film Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 12%
| The Unborn (2009) | "
Brazen in its borrowings and alternating between cynicism and silliness, this is a creatively barren effort that should have been stopped at conception." — Channel 4 Film Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 23%
| Push (2009) | "
Sloppily conceived but directed with flair, Push is bound to split the vote. Look closely and its disparate pieces fit clumsily together; step back and the overall effect has an undeniable allure." — Total Film Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 25%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
Among exceedingly stiff competition, this may well be the worst Friday ever. Hear that squelching noise? It's little Jason spinning in his watery grave." — Channel 4 Film Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Children (2008) | "
Watching The Children is like listening to babies cry. Unsettling and exasperating, you pray for it to stop." — Channel 4 Film Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 0%
| Scar () | "
This nasty, witless and hopelessly dated effort is still a landmark release. Think of it like the first dog shot into space, but don't forget it is an absolute dog." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 60%
| Bigga than Ben (2008) | "
What purports to be a rough guide, slyly but skilfully reveals itself to be a bit of a rough diamond." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Taken (2009) | "
A woeful script that wastes a wonderful leading man, this is a film that doesn't care about anything. At the end of 93 minutes, neither will you." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| Ben X (2008) | "
An acute sense of foreboding animates this ambitious Dutch drama; clearly, something’s about to go very badly wrong." — Total Film Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Alone With Her (2007) | "
A neatly insinuating idea, flawlessly executed, Alone With Her marks out its stars and director as ones to watch." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 2, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 24%
| Awake (2007) | "
Imagine it's a comedy and pray for the end." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| [Rec] (2007) | "
An unexceptional workout for the adrenaline glands nudged up several notches by a climax that will cause muchos trouser trauma to all but the recently deceased." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Cottage (2008) | "
If there's a more depressing release this year then God help us all." — Little White Lies Posted Mar 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| In the Valley of Elah (2007) | "
A powerful, imperfect drama let down by the playground polemic of a country still sending its children to be slaughtered overseas." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Rescue Dawn (2007) | "
Overlong and structurally compromised, this powerful, precision-tooled film expertly illustrates just how (altogether now): fear can keep you prisoner but hope can set you free." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 23, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| Weirdsville (2007) | "
A pleasingly gonzo black comedy pitched somewhere between Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead Stoned and Dude, Where's My Crack?" — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Black Sheep (2007) | "
The only people who are likely to feel hard done by are vegetarians, farmers and those whose stomachs are weaker than their sense of humour." — Little White Lies Posted Oct 10, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 81%
| Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) | "
Chasing the ghosts of past glories in the name of product allegiance, Die Hard 4.0 clatters noisily down the lift shaft into oblivion." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 6, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 55%
| Vacancy (2007) | "
An effective assembly of familiar chills diminished by its unfortunate mainstream feints." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 15, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Black Book (2007) | "
Frequently crass but never dull, Verhoeven's best film in two decades has the guts to acknowledge the voices that went unheard above the gunfire of WWII, but refuses to sacrifice entertainment value for verisimilitude." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 15, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Los Olvidados (1950) | "
A heady mix of disgusted social realism and subtextual black magic, Los Olvidados confirms Buńuel as one the deftest directorial talents of the last century." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 18, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 68%
| Rumble Fish (1983) | "
An iconic outsider of 1980s teen cinema, Rumble Fish remains an intriguing anomaly on Coppola's chequered CV." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 24, 2003 |
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