Tomato 4/5 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Adventureland is reminiscent of indie movies like Breaking Away, Dazed and Confused and Clerks. You could put it another way and say it’s not very original. Yet, watching the movie, you’re too swept up in James’s problems to care." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Afro Saxons (2008) |
"This documentary from Rachel Wang and Mark Currie about the stylists at the Black Beauty and Hair Awards is sharp and often funny." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"This is certainly an original work, but not entirely successful in saying anything new about the way we watch “reality” today at second hand." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Sokurov is able to say things about the terrible conflict without obvious polemic but to the maximum possible effect. That’s largely why he is one of the most audacious and original directors in the world today." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alice in the Cities |
"Touching but never sentimental." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Its originality lies in the fact that it depicts white middle-class kids on the loose, calling their women bitches and listening endlessly to violent, misogynist and homophobic black rap." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Sharp, observant and true to the period, the film-making is, on the whole, less determined to show its virtuosity than in Scott's other work." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
American Teen (2008) |
"Burstein orchestrates their passage through school with some sympathy and no real revelations — except for the fact that she guesses, probably correctly, that most teenagers are nothing like as dangerous and bolshie as a lot of adults believe." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
An Education (2009) |
"The skill of it is in allowing you to see not only how a girl’s sense of herself might be hanging in the balance, but to feel how the values of an era can be drama personified." |
Andrew O'Hagan |
Tomato 3/5 |
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) |
"This is all pleasant enough, but I can't quite believe it." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
Anna M. (2007) |
"Spinosa's film is stylish and careful not to over-dramatise." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Año Uña (2008) |
"Año Uña feels like a calling card from a promising talent — but, as with a summer romance, it’s not built to last." |
Charlotte O'Sullivan |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"Even if you don’t like metal, this is a movie to enjoy almost as much as Cut Loose and Mad Dog, their most faithful fans, undoubtedly will." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anything for Her (2008) |
"There’s nothing exceptional about any of this but it is well made, decently acted (Kruger is clearly a star in the making) and rachets up the tension with some skill." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"This, though, is not so much a comedy as a western with the ironic undertones that someone like Hawks would appreciate while telling a story such as Rio Bravo." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato |
Arlington Road (1999) |
"The film's at its best before the convoluted plot kicks in, as neighbourliness gives way to suspiciousness and the men test each other's credentials." |
Alexander Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Army of Crime (2009) |
"It is a tragic story that deserves to be remembered and has rarely been told on film." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
As You Like It (2006) |
"It's not an unsuccessful adaptation. But it rarely catches fire as one of Shakespeare's most popular plays should." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ashes of Time Redux (1994) |
"It is still a rather melancholy variant in which the swordplay scenes are of secondary importance to the triptych of tales with voiceover narration and copious flashbacks." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"For all its intended depth and psychological realism, which at its best carries reminders of the work of Terrence Malick, there's a fake myth-making quality to it that, because of its inordinate length, could be mistaken for grandeur." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
Avatar (2009) |
"The detail, the depth, the jaw-dropping boldness of Avatar simply bowl you over." |
Nick Curtis |
Tomato 3/5 |
Awaydays (2009) |
"There’s no shortage of movies about Britain’s mean streets and, for the most part, Awaydays runs with the pack." |
Charlotte O'Sullivan |
Splat 2/5 |
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006) |
"All sorts of experts testify with some conviction, but the film's jerky structure and lack of complexity don't help." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 1/5 |
The Accidental Husband (2009) |
"Words almost fail me after watching this terrible romantic comedy from Griffin Dunne which is perilously described as a "sort of Carole Lombard screwball comedy". Would that it were." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"You feel, after two hours and a bit, that the Beatles deserve better and the Sixties a more defiant touch." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Adam (2009) |
"A film with so many designs on your affections could never be found surprising, but believe me, it won’t stop it from trying and it won’t stop you from feeling guilty the moment you realise it isn’t working." |
Andrew O'Hagan |
Splat 2/6 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"There must be better, more useful ways of amusing themselves but obviously none which would allow them to strut the stage to the plaudits of a baying crowd like latter-day rock stars." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"The aliens look like cast-offs from a bad Spielberg film and the whole family are boring examples of Hollywood’s ordinary Americans." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"It's one of those movies where the wretched actors have to pretend to know what's going on as the CG effects take place beside and around them. They do their best. But it's Alvin and co that toddlers will appreciate." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Am I Black Enough For You |
"There’s not enough about the conflicts between Paul and those who controlled his records but this is a fan-like yet not too oleaginous tribute." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Amelia (2009) |
"Nowhere is there any sign of the passion that Amelia must have had." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Angel (2007) |
"François Ozon is a Gallic Michael Winterbottom, if not in style then at least in his determination to do something different every time. As with Winterbottom, sometimes the result is great and sometimes not." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Angels & Demons, the fantastic ongoing saga of Brownism might make us feel short of breath in the company of something that is beyond belief. That’s Dan Brown I’m talking about." |
Andrew O'Hagan |
Splat 1/5 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"The film can expose you to nothing about life, nothing about film, while telling you more than you ever wanted to know about the director’s malicious vanity." |
Andrew O'Hagan |
Splat 2/5 |
Australia (2008) |
"Australia is a film for which you have constantly to suspend your disbelief. I did for some of the way, but in the end began to think it was a cross between the plonking Pearl Harbor and an expensive but routine sort of Oz western." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"It is entertaining, but beady-eyed in its efforts to please audiences attracted to the idea of an old-fashioned Gay Paree." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 3/5 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"The more the film insists that we see Verona and Burt as perfect, the more smug and unreal they appear. The messy mix of twee maundering and frat-boy slapstick might work if one thing were added: a caption at the end that read: “... and then Burt woke up”" |
Charlotte O'Sullivan |
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About Adam (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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The Actors (2003) |
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Alexander Walker |
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After the Hole (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
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Aimee & Jaguar (2000) |
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Alexander Walker |
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Ali G Indahouse: The Movie (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
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Alias Betty (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
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All or Nothing (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
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All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
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Alexander Walker |
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Along Came a Spider (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
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Amelie (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
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America's Sweethearts (2001) |
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Neil Norman |
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American Outlaws (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
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