Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Welcome () | "
A gripping French contribution to the cycle of movies about exile and refugees." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
An extremely irritating, narcissistic picture." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
The picture soon runs literally and figuratively into the sands and can't dig itself out." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno () | "
A fascinating picture." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
Sit and savour this marvellous film until the lights come up." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
The film is not without merit and has more corpses and red corpuscles than the anaemic Twilight series of vampire flicks." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
Faithfully rendered and extremely frightening." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Tales from the Golden Age (2009) | "
This is a low-key, deadpan movie and the jokes creep up on you." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Starsuckers (2009) | "
This lively, ludic documentary about fame, celebrity and the mass media is an entertaining mess." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| 9 (2009) | "
A combination of the cute and the cataclysmic, the film has its moments but becomes increasingly frantic and morally self-important." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 10%
| Dead Man Running (2009) | "
A little uncertain in tone, but brisk and likely to go down well with the patrons of Albert Square's Queen Vic." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Love Exposure () | "
A strange, deftly scripted brew, alternately involving and distancing, and often very funny." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| The Horseman (2008) | "
A disgusting, repetitive, badly scripted movie, lacking any redeeming feature." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
Danish director Lone Scherfig seems at home in Britain and the details of clothes, haircuts and so on are dead right." — Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Made in Jamaica (2006) | "
One suspects the film-makers have deliberately excluded numbers of a homophobic nature." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Johnny Mad Dog (2008) | "
A gut-wrenching, documentary-style look at a company of Kalashnikov-wielding kids." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Cove (2009) | "
This outstanding documentary is as exciting as a thriller." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Colin (2009) | "
A confused, unoriginal and unimaginative hand-held account." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
Infinitely more inventive than the sweetly romantic Twilight." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Coffin Rock (2009) | "
Murky, predictable, but well enough played." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) | "
Vulgar, pointless, unfunny comedy." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
When the film escalates into hectic action, it draws on Hollywood genres, westerns in the Sergio Leone mode and crime movies." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Triangle (2009) | "
It's creepy, atmospheric stuff and at every twist of this Möbius strip we wonder how Smith will keep things going. But he manages it with considerable skill and we leave his picture suitably shaken." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
A truly bizarre movie, a tragicomedy that Graham Greene might have written in collaboration with Bram Stoker. But it's repetitive and overstays its initial welcome." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Pontypool (2009) | "
Compellingly apocalyptic." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Ong Bak 2 (2009) | "
The fights are stunning, the narrative thin and repetitive, the characterisation perfunctorily functional." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, wrote the witless script, so have only themselves to blame." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) | "
Somewhat intellectually mushy and sentimental, though never less than visually impressive." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) | "
Considine is outrageously funny and never steps out of character, but the film hardly adds up to an evening's entertainment." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Vanishing of The Bees () | "
A serious, didactic, rather rambling documentary." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
One of its best: touching, funny and graphically exciting." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Katalin Varga (2009) | "
The most striking aspect of a slow, self-consciously poetic film is the complex soundtrack." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Love Happens (2009) | "
The film is sentimental and deeply embarrassing... There isn't a laugh or an honest emotion in the whole picture." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
The final sequence up in the mountains is particularly affecting." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
— | Fresh 85%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
Click here to read article — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
— | Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) |
Click here to read article — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
— | Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) |
Click here to read article — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
Murray is hilarious and the chief reason for seeing the film." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| The Baker (2007) | "
It lacks dramatic yeast." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
With nowhere to go, Gervais & Co get sentimental about the lovability of awkward, unattractive men, and the film fizzles out." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
A touching, highly whimsical journey down memory lane." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Pandorum (2009) | "
Murky both literally and figuratively." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| My Life in Ruins (2009) | "
Feeble romantic comedy." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| District 13: Ultimatum (2009) | "
The stunt work is good, the script feeble." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| The Spell (2009) | "
This incompetent reworking of The Exorcist among Leeds teenagers makes Ed Wood look like Max Ophüls. It is astonishing that it should be offered to a paying public outside of the director's hometown." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Army of Crime (2009) | "
A consistently exciting, morally engaging movie." — Observer [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| In Search Of Beethoven (2009) | "
It's one of the finest movies about a great musician I've ever seen." — Observer [UK] Posted Sep 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
Unexciting remake of the cheapo 1993 slasher film." — Observer [UK] Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
Far more insightful than the fawningly impressed The Devil Wears Prada or the weakly satirical Prêt-à-Porter." — Observer [UK] Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
A funny, touching and honest film about a serious 22-year-old neither embarrassed by nor exulting in his lack of sexual experience." — Observer [UK] Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
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