Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 50%
| 1 Day () | "
You could call this a 'hip-hopera', a mix of filmmaking and social work, or a shot in the arm for British independent cinema. Just don't call it Bugsy Malone with real bullets." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 47%
| The Horseman (2008) | "
Despite some good performances and technical flair, The Horseman remains stuck in the paddock." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Honestly, this really isn't some kind of Transatlantic stand-off on our part. But how much longer are we expected to stand impotently by while Hollywood arrogantly Americanises our every British children's icon?" — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) | "
Jaw-bustingly funny stuff, uproarious, delightful and unexpectedly touching, containing more laugh-out-loud moments than most Hollywood comedies twice the length." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| The Spell (2009) | "
It almost demands a debate about whether critics should even be allowed to pass judgement on films unless they (films and critics both) have attained a certain rudimentary benchmark of professionalism to begin with." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| The Firm (2009) | "
This shallow and pointless remake settles for rehashing Love's single idea, familiar from his previous three pictures, in which a young, weedy, working-class guy gets sucked into a violently glamorous world." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
A tooled-up Fisher always adds instant value to any movie. If only she could be arsed to script-doctor them all too." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Tricks (2007) | "
A film whose well-crafted side-attractions could divert attention from the finely-tuned engine of the story, ticking away softly in the background as it carries us quietly to our destination." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Greek Pete (2009) | "
The overriding image we're left with is that of a rather shallow young man, operating in a depressingly dreary, soulless and risky environment about which we glean no real insights. And that probably wasn't what Haigh was trying to achieve." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
This is a blast of a B Movie, featuring cool chase sequences, Peter Jackson-style gross-outs, and generally just good-old over-the-top, by-the-skin-of-the-fingernails fun. Good title pun too. And those Hawaiian vistas, of course, are sheer eye-pudding." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) | "
If one were to take a buzzsaw to The Ugly Truth, its arterial spray would drip down the wall to form the coagulated word 'generic'." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 74%
| Just Another Love Story (2009) | "
A fast, furious and fun homage to film noir with heart to spare." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| Gigantic (2008) | "
The kind of mumbling, lank-haired, achingly self-conscious indie rom-com that gives mumbling, lank-haired, achingly self-conscious indie rom-coms a bad name." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 83%
| Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2009) | "
Telstar is an embarrassing farrago, an amateurish, incoherent pantomime of a piece, stuffed with interchangeable characters, a sketchy, largely unsympathetic leading role, and - betraying its stage play origins - unspeakably stilted dialogue." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| The Last House on the Left (2009) | "
This year's model, lacking any meaningful context of its own, is reactionary, conservative - existing purely as a slick commercial venture, more grisly grist to the multiplex mill." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 19%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
If Obsessed were a perfume, it would ming like happy hour at a squids' brothel. This atrocious, and atrociously derivative affair is not only an early contender for worst film of 2009." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
This personality vacuum is a real problem in a film that purports to depict a day in the life of young pop stars whom audiences can actually relate to." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| Fireflies in the Garden () | "
This is a slog of a melodrama. And with at least four sob stories competing for space, characters are left dangling like untied shoelaces, as backstories remain unfertilised." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| Awaydays (2009) | "
A pretentious, grubbily voyeuristic paean to football hooliganism, kitted out with ubiquitous slo-mo violence, tactical post-punk hits and retro fashions." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Sounds Like Teen Spirit () | "
It is physically impossible to emerge from this film wearing anything other than a smile as big as an upside-down rainbow. Congratulations - and jubilations!" — Channel 4 Film Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 24%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
Ultimately, Little Ashes, a piece of commercial entertainment made on the other side of the twentieth century, lacks the courage of its case studies' convictions." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Coraline (2009) | "
Like the Tin Man of Oz, Coraline is a miracle of engineering - and absolutely heartless." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
It's a film to respect or admire from a distance, rather than like or, you know, actually enjoy." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| The End (2009) | "
A deliberately distressed and scratchy documentary of talking heads, sporting the same sinister techno score and added subtitles for non-cockneys." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 32%
| The Uninvited (2009) | "
Unremarkable, unimaginative and unnecessary. Check out the superior original instead." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Shifty (2008) | "
Creevy eschews the woozy, arthouse ambience of Duane Hopkins' Better Things - another portrait of a drug-decimated community - for naturalistic dialogue and performances within carefully framed and composed shots; properly cinematic, grown-up direction." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 35%
| Not Easily Broken (2009) | "
It is unspeakably naff, unintentionally funny and unapologetically Christian. Judged on its own terms, it's a resounding success. But for non-believers it will likely prove a living purgatory." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| The World Unseen (2008) | "
As drama, it's insipid. As erotica, it's useless." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
A weird and wonderful anti-biopic" — Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Clubbed (2009) | "
It's surprisingly good: well written, nicely acted and beautifully scored." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) | "
A warm-hearted if predictable rites-of-passage movie, enlivened by some surreal flourishes and a stomping glam soundtrack." — Channel 4 Film Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
Along with Downfall, with whom it shares a screenwriter, this is among the greatest of the recent new wave of German films." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | "
Bit of a hodgepodge, this. Its natural home will be on DVD, where the occasional desire to fast-forward can be indulged. However, fans of the contemporary animation scene will find much to admire here." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Wild at Heart (1990) | "
The result's mostly empty at heart and hollow on top." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 59%
| RocknRolla (2008) | "
Wading through this stuff is akin to peeping through one's fingers at a retired, punch-drunk boxer climbing into the ring, or a recidivist junkie ripping out their naltrexone implants." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Somers Town (2009) | "
Another beautifully crafted film, as well as a great London film, from the finest British director working today." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 32%
| My Kingdom (2002) | "
Leading man Harris and director Boyd are still capable of invigorating British cinema with style and flair." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Let's Get Lost (1988) | "
A wide-eyed love letter to a jazz great, very much of its time, sporting stylish visuals and a sublime soundtrack." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Quatermass II (1957) | "
A masterful near-satire of Cold War paranoia and, arguably, the best of the Quatermass series." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) | "
An enchanting, life-affirming animation of love and redemption, made with no small measure of maturity and care -- along with an all too rare respect for the art of storytelling." — Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 10, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 24%
| Shrooms (2006) | "
Mush." — Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Magic Christian (1969) | "
Save for some eye-popping cameos, there's nothing very magic about this dated dog's breakfast of a movie." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 10, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Withnail and I (1988) | "
The best British comedy ever made? Possibly. A masterpiece? Unquestionably." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 44%
| Hostel: Part II (2007) | "
Not worth the repeat check-in." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| This Is England (2007) | "
Meadows gets great, moving performances from his young cast." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 22%
| Outlaw (2007) | "
Death Wish meets the Daily Mail" — Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 8, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| Hannibal Rising (2007) | "
Akin to exhuming a once good-looking corpse; wholly unnecessary - and a bit of a mess." — Channel 4 Film Posted Feb 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Panic in Needle Park (1971) | "
A brilliantly performed, remarkably un-exploitative (and occasionally funny) portrayal of the ravages of drug addiction, shot with searing documentary-style realism from Schatzberg." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 9, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| Without A Paddle (2004) | "
While striving for a bit of liberalism (ain't we City types the real stoopid ones) almost every scene then throws in the towel and falls back on a clutch of unfunny country-livin' clichés." — BBC Posted Dec 21, 2004 |
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