Tomato 4/5 |
The Damned United (2009) |
"Anyone who has ever kicked a leather football in anger — when they were brown, permanently sodden and weighed 10lb — will almost certainly love this." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Dans Paris (2007) |
"It’s rather irksome." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"It may not have you weeping in the aisles, but it will be with you for days after you see it." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"The Dark Knight is 152 minutes long but is transfixing and all-enveloping, rather than arduous." |
Tim Teeman |
Splat |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"A big-weather disaster movie designed to put the fear of God into audiences with Olympic stamina and peanut-sized brains" |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Day Watch (2007) |
"A slog through endless death metal-powered action sequences." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Daylight Robbery (2008) |
" It makes Guy Ritchie look like Godard." |
Kevin Maher |
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Days of Glory (1944) |
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Splat 1/5 |
Dead Man Running (2009) |
"Dead Man Running feels like something cobbled together after a cynical producer saw Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and decided to cash in. Except it is ten years too late." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Dead Silence (2007) |
"The sensual pleasure in watching this kind of horror movie depends entirely on your tolerance for ear-splitting jolts of shock. In the end, though, the film sags like a David Lynch pudding." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Dean Spanley (2008) |
"I can’t see too many children taking advantage of the U certificate. The measured performances look stiff and theatrical. A stifling fable with the rhythm of a grandfather clock." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Death Defying Acts (2008) |
"Houdini’s mission to debunk fake spiritualists is hijacked by this wholly fraudulent love story. There’s not a moment in the film that feels honest and uncontrived." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Death Proof (2007) |
"The appalling dialogue, mostly about the sexual predilections of his half-naked female cast, is so garbled, spotty and tedious that it fails to sell interest in a single character." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Death Race (2008) |
"This sci-fi fantasy about crazy Mad Max races in a high security prison is 8,000 horsepower of pure auto-erotic carnage." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Death Sentence (2007) |
"Finally, the costly price you pay for watching Death Sentence is the 105 minutes that you’re never going to get back and that could have been spent doing something more constructive, such as beating your head against a brick wall." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
December Boys (2007) |
"Sweet-natured but terribly dull." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Defiance (2008) |
"I can understand why the film demands to be treated with the utmost respect. It is haunting, impressive and moving. But ultimately it looks, smells and feels too familiar." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Delta (2008) |
"Delta is a weird, eerie, and utterly compelling Hungarian gem. A lugubrious piece of genius." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Departures (2009) |
"Fascinating, witty and heartfelt." |
Kevin Maher |
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Derek (2008) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Descent: Part 2 (2009) |
"The first-time director Jon Harris recreates the sense of airless, claustrophobic panic that worked so effectively the first time around and cranks up the yuck factor exponentially." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"The aesthetic point might be elusive, but that’s Bruce. Like this film, he has little time for detail." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) |
"Hampered by its director’s pretentious, self-advertising style. Eileen Yaghoobian lacks any journalistic sense of the basic information the audience needs in order to grasp what’s happening onscreen and the film is often confusing." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Disappeared (2008) |
"The film is let down by inauthentic dialogue and plotting that unravels rather embarrassingly in the final reel. But the tension is well sustained and Treadaway’s performance is full of pallid intensity." |
Ed Potton |
Splat 0/5 |
Disaster Movie (2008) |
"It could be the first great mainstream art experiment. Or, perhaps, since the opening word of dialogue is “Shit!”, the jokes are mostly about it, and the characters are regularly covered in it, it is more likely that the movie itself is just, well . . ." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 3/5 |
Disgrace (2009) |
"It’s hard to say what this solid but unadventurous film adds to Coetzee’s powerful source material." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"A Christmas Carol should be as cosy and familiar as piping-hot tea and buttered, toasted crumpets, not a brain-battering sensory assault that feels like downing tequila shots on a rollercoaster." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato |
Distant (2004) |
"Stuffed with unspoken thoughts and unspeakable feelings" |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) |
"If there’s such a thing as anthropological poetry, this is it." |
Ian Johns |
Tomato 5/5 |
District 9 (2009) |
"A thundering blitzkrieg of seat-rattling entertainment with a sociopolitical message; a cerebral sci-fi and apartheid allegory that is as heavily armed with provocative ideas as it is with armour-piercing, tank-splattering torpedoes." |
Wendy Ide |
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
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Tomato |
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) |
"You have to respect a movie that wears its shortcomings proudly on its sleeve" |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Doghouse (2009) |
"Jake West’s low-budget British movie Doghouse is so jaw-droppingly bonkers that it actually deserves to be seen." |
James Christopher |
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Domestic Disturbance (2001) |
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Barbara Ellen |
Splat 2/5 |
Dorian Gray (2010) |
"Some neat formal flourishes from its director Oliver Parker and a truly handsome supporting turn from Colin Firth, this story demands a more versatile and charismatic central player than the powerfully blank Ben Barnes." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Doubt (2008) |
"There is just one key element that grates, and that is Meryl Streep’s monstrously over-the-top central performance." |
Wendy Ide |
- |
Down from the Mountain (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Barbara Ellen |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) |
"It’s a lurid potboiler which is notable for some superb camera work (a long POV tracking shot at the beginning of the film for example), some innovative early special effects and some of the most deranged overacting you are ever likely to see." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Drag Me To Hell (2009) |
"A movie that is slickly accomplished in its own dark arts, and one that never once resorts to the recent nihilistic faddishness for torture-porn. It will be a huge hit. The re-invention of horror begins here." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 1/5 |
Dragonball: Evolution (2009) |
"Dragonball Evolution is an example of Hollywood at its most calculating and cynical. Utter drivel." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"Few pictures can match the glamorous pull of Dreamgirls. Bill Condon's first big musical since Chicago is a glossy, gleaming Cadillac of a film with a vintage rhythm and blues engine tuned to perfection. The cast is dressed to kill." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Drillbit Taylor (2008) |
"An engaging enough picture, if a lesser work, from the talented Apatow stable." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Duchess (2008) |
"For beneath the hype and tabloid traction, the movie is dramatically flaccid." |
Kevin Maher |
- |
Dus Kahaniyaan (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
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