|
|
|
|
|
 |
21 (2008) |
"While this is eager-to-please Hollywood-by-numbers fare, 21 should provoke enough interest to make you pick up a copy of the book that the film cheats to get the real deal." |
David Michael |
|
 |
American Teen (2008) |
"Despite its genuinely seductive veneer, American Teen doesn't have anything to say about the adolescent condition that American Graffiti didn't already cover off in 1973." |
Julian Shaw |
|
|
|
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) |
"Relative newcomer Georgia Groome simply shines. You don’t need to be a teenager to enjoy this -- you just have to remember being one." |
|
|
|
|
Australia (2008) |
"Rich, ambitious and often brave, this is a film that reaches, with desperately clawing outstretched hands, for greatness." |
Erin Free |
|
|
|
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"With a messy storyline and screenplay to boot, the film feels disjointed and lacking true punch." |
|
|
|
|
Big Stan (2008) |
"If you're not a fan, then this won't do much to convert you, unless you, like Schneider, have a dubious obsession with anal rape jokes." |
Jarrod Walker |
|
|
|
Bitter & Twisted (2008) |
"Bitter & Twisted is a winning combination of glowing hope and battering despair." |
Erin Free |
|
|
|
Body of Lies (2008) |
"Despite the dog-eared set-ups and situations, Body of Lies also has a lot going for it." |
Erin Free |
|
|
|
Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
"The look and feel is just about right, and the dialogue and acting are enjoyably sharp. This new version of the classic deserves a fair hearing in its own right." |
|
|
|
|
Burn After Reading (2008) |
"Burn After Reading isn't 'cold' or distant -- it's a game, and a good one at that." |
Peter Galvin |
|
|
|
Caramel (2008) |
"Taken together, the women tell a universal story about the beauty and battles of daily life." |
|
|
|
|
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (2008) |
"An indelible vision of a compromised, peculiar man." |
Brian Duff |
|
|
|
Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008) |
"Doesn't have a fraction of its predecessor's pizzazz." |
Annette Basile |
|
|
|
Choke (2008) |
"Choke is neither loopy nor difficult, but surprisingly grounded." |
Brian Duff |
|
|
|
Choke (2008) |
"Slighter and tighter than its blockbuster cousin, shot in the neighbourhood of just five percent of its predecessor's budget." |
Brian Duff |
|
|
|
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"Prince Caspian is marvellous entertainment." |
Pauline Adamek |
|
|
|
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Christian Bale is magnificent as the tortured hero, but the movie belongs to its freaky villain." |
Pauline Adamek |
|
|
|
Death Race (2008) |
"While not being the most awful filmic experience available, it's certainly one of the dumbest." |
Jarrod Walker |
|
|
8/10 |
Dinner Rush (2001) |
"'…beautifully captures the spirit and pace of a popular, bustling eating-house.'" |
Erin Free |
|
|
|
Le Divorce (2003) |
"too many undeveloped plot strands and a dozen too many famous faces, who keep popping up and then disappearing like some kind of star-studded carousel." |
Mark Adnum |
|
|
- |
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) |
"It’s a sweet, strange soulfulness that makes Horton an out-and-out winner." |
Julian Shaw |
|
|
|
The Duchess (2008) |
"The film's real power lies with Knightley. She easily could have gone over the emotional top, but instead gives a measured performance that increasingly draws you in." |
|
|
|
|
Dying Breed (2008) |
"Right from the opening credits, with their strangely beautiful blown-up images of blood and the accompanying darkly rhythmic score, you're primed for something terrible to happen." |
Annette Basile |
|
|
|
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"The film is probably twenty minutes too long, and can't seem to decide if its techno-philic or -phobic, but is an otherwise compelling and cogent performance piece for LaBeouf and company." |
Brian Duff |
|
|
|
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) |
"It’s all humdrum and low key without any redeeming compositional elegance or symmetry." |
Mark Demetrius |
|
|
|
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"Slow moving, torpid and melancholy...it's tearjerker material, but without the tears." |
Mark Demetrius |
|
|
|
Funny Games (2008) |
