Splat 2/5
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
"A kids' movie with few laughs for the older viewer."
Alex Zane
Tomato 3.5/5
Alpha Dog (2007)
"It’s Beverly Hills 90210 on crystal meth as a gang of posh potheads lose the plot when a kidnapping goes wrong."
Johnny Vaughan
Splat 1/5
Are We Done Yet? (2007)
"Avoid at all costs."
Tomato
Avatar (2009)
"It's a 3D movie people will look back on in years to come to comment on how it transformed cinema."
The Sneak
The Accidental Husband (2009)
"This ludicrous effort is more catastrophe than accident."
Tomato 3/5
Across the Universe (2007)
"LIKE most musicals, the visually stunning Across The Universe has its hits and misses. But, as the film uses The Beatles’ back catalogue as its songbook, there really shouldn’t have been any duff notes."
Adam (2009)
"This sweet-natured love story is merely all right."
Afterschool (2009)
"A slow and suffocating experience. Not that this is a criticism, because it's exactly the feeling director Antonio Campos has tried to create."
Air Guitar Nation (2007)
"Originality 0.9, Presentation 2.3 and Silliness 5.2."
Alice in the Cities
"It is a shame the excruciatingly wooden adult actors were not as natural as Yella Rottländer who played nine-year-old Alice."
Tomato 4/5
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
"Kids will be nuts about this chipmunk movie."
Am I Black Enough For You
"An intriguing documentary."
Amelia (2009)
"Amelia was a great adventurer and an inspirational woman. But you would hardly know it from this uninspiring romantic slush."
Tomato 5/5
American Gangster (2007)
"Two and a half hours without a wasted frame."
American Teen (2008)
"Imagine High School Musical 3 without the singing, dancing or perfect teeth."
An Education (2009)
"Gymslip love is a tricky subject to deal with, but director Lone Scherfig and screenplay writer Nick Hornby should be commended for generally getting the moral tone right."
Angel (2007)
"How director Francois Ozon received a Golden Berlin Bear nomination for this shoddy movie, The Sneak will never know."
Angels & Demons (2009)
"The film could have been a lot worse. Director Ron Howard has ejected some of the book’s more outlandish twists and tells the story at such a swift pace that it is impossible to be bored."
Tomato 3/4
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
"The film accurately captures that age-old teenage irony that the worst years of your life are also freakishly the best."
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)
"Not as interesting as last year’s rockumentaries Heavy Load or Heavy Metal In Baghdad and is nowhere near as funny as Spinal Tap."
Anything for Her (2008)
"It proves to be a heady mix of romance and action ... something for both him and her."
Appaloosa (2008)
"Too much romance makes the movie sag near the end and the plot could have gone in a more interesting direction. But if you are wild about Westerns, saddle up for Appaloosa."
The Army of Crime (2009)
"Tarantino's wild fiction is a lot more fun than Guédiguian's restrained facts."
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
"The name everyone will be talking about after seeing this movie is Casey Affleck."
August Rush (2007)
"If you can stomach an ultra- contrived plot with a ridiculously schmaltzy finale, August Rush will be music to your ears."
Away We Go (2009)
"This is the most heart-warming movie Mendes has yet made, and his best since American Beauty."
Awaydays (2009)
"Full of junkies, sordid sex and ultra-violence, it paints Seventies Liverpool as a vicious place to live. But somehow the gritty "realism" isn't believable. Perhaps it's the rambling plot or the shallow characterisation."
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