Reviews
Just as movies are about more than the two hours you spend sitting in
the cinema, our reviews are a chance to talk about much more than the
immediate experience of the film in question. There are many
different aspects of the movie-going experience and we will embrace
them all. View a full explanation of the ratings system »
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Enjoyment |
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Ever waited six months for a box-office behemoth? Read a book that
you loved and nervously watched the adaptation? Been pleasantly
surprised by an off-the-radar independent? Anticipation plays a
crucial role in your reaction to a movie. Rather than ignore it, we
think it should be measured and acknowledged as part of the movie-
going experience.
Marked out of 5.
Views films by most to least anticipated »
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All other things aside, how did you feel for those two hours? Were
you glued to your seat? Did the film speak to your soul? Was it
upsetting, disappointing, or just plain boring? Were you even awake?
Marked out of 5.
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Great movies live with you; you carry them around wherever you go and
the things they say shape the way you see the world. Did this movie
fade away or was every moment burned into your retinas? Was it a
quick fix action flick, good for a rainy Sunday afternoon? Or the
first day of the rest of your life? Did you hate it with a fury only
to fall in love with a passion? Or did that first love drain away
like a doomed romance?
Marked out of 5.
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March 5 2010
Chloe is a mature, composed crisis piece that perhaps doesn’t push its audience as far as its characters
05.03.10
Burton has always been a visual storyteller and his Alice is a source of visual wonder
05.03.10
Angels with machine guns? It was probably great fun to make; just don’t expect to have quite as good a time watching it
05.03.10
Inspired by the suicide of producer and friend Humbert Balsan, Mia Hansen-Løve’s second feature intelligently unpicks the before and after of a tragic act of desperation
05.03.10
It’s hard to know what to expect from a Neil Jordan film until you take the plunge
05.03.10
A dreary protest song for a generation of women torn between caring for their kids and caring for themselves
05.03.10
Giles Borg's headline act is a bittersweet anti-ode to a life lived in rock 'n' roll obscurity
05.03.10
As the film’s tagline so snappily has it, ‘some cases should never be opened’
05.03.10
February 26 2010
Don’t be fooled by the jaunty trailer or upbeat home-for-the-holidays poster; this is drama all the way – you’ll be as hard pushed as the cast evidently are to muster any interest
26.02.10
It’s all about the Benjamins in the latest heartfelt, incendiary but jarringly sarcastic missive from America’s answer to Wat Tyler
26.02.10
The sparse scaffolding of this film is at once enigmatic and illuminating, revealing a quiet political literacy
26.02.10
You'll long for Matthew McConaughey to turn up just so you have something to laugh at
26.02.10
