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92%
|
Caesar Must Die (2013) |
"
Profoundly moving."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
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87%
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Arbitrage (2012) |
"
This is a gleaming movie about a man with his back to the wall, facing disgrace on several fronts and the possibility of exchanging his Armani suit for prison garb."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
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30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
It's moderately enjoyable, well acted and both complicated and simplistic."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
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75%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
The tension is well enough sustained, the horrors build steadily, the eco message is familiar."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
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13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
An almost unendurably sentimental tale ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
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50%
|
Hi-so () |
"
It's all rather familiar but well done."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
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15%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
One suspects that, seriously or tongue in cheek, it's really about the "war against terror" and that Hansel and Gretel are the CIA and the witches belong to al-Qaida."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
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93%
|
Sleep Tight (2012) |
"
An unrelievedly nightmarish film."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
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69%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
[A] wild, watchable, relatively brief, deeply annoying thriller ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
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94%
|
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) |
"
Cinema's most impressive biblical movie to date."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
|
98%
|
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
"
To appreciate the film fully, Lawrence must be seen in a cinema, in 70mm on the widescreen and in stereophonic sound, and the present theatrical revival is not to be missed."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
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|
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67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
It has a certain grandeur, if ultimately it's an inspiritingly ambitious folly."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
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68%
|
Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) (2013) |
"
Everything that follows is as predictable, dreary and proverbial as the weather in Manchester."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
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71%
|
Crawl (2013) |
"
There's little originality but a decent amount of suspense, a great deal of blood and some promise."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
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41%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
The characters have little substance or development. The dialogue is minimal and deliberately semi-audible."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
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83%
|
The Road: A Story of Life & Death () |
"
[A] moving, deeply sad documentary about immigrants living at the London end of the A5."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
|
62%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
Becomes increasingly arbitrary and explicit."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
|
91%
|
Lore (2013) |
"
It isn't exactly a profound film, but Saskia Rosendahl's performance has considerable depth, and she interacts admirably with her siblings."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
Fire In The Blood () |
"
The film is a testament to human decency and a damning indictment of laissez-faire capitalism."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
|
89%
|
Gandhi (1982) |
"
Attenborough shows once again his skill in managing the big set-piece."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 20, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
The Lost Weekend (1945) |
"
Although ultimately less bleak than Charles Jackson's autobiographical novel, the film is uncompromising in its depiction of the lies, self-deception and degradation that alcoholism leads to."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
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88%
|
From Here to Eternity (1953) |
"
It's the best-ever account of life in the peacetime army."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
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52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
This Is 40 is in fact, within its limits, an honest, frank, often painful film about married life, bringing up children, dealing tactfully with difficult parents, getting older without necessarily getting wiser."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
|
66%
|
For Ellen (2012) |
"
Mumblecore stuff with touching, truthful moments ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
|
95%
|
Side by Side (2012) |
"
It asks questions about culture and technology, the creation of a new sensibility, and whether we're looking at the debasement of values or a new democracy coming to the arts."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
The Earrings of Madame De... (Diamond Earrings) (1954) |
"
It's full of characteristically graceful tracking shots, the editing is superb, and in her third consecutive Ophüls film Darrieux has never looked more entrancing."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
|
97%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
It's a lucid film everyone should see and the Vatican should answer for."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
—
|
0%
|
Run For Your Wife () |
"
Classic farces of the Feydeau, Aldwych and Whitehall kind have rarely worked in the cinema, and this widely performed stage play by Ray Cooney is no exception."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
|
70%
|
Jianyu (Reign of Assassins) (2010) |
"
After a decent enough opening it becomes a fairly ordinary affair, the principal attraction residing in the heroine's weirdly flexible sword."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
|
16%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
The poorest in the series, just one long, loud, violent, at times stupefyingly silly chase around Moscow."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 17, 2013
|
|
|
90%
|
No (2013) |
"
This witty, double-edged movie is no ordinary exercise in political cinema."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 10, 2013
|
|
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Hitchcock is both polished and crude, its accurate research not matched by original insight."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 10, 2013
|
|
|
78%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
It's all rather endearing."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 10, 2013
|
|
|
63%
|
I Give It a Year () |
"
I Give It a Year deserves a much harsher sentence than the title suggests and without remission for good conduct."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 10, 2013
|
|
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Zemeckis generally sustains the tension, though the movie is overlong and the full implications of the drama are never fully confronted. But Washington is always there, a substantial antihero with a genuinely tragic dimension."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
46%
|
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (2012) |
"
It's solemn, tasteless, overdressed, a circus smelling of Chanel No 5 rather than sweat and sawdust."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
Kovasikajuttu (The Punk Syndrome) () |
"
A very likable, relaxed film."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
48%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Over 30 years ago, Stallone passed on appearing in two of Hill's early masterworks, The Driver and 48 Hrs. Hill and his admirers should count themselves fortunate."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
87%
|
Bullhead (2012) |
"
[A] bleak, dense, complex thriller ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
37%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
The film's special success resides in the women's hairdos."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
13%
|
Do Elephants Pray? () |
"
[A] sentimental, humourless, badly acted comedy ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
73%
|
A Place in the Sun (1951) |
"
George Stevens's meticulously observed 1951 version of Theodore Dreiser's massive 1925 novel An American Tragedy ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
|
75%
|
Dwae-ji-ui wang (The King of Pigs) () |
"
[A] dull piece of Korean animation ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Daniel Day-Lewis gives a towering performance in Steven Spielberg's bravest picture to date."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
|
94%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
This is a fascinating film, and Chastain's wonderful performance has something in it of the tragic sense of life."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
An altogether crude, melodramatic and unhelpful picture."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
|
0%
|
The Fall Of The Essex Boys () |
"
It's very difficult to work up interest once again in such a collection of thick psychopathic mobsters, their molls and their brutish, cliché-ridden lives."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
|
73%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
Antiviral is an accomplished piece of work ..."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
It certainly places Tarantino among the most impressive film-makers at work today."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jan 20, 2013
|
86%
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