Tomato 4/5 |
Avatar (2009) |
"There are myriad moments of beauty and of poignancy. And the final battle is worth the price of your 3D glasses alone." |
Anna Keir |
Splat 2/5 |
Accident |
"The overall effect is so full of loathing and meanness that one hardly cares for those subliminal tremors, and the arch structuring of the story – the accident, then the long flashback – makes it dramatically inert." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
The Accidental Husband (2009) |
"A plot of insufferable silliness contrives to keep the lovers on tenterhooks and the audience in a permanent cringe, none of it helped by Thurman's thoroughly phony performance." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"This is like watching a car-crash in slow motion." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 5/5 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"It is a coming-of-age picture which seems not so different from any other but hits delightfully odd notes thanks to Mottola's terrifically smart script and a cast of mostly eager young actors." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"The writer-director Antonio Campos uses his camera in catatonically slow movements, to varying effect: sometimes it feels probing, at others it looks like so much film school self-indulgence." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"His sepia images of war's futility are beautiful, and Vishnevskaya's face is a compelling one, but they cannot compensate for the soporific anti-narrative." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Alice in the Cities |
"The fragmentary approach could never be called exhilarating, but it has a sly humour, and the mood is sustained by Vogler and Rottlander as the unlikely companions." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"A pleasant, inconsequential movie." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 5/5 |
All About Eve (1950) |
"Put simply, one of the greatest movies ever made." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Nick Cassavetes' film combines an aimless ramble through juvenile depravity in the affluent suburbs of LA and a quite disturbing evocation of the true-life murder of an adolescent boy in 1999." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) |
"Three digimated rodents play guitar, go to school and create merry hell, all for the benefit of the "holiday season" audiences that made the original Chipmunks movie a "global phenomenon" to the tune of £350m. That's not phenomenal – that's criminal." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Amelia (2009) |
"The look of the movie – suave Art Deco lines and 1930s fashions – is blameless, though helpless to counter the Ron Bass screenplay, guaranteed to drain the life out of any drama it touches." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Ridley Scott's American Gangster offers both belated history-lesson and demented hero-worship, and seems to be intended as a kind of gift to black America. One hopes that black America will have nothing to do with it." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
American Teen (2008) |
"At times it looks rather staged for camera, in the manner of reality television, but there's a lot more to like and enjoy here than you might suppose." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Angel (2007) |
"The French director François Ozon has taken Elizabeth Taylor's beadily satiric novel and transformed it into a droll and somewhat disturbing fantasia on the creative temperament." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Angels and Demons proves every bit as swollen and portentous as The Da Vinci Code. It is, however, nine minutes shorter than that film, so there's something to be grateful for." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) |
"The title is horrible, and I'm afraid I didn't find the movie attached to it much better." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"It's so outlandish that at times you wonder if Von Trier himself knows what's going on. It would not be surprising to learn that he's making it all up as he goes along." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"The film accepts the bleak comedy of this, yet its refusal to patronise Anvil's endurance eventually becomes quite moving. It's a study in the blind hopefulness that just drives some people on, through every setback." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anything for Her (2008) |
"The last half-hour is fraught with near-unbearable tension, as the writer-director Fred Cavaye runs the escape plot alongside the concerted efforts of les flics to foil it." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"Oh, I do hope so. Why Ice Cube thought his wretched family outing Are We There Yet? deserved a sequel is baffling, since all it revealed was his complete ineptitude as a light comedian." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Army of Crime (2009) |
"A sombre and gripping account of guerrilla fighters in Paris." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
As You Like It (2006) |
"Kenneth Branagh gamely continues to put Shakespeare on film, and audiences continue to ignore them." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ashes of Time Redux (1994) |
"Wong Kar-Wai's 1994 epic, remodelled and reissued, looks spectacular, but trying to follow its storyline is a test." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Compared to Walter Hill's 1980 movie The Long Riders, also about the James gang, this feels an underpowered affair. Indeed, compared to Dominik's own previous movie, Chopper (2000), it is impossibly meek." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Compared to Walter Hill's 1980 movie The Long Riders, also about the James gang, this feels an underpowered affair. Indeed, compared to Dominik's own previous movie, Chopper (2000), it is impossibly meek." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Australia (2008) |
"Nothing wrong with a film's reach exceeding its grasp, but Luhrmann's ambition has left this one looking forlorn and exposed: Australia clears a huge space for itself and then hasn't the wit or the wherewithal to fill it." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"There is even a shot of lovers embracing against the backdrop of an illuminated Eiffel Tower. How corny can it get? More than is probably good for you, but it does have the unfeignable virtue of charm." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Awaydays (2009) |
"Its themes of friendship and rejection are handled with aching sincerity, but they cannot galvanise a drama too forgiving – and too much in awe – of knife-wielding yobs." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"It is not a great film, but an insidious one, the sort that gets under your skin. It leaves you scrabbling at aphids, hoping they really are in your imagination." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
The Aerial (2007) |
"The Tim Burtonish retro design and the blatant references to silent masterworks don't amount to a style; and even if they did, wouldn't make up for the kitsch story." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
The Agent (2009) |
"Another low-budget home-grown product – a comedy with touches of very mild suspense – about an unsuccessful writer confronting his agent." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"The film has an important, uplifting message; shame it couldn't be encased in a less faked-up story." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
Allegro (2005) |
"A slight, pretentious Danish sci-fi romance, notable mainly for the former supermodel Helena Christensen's acting debut." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Am I Black Enough For You |
"Olsson, a Swedish enthusiast, doesn't manage to resolve the questions or even convince me that they're interesting enough to sustain a whole film." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 4/5 |
An American Werewolf in London (1981) |
"Some of the special effects are a little creaky now, but the snap of Landis's editing and the razor's-edge balance of horror and comedy are still fresh." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 4/5 |
An Education (2009) |
"Nick Hornby's screenplay lays out the progress of their relationship, up to the point where David proposes marriage, with great economy and wit." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
Año Uña (2008) |
"The story, about a Mexican boy's overheated crush on an American student, is indescribably banal and amateurishly acted." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
The Aryan Couple (2004) |
"Its intentions are doubtless good, but it ends up exploiting the Holocaust for cheap suspense." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Away We Go is slight, implausible and more fuddy-duddy than it wants to let on, but it's well-made, interesting, cynical enough to undercut its moments of sentimentality, and kind of fun. When I came out, I felt a little more cheerful than when I went in." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato |
Alice in the Cities |
"Hauntingly photographed by Robbie Müller, it's one of this hugely uneven filmmaker's crispest, finest moments." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Afro Saxons (2008) |
"Pleasant enough, but its natural home is surely television." |
|
Splat 1/5 |
Alfie (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato 4/5 |
American Splendor (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 1/5 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato 4/5 |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat |
Avatar (2009) |
"Cameron's technical wizardry far outstrips his narrative capability, and the last third of the picture goes full-tilt into action mode, blitzing all before it with aerial explosions and hand-to-hand combat." |
|
Splat 1/5 |
The Aviator (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
IGN RSS Feeds
