Tomato |
A Prophet (2009) |
"The film shows Audiard to be the biggest beast in new French cinema." |
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 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 |
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 4/5 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"An intelligent, often gripping, and intriguingly autobiographical drama of paranoia." |
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 |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"You could take the kids to see it this summer holiday and avoid an hour or so of rain - or rent the DVD later on. Inoffensive." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2009) |
"As it is, Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual." |
Xan Brooks |
Splat 2/5 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) |
"The Squeakquel is astonishingly high-pitched, like 100 helium balloons being let off in your head. A caveat, then: dogs may pick up on subtleties I've missed." |
Catherine Shoard |
Splat 1/5 |
Amelia (2009) |
"A tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank." |
Xan Brooks |
Tomato 4/5 |
An Education (2009) |
"A sad, painful comedy, and the lovely performance from Mulligan makes it a very enjoyable film." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"If the film is never quite as inert as The Da Vinci Code, I hesitate to call this a thriller. It's big, bombastic and glossy - but it is also stiff and sometimes ludicrous." |
Xan Brooks |
Splat 2/5 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Antichrist is a smirking contraption of a film, a cheeky, nasty, clever device for making us upset about the dead kid, making us scared at the creepy happenings, making us freaked out at the violence, and finally making us convulsed with liberal outrage." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato 4/5 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"A charming, touching and very funny film." |
Peter Bradshaw |
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 |
Splat 2/5 |
Avatar (2009) |
"It's baggy, longwinded and, for all the light-speed imagery, just not quick on its feet. Cameron used to be the tautest film-maker around, but he just got slack." |
Andrew Pulver |
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 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 |
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 4/5 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"A bone-weariness pervades every inch of the film; even the light is bleached dry of vitality." |
Cath Clarke |
Splat 2/5 |
American Teen (2008) |
"This film was for me marred by the persistent suspicion that the director wasn't being entirely straight with us." |
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 |
Splat 2/5 |
Anything for Her (2008) |
"The fundamental silliness and improbability of everything is an insuperable problem." |
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 |
- |
Assembly (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
Xan Brooks |
- |
Australia (2008) |
"Luhrmann's Australia Gets a Happy Ending" |
|
Splat 1/5 |
Australia (2008) |
"We are left with slow-moving insincerity and conceit, summoned up in the flatulence of that title: Australia, a country reborn in terms of facetious Hollywood cliches." |
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 |
The Aerial (2007) |
"This left-field, futuristic film is a tad too indulgent to be a true homage to the silent movie." |
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 |
Splat 2/5 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"Like most guitar solos, the film doesn't quite know when to quit." |
Xan Brooks |
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 |
Splat 1/5 |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"The world's most illogical and boring action-horror grudge-match between two dull trademarked franchise monsters is back on." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Overall though, it's a messy, superficial affair: it lacks focus, shifts uneasily in tone, and shoehorns in star names (Sharon Stone, Bruce Willis) to little effect." |
Steve Rose |
Splat 1/5 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Is it for kids? Adults? Marsupials? Martians? Who can tell. Jason Lee from My Name Is Earl stars - if that is the word - in this thoroughly brain-dead semi-animated family comedy." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 1/5 |
The Amateurs (2007) |
"How embarrassing to see an actor of Jeff Bridges's calibre giving his all in such a terrible film. It's a lame comedy which raises only a few facetious groans." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"A decent cast under Michael Apted's direction does its best, but it's dull, naive and dramatically inert." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Here's a startlingly original true-life story told in an oddly unoriginal way. And that attempt at instant classic status in the title doesn't quite convince. It's got no more dark grandeur than American Idol." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 1/5 |
Angel (2007) |
"But this really is a failure - an honourable failure, arguably, but a failure, and a pretty complete one at that." |
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 |
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 |
- |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 1/5 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"As unfortunate titles for cynically commercial sequels go, this one's a doozy" |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 1/5 |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"Here is an overproduced, oversugared semi-animated children's fantasy adventure from Luc Besson that made me want to cringe into my plush seat, never to re-emerge." |
Peter Bradshaw |
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 |
Splat 1/5 |
August Rush (2007) |
"Watching this yucky emotional drama is like being sprayed with treacle from a high-pressure hose." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat 2/5 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"A very dated and strained sort of gaiety." |
Peter Bradshaw |
IGN RSS Feeds
