Tomato |
Taken (2009) |
"Taken is batty but briskly paced." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"If you like Scott you can argue that too much is better than too little. This movie has a vision and sticks to it." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat 2/5 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"A damp squib, thrown fizzling into the memory arena of the world’s pioneer rock festival." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"The film is full of charm, wit and pictorial panache." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat |
Tales from Earthsea (2006) |
"Don’t expect a family-business masterpiece" |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 3/5 |
Tales from the Golden Age (2009) |
"There are no sharp instruments, just gentle barbs and pokes. Mungiu suggests that Romania under dictatorship was at worst a comically fearful bureaucracy." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
Tau Ming Chong (2009) |
"Lest the spectacle alone fail to conquer, a truth-based plot is wheeled into place and historical actualities are hurled over the walls of audience resistance, as if to say: “This rise and fall of a rebel leader”" |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
Taxidermia (2007) |
"The new film will ambush the unwary, appal the squeamish and get unwanted attention from the prurient. But it has a signature, a wit and a kind of grim strength." |
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Tomato |
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2009) |
"By the film’s end we feel we have had too much of a good thing – but since that is what the hero died of, it seems an appropriate sensation to leave us with." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat 0/5 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Underscripted, under-energised, a triumph of formula over flair, it stomps on for two hours in a nightmare of self-important inconsequence." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"what Star Wars: The Clone Wars serves up is a rehashed Thunderbirds with a dash of Japanese anime." |
Martin Hoyle |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"Ruzowitsky’s film, austerely shot and scripted with terse wit, grants itself a licence to make art in exchange for entertaining us with a gripping story." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 3/5 |
The End (2009) |
"The film, a success on the festival circuit, has been described as “carving, visceral, right in your face... scary, gob-smacking”. I merely concur, in case they know where I live." |
Martin Hoyle |
Tomato |
The Legacy (2006) |
"The last act, which freewheels towards denouement like a driverless bus." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
The Serpent (2006) |
"The story came from Get Carter’s source author, English crime writer Ted Lewis, but the venomous sophistication and serpentine inner logic are French." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"Hunt’s lovely voice, pitched in that diurnal-dizzy limbo between mezzo and soprano, is perfect for mid-life crisis. So is her gawky, strung-out, tragicomical body language." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 3/5 |
Thirst (2009) |
"Once on course, he is uncontrollable. I don’t mean the hero, I mean the director. Park’s gallows wit and visual inventiveness keep us alert for an hour amid the ramshackle story structuring." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat |
This Christmas (2007) |
"A strong wire netting will keep out unwanted super-soaps such as the first, in which a black family in LA proves that being Afro-American is no inoculation against outbreaks of schmaltz and piety." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
Three Monkeys (2009) |
"So long as you can adjust to the singular pace of the story-telling, then this film, which won Ceylan the best director award at Cannes last year, is a powerfully affecting piece." |
Karl French |
Splat 2/5 |
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"Like two hours on the Burma railway, heaving away at time/space conundrums, arch-to-soppy dialogue and tail-chasing plotting under the lash of distributors who put us in a crowded, no-escape cinema." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (2006) |
"The plot’s twists and turns are less to the point, or less to be prized, than the whey-faced humour, the solid humanity, the feel for the epiphanic in the everyday." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
Tokyo Sonata (2009) |
"A touching and acerbic Japanese drama." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 4/5 |
Tony Manero (2009) |
"Writer-director Pablo Larraín keeps the uneasy laughter coming, and the nervous shocks, as light entertainment. Latin style has its darkest hour." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 3/5 |
Tormented (2009) |
"Tormented is a neat, stylish British horror film which, while not quite as resonant as last year’s Eden Lake, still packs a punch." |
Karl French |
Splat |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"The digital effects are mind-boggling, assuming, after extensive pulverisation, that you have a mind left to boggle." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
Transylvania (2006) |
"When not hyperkinetic, the film is stone-cold dull." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 4/5 |
Triangle (2009) |
"Rackingly involving and, as corpses multiply, fearless of appearing penny-dreadful. Smith also made the loopy shocker Severance. This is becoming a body of work to watch." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 3/5 |
Tricks (2007) |
"A small Polish charmer that seems lost in the wake of time." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"The Hollywood comedy Tropic Thunder comes at us like a mad army cresting a hill, intent on audience massacre. My advice: shoot first and don’t wait for the whites of their eyes." |
Nigel Andrews |
Splat |
Trouble the Water (2008) |
"Later, unfortunately, the film’s energy drains like the waters, leaving a wrack of tired folk wisdoms and ear-injuring rap songs." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 4/5 |
Tulpan (2008) |
"The film is irresistibly human and funny, and properly momentous when calamity strikes." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
Twilight (2008) |
"This is sexual-Gothic tripe of a high order. I am looking forward to the second instalment." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"New Moon suffers from a mild case of second-chapter syndrome; symptoms include the laborious establishing of conflicts, a general air of drift and pointlessness, and a cliffhanger ending. An unappealing formula, but oddly effective." |
Leo Robson |
Tomato |
Two Lovers (2009) |
"But good acting transcends motivational lesions. Before Phoenix, especially, and his raw, real, fumbling neediness we simply say “Yes, we believe”." |
Nigel Andrews |
Tomato |
Tyson (2009) |
"Like Raging Bull, like On the Waterfront, even like Woyzeck (the granddaddy of lumpenprole tragic drama), Toback’s portrait asks us to ransack the human animal to see if there is a soul inside – and if so, of precisely what kind?" |
Nigel Andrews |
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