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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

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"Rare and covetable genius." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
You, The Living (2007)100%
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"It's hard to imagine a bigger disappointment, or a more casual squandering of audience good will, than Drillbit Taylor." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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"A quiet revelation." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)83%
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"Beautiful, grotesque, dancing always to their own rhythms." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)48%
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"Roland Emmerich's prehistoric odyssey 10,000 BC is his silliest, most preposterous blockbuster to date. But it's lots of fun, too." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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"Von Trier may be commenting on the mechanical, dehumanised nature of corporate decision-making, or of Hollywood filmmaking. Maybe he's just being whimsical. It's always hard to tell with this joker-provocateur. And always completely fascinating." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Boss of it All (2007)73%
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"Never fully coheres or convinces." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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"Is it a masterpiece? Not even close." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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"Honours and elevates the unquenchable spirit of its subjects." -- Independent
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007)100%
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"A pleasure to watch a film as visually stylish as it is psychologically demanding. I wish it had been twice as long." -- Independent
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
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"What started out so promisingly, a companion piece of sorts to Children of Men, disappears in a frenzy of screaming, head-banging, bloodiness - followed by totally unconvincing redemption." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)68%
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"Haynes, astutely perhaps, has created a biopic with little time for "justice" or indeed any of the reverence and piety of recent films such as Walk the Line or Ray." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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"The romance at the heart of Brick Lane never comes alive. Chatterjee is doleful and weepy, Simpson enervated." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Brick Lane (2008)70%
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"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." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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"A violent and self-conscious exercise in punk nihilism." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Ex Drummer (2007)45%
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"Very funny." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Air Guitar Nation (2007)83%
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"Sean Penn's majestic travelogue about a young drop-out on an idealistic quest in the great American outback is the best film the writer-director has ever made." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Into the Wild (2007)83%
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"The elegantly composed shots of the island's broodingly lonesome wide spaces offer clues as to the group's widescreen post-rock sound. Indeed, their music comes to seem site-specific, as environmentally immersed as the landscape art of Richard Long." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Heima: A Film by Sigur Ros (2007)100%
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"The shots of the Moon, even after so many effects-heavy studio films have tried to recreate the look, are uncanny." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)94%
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"The pity of this botched follow-up is that it never once touches us." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)34%
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"Despite the star presence of Viggo Mortensen, David Cronenberg's violent film about the Russian Mafia in London is a disappointment." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Eastern Promises (2007)88%
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"A smashing, funny and politically sophisticated feature debut from Julie (daughter of Costa) Gavras." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Blame it on Fidel (2006)93%
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"Not since Before Sunset has a romantic film managed to be as touching, funny or as hard to forget as Once." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Once (2007)97%
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"The audience is unduly flattered, never once forced to question its own complicity in allowing this foul and almost always counter-productive flouting of international law to flourish." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Rendition (2007)47%
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"Director Brad Bird has created a Pixar movie that's a joy to behold." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Ratatouille (2007)95%
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"Curtis recalls a time when pop music was about more than ring tones, digital downloads or social networking. A time when there weren't thousands of cable stations and games consoles, and music played a huge role in shaping imaginations." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Control (2007)87%
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"Thornton does his best with a crass script and a cop-out finale." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Mr. Woodcock (2007)13%
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"So long seen as ragged leftovers from an older historical epoch, the Roma turn out to be a modern people who have a lot to teach over-developed societies about what it means to be human." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Gypsy Caravan (2006)85%
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"Towards the end the symbolism gets heavy-handed, but by then the film has already cast its coldly mesmerising spell." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Yella (2008)79%
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"Don't watch it for plot, or character development; revel instead in its evocation of warm, wistful moods, its sly sense of humour and its fierce commitment to creating a mystical cinema far from the orthodoxies of both independent and mainstream cinema." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Syndromes and A Century (2007)87%
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"Considering the fact that this is a story whose ghastly ending is known to the audience right from the outset, A Mighty Heart is far more compelling than ever seemed likely." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
A Mighty Heart (2007)77%
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"The daily struggles of life at sea, as well as the almost manic revelries indulged in to forget about it, are evoked with dark wit." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
True North (2006)75%
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"It's a film that makes American Pie seem sophisticated, and it will have cultural critics shaking their heads and muttering about the death of Western civilization. I loved it." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
Superbad (2007)87%
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"A terrific turn by Peter Fonda, as a leathery bounty hunter hell-bent on retribution, is a bonus in a film far livelier than anyone had a right to expect." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)89%
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"Argentinian director Pablo Trapero's Born and Bred is a quiet but resonant mood piece." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Born and Bred (2006)100%
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"Judd Apatow's follow-up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin is snort-all-over-the-person-in-front-of-you funny, hand-over-mouth filthy, and as exhilarating as inhaling from a 10-ton oxygen tank." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Knocked Up (2007)90%
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"A terrifically droll and slyly incisive comedy." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)95%
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"A breathless and deliriously exhilarating summit." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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"It's great to see again this bolt of ghetto joy, a kind of updated West Side Story, that shows hip-hop as a living, breathing expression of cultural resistance rather than a crunky, cheerless set of cruddy grunts and boasts from which to make money." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Wild Style (1982)86%
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"The real reason Surf's Up is so aggravating is that it's more concerned with sucking up to adults than it is to enchanting their children." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Surf's Up (2007)78%
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"A remarkable meditation on the agonies and enigmas of migration." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
I for India (2007)100%
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"Safety over satire at almost every turn." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
Evan Almighty (2007)23%
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"This is as appalling, and viscerally compelling, a documentary as will be released all year." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 20, 2007
 
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007)83%
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"Poptastic!" -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Jul 20, 2007
 
Hairspray (2007)92%
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"In the end, Shrek the Third, like so many Hollywood animation movies today, neither trusts itself nor cares to create any new magic. If it were a child in a classroom, it would be the back-row smart arse, rather than the poetic dreamer." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 29, 2007
 
Shrek the Third (2007)42%
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"Hostel 2 is feebleness itself, poorly constructed and deeply unterrifying, a let-down after the giddy shockfest of the first film last year." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 29, 2007
 
Hostel: Part II (2007)44%
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"What's missing is a critical edge." -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 29, 2007
 
Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)81%
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"Characterisation, always a hit and miss affair in To's films, is deliberately rather thin. Instead, To and his cinematographer, Cheng Siu Keung, make the greasy, near-abandoned streets of the Hong Kong capital come alive" -- Daily Telegraph
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
PTU: Police Tactical Unit (2006)54%

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