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	" A lively, mindless police thriller." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 20, 2008	S.W.A.T. (2003)	48%
	" The Jackass boys show little interest in observing anyone else but themselves." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 20, 2008	Jackass: The Movie (2002)	49%
	" A thinly plotted, anonymously directed film." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)	36%
	" Inevitably, given a bigger budget, it lacks the cheap, raw quality of the earlier film that, along with George Romero's outfit in Pennsylvania, showed you could make profitable exploitation shockers on an independent basis far from Hollywood." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 16, 2008	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)	34%
	" *Chases and choreographed fights set to rock music take up most of the running time and the movie is like To Catch a Thief* remade by a hack follower of John Woo.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted Apr 16, 2008	The Transporter (2002)	53%
	" The filmmakers are uncritically in love with their heroine and her milieux and have romanticised them to an almost laughable degree." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 15, 2008	Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)	80%
	" The movie moves rapidly, is extremely violent and not entirely plausible." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 9, 2008	Training Day (2001)	72%
	" *I emerged from The Passion of the Christ* depressed and spiritually bruised.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted Mar 5, 2008	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	50%
	" The special effects are remarkable, yet somehow numbing, and the film only partly lives up to the promise in the title of Lucas's company, Industrial Light and Magic." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 5, 2008	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)	66%
	" It's fun for a while, but gets steadily more opaque, elliptical and annoying." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 2, 2008	Demonlover (2003)	48%
	" Bernstein's music, Sondheim's lyrics and Robbins's choreography are great, but as a movie it falls short of the truly inspired cinematic musicals." -- Observer [UK] Posted Feb 19, 2008	West Side Story (1961)	94%
	" A tapestry of loose ends." -- Observer [UK] Posted Feb 8, 2008	Swimfan (2002)	15%
	" The Mothman Prophecies is the kind of solemn, credulous junk that Men in Black so cleverly sent up." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Mothman Prophecies (2002)	52%
	" Disconcertingly lubricious." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 27, 2007	Love Actually (2003)	64%
	" A fine British cast is wasted on feeble material." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 17, 2007	Death at a Funeral (2007)	63%
	" The film is simultaneously simple and opaque, and what it lacks is anything that illuminates the world we live in." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 15, 2007	The Weeping Meadow (2004)	65%
	" For a picture about the fantastic and supernatural, it's a surprisingly flat and unmagical affair." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 12, 2007	The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)	50%
	" The result is like a formation dance performed at the speed of a chess game." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 12, 2007	Va Savoir (2001)	85%
	" It turned Lean from a subtle, very English director into an international film-maker working in broad strokes." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 6, 2007	Summertime (1955)	93%
	" Curiously flat and unrevealing." -- Observer [UK] Posted Oct 27, 2007	Control (2007)	88%
	" The film's military detail is in most respects quite ludicrous." -- Observer [UK] Posted Oct 23, 2007	Bitter Victory (1957)	80%
	" It's a frenetic, often incomprehensible film, full of rapid cutting, giant close-ups and muttered dialogue." -- Observer [UK] Posted Oct 20, 2007	The Kingdom (2007)	51%
	" A tedious, meaninglessly anachronistic project." -- Observer [UK] Posted Oct 6, 2007	Death Proof (2007)	61%
	" Unfortunately, a gimmicky construction helps the writer-director avoid facing the consequences of the drama he's set up." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 29, 2007	Yella (2008)	80%
	" *As Ken Tynan said of Waiting for Godot, nothing happens, twice." -- Observer [UK]* Posted Sep 29, 2007	Syndromes and A Century (2007)	88%
	" It's a gory, depressing affair that bears an ultra-Darwinian message in its blood-stained hands." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2007	28 Days Later (2003)	88%
	" *A limp teenage by-the-numbers version of Rear Window." -- Observer [UK]* Posted Sep 22, 2007	Disturbia (2007)	67%
	" Obscurely motivated terrorists with Eastern European accents are preparing to explode a hydrogen bomb in Los Angeles." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 22, 2007	Next (2007)	29%
	" It's misogynistic, homophobic and only occasionally funny." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 22, 2007	Superbad (2007)	87%
	" Predictable and conventionally anti-American." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 15, 2007	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	49%
	" The film has its moments, but it's a crude, none-too-convincing piece of work that fudges some serious issues." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 15, 2007	True North (2006)	75%
	" It's shot in static or very slow-moving long-takes; the monochrome images are deliberately oppressive; the pace would strike the organisers of a state funeral as excessively slow." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 14, 2007	Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)	96%
	" Everyone is now richer and better looking and it's a good deal cuter and more sentimental." -- Observer [UK] Posted Sep 8, 2007	No Reservations (2007)	39%
	" Coarse." -- Observer [UK] Posted Aug 25, 2007	Eagle Vs. Shark (2007)	55%
	" Bad even by the low standards of its genre." -- Observer [UK] Posted Aug 25, 2007	Bratz: The Movie (2007)	7%
	" Sparkle it doesn't, but it's well performed." -- Observer [UK] Posted Aug 25, 2007	Sparkle (2007)	78%
	" This movie is an ecclesiastical disaster and, like the Rector of Stiffkey, Williams should be thrown to the lions." -- Observer [UK] Posted Aug 18, 2007	License To Wed (2007)	8%
	" Crude, knockabout stuff." -- Observer [UK] Posted Aug 18, 2007	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	20%
	" *There are more jokes in any chapter of the Book of Job than in the whole of Evan Almighty." -- Observer [UK]* Posted Aug 11, 2007	Evan Almighty (2007)	23%
	" The film goes on and on, it is unbearably loud, and much of the dialogue is impossible to hear." -- Observer [UK] Posted Aug 4, 2007	Transformers (2007)	57%
	" *Sam Raimi does a competent job on Spider-Man 3, but the franchise is getting a trifle tired." -- Observer [UK]* Posted May 12, 2007	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	61%
	" A repellent, ill-thought-through feature." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 30, 2007	Straightheads (2007)	39%
	" *If you can imagine City Slickers* with bikes instead of horses and without the wit, the likable performances and Jack Palance, then you have a pretty good idea of what this movie is like.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted Apr 21, 2007	Wild Hogs (2007)	15%
	" Telling moments occur here and there, but there is a slack randomness to the movie, the attack on Berlusconi is unfocused and Bruno is too weak to sustain the film." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 14, 2007	The Caiman (2006)	39%
	" It's a confused and confusing affair, though not without its felicitous moments." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 7, 2007	The Last Mimzy (2007)	53%
	" *Raises many hackles (but few laughs). ...The best joke is taken directly from Tati's Jour de Fete." -- Observer [UK]* Posted Apr 7, 2007	Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)	50%
	" The Spartan soldiers, carrying shields like dustbin lids and spears like park railings, have shiny rippling bodies, wear black leather Speedos and short red cloaks, and seem to be responding to an invitation to a fancy-dress party at a gay New York club." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 31, 2007	300 (2007)	60%
	" A crude, leering, poorly timed farce." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 31, 2007	I Want Candy (2007)	67%
	" Children may well like it, but they deserve better." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 31, 2007	TMNT (2007)	33%
	" Most of the jokes concern obesity, which Murphy evidently believes to be ipso facto funny." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 17, 2007	Norbit (2007)	9%

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