Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
Accompanying parents can don blindfolds and ear-plugs and indulge in the sweet fantasy that they are somewhere, anywhere, else." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Fugitive Pieces (2008) | "
There are fleeting moments of poignancy and poetry, significantly when the script features narration taken almost directly from the novel, but this is clunkily written and poorly edited." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Fermat's Room (2008) | "
An ingenious Spanish thriller." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 25%
| Fireflies in the Garden () | "
Consistently watchable and sometimes rather moving, although it is a rather slighter piece than the film-makers seem to think." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
Hokum and trash, but very entertaining hokum and a classy kind of trash." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Pierrot Le Fou (1965) | "
At times infuriatingly indulgent but is also an intoxicating, wildly inventive picaresque fantasy." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
This is designed to appeal to attention-deficit youngsters but will irritate or exhaust more discerning cinephiles." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| Awaydays (2009) | "
Script, editing and some poorly staged fight sequences render this inchoate and almost unforgivably uninteresting." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Tormented (2009) | "
Tormented is a neat, stylish British horror film which, while not quite as resonant as last year’s Eden Lake, still packs a punch." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| The Mark of an Angel (2008) | "
There are flaws in plotting and pacing but this is always interesting." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 74%
| A Girl Cut in Two (2008) | "
By the time the story springs to life and becomes the thriller, of sorts, that it seems set up to be, we have had to sit through 90-odd minutes of turgid melodrama." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Slepe Lásky (2008) | "
It’s hard to define what kind of film Blind Loves is, but whether you categorise it as animated docu-drama or perhaps as docu-fantasy, it is a peculiar, affecting piece." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Everlasting Moments (2009) | "
Although punctuated with moments of shocking violence, this is a quiet, slow-moving film but it is also involving and at times deeply moving." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
It’s lively, relentlessly cliché-ridden and, for no good reason – this certainly doesn’t contribute to an air of authenticity – presented in a succession of apparently and often uncomfortably semi-improvised scenes." Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| French Film (2008) | "
The treatment of French cinema is rather facile, and ultimately this is no more substantial than a half-decent television sitcom, or one of the slight, love-themed sketches in Scenes of a Sexual Nature, writer Aschlin Ditta’s previous credit." Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 0%
| City Rats (2009) | "
An inane urban drama with a strong cast – Susan Lynch and James Lance among them – and big themes – death, art, love, sex – but no discernible point." Posted Apr 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009) | "
The film resembles nothing so much as an indifferent and wildly over-stretched episode of space sitcom Red Dwarf." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 32%
| The Uninvited (2009) | "
Its most intriguing quality is that its final five minutes are so much more interesting than anything that goes before." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 96%
| From Russia with Love (1963) | "
The narrative is plodding, time has not been kind to set-pieces that were once so thrilling and now seem oddly perfunctory, and 007’s misogyny and casual slapping of several women is more than faintly repellent." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 39%
| Outlander (2009) | "
Howard McCain’s film comes perilously close to being risible at times, but it is never dull." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 96%
| Shifty (2008) | "
It is all done with conviction, is well acted, particularly by the two leads, and is a brisk, promising debut for Creevy." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Encounters At the End of the World (2007) | "
A compelling film that is by turns thought-provoking and very funny." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Grocer's Son (2008) | "
In its slow-moving, at times uncomfortable way, this is a heartwarming film." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| State of Play (2009) | "
This is a smart, knowing addition to the great tradition of 1970s paranoid political thrillers, and as such includes several references to Watergate as well as featuring, as it had to, a tense sequence in an underground car-park." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 35%
| Not Easily Broken (2009) | "
rather crude, occasionally risible, if never actively dislikeable melodrama." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
A strong supporting cast and at least half a dozen good laughs may be insufficient reward for some longueurs, several gags involving dog excrement, and perhaps rather too many scenes that are more excruciating than amusing." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| The Pink Panther 2 (2009) | "
A comedy with no redeeming features that may be, in what is now a depressingly competitive field, Martin’s worst film to date." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| King of the Hill (2008) | "
Is more disturbing and more intelligent than Friday the 13th." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 25%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
Technically rather better than its predecessors, to whose storyline it refers, but the moral thrust remains the same." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) | "
It’s a dim, poorly executed, eccentrically cast film and you’d be better off seeking out Nick Broomfield’s 2002 documentary Biggie and Tupac." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| Fuck (2006) | "
A moderately amusing documentary about the second most offensive word in the English language." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Hotel for Dogs (2009) | "
The premise is sound but the script is rather clunky and the film suffers from an uncertainty of tone." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Under the Sea 3D (2009) | "
If you have children who might be diverted by 40 minutes of natural wonders, and you can get to an Imax cinema, then Under the Sea 3D is a treat." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Three Monkeys (2009) | "
So long as you can adjust to the singular pace of the story-telling, then this film, which won Ceylan the best director award at Cannes last year, is a powerfully affecting piece." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| A Bloody Aria (2006) | "
It's supposedly an essay on the nature of human brutality and there is a certain amount of narrative deftness at play, but whether in the sequences of dialogue or violence, in both cases extended, the film is not merely unattractive but also uninteresting" Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Chocolate (2009) | "
A bizarre, often tasteless, but never dull Thai martial arts movie." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) | "
A bit of bloodshed would have enlivened proceedings enormously in the anodyne High School Musical 3." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Incendiary (2008) | "
Michelle Williams is a fine and versatile actor but even she has her limits and is never really convincing as a working-class Londoner struggling with guilt and grief." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Ghost Town (2008) | "
It is so nearly a ghost-themed remake of Groundhog Day that you can’t help but think how much more interesting it would have been reworked by Harold Ramis with Bill Murray in the lead role." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Quiet Chaos (2009) | "
This is a slow-burning, very well acted film that contains, almost disconcertingly, a graphic sex scene, a strange star-cameo very late on, and something close to a Hollywood ending." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 27%
| Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) | "
An endearing effort that will appeal to under-10s with its slight tale of the three all-talking, all-singing rodents." Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| St. Trinian's (2009) | "
no girl or boy over the age of 12 would be attracted by anything so puerile, while its UK certificate and occasionally risqué subject matter rule out under-12s." Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| I'm Not There (2007) | "
This works so well that long before the end you don’t merely accept the use of these wildly diverse personae, but you may also even wonder whether Dylan’s story could properly be told any other way" Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Death at a Funeral (2007) | "
A staggeringly inept farce." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| The Brothers Solomon (2007) | "
A dismal gross-out comedy." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Prête-moi Ta Main (2006) | "
A stilted, intermittently winsome story." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Man of the Year (2006) | "
There are good moments, although it doesn’t work properly either as a satirical thriller or a rom-com." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Interview (2007) | "
A talky, tricksy but never particularly convincing or involving drama." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) | "
Stirring stuff, packed with as many beautiful images as portentous outbursts." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 34%
| Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) | "
For all the shortcomings of its clunky, stubbornly anachronistic dialogue, the first instalment of the Elizabeth saga packed a real punch." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
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