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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) |
"The film never tries too hard to be cool, features adorable rodents in fetching knitwear, and includes helium-voiced chipmunks shaking their tushes as they cover Beyonce songs. Just great." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
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 |
Tomato 3/5 |
Amelia (2009) |
"If you’re the kind of person who deplores the modern vogue for debunking historical figures, and who welcomes the opportunity to indulge in heroic feats and lush landscapes... then this is the film for you." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
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 |
Tomato |
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) |
"I approached with a mixture of dread and resignation. And was promptly charmed to pieces." |
Tim Robey |
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 |
Tomato 3/5 |
Avatar (2009) |
"It’s an achievement to make 3D look as good as it does here, but that counts for little if the characters are all in 1D. The film is a triumph of effects over affect." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Avatar (2009) |
"For true cinematic spectacle, Avatar is out of this world." |
Anita Singh |
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 |
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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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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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 |
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 |
Splat |
American Dreamer (1984) |
"Doesn't hold many surprises." |
Tim Robey |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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