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Accepted (2006) |
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Philip French |
Splat |
Adam (2009) |
"Sincere, unsuccessful attempt to use the romantic comedy formula to make a film about a troubled love affair." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
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." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"The 15-year-old MTV cartoon on which it is based must be better than this." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"Informative and encouraging documentary." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Afterschool (2009) |
"It's an intriguing scenario, but what makes the film special (if at times slightly trying) is that it's all artfully shot in an apparently artless manner." |
Philip French |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
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Peter Bradshaw |
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Alien Autopsy (2006) |
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Peter Bradshaw |
Splat |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"Uninventive family comedy." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
All About Eve (1950) |
"Joseph L Mankiewicz's wonderfully literate 1950 classic drama of the theatrical life, All About Eve, is back in the cinema, to be savoured for its language, performances, psychological insights and proof that all the world's a stage." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) |
"The horrific immediacy of the battle scenes remains unsurpassed and even though the discussions on the purposes, causes and effects of war now seem laboured and stagy, they still have power and cogency." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) |
"A truly terrible, utterly witless comedy." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"A very decent contribution to the present bicentennial celebrations of the parliamentary bill that outlawed the slave trade in the British empire." |
Philip French |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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Philip French |
Tomato |
An Education (2009) |
"Danish director Lone Scherfig seems at home in Britain and the details of clothes, haircuts and so on are dead right." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
"The picture is superbly photographed by Sam Leavitt in black and white, though there's nothing black and white about the movie's morality." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Angel-A (2007) |
"A soggy affair, short on laughs and lacking chemistry between hero and heroine." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"The movie progresses with the smooth patter and rapid movements of a conman gulling tourists with a three-card trick on Sixth Avenue or Oxford Street and there are fewer of those expository moments in The Da Vinci Code." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Annie Hall (1977) |
"If the movie has a message, it's the same as most later Allen movies -- that love inevitably fades and only Louis Armstrong and the Marx Brothers abide." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Antibodies (2005) |
"It's a frightening, cleverly scripted picture that has much sport with the supposed contrast between the fresh innocence of countryside and the inherent corruption of the city." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Antichrist is something to be experienced rather than understood, at least at a first viewing, and it concludes in the visionary epilogue on a tone of tragic tranquillity." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"There's something heroic about the persistence and self-belief of Kudlow and Reiner, forever squabbling and making up and director Sacha Gervasi and his team never laugh at or patronise them." |
Philip French |
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The Apartment (1960) |
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Philip French |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
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Philip French |
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Aquamarine (2006) |
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Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
The Army of Crime (2009) |
"A consistently exciting, morally engaging movie." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Avatar (2009) |
"Avatar is overlong, dramatically two-dimensional, smug and simplistic." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"A souffle of a comedy." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Away From Her (2007) |
"This is a most adroit, confident film, calmly understated and never sentimental. It supports the argument that short stories and novellas are the best source material for feature movies." |
Philip French |
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