Tomato 4/5 |
A Prophet (2009) |
"A smart, stylishly-directed and compulsively watchable thriller." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
A Throw of Dice (1929) |
"Osten's film, which features more than 10,000 extras and 1,000 horses, is as excessive and beautiful as any scene from Antony and Cleopatra or Ben-Hur." |
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Tomato 5/5 |
Accident |
"An eerie, caustic, surgically calm film about the skull beneath the skin of genteel English life." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Across the Universe is much too literal-minded to be the far-out, visionary folly she may have intended – not so much cinema on LSD as the ravings of an earnest hippie in a recovery programme." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Adam (2009) |
"Dancy’s Adam is so soulful, droopy and sad-eyed you suspect a misdiagnosis, while Byrne’s alarming levels of undernourished passive aggression pass weirdly without comment." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) |
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Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"Afghanistan’s very own pop idols go head-to-head in a bright and sometimes troubling behind-the-scenes documentary – dancing is a no-no." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Afro Saxons (2008) |
"But it’s good to see a vision of modern-day urban life free of grimy, gun-slinging clichés." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 3/5 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"Originality is perhaps the major missing component, but this still stacks up as a nifty debut with ideas and ambition to spare." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
The Agent (2009) |
"The advances up for grabs date the script instantly to a jollier time for publishing, but it’s more of a bummer that Lesley Manning’s direction is of the plonk-the-camera-anywhere variety." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Agora (2009) |
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Tomato |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"Very funny." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Alexandra (2008) |
"But Aleksandr Sokurov, with the mesmerising and subtly disorientating directorial style that he has mastered, makes it feel emotionally real and imaginatively true. A wonderful film." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"At best the movie's an unpretentious pile-up of B-movie clichés, but why "Requiem"? Time to give it a rest now." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
All About Eve (1950) |
"The peerless tale of two rival drama queens, playing as the central attraction in the BFI Southbank's Joseph L Mankiewicz season, and rightly so." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"You know you’re in trouble the second you take a look at Bruce Willis’s fake liver spots." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Pure hell." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Am I Black Enough For You |
"The film succeeds in making us want to check out the singer’s back catalogue." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
American Dreamer (1984) |
"Doesn't hold many surprises." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Scott is something of a romantic at heart. His film is nowhere near as jaded or as hard-bitten as the '70s films such as The French Connection or Serpico that it hopes to echo." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 4/5 |
An Education (2009) |
"A delightful, resonant film, a great advertisement for Scherfig’s self-effacing, but socially probing, directorial style, and a beguiling introduction to Mulligan." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Angel (2007) |
"Choosing to clothe his whole movie in the outré frocks of a bad Technicolor romance, Ozon serves up camp fun, but that's it." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"What pleasures there are in Brown's orgy of Catholic intrigue could only be called accidental, and tend towards the guilty – you may want to take a whip." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) |
"I approached with a mixture of dread and resignation. And was promptly charmed to pieces." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Anna M. (2007) |
"None too persuasive." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Año Uña (2008) |
"Agreeably short, but it’s hard to overlook that it’s only a parade of still images. A film, certainly, but not quite a movie." |
David Gritten |
Tomato 5/5 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"This is cinema at its most extreme and mind-boggling." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 4/5 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"Gervasi's film may be too slight to launch an assault on the genre's Citizen Kane, the amazing Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, but it's still immensely entertaining, and its nostalgia for an era of big crowds and bigger hair has a pleasing tenderness." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anything for Her (2008) |
"This French thriller hurtles along with hardly a pause." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"A pity that Harris's homage to westerns should be compromised so intrusively. For most of its length, in terms of its themes, pacing and visual sweep, it's a treat." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
Ashes of Time Redux (1994) |
"The changes - a reworked score, less murky colouring - serve to bring out more lustrously than ever the yearning wondrousness of this star-laden (Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung) treasure." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Above all, there's the sense of immersion in a world of harsh beauty whose time is running out. It's to be hoped that non-American audiences embrace this film: it's one of the year's very best." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
Australia (2008) |
"Luhrmann's imagination too, demented and over reaching though it might be, is a glorious and vagrant thing to behold. His passion and romanticism, precisely because it's not trimmed and edited, exhilarates." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"Another probing case history of male pathology from one of the most consistently interesting American film-makers alive." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"It's as silky, chic and instantly forgettable as a perfume advert." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Away From Her (2007) |
"A sincere but doomed attempt at a sort of Alzheimer's love story." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"This won't go down as much of a success story for Mendes, but, unlike his more grandiose projects of late, it's not a complete dead end." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Awaydays (2009) |
"What’s convincing here is the pervasive unhappiness – the movie really understands violence as a drug, a way out of a void." |
Tim Robey |
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