Tomato 8/10 |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"Even if it's not the most cogent political docu-essay ever made, it's surely coming straight from the heart." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Captivity (2007) |
"Even in the fetid swamp of the torture porn genre, it stands out as a particularly awful movie." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Carlos Saura Dance Trilogy Part 2 - Blood Wedding (1981) |
"Impeccably crafted, both by the filmmakers and the dancers." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"A clutch of disturbingly weak performances stumbling over uncharacteristically terrible dialogue." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Changeling (2008) |
"Like listening to a great violinist scraping the bow across the strings: for the most part it's quite beautiful, but the scratches are what stand out." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"It's too easy a movie not to like it, as a diversion rather than a serious work of art, perhaps." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Che (2008) |
"Less the story of a man than the story of the actions he performs... It's hard to imagine a fuller version of what creating the Cuban Revolution must have looked like." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Cheri (2009) |
"If I conclude that the film is ultimately a touch on the trivial side, I do not believe that I am accusing it of anything that the filmmakers didn't intend it to be." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Chicago 10 (2008) |
"Its greatest achievement, no question, is simply that it rescues a period of modern history from its suffocating blanket of respect and worship." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Choke (2008) |
"It wants to be sleazy, or at least naughty; it's only tired. And it's just too slight to really say much more for or against it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
A Christmas Carol (1951) |
"If I dare to say it, a more dramatically successful work than Dickens's novella." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
A Christmas Tale (2008) |
"A picture of unpleasant people treating each other poorly that comes across as buoyant and frankly joyful at times." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"The movie has just enough of that old-timey grand epic feel for its 144 minutes to breeze by like two and a quarter hours." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Cinderella (1950) |
"Great animation, but not quite as great as the pre-war standard; deeply problematic gender issues in a reed-thin story; some brilliant characters, a lot of fairly dull ones." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Class (2008) |
"Mostly without incident but bursting with messy humanity." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Climates (2006) |
"A masterpiece of craftsmanship that fails completely on the thematic front." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Closely Watched Trains (1966) |
"A note-perfect dissection of how male sexual solipsism and the world at large intersect." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Cloverfield (2008) |
"It might be a clever new-media commentary, but it's an awfully circumspect one." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Collateral (2004) |
"If anyone is ever to mount an argument for the superiority of video over film, this movie would of necessity be very near to the center of that argument." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Color Me Kubrick (2007) |
"It's simply not a movie, not as it stands. It's a five-minute demo reel stretched to feature length." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) |
"An extremely honest attempt to convey abstraction in an essentially non-abstract medium." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Comes a Horseman (1978) |
"A good-enough Western that I can only really recommend to genre fans, or people who have some particularly strong affection for one or another of the actors." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Confusions of an Unmarried Couple (2009) |
"On a wavelength all its own, but...there are some fairly weighty observations." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Control (2007) |
"One of the finest character studies of the year." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Coraline (2009) |
"Head and shoulders above any other family fantasy in recent memory." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Crank High Voltage (2009) |
"The directing and writing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have between them a boundless imagination, constantly topping one absurdly overstated moment with another, even more absurd." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Crazy Ray (1923) |
"More than a little rushed and incoherent [but] there's no denying how very sweet and inventive and pleasant the film was and remains." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Crisis (1946) |
"Thanks to four great performances, Crisis largely works, despite its uneven screenplay." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Cropsey (2009) |
"The central concept, that we are watching a community respond to the literalisation of one of its most cherished urban myths, can't quite stand up against the facts of the matter." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
CSNY Déjà Vu (2008) |
"Neil Young, though he be the writer of some of the finest, most trenchant, angriest political songs of the last fifty years, has no skill at marshaling arguments in a cinematic context." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"Its failures are spectacularly highlighted by its overwhelming ambition." |
Tim Brayton |
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