One of its best qualities is that it's dark but not depressing. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb...
Remarkably, the director Terry George and his co-writer Keir Pearson have pulled it off, rooting the big picture of anonymous murder in one small precise close-up. - The Spectator ...
The whole film ... is not thrilling or moving; it is interesting, which is fine by me but will not make it a huge success. - The Spectator EDIT ...
The film is excessively, parochially British at its periphery, yet insufficiently so at its core. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
Chicago is supposed to be cynical about showbiz, not embarrassed by it. Oh, well. There'll be another film musical along around 2008. - The Spectator EDIT ...
In this contemptibly evasive film, Forman and Harrelson transform Flynt into a free-speech crusader... - The Spectator EDIT Read...
The director, Ron Howard, is a grand old heartwarmer (Cocoon, etc.) but the heart of this picture is dead. - The Spectator EDIT ...
A better title for the film would have been Beauty and the Beast, but Disney's already done that -- which may be why Alan Menken's score sounds like warmed over off-cuts from its predecessor....
The emotional weight of the drama rests on Hanks, and you appreciate how skilfully Ephron structures the film so that the two principals are bound by song and sentiment rather than physical...
Diane Lane anchors the movie: she plays real and she looks real, with just enough lines and hints of wrinkles; a beautiful woman who's been distracted by too many school runs and charity...
Adamson eschews the big look-isn't-it-magical gestures of the Potter/Tim Burton approach, but he manages to convey the sense of wonder a wartime evacuee might feel at such transportation....
Malena poses as a bounteously endowed, ripe, curvy Italian mamma, but metaphorically it's an undernourished cadaverous Kate Moss of a movie. - The Spectator EDIT ...
If Hollywood ever totally collapses, films like High Crimes will be the reason why. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
There is a poignancy in some of these latter scenes, but it comes too late and never goes deep enough. - The Spectator EDIT Read...
The acting awards are utterly perplexing: Benoit Magimel's transformation in the final act smells fake. and Isabelle Huppert's piano teacher is the nearest to a one-note performance she's...
Great fun and remarkably, at two and a quarter hours, not a minute too long. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
When a director who's not exactly known for admirable forbearance suddenly starts exercising it, you can't help wondering why. Later on in the movie, the old forbearance goes out the...
Shyamalan may not be Hitchcock hut so far he's made the best 1950s B-movie of the 21st century. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
Roadkill is a film full of allusions, to everything from Steven Spielberg's Duel to North by Northwest, but more than that there's a sense in which the characters are aware of themselves...
In print. Hornby's story was lapped up by women. On screen, it looks likes the worst kind of unconvincing, unfelt schmaltz, and faintly misogynist in the subordination of its female characters...
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