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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
The Garden (1990)
Touching, intense, sometimes unexpectedly amusing, sometimes agonising, and always achingly sincere.
Posted May 27, 2020
2
Tongues Untied (1989)
At heart, it's a celebratory film which buzzes with intelligence, unashamed emotion, adrenalin, and that strange tenderness forged in suffering.
Posted May 20, 2020
3
4
Army of Lovers or Revolution of the Perverts (Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen) (1979)
Politically it seems suspect; and the crew clearly enjoyed making it a lot more than an audience will enjoy watching it.
Posted May 18, 2020
5
2/5
Cherrybomb (2009)
6
Atwill is great fun in a red herring role as the sinister, aptly-named Dr Fish, and the underrated Woody Bredell contributes some nicely creepy camerawork.
Posted May 12, 2020
7
True Confession (1937)
Invention flags latterly, with a particularly weak ending, but the performances are wonderful, not least Barrymore as the ghoulishly bizarre killer.
Posted May 5, 2020
8
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Hitchcock is reluctant to follow the subversive premises of the story through to their outrageous logical conclusion.
Posted May 5, 2020
9
1/5
The Air I Breathe (2008)
This pompous, concept-driven debut from American director Jieho Lee is about as hollow and doom-harbouring as an empty coffin.
Posted Apr 30, 2020
10
Holy Motors (2012)
It's a love letter to the seventh art and exhibit A for making the case that enfants terribles don't get older - they just get weirder.
Posted Apr 28, 2020
11
The Texas Rangers (1936)
Nothing else is amusing though.
Posted Apr 24, 2020
12
The Plainsman (1936)
13
3/5
Extraction (2020)
It packs some of the visceral punch of a Tony Scott action thriller but little of the heart: not so much Man on Fire as Man Smouldering Gently.
Posted Apr 22, 2020
14
Bird of Paradise (1932)
15
Lady on a Train (1945)
Light, cheery and shading into darker areas for the climax, it's fun.
Posted Apr 21, 2020
16
Night Passage (1957)
Neilson wades through the good brother/bad brother plot like an ox through mud, Stewart whiling away the time by playing accordion.
Posted Apr 17, 2020
17
The River (1984)
Vilmos Zsigmond contributes his usual handsome photography, but this is one river that seems unlikely to run.
Posted Apr 17, 2020
18
Beautifully directed, unsentimental and darkly funny.
Posted Apr 8, 2020
19
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (1980)
Open ears will wallow in his amniotic funk - even those shocking solos - and rock fans will cower at his invention.
Posted Apr 6, 2020
20
4/5
21
Villain (1971)
22
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
If there had to be a final Western, Once Upon a Time in the West would be it.
Posted Mar 24, 2020
23
Private Road (1971)
Well worth a look for its odd mixture of romanticism and scepticism about society's future.
Posted Mar 20, 2020
24
3/5
Seoul Station (2016)
That leaves us with a solid but less compelling work in his growing filmography that satisfies neither as art or entertainment.
Posted Mar 19, 2020
25
4/5
End of the Century (2019)
Like 'Sliding Doors' with added subtlety and soul, this swooning love story spins the idea of 'what if?' into something deeply romantic.
Posted Mar 19, 2020
26
Blue Water, White Death (1971)
Still surprisingly unclichéd; a film definitely to get your teeth into.
Posted Mar 18, 2020
27
28
Malizia (1973)
Really no more than an extended joke revolving round the attitudes of Italian men towards La Mama and women in general.
Posted Mar 17, 2020
29
Quest for Love (1971)
A puerile sci-fi romance.
Posted Mar 17, 2020
30
The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
Familiar stuff with the addition of a bit of nastiness and gore; very average.
Posted Mar 17, 2020
31
Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)
It's visually beautiful, too, with an unusual but effective use of in-camera framing, and the score by Mark Wilkinson is creepy and immersive.
Posted Mar 17, 2020
32
Revenge (1971)
[Revenge is] done with deadly solemnity and a truly atrocious script.
Posted Mar 16, 2020
33
4/5
A little slice of life that proves that sometimes less really is more.
Posted Mar 16, 2020
34
3/5
Bloodshot (2020)
Vin Diesel is dependable, if not especially challenged by a film that has most fun in the margins.
Posted Mar 13, 2020
35
3/5
The Booksellers (2020)
It's a warm, embracing if somewhat hermetically sealed portrait.
Posted Mar 11, 2020
36
2/5
The Hunt (2020)
How entertaining you think it is depends on how funny you find your Twitter feed: the 2020 version, not when it was all Pikachu and 'Hotline Bling' memes.
Posted Mar 11, 2020
37
4/5
Calm With Horses (2019)
38
2/5
The Way Back (2020)
Brad Ingelsby's screenplay is the film's guiltiest instrument, shortchanging even the most conventional pleasures of a redemption-themed sports film.
Posted Mar 5, 2020
39
No Blade of Grass (1970)
40
Life at the Top (1965)
A lacklustre sequel to Room at the Top.
Posted Mar 2, 2020
41
4/5
Villain (2020)
But Villain feels like twenty-first-century London: racially diverse, divided along class and privilege lines, scared of the young, scared of getting old.
Posted Mar 2, 2020
42
Dementia: Daughter of Horror (1955)
43
3/5
Onward (2020)
There's a little inspiration missing in its bog-standard hero's journey -- even if the bog is a magical one.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
44
4/5
First Cow (2020)
It's hard not to view Kelly Reichardt's film as a poetic blueprint for modern America.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
45
Darling (1965)
Excruciatingly embarrassing at the time, it now looks grotesquely pretentious and pathetically out of touch with the realities of the life-styles that it purports to represent.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
46
4/5
My Boy Jack (2007)
47
4/5
The Invisible Man (2020)
It's a #MeToo horror film that couldn't be any more timely if it shuffled into a courtroom with a Zimmer frame.
Posted Feb 25, 2020
48
4/5
Bacurau (Nighthawk) (2020)
It crams elements of the western, John Carpenter-y beats, mordant wit and peppery political commentary into one hugely entertaining modern exploitation flick.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
49
2/5
The climax is a punky, Peckinpah-lite splurge that jettisons the emotion and power in a hail of lead.
Posted Feb 21, 2020
50
4/5
Color Out of Space (2020)