Splat |
Taken (2009) |
"This queasy, violent revenge fantasy becomes more preposterous as the body count rises. Taken is notable mainly for its racist stereotyping of Arabs and eastern Europeans." |
David Gritten |
Splat 2/5 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"The 2009 version, perhaps like New York itself, is flashier and far less gritty. The camerawork is busier, the effects are expensive, the colours louder. The soundtrack, a bastard mix of rocky techno and crude drum 'n' bass, recalls a car ad from 1996." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 3/5 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"It's a sunny-side-up account of the famous hippy festival in upstate New York, timed to coincide with its fortieth anniversary this year, that unashamedly plays up its comedy and youthful idealism." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Tales from Earthsea (2006) |
"Like watching the back-story of Harry Potter's shy Japanese cousin." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Tales from the Golden Age (2009) |
"This is the rare portmanteau that’s more than the sum of its parts." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
Tau Ming Chong (2009) |
"A village-pillaging extravaganza whose music and pitched slaughter compete to ruin your inner ear." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Taxidermia (2009) |
"Director György Pálfi is a talent to watch with your fingers over your eyes, but he’s also a proper filmmaker, fascinated by his characters’ hereditary fetishes and finding consistently clever ways to surprise us with his camera." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2009) |
"The Meek they present is closer to being a character in Little Britain than the mysterious, proto-avant-garde sonic scientist revered by legions of contemporary electronic musicians. A little more weirdness would have been very welcome." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
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Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Helena Bonham Carter Loses Four Family Members in Car Crash" |
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Splat 1/5 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"It’s a catastrophically bad movie whose aggressive dullness and dumbness can best be reproduced by picking up a brick and slamming it against one’s forehead for two hours." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
The 9th Company (2005) |
"It's beautifully shot and includes bravura set pieces from the front line. Unsurprisingly, it ends badly." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
The All Together (2007) |
"Has a script faxed in with spotless fidelity from Planet Unfunny." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"Can someone beam a hologrammatic representative into Lucasfilm HQ with a message from the real world? Master George, we beseech you, give it up: nobody cares anymore, and besides, your tea's ready." |
Mike McCahill |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"A very thoughtful and imaginative effort." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"[A] very, very bad film." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"Impossible, we can handle, but the eschewal of all internal logic starts to feel like an insult, the cinematography is dismal, and the cocktail of lazy CGI and po-faced, sub-Al-Gore environment lecture leaves you light-headed with tedium." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
The Duchess of Langeais (2008) |
"In a tale of passion, don’t we want passion? Instead of Rivette’s painterly pose-striking tableaux, would we not like some madness and modernism?" |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
The End (2009) |
"This is a disappointingly reverential exercise in East End mythologising that’s too busy sucking up to its rheumily sentimental interviewees to spend enough time exploring the few interesting observations they do make." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
The Legacy (2006) |
"This brilliant premise falls apart in the final act." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
The Serpent (2006) |
"Taut, stylish French thriller, based on a novel by Ted Lewis." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
Them (2007) |
"Suspenseful, eventually, but the first half's a snooze." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"It's a glum and amateurish business on the three-in-one subject of adoption - being adopted, having your child adopted, and adopting one." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Thirst (2009) |
"This fervid extravaganza is easily Park’s best film since Oldboy." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
This Christmas (2007) |
"It's laboured and obvious, and not even a Yuletide movie: Christmas is little more than a device to bring the family back under one roof. Still, its plot is as overstuffed as any turkey." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
This Is England (2007) |
"It's part western, part pornographic money shot." |
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Tomato 5/5 |
This Sporting Life (1963) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 5/5 |
This Sporting Life (1963) |
"I’m tempted to see it as one of the strongest films of that period, every frame of which pulsates with drama, class confusion and erotic force." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat 1/5 |
Three Men and a Little Lady (1990) |
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Tim Robey |
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Three Miles North Of Molkom (2009) |
"The film, deftly photographed by Joseph Russell and Mike Hill, and making exemplary use of site-specific sound, is gorgeous to look at and to listen to." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Three Monkeys (2009) |
"This is a fascinating film that, once seen, is hard to dislodge from your imagination." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Time That Remains (2009) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"It wants desperately to engage our hearts, but for long stretches will leave most of us scratching our heads." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Times and Winds (2008) |
"But it's Erdem's unsentimental compassion towards his characters, his fidelity to the rhythms of their lives and the arcs of their imaginations, that gives this film its wondrous power and depth." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 3/5 |
To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (2006) |
"A jolting journey towards a swaggering notion of manhood, directed with assured expertise by Jamshed Usmonov." |
David Gritten |
Tomato 3/5 |
Tormented (2009) |
"There’s enough vitriolic bitching among the bullying contingent to make Jon Wright’s movie trashily entertaining up to a point." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Touching the Void (2004) |
"Demonstrates to us all that it's possible to touch the void and bounce back unbroken." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Traitor (2008) |
"The mounting fear and isolation of the Cheadle character puts us in an interesting place: the war on terror is reconfigured as a tussle of the soul." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"Bay’s is a cinema on steroids, pursuing a body-builder’s dream of eternal growth -- it must bulge constantly outward, veins popping like twigs from its ever-flexed biceps." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Transporter 3 (2008) |
"Luc Besson's modestly-budgeted but wildly successful franchise shows signs of broadening to include romance and humour." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
Triangle (2007) |
"Three of Hong Kong cinema's top names take turns to direct this batty heist-gone-wrong thriller, which proceeds from stylish-but-incomprehensible (Tsui Hark) through crunchy and violent (Ringo Lam) to just barking (Johnnie To)." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"Tropic Thunder is, almost necessarily, a hit-and-miss affair. Its targets certainly seem dated. But it's hard not to warm to a film in which a character's cry of "I can't feel my leg" earns the reply "Ain't nothing but a thang."" |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 4/5 |
Trouble the Water (2008) |
"I could call the film an important document, but it's far more rowdy and vital, and amazingly unpretentious, than that makes it sound." |
Tim Robey |
- |
Troy (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
John Hiscock |
Splat |
Troy (2004) |
"The wrath of Brad looks more like a migraine." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
True North (2006) |
"The daily struggles of life at sea, as well as the almost manic revelries indulged in to forget about it, are evoked with dark wit." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat |
The Truth About Love (2004) |
"An awkward, last-minute romantic dash to Bristol's Temple Meads station in the style of Richard Curtis only serves to underline the air of creative bankruptcy." |
David Gritten |
Tomato 5/5 |
Tulpan (2008) |
"A gorgeously-shot and often-funny story... An absolute treat." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Twilight (2008) |
"I watched Twilight in a cinema full of young girls who, when they weren't texting friends and guzzling soft drinks, giggled, sighed and exhaled with a passion that was not only endearing, but a measure of its emotional truth." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Splat 2/5 |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"For anyone on the outside looking in, the insulation of the characters from real danger makes it a bit of a drag." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Two Lovers (2009) |
"Love is a selfish animal here, one Gray dissects coldly and perhaps too neatly – he forecloses on any chance of happiness. Still, his emotional sincerity, great gift of melancholy and unsettling use of ambient sound are still everywhere in evidence." |
Tim Robey |
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