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Caché (2005) |
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Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"The music, largely performed by the actors, is highly enjoyable." |
Philip French |
Splat |
The Caiman (2006) |
"Telling moments occur here and there, but there is a slack randomness to the movie, the attack on Berlusconi is unfocused and Bruno is too weak to sustain the film." |
Philip French |
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Calvaire (2005) |
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Philip French |
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Capote (2005) |
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Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars is not Pixar at its very best but it's immaculately drawn, full of surprises and beautifully voiced. It also moves at an astonishing speed." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Casablanca (1942) |
"It is the product of numerous accidents, all of them happy, and I laugh, cry and have my better instincts appealed to whenever I see it." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"By the end of a curiously back-to-front film, when he finally gets his theme tune and introduces himself -- 'Bond. James Bond' -- he, like the creaky franchise itself, seems profoundly unsure whether he is coming or going." |
Tim Adams |
Splat |
Charles Dickens' England |
"A bland, old-fashioned documentary with a bland, old-fashioned view of Dickens." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"In this live action movie, with talking animals and a good deal of clever computer-generated imagery, Julia Roberts does the talking for Charlotte and only confirmed arachnophobes such as myself will resist her charms." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Che, Part Two (2008) |
" It's well staged, but a good deal less gripping than the first part and the political background is less clear than it might have been." |
Philip French |
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
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Philip French |
Splat |
Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005) |
"The treacle spreads like molten lava and everyone ends up flat on their molasses." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Cheri (2009) |
"The film is well enough acted, even if much of the underlying erotic turbulence is carried by Alexandre Desplat's insistent music, and it has a ravishing look. But it remains curiously blank." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Cherry Blossoms (2009) |
"It's a quiet, very beautiful film about the duality of love and death." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Chiko (2008) |
"Chiko's German boss, Moritz Bleibtreu confirms his reputation as one of Europe's most compelling younger film actors." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Children of Men (2006) |
"What the narrative demands, and what Cuaron provides, is moral ambiguity and a teasing hopefulness that suggests the possibility of redemption.This is quite an achievement." |
Philip French |
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Chop Suey (2001) |
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Jason Solomons |
Tomato |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"It's briskly directed for much of the way, though with no great individuality, by Andrew Adamson, a film-maker previously noted for his work in animation." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"Infinitely more inventive than the sweetly romantic Twilight." |
Philip French |
Splat |
City Rats (2009) |
"The factitious tale of eight Londoners from the lower reaches of the East End who pair off to go about their tedious, unconvincing ways with Canary Wharf usually in the background." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
The Class (2008) |
"Cantet, whose parents were both teachers, carries it on and he elicits marvellous performances from a cast who are, we're assured, not merely playing versions of themselves." |
Philip French |
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Clerks II (2006) |
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Philip French |
Splat |
Click (2006) |
"There are more farts and embarrassing sex jokes than laughs -- far more." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"Charmless." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Coco Before Chanel (2009) |
"It's a handsomely designed film, tasteful, reserved, rather dull." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Coffin Rock (2009) |
"Murky, predictable, but well enough played." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Colin (2009) |
"A confused, unoriginal and unimaginative hand-held account." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) |
"This is a film that wants to have its cake and eat it, or mock its frock and wear it." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Confetti (2006) |
"Not many guffaws, but a lot of chuckles." |
Philip French |
Splat |
The Constant Gardener (2005) |
"While le Carre's narrative returns an unequivocal guilty verdict on the drug companies, the jury on Meirelles's storytelling abilities remains hung." |
Mark Kermode |
Splat |
Control (2007) |
"Curiously flat and unrevealing." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
The Conversation (1974) |
"A movie of real authority." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Coraline (2009) |
"The movie is beautifully crafted, but like the same director's other stop-motion feature, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, it will mystify and in some cases terrify younger children." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, wrote the witless script, so have only themselves to blame." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
The Cove (2009) |
"This outstanding documentary is as exciting as a thriller." |
Philip French |
Splat 2/5 |
The Covenant (2006) |
"A patently silly supernatural teen drama, in which a bunch of Young Hollywood types flex their abs and aim their perfectly-calibrated glances at each other." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Cracks (2009) |
"Jordan Scott's confident directorial debut is a faintly ridiculous, sexually overheated mixture." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Crank (2006) |
"Vulgar, ridiculous, offensive and absolutely riveting." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Crossing Over (2009) |
"It's compassionate, decent-minded and highly watchable, but as angry, heavy-handed and overemphatic as a rubber stamp crashing down on an immigration form." |
Philip French |
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Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul |
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Andrew Pulver |
Splat |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"This bizarre American odyssey carries a lot of cultural freight, but fails to delivers it to a destination of any significance." |
Philip French |
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Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) |
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Philip French |
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