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2/5	" Does The Fall amount to anything more than a vast sugar-frosted folly? I'm not convinced it does, although its wanton extravagance is not without charm. Singh has money to burn and he builds a pretty bonfire." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 3, 2008	The Fall (2008)	58%
1/5	" What a slick, dubious, morally bankrupt movie this is." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Taken (2009)	48%
2/5	" It gets a little wearing, hanging out with these lions, but there's no denying the beauty of the landscape, with its fluttering avalanches, plumes of powder and vertiginous, zigzagging descents." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Steep (2007)	51%
2/5	" Ejiofor remains a supremely assured, charismatic presence, though he has his work cut out here. He is pitted against a film with a black belt in pomposity and a gold medal in preening self-regard." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	70%
2/5	" Once out of the starting grid, the film proceeds to edit the action so dementedly that one struggles to work out whose car just exploded, who flipped over and who's driving the one with the missile-launcher on the roof." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Death Race (2008)	43%
2/5	" They require a bigger stage, a sharper script and a more rigorous director. Without these, the long-awaited De Niro/Pacino show amounts to nothing so much as a novelty bout, a celebrity sparring session. Its sound and fury signifies very little." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	22%
2/5	" The filmic equivalent of pass-the-parcel on Triangle, a convoluted crime caper about a mysterious gold coin and the luckless bozos on its trail." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2008	Triangle (2007)	36%
2/5	" The next it has cast all narrative sense to the winds as it grabs desperately at a triumphant (even feel-good) ending. So much good work, undone at a stroke." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2008	Ben X (2008)	65%
2/5	" It's like an awkward (and how could it not be awkward?) marriage of The Cement Garden and Beaches; an intriguing bit of driftwood, an exotic wreck." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)	45%
1/5	" Botched is bungled - irredeemably, at times even enjoyably, so." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Botched (2007)	14%
2/5	" On paper this must have looked a neat idea: a wildly fictionalised account of a skid-row Orson Welles, up to his neck in political skulduggery while shooting a third-rate picture in post-war Italy." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 7, 2008	Fade to Black (2006)	29%
2/5	" At times there is something weirdly comforting about the film's no-frills, fundamentalist zeal." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 22, 2008	Rambo (2008)	37%
2/5	" You'd have to be a Scrooge to take against this, though it could use a little more Roald Dahl-ish bite, and a little less of the Hoffman twinkle. Needless to say, it all ends happily." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 14, 2007	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)	36%
2/5	" So what bit of this stylishly made, relentlessly silly horror film is "based on real events", exactly?" -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 7, 2007	Kilometro 31 (2006)	71%
2/5	" Frustrating and finally rather pointless." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 7, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	34%
2/5	" As ever, you sense that MacIntyre is half-seduced by the hard-man lifestyle, flattered to be included and content to peddle excitable gangland tourism in the guise of a criminal expose." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 7, 2007	A Very British Gangster (2008)	67%
2/5	" Like most guitar solos, the film doesn't quite know when to quit." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 9, 2007	Air Guitar Nation (2007)	83%
2/5	" Big, stupid and nonsensical" -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 5, 2007	Day Watch (2007)	63%
1/5	" *Imagine a heavy metal album cover come suddenly to life and you pretty much have the measure of Pathfinder." -- Guardian [UK]* Posted Sep 22, 2007	Pathfinder (2007)	11%
2/5	" If only the characters were a little less stock and the script more waterproofed. Halfway through our journey, the cliches start seeping in." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 14, 2007	True North (2006)	75%
1/5	" You don't have to be a schoolyard bully to find yourself longing to administer swift, vicious wedgies to the nerdish inhabitants of this kitsch Kiwi excursion." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 17, 2007	Eagle Vs. Shark (2007)	55%
2/5	" Cranked out to an hour and a half, it had me flapping my arms in irritation." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 10, 2007	Surf's Up (2007)	78%
2/5	" Here is a big, handsome shyster of a legal thriller, pleading with the viewer to stick with its preposterous twists and turns on the guarantee that the crowning revelation will blow our socks off. In this, as in all things, the film is not to be trusted." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 20, 2007	Fracture (2007)	71%
2/5	" Despite the whimsical voice-over and gloopy, sentimental tone, it's a hard film to dislike." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 27, 2007	Sixty Six (2008)	64%
1/5	" If Rickman these indignities like a man with his mind on other things, he's probably just shell-shocked by the antics of his co-star. Weaver's performance is so extravagantly awful, you can't take your eyes off it." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Snow Cake (2007)	66%
2/5	" Had Tarkovsky ever felt the urge to shoot a perfume commercial, it would probably look a lot like Allegro, this super-stylish, pungently pretentious sci-fi romance from Danish director Christoffer Boe." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Allegro (2005)	60%
2/5	" Brit-com business as usual, right down to the outbursts of posh swearing and the fraught, last-minute dash through the London traffic." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jun 24, 2006	Imagine Me & You (2006)	31%
3/5	" *Where Hotel Rwanda* was slick and professional, Shooting Dogs is both more earnest and more awkward.*" -- Guardian [UK]* Posted Apr 1, 2006	Beyond the Gates (2007)	83%
1/5	" Raja Gosnell's direction follows the first rule of slapstick: If actor stuck with nothing to do, have them fall in vat of goo." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 1, 2006	Yours, Mine, & Ours (2005)	5%
	" It is a well-dressed, good-looking wax dummy of a film." -- Sight and Sound Posted Mar 2, 2004	The Human Stain (2003)	41%
	" *Ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork: an uneasy marriage of Louis Begley's source novel (About Schmidt) and an old Payne screenplay." -- Sight and Sound* Posted Jan 7, 2003	About Schmidt (2002)	85%
	" *Through pure mismanagement, The Skulls* bungles a rich seam of material.*" -- Sight and Sound* Posted Dec 2, 2002	The Skulls (2000)	8%
	" In pitching for the mass market, Boyle's film has allowed itself to be rebranded as a Hollywood star vehicle, a cynical assemblage that is never more than the sum of its market-researched parts." -- Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002	The Beach (2000)	19%
	" What we have here is a gaudy mess. At times it feels like it's being made up as it goes along." -- Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002	Snatch (2001)	71%
	" *What makes such threadbare character development all the more insulting is that Gone in Sixty Seconds* has assembled a war chest of acting talent and then let it idle.*" -- Sight and Sound* Posted Dec 2, 2002	Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)	25%
2/5	" The Bourne Identity is a blockbuster without a point... Despite its good-looking veneer, its breakneck pace, its daisy-chain of expert set-pieces, some crucial logic or motive appears to have been junked along the way." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 2, 2002	The Bourne Identity (2002)	83%
2.5/5	" The trouble is that Berg doesn't seem sure how to draw matters to a close." -- Sight and Sound Posted Mar 3, 2002	Very Bad Things (1998)	40%
	" An alienating portrait of alienation, a study of hollow lifestyles and phoney dreams that sometimes feels hollow and phoney itself." -- Sight and Sound Posted Feb 5, 2002	Vanilla Sky (2001)	39%

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