Splat |
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"Parents! Hire a bouncy castle. Put on clown paint and make balloon animals. You need not see this." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Damned United (2009) |
"The Damned United zips along, is often funny and will give football fans of a certain age an enjoyable memory rush." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat 1/5 |
Dance Flick (2009) |
"To say they fail is to insult the word fail. Scene for scene, there were probably more chuckles in The Reader." |
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Splat |
Dans Paris (2007) |
"Empty and narcissistic New Wave homage from the unashamedly pretentious Christophe Honoré ." |
Tim Robey |
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Nolan's Catwoman Is a Cougar?" |
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Christian Bale Arrested, Released After Assault Allegations" |
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Tomato |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"It's one of this year's most haunting cinematic experiences." |
Mark Lee |
Tomato |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Shouldn't Nolan, marvellous as his directing here is, be creating original films rather than rebooting and retooling franchise fare?" |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Daylight Robbery (2008) |
"Imagine a sort of Dog's Dinner Afternoon." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
Days of Thunder (1990) |
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Tim Robey |
Splat |
Dead Silence (2007) |
"there's something about its overblown stormy-night atmospherics and reliably dismal dialogue that's bad in almost a fun way. I'd rather laugh through this kind of harmless, rickety schlock, any day, than grimace through Saw III." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"I hear the script was funny, which is hard to believe: this is grim, misjudged and seems to go on for ever." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Death Defying Acts (2008) |
"And while less magical than The Prestige, it's perfectly charming matinée fare." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Death Race (2008) |
"Anderson's remake of the 1975 Paul Bartel cult film Death Race 2000 is surprisingly effective bonehead fare." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Death Sentence (2007) |
"Literally laughable." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
December Boys (2007) |
"Well-intentioned, but teeth-grindingly earnest, with a voice-over that seems to consist entirely of clichés." |
David Gritten |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Deer Hunter (1978) |
"Draggy and devastating by turns" |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Defiance (2008) |
"Zwick’s films (Glory, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond) are always well-mounted, in their pedigreed and worthy way. But they nag away at us like pious busybodies, and this is no exception." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Departures (2009) |
"A safe and emotionally generous crowd-pleaser." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Descent: Part 2 (2009) |
"The last half-hour is a tense team scramble to get out, and stay out, but the best move in this above-par shocker is digging right back into the claustrophobic emotional traumas which made Part 1 so thrilling." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"You know where you are with Bruce Willis. Unlike Schwarzenegger, he won't be moving into namby-pamby politics any time soon. He differs from Stallone these days in managing not to resemble an aborted experiment at Madame Tussaud's" |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) |
"The film reminds us of a tactile, cut-and-paste subculture that’s still alive and well in the internet age." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
The Disappeared (2008) |
"The Disappeared makes you jump once or twice, but it’s a dubiously overcooked horror-thriller." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
Disaster Movie (2008) |
"Surely even bovine American teenagers have to realise their intelligence is being insulted sooner or later." |
Mike McCahill |
Tomato 3/5 |
Disgrace (2009) |
"It’s a faithful adaptation, but one that’s been indifferently shot by director Steve Jacobs, whose blunt technique tends to flatten the book’s morose charge. Still, the acting is often excellent." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"At its best, this revamp gets the eerie oppressiveness of London fog and Marley’s rattling chains just right -- we all know the moral, but Zemeckis does remind us what a spine-chilling yarn it is." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) |
"It appears impossibly mannered, a cross between knock-off Dennis Potter and an episode of Bread." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
District 13: Ultimatum (2009) |
"It's muscular, dumb entertainment, edited like gangbusters and with villains who want to blow up the entire Parisian underclass." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 5/5 |
District 9 (2009) |
"District 9 is that modern rarity: an adventure thriller that’s even better than its advertising campaign." |
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Tomato |
Disturbia (2007) |
"Disturbia's limits are those of its hero - an amiable, faintly clueless young man with a brief attention span." |
David Gritten |
Splat 1/5 |
Doghouse (2009) |
"“On the piss. On the pull. On the menu”, quoth the poster, but munching on Dyer looks like it might pose a health risk even for the undead. Hideous, all of it." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Dorian Gray (2010) |
"Beyond mildly risqué bisexual assignations, the filmmaking isn’t terribly adventurous, but cinematographer Roger Pratt gives it an inky opulence, and it’s quite watchable." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Doubt (2008) |
"There are times when Doubt feels like a sermon. Shanley highlights key themes as if the audience was a particularly dim-witted congregation. His direction, too, when it's not dolloping on the symbolism, can be stilted." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 4/5 |
Drag Me To Hell (2009) |
"Undemanding fun." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Drillbit Taylor (2008) |
"It's hard to imagine a bigger disappointment, or a more casual squandering of audience good will, than Drillbit Taylor." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
The Duchess (2008) |
"There is, however, much to enjoy. The cinematography, settings and costumes are glorious. Knightley gives a nuanced and often very moving performance, although Georgiana's love affair with the politician Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper) is remarkably lacking" |
Jenny McCartney |
Tomato 3/5 |
Duplicity (2009) |
"It's good to see an espionage thriller that avoids the clichés of the genre." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
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