Tomato 3/5 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Her warts-and-all history of the blues has as much documentary truth as a West End musical." |
James Christopher |
Splat 3/5 |
The Caiman (2006) |
"Some moments amuse but one’s left wishing that Moretti had ditched his film-within-a-film framework and made either a documentary or a domestic drama." |
Ian Johns |
Splat |
The Calcium Kid (2004) |
"Bloom gives a performance that's as bland as a pint of semi-skimmed." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"The film, however, beginning with a flashback to 1963, is a soft-pedalled account of Lavoe’s rise to fame and his drug-related downfall that has more in common with the biopic parody Walk Hard than anything as muddy as real life." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 1/5 |
Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (2008) |
"The kind of quirky labour of love I feel guilty for bashing." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat |
Captivity (2007) |
"Roland Joffé's feeble attempt to swing with the latest horror-flick fashion for gratuitous sensation is embarrassing" |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Cass (2008) |
"Inanimate dialogue and plodding pacing don’t give the talented cast much to work with, and the camera is directed with all the grace of a pub brawl at closing time." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"The chemistry between the three leads is a cruel and perfect satire on celebrity love." |
James Christopher |
Splat |
Catwoman (2004) |
"A thriller you wouldn't inflict on a laboratory rat" |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Cellular (2004) |
"Cellular, based on a story by Larry (Phone Booth) Cohen, is a mobile phone thriller starring Nokia - it's depressingly implausible" |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Changeling (2008) |
"Changeling, like Letters from Iwo Jima before it, is a mature, thoughtful and sometimes brutal movie that casts a cold eye on the past while sending shivers through the present." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 1/5 |
Charles Dickens' England |
"A comically inept documentary." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 3/5 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"The surreal comedy is that every tense twist of this secret war is horribly true." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Adult audiences tend to find [Dakota Fanning] rather shrill — witnessing [her] at full shriek is like being attacked by a colony of bats. For this reason, Charlotte’s Web is probably one for youngsters only." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Chaser (2009) |
"Watching the Korean film The Chaser is like chewing diamonds – you know there’s something of value in there but mostly it’s just a mess of pain and blood." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Che (2008) |
"It's not an elegant piece of filmmaking." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Che, Part One (2008) |
"While Soderbergh is not entirely in thrall to the legend of Che, this is not the most critical of portraits." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Che, Part Two (2008) |
"Darker in tone and more introspective thematically, Che: Part 2 is the more interesting of the two films." |
Wendy Ide |
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Cheeni Kum (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/5 |
Cheri (2009) |
"we’re treated to a group of dull-witted doyennes of the oldest profession, languishing on silk cushions, lazily point-scoring and carping." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Cherry Blossoms (2009) |
"Ozu’s handling of the frosty schism between awkward parents and their ghastly offspring resulted in a heartbreaking piece of cinema." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
The Children (2008) |
"The grown-ups, rather hysterically, blame each others’ parenting skills. The plot promptly disintegrates into a gory struggle for credibility against appalling odds." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Chocolate (2009) |
"Another symphony of exquisitely choreographed carnage." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Choke (2008) |
"Choke is a confused sex comedy by Clark Gregg that blunders around for 90-odd minutes trying to look butch and sensitive." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Choking Man (2007) |
"The creepy and original power of the film is the schizophrenic other who taunts him when he finally crawls home to his maggoty bedsit. Weird." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Christmas in Wonderland |
"With all due respect to his memory, it is truly execrable, a tawdry seasonal exploitation pic set almost entirely within a giant mall. Swayze fans, do yourself a favour and rent Point Break instead." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
A Christmas Tale (2008) |
"The film is almost as involving as it is infuriating." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat |
Chronicles of Riddick (2004) |
"A sprawling mess of future-gothic hysteria" |
Wendy Ide |
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The Chronicles of Riddick - Dark Fury (2004) |
"He's the big, bad and bald muscleman of Hollywood — but he’s devoted to Judi Dench and keen to work in independent films that say something." |
Jeff Dawson |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Chumscrubber (2005) |
"It’s a surreal, offbeat comedy where the kidnappers are hopelessly inept while Bell feels hopelessly at sea." |
James Christopher |
Splat |
Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) |
"The humour is largely underpant-based and of the all-mincing, all-flouncing gay stereotype variety, which looks like a barefaced insult to the audience" |
Wendy Ide |
Splat |
A Cinderella Story (2004) |
"Every high school cliché in the book is dredged up for this piece of fluff" |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"The biggest shortcoming of Cirque du Freak is the absence of a proper, self-contained story. So convinced is Weitz that his film is going to spawn a dozen sequels that he spends most of his time setting up the characters and their relationships." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 4/5 |
Citizen Kane (1941) |
"There’s no denying that his bravura performance, both in front of the camera and behind it, is spellbindingly effective." |
Toby Young |
Splat 2/5 |
City of Ember (2008) |
"The story is too sour for young children, and too moth-eaten for teenagers." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
City Rats (2009) |
"City Rats is an old Trabant: depressing, prone to stall, its parts not properly welded together." |
Dominic Wells |
Tomato 4/5 |
Climates (2006) |
"As an actor, Ceylan has a lugubrious onscreen charm, but as a director he’s not interested in portraying himself in a flattering light." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Cloud 9 (2009) |
"Passion, in this tender, intimate story, is ageless." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs lacks the charm of some other recent offerings in this genre, but it has enough grown-up gags to keep the adults amused and their children will laugh themselves silly." |
Toby Young |
Splat 1/5 |
Clubbed (2009) |
"It’s a dreadful piece of writing, compounded by an array of shockingly poor performances." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Cocaine Cowboys (2006) |
"The haystacks of cash and coke are laughably insane – as is the head-count: thousands of people were gunned to death. This is the only state in the world where Scarface might raise a smile." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Coco Before Chanel (2009) |
"Rather staid in its approach, this film is nowhere near as fascinating and unpredictable as its subject." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Coffin Rock (2009) |
"So bad it’s funny. And yet, so bad it’s just bad." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Cold Souls (2009) |
"The writer-director Sophie Barthes does her best to keep things moving, but the film runs out of steam about halfway through." |
Toby Young |
Splat 1/5 |
Colin (2009) |
"There’s no jeopardy, no conflict, no drama. Indeed, Price doesn’t seem to be aware of the most basic principles of storytelling." |
Toby Young |
Splat 2/5 |
College Road Trip (2008) |
"There isn’t an ounce of real life between here and Somers Town." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Color of Freedom (2007) |
"A rose-tinted homage. But affecting too." |
James Christopher |
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Come Undone (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Barbara Ellen |
Splat 2/5 |
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) |
"The tone of the film, directed by P. J. Hogan, is frothy and frivolous; the plot is glaringly predictable." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat |
Connie and Carla (2004) |
"Full marks for trying a radical change of direction, and nul points for inflicting the ghastly mess on us" |
James Christopher |
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