Splat 1/5 |
G-Force (2009) |
"Imagine ordering a Diet Coke only to be handed a formula on a piece of paper and you have some idea of what watching G-Force is like." |
Toby Young |
Splat 2/5 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"The opening sequence says a lot about the fundamental problem with the movie, ie that it’s deeply stupid and heavily armed." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Gandhi, My Father (2007) |
"Melodrama is milked at every conceivable point." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Genova (2008) |
"Winterbottom tries to make a modern and meaningful parable. He fails quite miserably." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"The horror is toothily familiar." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"From this distance it looks like a rejected chapter from the Naked Gun franchise, and infinitely more wooden." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2009) |
"Mamoru Oshii’s digitally tweaked, colour- corrected and otherwise “enhanced” version of his 1995 anime classic remains as visually ravishing and bafflingly opaque as ever." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/4 |
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"The plot is as corny as a country and western song." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"The film’s premise is high-concept Hollywood at its creakiest." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ghosts (2006) |
"It’s an astute move to step back behind the camera. This is a story powerful enough to need little help in getting its point across." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007) |
"The tone of the movie is excessively in thrall to its admittedly charismatic subjects." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"Any film starring the self-regarding, teak-veneered charisma vacuum that is Matthew McConaughey has more to overcome than most. So the fact that the rom-com Dickens riff Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is even sporadically entertaining is no mean feat." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Gigantic (2008) |
"It’s slyly misogynistic, dramatically inert, and wastes an intriguing boorish cameo from John Goodman." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
A Girl Cut in Two (2008) |
"The performances drip with cliché, while the narrative is all over the place: plot developments are either clumsily telegraphed or given the flimsiest of dramatic explanation." |
Ed Potton |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Girl in the Park (2007) |
"The film stretches credibility a little with the coincidences that could yet make Louise the missing girl, but gives the actors plenty to work with." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2008) |
"It’s a polished piece of whimsy. Creepy too in the way it promotes a homogenised picture of the future." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"Staggeringly unsexy but strangely compelling." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Glorious 39 (2009) |
"For all its sumptuous production design, Steven Poliakoff’s tale of glamorous toffs and treason is so laboured and slow that it’s practically pensionable." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"The special effects are marvellous, but the magic is missing." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"An enormous scrap at the end, involving witches and warlocks, does little to illuminate, or leaven, this pudding." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Golden Door (2007) |
"Gorgeous to look at, unfashionably optimistic and quirkily seductive, this is a robust joy of a movie. It’s certainly one of my favourite releases of the year so far." |
Wendy Ide |
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Gomorra (2008) |
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Tomato 5/5 |
Gomorrah (2009) |
"Great films change the way we think about cinema. A masterpiece can alter our perception of life. Matteo Garrone’s startling film, Gomorrah, about the criminal underworld in Naples, is one of these rare movies." |
James Christopher |
Tomato |
Gone (2006) |
"You may be able to work out where it’s going, but it’s an enjoyable ride nonetheless." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) |
"Gonzo is much more than a tribute to a maverick and genuine pioneer. It’s a lament for the gaping hole that Thompson left behind. The only obvious weakness is Gibney’s reluctance to engage fully with Thompson’s toxic personal life." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Good (2008) |
"It’s a thought-provoking theme, which is rather let down by a thoroughly unconvincingly turn from Mortensen." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Good Dick (2008) |
"The film wears its arthouse aspirations all over the shelves. But the romance between Jason Ritter’s shy Romeo and Palka’s sullen loner is a morbidly peculiar stretch." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Good Night (2007) |
"What comedy there is fails to ignite and the romance is stillborn since we don’t care who sleeps with whom or whether they do it in real life or the dream world." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"Damon's shirts are always crisp, but he has the charisma of a perfectly groomed corpse." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) |
"Re-released movies are forever claiming to be iconic, but few can hold the title as easily as Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2009) |
"If Sergio Leone could see The Good, the Bad, the Weird, a gleefully deranged Korean homage to his spaghetti westerns, he would probably envy the resources available to director Ji-woon Kim." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Goodbye Solo (2009) |
"You get the sense that writer-director Ramin Bahrani is mystified by America’s abandonment of its elderly, and there’s a whiff of disapproval in his treatment of this theme, but it’s only a whiff." |
Toby Young |
Splat 0/5 |
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) |
"It isn’t merely bad, it makes you want to clamp your hands to either side of your face and do an impersonation of The Scream." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 3/5 |
Gothika (2003) |
"The jumpy twists are terrifying enough; the loony asylum is a Gothic masterpiece; but the continuity is sloppy" |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Goya's Ghosts (2007) |
"It’s never entirely clear who or what the film is about." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Gran Torino (2008) |
"What the film aches for is a challenge worthy of the monster Eastwood effortlessly inhabits." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Grease (1978) |
"Much-loved but somewhat overrated." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Greek Pete (2009) |
"It’s basically a porn movie, though with slightly more developed characters than normal. It should do well on DVD in the video emporia of Old Compton Street, but don’t expect it to light up the multiplexes in Romford." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Grocer's Son (2008) |
"This is a slow-burning charmer of a film that rewards those prepared to settle into its easygoing pace." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Grow Your Own (2007) |
"The movie seems at times so impressed by its own allegory that it lessens the human drama running beneath it." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Gun Crazy (1949) |
"Admittedly, the script is vintage corn. But visually Gun Crazy is a rude, startling and suggestive pleasure." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008) |
"The slow-motion footage of these athletes showing off their macho skills is generously underpinned by rumbling hip-hop. Great nightclub wallpaper." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Guru (2007) |
"It is certainly one of the best Bollywood movies you will see in 2007." |
Anil Sinanan |
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