Tomato |
Macbeth (2007) |
"The story's handled at a reasonable clip, and there are some good, if uniformly bearded, supporting performances." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mad, Sad and Bad (2009) |
"The dialogue struggles to find the midpoint between naturalism and sit-com-style banter. But Luthra possesses a contrary sensibility that makes me curious to see what he comes up with next." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 3/5 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"Its overall tone is cheerful, amiable and kid-friendly - and in these straitened times, one learns to be grateful for small mercies." |
David Gritten |
Splat 2/5 |
Made in Jamaica (2006) |
"I found it hard to warm to this overlong documentary about new trends in reggae, perhaps because of the sense that all the less savoury aspects of that culture were being softballed." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"Made of Honour, as well as flaunting one of the most useless titular puns in the history of cinema, is rubbish." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
The Magic Flute (2006) |
"With James Conlon conducting, this Flute is perfectly in tune - so it's a shame Branagh keeps dropping it in the mud." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Man from London (2008) |
"Surrendering to the film's languid rhythms is pleasurable, even invigorating. To resist its forbidding pace and style is to deny oneself its rarefied rewards." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
Man of the Year (2006) |
"This being Robin Williams, it's hard to find his routines as vote-winningly hilarious as they're meant to be." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"I've watched this film four times and I still can't believe what he did or what I'm seeing. Each viewing intensifies the galvanising joy and the heartbreakingly unrepeatable nature of his walk." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"A perfectly executed illustration of what is not, quite, great about the Coen brothers, which is a kind of grandstanding, and another kind of weirdly alienating insincerity." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Manufacturing Dissent (2007) |
"Exposes a paranoid personality, testy with his critics and bullish about his methodology." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"Never fully coheres or convinces." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Marigold (2007) |
"Ali Larter plays an amazingly bitchy actress sent to Bollywood. They hate her, then they love her. I didn't quite get the love bit." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Mark of an Angel (2008) |
"While Nebbou switches gears adroitly, as do his subtle and skilled leading ladies, the way the story is wrapped up feels abrupt and cursory, almost a pretext for its suggestive first act." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Marley & Me (2008) |
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Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Married Life (2008) |
"The movie is determinedly low-key, but honest, with a wrenching break-up scene, sharp work from Clarkson, and a final thought that lingers, about never really knowing what your other half is thinking." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
Martyrs (2008) |
"Young women are brutalised to a place beyond pain, as part of an eschatological experiment. You really don’t need to see this." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"Should have the late O'Brian beaming in his grave." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Max Manus (2008) |
"It's lively, sturdily mounted, just ever so slightly jejune." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Max Payne (2008) |
"I didn't hate Max Payne, but it's hard to summon up strong feelings of any kind about something so slick, remote and vacuum-packed you barely feel you've seen it." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"A characteristic Richard Linklater film. And Richard Linklater films are characteristically very good indeed." |
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Splat 0/5 |
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) |
"They fight, and look rubbish, and one eats an aircraft. Is bad the new good? I wish. Sometimes bad is just tacky." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"Either someone missed the memo about other people’s LSD trips being a colossal drag, or else they fed it to a goat." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
The Merry Gentleman (2009) |
"In a word: awful." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2009) |
"I have my doubts about Cassel in this role, but the movie peaks with enough brute urgency to stoke your hopes nicely for part two." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 (2009) |
"This rambunctious and violent gangster drama more than sustains its lengthy running time, and makes one wonder why the Gallic gun-toter isn’t better known internationally." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Messages (2007) |
"Quite the worst supernatural thriller ever made starring Jeff Fahey. This is saying something." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
"Ortega has applied himself studiously to his task, and the film is some recompense for those deprived by his death of seeing Jackson live." |
David Gritten |
Tomato 4/5 |
Mid-August Lunch (2009) |
"Elegantly shot, and with a terrific tango-infused score, this is a quiet gem." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
A Mighty Heart (2007) |
"Considering the fact that this is a story whose ghastly ending is known to the audience right from the outset, A Mighty Heart is far more compelling than ever seemed likely." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 4/5 |
Milk (2008) |
"It’s a wonderfully evocative film, radiating with warmth and humour, bristling too with righteous rage." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Mirrors (2008) |
"Kiefer Sutherland's bad days in 24 are frolics in the park next to the nonsense he endures in this scandalously poor supernatural horror." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985) |
"Philip Glass’s score still takes the breath away." |
David Gritten |
Splat 0/5 |
Miss March (2009) |
"An almost perfect atrocity. It is a towering K2 of bobbins... the most mangy, noxious, charmless, sexist, racist, unfunny, infantile, stomach-turning, grotesque, clueless, inept and stupid film of the year." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) |
"Despite its limitations, I found it impossible to dislike this frail little tale." |
Jenny McCartney |
Tomato |
Mister Foe (2008) |
"Decidedly dark material handled with a pleasing lightness of touch." |
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Tomato |
Mister Lonely (2008) |
"Beautiful, grotesque, dancing always to their own rhythms." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Moliere (2007) |
"This is no biopic, but pure fantasy, a sort of "Molière in Love" infused with the bittersweet romantic spirit of the playwright's work." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Momma's Man (2008) |
"It’s a beguiling premise, and one writer-director Azazel Jacobs explores with skill, tenderness, and prodding wit." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) |
"The movie never grows a heart, which doesn't stop it trying to tattoo one onto its chest. By the whizz-bang climax inside the alien mothership, I was fidgeting like a four-year-old at Cosi fan tutte." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Moon (2009) |
"It’s not fair to say that the film runs out of steam towards the end, because it remains crisp and unpredictable, but it does have the feel of an addictive Outer Limits episode finding ways to stretch itself over the feature-length mark." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Mr. Brooks (2007) |
"There's enough ambition for a miniseries here, and satellite viewers already have the rather terrific Dexter. Stuffed into two hours, it's all a bit of a pile-up." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
"In its favour, there's nothing here to upset the children. (Not, that is, unless they're allergic to Hoffman's hammy, Method-derived acting.)" |
David Gritten |
Splat 1/5 |
Mr. Right (2009) |
"Wants to be a Sex and the City for the Soho queen scene, only without the sex." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Mr. Woodcock (2007) |
"Thornton does his best with a crass script and a cop-out finale." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"I can think of almost nothing good to say about the film, except that I enjoyed it immensely." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Murderous Intent (2006) |
"Quite, quite ludicrous in every way." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Music and Lyrics (2007) |
"Sorry? If Cole Porter put his name to Barrymore's "Figuring out you and me/Is like doing a love autopsy..." he'd surely have been thrown out of the Waldorf-Astoria in disgust, whatever he was wearing." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Mutant Chronicles (2009) |
"The production notes describe this as an epic sci-fi action thriller like no other, which is on every level a blessing - it's like being dropped into a tar pit of underlit tedium." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Mutual Appreciation (2006) |
"Every scene in Bujalski's films is a little awkward, and just right." |
Tim Robey |
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