Tomato 3/5 |
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006) |
"A horribly enlightening documentary." |
Xan Brooks |
Tomato |
A Prophet (2009) |
"The film shows Audiard to be the biggest beast in new French cinema." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Not a triumph, but a clever rendering of the subversive spirit of Philip K Dick." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
A Throw of Dice (1929) |
"Extravagantly romantic, with a stirring score by Nitin Sawhney." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Accident |
"I personally think Losey's The Servant is the more interesting film, because it has the more interesting performance from Bogarde." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Cage gives one of the best performances of his recent career as the Kaufmans. He's a natural in this role, especially when that great horse face breaks into an ingratiating grin..." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"A tremendously funny and touching coming-of-age story, which he has set in the 1980s with a sprinkling of nicely chosen cultural references." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"It's a shrewd and entertaining guide to this popular phenomenon, which even the Taliban cannot quite suppress, though nothing in the film quite matches the poignancy and power of its opening minute, showing a blind child singing about the power of love." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Afro Saxons (2008) |
"In its unpretentious way, this film has something to say about creativity and entrepreneurialism in modern Britain, and it's impossible to watch it without a smile on your face." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"As with many of Bier's films, a certain suspension of disbelief is necessary: but she has a distinctive and engaging storytelling style." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"An intelligent, often gripping, and intriguingly autobiographical drama of paranoia." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"A bone-weariness pervades every inch of the film; even the light is bleached dry of vitality." |
Cath Clarke |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alice in the Cities |
"A fine and perhaps unique example of that trickiest of genres, the road movie, and the sort of film that really does deserve the cliched response: they don't make them like that any more, because they really don't." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Alice Neel (2007) |
"There's much pungent detail on offer here, chronicling Neel's unorthodox lifestyle in Cuba and Spanish Harlem, and the struggles she had in an era when abstract painting was triumphant; all of which is given a little more edge than you might expect." |
Andrew Pulver |
Tomato |
Alien (1979) |
"Superbly paced, imaginatively designed, consistently suspenseful and never attracts an unintentional laugh." |
Philip French |
Tomato 5/5 |
All About Eve (1950) |
"Here is a real Christmas treat: a restored version of Joseph L Mankiewicz's jet-black 1950 comedy about Margo Channing, elegant leading lady of the theatre, superbly played by Bette Davis." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) |
"An ambitious epic of tremendous sweep and scope." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Am I Black Enough For You |
"Philadelphia's soul legend Billy Paul takes centre stage in this intriguing documentary, which teases out the nuances of his complex and often painful career." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 5/5 |
Amadeus (1984) |
"[A] grandiose masterpiece." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Amadeus (1984) |
"A visual and aural treat." |
Philip French |
Tomato 3/5 |
An American Werewolf in London (1981) |
"Scary-funny is an acquired taste. For me, it tends to be a recipe in which you can't taste either of the constituent ingredients. The big man-to-wolf transformation scene is still a marvel." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
An Education (2009) |
"A sad, painful comedy, and the lovely performance from Mulligan makes it a very enjoyable film." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
"To me Remick's damaged, dysfunctional presence is the really subversive thing about the picture. And Stewart's grandstanding attorney propels this long film to its final verdict." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Angel-A (2007) |
"It's a soggy affair, short on laughs and lacking chemistry between hero and heroine. But it's shot in black-and-white by outstanding French cinematographer, Thierry Arbogast, and looks terrific." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"Can it really be true that the latest Adam Sandler film is, well, quite funny? Ish? Yes -- but only because he's paired with Jack Nicholson." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anna M. (2007) |
"The sheer ferocity of the central performance in this French psychological drama from writer-director Michel Spinosa is what saves it from being slightly one-dimensional." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Annie Hall (1977) |
"Lovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Año Uña (2008) |
"The cardinal sin of this kind of movie, however, is to be boring. Cuarón Jr does not commit it." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"A charming, touching and very funny film." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Photographed handsomely with wide-angled majesty, the film does precious little myth-making, though Harris subtly twists some of the genre's conventions." |
Cath Clarke |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Army of Crime (2009) |
"Guédiguian manages to make this a worthy companion piece to Melville's resistance classic Army in the Shadows; the same remorseless dread stalks both." |
Andrew Pulver |
Tomato 5/5 |
Army of Shadows (1969) |
"A work of moving ideological commitment as well as beautifully detailed orchestration." |
Andrew Pulver |
Tomato 3/5 |
As You Like It (2006) |
"Branagh's direction is fluent, surefooted, a little broad sometimes; his ingenious Japanese staging recreates the wrestling match as a wacky sumo contest. It's elegant and Howard is very good." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
"One of The Asphalt Jungle's strengths is that the crims seem about as thick as you suspect they would be in real life: no Cruise or Clooney-style braniac super-athletes here." |
Andrew Pulver |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"A tremendously stylish, intelligent retelling of western myth." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Atonement (2007) |
"What a clever, ambitious, compassionate picture it is; what a success for Joe Wright and for Knightley and McAvoy. It's a film which aims at big ideas, and it treats us like grownups." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Avatar (2009) |
"The effects of Avatar are certainly something to see, especially on an Imax screen the size of an upended football field. But it's difficult to tell if the game has really been changed or not." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"An outstanding film." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Away We Go has an easy, no-particular-place-to-go looseness that doesn't bear too close a scrutiny, but has a certain likability." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 3/5 |
Awaydays (2009) |
"To these figures, Sampson applies an almost hysterical level of romanticisation, and it sort of works - especially when all the impossibly yearning post-punk music on the soundtrack really gets going." |
Andrew Pulver |
Tomato 3/5 |
Azur and Asmar - The Princes' Quest (2006) |
"It has real charm: an old-fashioned looking movie, but with a heartfelt belief that, pace Kipling, east and west can and should meet." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"It's an almost laughably creaky museum piece." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 1/5 |
The Accidental Husband (2009) |
"This week we learned that 99% of Sun readers want a return to capital punishment. I learned that 100% of me wants it for 100% of people involved in this romcom." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 1/5 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"After two hours of butchered classics, it's just a relief when it's over." |
Andrew Pulver |
Splat 2/5 |
Adam (2009) |
"Despite obvious good intentions, this feels dishonest, and I suspect not very true to life. Worst of all, it risks trivialising mental illness into lovable quirks." |
Cath Clarke |
Splat |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Quite the worst animated movie of the year..." |
Philip French |
Splat 2/5 |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"It's made with some style, but flags after the first rip-roaring action moments." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
The Aerial (2007) |
"This left-field, futuristic film is a tad too indulgent to be a true homage to the silent movie." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
The Agent (2009) |
"I found something a little verbose and stagey in this story in movie form." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"Like most guitar solos, the film doesn't quite know when to quit." |
Xan Brooks |
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