Tomato 3/5 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"The music is great, so energetic and vital it leaves the drama looking unfocused in comparison. Beyoncé, singing her heart out, is the pick of a very impressive line-up." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Captivity (2007) |
"Veteran writer Larry Cohen has shown a knack for claustrophobic thrillers (Phone Booth), but this tawdry effort is almost entirely lacking in stealth and suspense." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/5 |
Carriers (2009) |
"A queasy mixture of survivalist machismo and mawkish piety." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1976) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato |
Changeling (2008) |
"There are so many hints of a really good film lurking here that at times it feels as if the real article has been stolen away, an inferior knock-off put in its place. Heck, I'll settle for the one I've got." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
Charles Dickens' England |
"Cut it by an hour and it could be a good and useful introduction to Dickens for English GCSE students, but in its present form this has no place on a cinema screen anywhere." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"In its combination of fidelity to its source and wacky visual ideas, Burton's take is a triumph of common sense and imagination -- exactly the qualities for which we admire children." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Che, Part One (2008) |
"For all the drama that surrounded them, Soderbergh never gets under the skin of either Che Guevara or Fidel Castro. We can only hope that the psychological dimensions will be illuminated in the next part." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Che, Part Two (2008) |
"This plodding, one-paced, dramatically inert movie is almost entirely surface description." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Chevolution (2008) |
"This intelligent documentary wonders how it happened, and how a hardline Marxist keen on political violence became a marketing tool and patron saint of every vaguely anti-establishment movement on the planet." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Chiko (2008) |
"Too much of its urban grit seems in thrall to American precedents." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Children (2008) |
"The idea of cosseted middle-class tots becoming feral psychopaths has potential, though most of it is squandered by uncertain direction and some unconvincing psychology." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Chocolate (2009) |
"The slightly slushy plot is really an excuse to catch your breath between the action sequences, which are fast, loud and crammed with references that only Bruce Lee fans will properly appreciate." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Choking Man (2007) |
"It's meant to be a portrait of a man "choked" by his own alienation, but Jorge's shyness comes over as dullness, and after all the sensitive maundering the conclusion is a terrible letdown." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Chromophobia (2005) |
"Clichéd and contrived." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"The biggest disappointment is Liam Neeson's voicing of Aslan, which has all the warmth and command of a public information film." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
The Chumscrubber (2005) |
"Despite the top-drawer cast assembled for his debut feature, the director Arie Posin's account of emotional dislocation in the 'burbs is stymied by a fatally uneven tone and a growing suspicion that we've been down this road many, many times before." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 5/5 |
Citizen Kane (1941) |
"It would be nice to be able to buck the critical orthodoxy and say how tired and overrated Citizen Kane is; but the dulll truth is, it's still, indisputably, one of the great masterpieces of cinema." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
City of Ember (2008) |
"Admire it, at least, as a kids' film trying to be different, but even at 90 minutes, it drags." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Class (2008) |
"Cantet has offered another subtly incisive study of work, class and family." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Closer (2004) |
"Marber's script is wonderfully thorough in its exploration of the permutations of desire and betrayal, and the cast serve it brilliantly." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Closing the Ring (2007) |
"It would be a flinty heart indeed that fails to be touched by the rheumy-eyed playing of MacLaine and her co-star Christopher Plummer." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Cloud 9 (2009) |
"Dresen's unpatronising focus upon a neglected generation almost contains the air of a radical experiment." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"It's not The Incredibles, but it has a solid gag ratio and good animation (the spaghetti tornado is spectacular)." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Coco Before Chanel (2009) |
"Unlike her famous designs, this lacks structure, texture and interest." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat |
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) |
"The one laugh is in the production notes, where director Les Mayfield claims this is a comic take on the Jason Bourne movies. As if." |
David Gritten |
Splat 2/5 |
Cold Mountain (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Cold Souls (2009) |
"The film itself seems to inhabit the soul of another screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, though it's more a respectful nod than a blatant steal. Barthes shows enough wit and daring of her own to mark her as one to watch." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
College Road Trip (2008) |
"Oh no, it's a Martin Lawrence family comedy, and it's sponsored by Disney. What kind of a sadist put those two together? Come back, Ice Cube, all is forgiven. Actually, please don't." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Color of Freedom (2007) |
"The script is lumpen and prosaic, the performances so-so, and the passage of the years deeply unconvincing." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Comandante (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Johann Hari |
Tomato 4/5 |
Comedy of Power (2005) |
"Very little happens, and it has the look of a TV movie; yet the pace never seems to let up, the screen never seems empty, and its grip on your attention doesn't falter." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) |
"This sickening ode to consumerist greed comes just in time for the recession." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Confetti (2006) |
"... feels like a television idea that hasn't really got the muscle to pull it on to the big screen." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Conformist (1970) |
"A beautifully imagined portrait of moral and political cowardice." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 5/5 |
Control (2007) |
"Control is a tremendous memorial." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Copying Beethoven (2006) |
"If the composer's shade could hear the words this script has put in his mouth it really would be a case of "roll over, Beethoven", right there in his grave." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"If it were a send-up of couples therapy and its absurd language the film would at least be about something, but it hasn't even that much intelligence." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Cracks (2009) |
"The atmosphere of suppressed erotic longing gives way to a barely contained hysteria, not always convincingly handled by the young cast." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato |
Crossing Over (2009) |
"As with many multi-character pieces, it's somewhat unbalanced by its competing storylines, and its lapses into sentimentality seem inevitable, but Kramer deserves credit for taking on a touchy subject." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"Fincher treats Roth's script with a visual bravura and narrative gusto far beyond the usual capacities of the Hollywood mainstream. Benjamin Button is a poetic, virtuoso feat, as eloquent and rapturous as CGI-era cinema gets." |
Jonathan Romney |
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