Splat 1/5 |
Taken (2009) |
"The only puzzle of this toxically stupid Europhobe thriller is that its director (Pierre Morel) and producer (Luc Besson) are both French." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Taking Liberties (2007) |
""The most important film of the decade", this calls itself, though "most self-righteous" might be closer to the truth." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Compare him with the gang-leader in the 1974 film, played by Robert Shaw as a tight-lipped, ice-cool killer, and Travolta starts to look like a joke." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Lee wants to combine a landmark moment with a coming-of-age story, but his style here is so loose and rambling it's impossible to sense the excitement of the former and the particularity of the latter." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Alas, the fun does not last. Once the concert starts and Elliot has his inevitable LSD trip and introduction to free love, the film drops the comedy for a needless coming-of-age denouement." |
Kaleem Aftab |
Splat 2/5 |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"A long story, and one more likely to work its charm on kids than on their parents." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Tales from Earthsea (2006) |
"It begins all at sea, and, figuratively speaking, pretty much stays there." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Tales from the Golden Age (2009) |
"Given what we know of Ceausescu's Romania, the Orwellian penetration of the state into every corner of daily life, the mildly comic, wistful tone of this portmanteau of short dramas seems puzzling." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"Probably best viewed with a six-pack on hand." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Tarnation (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/5 |
Tau Ming Chong (2009) |
"The vicissitudes of Qing dynasty politics in the mid-19th century remain rather confusing, and the bloodiness of the battles is relentless, but the film has something to say about the spiritual corruption that afflicts men who live by war." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Taxidermia (2009) |
" It breaks taboos with an insouciance that makes Last Tango look like Mary Poppins." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Tell No One (2008) |
"The supporting cast of Nathalie Baye, Kristin Scott Thomas and Francois Berléand supply gloss to the picture, though its plotting becomes so convoluted that tension drains away" |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2009) |
"Some nice moments, though not all that convincing in its lament for a great lost talent." |
Anthony Quinn |
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Ten (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jonathan Romney |
Splat 2/5 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"They have equipped Terminator Salvation with so little heart or personality that it would be no surprise to learn that computers had put it together." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
The 9th Company (2005) |
"The film has no real thematic ambition beyond restating the old "war is hell" adage." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
The All Together (2007) |
"A cramped, incompetent farse." |
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Splat 1/5 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"The only thing that would make me punch the air is the sight of the syntax-mangling Yoda being comprehensively squashed. Alas, we have not heard the last from the old gonk." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"This parable of fakery and compromise asks the most difficult question: how much would you be willing to sacrifice in the interest of your own survival? And how grateful do you feel that you will probably never have to answer it?" |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"The movie's last quarter gets clogged up with special effects, including what looks like a gigantic swarm of locusts that eat through whole juggernauts. Whether this eco-warning will have a morally improving effect on audiences is uncertain." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Duchess of Langeais (2008) |
"The duologues between the couple seldom vary in tone: he's the doormat, and she wipes her silk slippers on him. Depardieu makes for a compelling presence, even if he's a bit one-note." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The End (2009) |
"This grainy documentary that lets the Cockney hard men brag about violence, honour codes and the changed East End. Director Collins appeared with her sister Teena in Guy Ritchie's Snatch. That explains a lot." |
John Walsh |
Splat 2/5 |
The Tiger's Tail (2006) |
"John Boorman's tale of doppelgängers in Dublin would like very much to spook us, but keeps tripping over its loose script and bizarre plot lines." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The War on Democracy (2007) |
"Pilger's portentous voiceover and intrusions into shot bespeak an excruciating vanity" |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Them (2007) |
"So skilfully does the film shield its hand that the final "reveal" actually comes as a disappointment - the enigma was truly much harder to bear." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Thirst (2009) |
"The film is way too long, and quite sick, though Park's demented lyricism will stay with you." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Thirteen (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jonathan Romney |
Splat 1/5 |
This Christmas (2007) |
""Destined to become a Yuletide classic, " claim the press notes. Well, they do say Christmas is a time for dreaming." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
This Is England (2007) |
"An affecting but uneven memoir of council-estate Britain in the summer of 1983." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Three (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
Three Miles North Of Molkom (2009) |
"Amusing but overlong documentary about the No Mind festival deep in the lakeside woods of Sweden." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 4/5 |
Three Monkeys (2009) |
"Three Monkeys, could be reduced to a simple moral – never do a dodgy politician a favour – though its layering of ironies and wrong turnings render it more subtly disturbing than that précis might suggest." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Thumbsucker (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 1/5 |
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"They've tried to cloak a very dull love story in pseudo-poetic significance. You might feel like disappearing yourself." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Times and Winds (2008) |
"The film is concerned with observing the passage of time, the change in the light, the immemorial contours of the landscape, and, in one shot, a very touching pieta of a boy and his new baby sibling. Compelling stuff if you can stay with it." |
Anthony Quinn |
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Tintin (2010) |
"Spielberg Wants Pegg and Frost for Tintin" |
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Tomato 3/5 |
To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (2006) |
"It feels like a Central Asian remake of some American indie thriller, except that few American films would be prepared to take things so slowly, or with so few words." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
Tokyo Sonata (2009) |
"The film is very astute about pride and shame, less accomplished in sustaining a coherent narrative." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Tony Manero (2009) |
"Deeply unedifying, but it has some moves." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Tormented (2009) |
"It's sort of Grange Hill meets Friday the 13th, with Stephen Prentice's script going for laughs and larks amid the slaughter." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Trade (2007) |
"Jose Rivera's script plays uneasily, as do some of the directorial flourishes: the shots of rose stems and caged birds are galumphingly emphatic at moments that need no underlining." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Traitor (2008) |
"Before it reverts to standard thriller tropes, this tale of an Islamic double agent takes a more thoughtful attitude to East-West relations than one might expect." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"Fourteen-year-old boys will get their money's worth. This boring, preposterous nonsense is stretched to an agonising two-and-a-half hours." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Transporter 3 (2008) |
"This action "threequel" is directed by a gentleman named Megaton, so one should not expect subtlety." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Transylvania (2006) |
"Gatlif seems literally to make it up as he goes along, a modus operandi that works fine in the impromptu musical interludes but fails utterly in terms of drama." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Triangle (2009) |
"This seaborne psycho-thriller has an unusual creepiness about it." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Trick 'r Treat (2009) |
"The only shock is how Brian Cox and Anna Paquin ended up in something so atrocious. In trying to span so many genres, the film fails to hit the mark with any of them." |
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