Tomato |
W. (2008) |
"While W. lacks the forensic rigour of recent documentaries dealing with Bush’s legacy and recent history, it’s a thumpingly entertaining ride." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
The Wackness (2008) |
"Its writer-director, Jonathan Levine, lavishes the movie with inky black shadows and soft gauzy close-ups, making it mostly feel like a dream, or a half-conjured memory." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Waitress (2007) |
"Despite the fairy-tale manipulation, it’s hard not to be moved." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"A dismal indulgence." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) |
"Two other documentaries are released this week at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. A Walk into the Sea, by Esther Robinson, is the better of the two." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Walker (2007) |
"A subtle satire about Washington hypocrisy and manners." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"For once, the artful nods to Huxley, Kubrick and Philip K. Dick are not the preserve of trainspotters." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"How refreshing to see Spielberg rock the boat with nothing more shocking than pure old-fashioned fear" |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Snyder’s last-ditch attempt to raise the geeky bar by introducing “real” people dressed up as heroes is more adolescent than adult, as is the addition of e nough soft-core 1970s bump and grind to win an 18 certificate." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"A mesmerising and brutalising experience, and will be, for some at least, more than worth the wait." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
The Wave (2008) |
"It’s an interesting and provocative idea somewhat marred by wretched performances from several of the kids and the same whiff of sanctimony and naivety that made The Edukators, another tiresomely right-on film from Germany, such a trial." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Waveriders (2009) |
"The sensational footage of surfers barrelling through 50ft waves provides most of the appeal. But Joel Conroy’s documentary is full of scrapbook curios." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
We Live in Public (2009) |
"Mercifully, Harris has now run out of money, but I fear we haven’t heard the last of him." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 3/5 |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"The always charismatic Phoenix is the highlight; he carries the film, rising above the occasionally uninspired dialogue and plotting to give a powerhouse turn as a man caught between ambition and duty." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"It’s a solid, if unremarkable piece of storytelling." |
Wendy Ide |
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Wedding Daze (2006) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Welcome |
"This is compassionate and humane film-making. While the story does sometimes lapse into cliché, the two beautifully judged central performances carry it through." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"Wendy and Lucy is a sweet, slight and beautifully crafted film." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"The crisp and merciless ribbing of De Niro in What Just Happened? is a worthy rival. It’s also great fun." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) |
"Shot in luminous black and white cinemascope, this is an exquisitely understated study of the plight of a young woman in an unforgiving society." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008) |
"A decade ago Morrison’s biography explored a grief that, I suspect unwittingly, indeed shockingly, exposed the shallow times. The film doesn’t cut the same mustard." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"It’s all very charming and quirky... But it’s also, ultimately, a little flimsy and unlikely to achieve anything like the iconic status of its source material." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
White Christmas (1954) |
"White Christmas is the cinema equivalent of an inappropriate festive snog under the mistletoe – you know you probably shouldn’t enjoy it but you just can’t help yourself." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
The White Ribbon (2009) |
"The message of this disturbing, nihilistic film is that we’re all Nazis at heart." |
Toby Young |
Splat 2/5 |
Whiteout (2009) |
"A whodunnit set on a scientific research base in Antarctica that slowly becomes a “Who cares?”" |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Who Killed Nancy? (2009) |
"It’s a shoddy, sensational and unfocused documentary." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Wicker Man (1973) |
"Devised by its star Christopher Lee, director Robin Hardy and writer Anthony Shaffer as a meditation on the rise of New Age spiritualism, the movie is now, of course, gleefully camp and a tad reactionary." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy (2006) |
"It’s not helped by a watery soundtrack that sounds like chill-out trance played on a nose flute." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Wild Child (2009) |
"It’s Mean Girls meets Malory Towers and as such it’s strictly for a tween girl audience." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Wild Hogs (2007) |
"A humiliating medley of ghastly slapstick stunts. Walt Becker is the author of this nonsense. He ought to be sued." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Wild Style (1982) |
"This unpolished but authentic film, a drama with the honesty of a documentary, shows hip-hop pure and unvarnished." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Wimbledon (2004) |
"Richard Loncraine's romantic fantasy, Wimbledon, is cruelly designed to make feeble-minded tennis fans go weak at the knees. As such, it works perfectly" |
James Christopher |
Tomato |
The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
"Enjoy it as both a magical fairytale and a delirious camp classic." |
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Splat 1/5 |
The Women (2008) |
"A costly and bemusing disaster. Dull is too kind a word." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Wonderful Town (2007) |
"A purposeful, almost meditative exploration of the scars left on a people’s psyche after tragedy." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The World Unseen (2008) |
"You wait all year for a lesbian comedy drama with the production values of a 1980s TV movie and the acting standard of a carpet shampoo advert, and then two come along at once." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Wrestler (2008) |
"The weakness of Aronofsky’s film is that these various sentimental crises are framed with as much subtlety as Randy’s wildly overdue heart attack. The film lurches into a predictable panic about dying alone." |
James Christopher |
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