"As an experiment in film form, Funny Games is intriguing, but the self-congratulation and post-modern trickery are at once irksome and intellectually and artistically dishonest." |
Peter Galvin |
|
|
|
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008) |
"Shot on a tight budget and a tighter calendar, the film offers a cinematic style which borders on verite in approach and execution." |
Brian Duff |
|
|
|
Gosford Park (2001) |
"Cinema used to its full artistic potential" |
Dov Kornits |
|
|
|
The Grocer's Son (2008) |
"At a time when most other movies are boorishly brash, a film like this stands out precisely by being low key and modest." |
Mark Demetrius |
|
|
|
A Guy Thing (2003) |
"every bumbling mishap along the way to the aisle- the sudden public attacks of diarrhea, the psychotic ex-boyfriend, about a hundred other stale gags - is straight out of the campus-howler how-to book" |
Mark Adnum |
|
|
|
The Happening (2008) |
"While hardly his worst work, this film is so far off his high water mark that it begs the question of whether M. Night Shyamalan will ever truly return." |
Brian Duff |
|
|
|
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"Just make sure that you're really stoned when you see it." |
Jarrod Walker |
|
|
|
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) |
"At times the creaky dialogue can be cliched, but it can’t change the fact that Hellboy II is a hoot, aided considerably by star Ron Perlman’s wisecracks and laconic surliness, and Del Toro’s imaginative storytelling and intricate Faberge-egg visuals." |
Jarrod Walker |
|
|
|
The House Bunny (2008) |
"Fairly predictable" |
Alexandra Coghlan |
|
|
|
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) |
"No bad thing, really, but a fair distance from the barbed humour of Young's book." |
Jarrod Walker |
|
|
|
Hunger (2008) |
"A consistently powerful and harrowing true story -- and a well-told one. Simply watching it is somehow physically uncomfortable, but it's also rewarding." |
Mark Demetrius |
|
|
|
In Bruges (2008) |
"Despite its graphic violence, In Bruges remains a hilarious comedy with poignant moments, while never tipping over into maudlin territory." |
Pauline Adamek |
|
|
4/5 |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"This is a beautiful film hiding the terrible truth that is the horror of war." |
Laura Parker |
|
|
|
The In-Laws (2003) |
"scriptwriters fill in plotting gaps with unnecessary jokes at the expense of minorities, as the story heads towards a deflated, kind of begrudgingly happy ending" |
Mark Adnum |
|
|
|
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"While the CGI battles between The Hulk and Abomination are expectedly clunky, there are enough fun references and strongly crafted scenes to mark The Incredible Hulk as a highly enjoyable, if not quite exceptional, comic book adaptation." |
Erin Free |
|
|
|
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"Fun, entertaining, genuinely amusing, and made with an abundance of what appears to be honest-to-god warmth, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is a worthy addition to one of the great movie franchises." |
Erin Free |
|
|
|
Iron Man (2008) |
"An exciting, funny, entertaining and utterly compelling piece of popcorn entertainment that sits at the top end of comic book adaptations." |
Erin Free |
|
|
|
The Italian Job (2003) |
"Good job." |
Mark Adnum |
|
|
|
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
"It's all curiously uninvolving, and it's only Fraser's goofy grin and slapstick physicality that hold any character interest whatsoever." |
Jarrod Walker |
|
|
|
Leatherheads (2008) |
"As period rom-coms go, Leatherheads is mild entertainment." |
Pauline Adamek |
|
|
|
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) |
"Unlike the unfilmable novel, Newell’s discordant picture exhibits the worst symptoms of fever itself: unpleasant to endure and then quickly forgotten." |
Colin Fraser |
|
|
|
Man On Wire (2008) |
"The simplicity of Philippe's vision is intoxicating, as is his self-assurance." |
|
|
|
|
Max Payne (2008) |
"There simply has yet to be a decent film adapted from a video game. Why studios persist is a testament to the lobotomised throngs who encourage them by paying to see this type of gleet." |
Jarrod Walker |
|
|
|
Men's Group (2008) |
"The performances are outstanding across the board, which is extraordinary considering that every single shot is a first take." |
Trent Griffiths |
IGN RSS Feeds