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Total Reviews: 16


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"The only thing in Steve Carr’s fatuous movie that earns a few giggles is John C McGinley’s silliness as a new-age builder." -- Times [UK]
Posted Jun 9, 2007
 
Are We Done Yet? (2007)8%
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2/5
 
"Never manages to create a gripping strand to hold our attention." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
 
The Good Shepherd (2006)56%
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4/5
 
"Eastwood has managed to humanise these enemy soldiers in a way no Hollywood war film has done before." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
 
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)91%
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1/5
 
"Spookily, it must have been in about the 23rd minute that my spirits began to sink and I thought: “There’d better be an awfully clever pay-off at the end of this.” Well, there isn’t." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
 
The Number 23 (2007)8%
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1/5
 
"Only toward the end of the film do the hostilities reach a level of recklessness with any potential to be funny. If things had started at that pitch and been ramped up from there, Phillips might have had a movie worth making." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
 
School for Scoundrels (2006)25%
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2/5
 
"If only Cassel had saved his performance for a collaboration with the League of Gentlemen." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
 
Sheitan (2006)53%
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2/5
 
"Without any change to its essential cosiness, it could surely have been more surprising in its emotional scenes and funnier in its comic ones." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
 
Avenue Montaigne (2007)73%
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3/5
 
"while the film may be impaired as an oral treatise, Sissako’s use of the trial is still vindicated. It provides rich symbolism in what is, on the whole, a stimulating work." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
 
Bamako (2006)84%
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1/5
 
"As well as providing lifestyle porn, the many scenes set in stylish kitchens mean there is usually a cake on hand for somebody to be splattered with. That’s the level of the bland attempts at comedy." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 19, 2007
 
Because I Said So (2007)5%
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3/5
 
"The characters are given life by the script and actors, while the mountainous terrain (provided by Crimea) adds novelty to the combat scenes." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 19, 2007
 
The 9th Company (2005)79%
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3/5
 
"Another comic love story that takes us inside a character’s psyche, but Kaufman’s rock-solid jokes are replaced by whimsy." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 19, 2007
 
The Science of Sleep (2006)69%
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5/5
 
"In [Bunuel's] vigorous storytelling, he not only finds forceful images in the drama’s reality, but adds a dream sequence — a miniature masterpiece that, by itself, is reason enough to see the film." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Feb 19, 2007
 
Los Olvidados (1950)93%
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2/5
 
"The nature of the couple’s tormentors makes the action scarier than it would have been with, say, a supernatural monster, but it also represents a cheap and nasty move by Moreau and Palud." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 28, 2007
 
Them (2007)63%
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2/5
 
"Not every turn in the story is well judged, but what’s more damaging is that the film’s general aura is not sufficiently powerful." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 28, 2007
 
Lives of the Saints (2006)42%
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2/5
 
"I’ve sat through lots of navel-gazing movies that would have been vastly improved by the addition of some 16th-century conquistador action; Aronofsky’s film is still a bore, Its ideas and images too airy-fairy to have emotional force." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 28, 2007
 
The Fountain (2006)51%
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4/5
 
"A surprising denouement provides poignancy, repaying the goodwill the film inspires through its mellow combinations of music and imagery." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Posted Jan 28, 2007
 
Old Joy (2006)85%

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