Tomato |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"What started out so promisingly, a companion piece of sorts to Children of Men, disappears in a frenzy of screaming, head-banging, bloodiness - followed by totally unconvincing redemption." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007) |
"Working from a sombre palette and with little to no dialogue, Tsai crafts a dazed fantasy about companionship and its power to revivify." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
I for India (2007) |
"A remarkable meditation on the agonies and enigmas of migration." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat 2/5 |
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) |
"This adaptation of Larry Doyle’s bestseller is too soul-starved and lethally bland to warm the cockles." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"All praise to Hamburg, for making a modest meal of frat-comedy leftovers into something just delightful." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"Haynes, astutely perhaps, has created a biopic with little time for "justice" or indeed any of the reverence and piety of recent films such as Walk the Line or Ray." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
I've Loved You So Long (2008) |
"It's absorbing to watch, and the two leads offer an acting masterclass." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
I.O.U.S.A. (2008) |
"Patrick Creadon's film is a lucid history lesson in the failures of successive Republican presidents to put a stopper in the country's leaking fiscal hole." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) |
"Sure, this threequel is more plasticine than Pleistocene, but as a zippy summer diversion it’ll do more than nicely - in fact, it’s comfortably the best of the series." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Igor (2008) |
"It’s spirited and funny in its better moments, and gives a sly spin to the clichés rather than just parroting them wholesale." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"It's a hyper-active, endlessly mutating cavalcade of colour, noise and surrealistic eccentricity." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat 2/5 |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"Gilliam’s imagination rubbing up against his constricted budget, and CGI showmanship is not on any level his forte. You miss the hand-made charm and extravagant matte-work of Brazil, even Baron Munchausen." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Import/Export (2009) |
"Import Export is a work of the utmost political importance. It is also, in its rigour and fearlessness, its sorrow and pitilessness, an outstanding artistic achievement." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
In Search Of Beethoven (2009) |
"There is a lot of music, but never too much, and the story of Beethoven's struggle with his life and genius emerges forcefully and movingly." |
Rupert Christiansen |
Splat |
In the Hands of the Gods (2007) |
"Certainly the story's climax in Buenos Aires is unexpected, yet many scenes resemble staged reality TV moments: group hugs, tears, mumbled monologues about overcoming obstacles." |
David Gritten |
Tomato 3/5 |
In the Loop (2009) |
"It’s a sharper, bawdier version of Yes, Minister. And ultimately just as cosy, colluding in our cynicism about politicians rather than challenging it." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) |
"The shots of the Moon, even after so many effects-heavy studio films have tried to recreate the look, are uncanny." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Incendiary (2008) |
"London is bombed and contrives to be less recognisable than it's ever been on film, full of people who don't look, act or even speak like Londoners." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"Between a series of stunt-driven set-pieces, implausibly linked, the film gets bogged down in wearying talk." |
David Gritten |
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Infinite Justice (2006) |
"A Mighty Heart has nothing to fear from writer-director Jamil Dehlavi's fictionalistion of Daniel Pearl's kidnapping, which is laborious in its point-making and can't disguise its bargain-basement origins." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
The Informant! (2009) |
"The Informant! is far from negligible, but it’s undoubtedly second-tier Soderbergh." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat 2/5 |
The Informers (2009) |
"This self-penned adaptation of his 1994 short story collection - a period piece set in 1983 Los Angeles - has supposedly been cut to ribbons, and it shows." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 3/5 |
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"It’s a film that’s only interested in film, a masterclass in gorgeously-constructed self-pastiche. Tarantino desperately needs an editor willing to trim his indulgences." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 3/5 |
Inkheart (2009) |
"Inkheart is cheerful and amiable, and in the absence of a Harry Potter film this winter, it fills a gap neatly." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
The International (2009) |
"What sticks in the memory isn't so much Owen's seething, one-note vendetta as Tykwer's modernist flair – the way he frames his sequences using buildings, confining the intrigue inside cold prisms of glass and steel." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
The Interpreter (2005) |
"Yes, it's grappling with grown-up subject matter, but did The Interpreter have to be quite so lifeless?" |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Interview (2007) |
"The friskiness of this pas de deux is something, and the acting duet enough of a selling point." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Into the Wild (2007) |
"Sean Penn's majestic travelogue about a young drop-out on an idealistic quest in the great American outback is the best film the writer-director has ever made." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
The Invasion (2007) |
"Novelist Jack Finney's body snatchers have appeared in some fine movies, but the only disturbing-looking thing here is what they've done to Nicole Kidman's lips." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"Gervais is threatening to turn into Woody Allen: a director who clogs his films with famous faces and whose plots revolve around pretty women realizing how wonderful he is." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Iron Man (2008) |
"Based on yet another Marvel series, Iron Man has plenty of things going for it, the main assets being an enjoyably sardonic Downey, his hardware, and the downturned mouth of his new metal visage - a warning that this self-styled messiah means business." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Is Anybody There? (2009) |
"He could have been on to a real winner; as it is, it’s charming, but slight, and you rather feel Son of Rambow got here first on the Thatcher-era coming-of-age front." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Is Anybody There? (2009) |
"It’s charming, but slight." |
Tim Robey |
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