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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
Our Baby: A Modern Miracle (2020)

Michael Hogan

Both sides could have done a lot worse than watch this film, which humanised the issue with real heart. It was just two people, trying to build a family together.
Posted Aug 11, 2020
2
4/5
Surviving the Virus: My Brother & Me (2020)

Anita Singh

It was a clear, compassionate and helpful film. But the main takeaway was that doctors still do not fully understand this virus.
Posted Aug 11, 2020
3
4/5
The Speed Cubers (2020)

Michael Hogan

This documentary is deceptively tender but it's OK mama, I didn't cry. Well, only a bit.
Posted Aug 11, 2020
4
You Don't Know Jack (2010)

James Walton

Should make for a fascinating and nicely tangled story. The trouble was that the programme turned it into a straight fight between goodies and baddies.
Posted Aug 10, 2020
5
4/5
Father Soldier Son (2020)

Tim Robey

In its outcomes and politics, this film is almost begging to be oversimplified, but it's well worth staying on the alert for the ironies, the complexities and the tacit questions it finds a host of ways to express.
Posted Aug 10, 2020
6
The Girl (2012)

Clive James

To play her, a better choice could not have been made than Sienna Miller, who is even lovelier than Hedren was.
Posted Aug 4, 2020
7
The Girl (2012)

Nigel Farndale

It started off in a gently mischievous vein, allowing the viewer to tune in to the brilliance of the impersonations. But then it turned dark.
Posted Aug 4, 2020
8
2/5
The Girl (2012)

Michael Deacon

True or untrue as biography, it felt untrue as drama: monotonous in mood, narrow in characterization, didactic in its campaign to prove the artist a monster. It was horror, of a kind. But horror without thrills.
Posted Aug 4, 2020
9
4/5
Anthony (2020)

Anita Singh

The brilliance of McGovern's piece was in the structure: an alternative universe imagining the life that Anthony could have lived, told in reverse chronology.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
10
3/5
The Wizard of Lies (2017)

Michael Hogan

Pfeiffer stole the show as Madoff's wife Ruth, nervously chain-smoking her way through a scandal she naively knew nothing about.
Posted Jul 20, 2020
11
4/5
We Are Little Zombies (2020)

Robbie Collin

We Are Little Zombies' exploration of the mechanics of mourning, particularly the uneasy disjunct between inner and outer emotions, is layered and sincere.
Posted Jul 11, 2020
12
4/5
Athlete A (2020)

Tim Robey

What's striking about the film's tone is its redemptive warmth. Though the details are chilling, it's as if a cathartic space has been opened for these girls and their families to explain what they went through.
Posted Jun 29, 2020
13
2/5
Irresistible (2020)

Tim Robey

It's hard to believe Irresistible was shot only just over a year ago - while blandly watchable, it feels tired and off-the-pulse, an instant irrelevancy.
Posted Jun 22, 2020
14
4/5
Sitting in Limbo (2020)

Anita Singh

There was a happy ending, if you could call it that: Bryan was allowed to remain in his own country. But the film left us in no doubt about the emotional toll.
Posted Jun 9, 2020
15
I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

At a time when the cinema is devoted to understanding the young, one can't but welcome a film that cares to bother about the old.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
16
The People Next Door (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

Whatever value it has in encompassing the size of its awesome problem is pretty much negated by an ending which glibly suggests all would have been well if the girl bad been given a good hiding years before.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
17
Joe (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

A raw, tough movie of enormous power, with a riveting performance from Peter Boyle as the avenging devil.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
18
Something for Everyone (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

Wickedly funny.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
19
A Town Called Hell (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

It does offer some gruesome action and a watchable cast.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
20
Jealousy, Italian Style (Dramma della gelosia) (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

It sounds routine, but strangely isn't.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
21
Fools (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

You feel that a sharper, stronger film is buried under the debris.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
22
Red Sky At Morning (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

All the right ingredients, only everything is overdone.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
23
Shaft (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

A good, gutsy crime yarn in the 'forties style.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
24
The Last Run (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

In any guise, George C. Scott is worth watching, though his performance here seems haunted by the same tedious resignation that atrophies the script.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
25
Please Sir! (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

I'm pleased to see they've managed to salve an enjoyable if not too quick-witted film, instead of just a collection of TV jokes, out of Please Sir!
Posted Jun 8, 2020
26
Doc Holliday (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

The net result is the grubbiest, dullest Western I've seen in at least two weeks.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
27
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

It must rank with the most impressive films ever made about the First World War.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
28
Andy Warhol's Trash (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

Is it fair that Trash should be stigmatised, while the real trash -- the leery, glossied-up sexploitation movies -- gets by?
Posted Jun 8, 2020
29
W. R.: Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

An outrageously funny and desperately serious examination of contemporary politico-sexual-psychological attitudes, drawn from the extreme theories of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, arguably the father of the permissive society.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
30
Trafic (Traffic) (1972)

Margaret Hinxman

Tati is that rare film-maker who remains triumphantly himself, unimpressed by current trends and moods.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
31
Puppet on a Chain (1972)

Margaret Hinxman

Speedy and silly, splendidly set in Amsterdam, with a chilling motorboat chase through the canals directed by Don Sharp.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
32
Cremator (Spalovac Mrtvol) (1969)

Margaret Hinxman

A valuable moral, but it is hard to care about the destiny of characters who are depicted as freaks from the beginning. Stunning Peter Lorre-ish performance from Rudolf Hrusinsky, however.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
33
Bombay Talkie (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

Although there is a fair amount of humour in it the fault, I believe, lies in Ivory's insistence on taking the postures of his characters as seriously as their problems.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
34
Making It (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

As the 17-year-old Casanova, Kristoffer Tabori gives a performance that is smart and funny and even touching.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
35
Vanishing Point (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

The film does whip up a genuine excitement and suspense. The director, Richard C. Sarafian, masterminds some gripping chase sequences, making good use of unknown actors and amateurs and a musical score that fits en route.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
36
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

What invariably saves [Diary of a Mad Housewife] from banality is crisp scripting, deft direction and some delectable personality performances.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
37
Big Jake (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

Not only jolly exciting, it even manages to contrive a plot that keeps you guessing.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
38
One P.M. (1969)

Margaret Hinxman

The film is a film of Godard making a film about the Black Power, anti-Vietnam, Young Protest, movement in America. But it is nowhere as deep or incisive as Godard's treatises on the French (modern) revolution, because... he hadn't the time to dig in.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
39
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

it isn't really up to standard.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
40
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)

Margaret Hinxman

It's simply one more proof that the best science fiction can be a work of art.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
41
Bed & Board (Domicile Conjugal) (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

In a subtly unobtrusive way it is irresistibly funny.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
42
5/5
Cinema Verite (2011)

Benji Wilson

Cinema Verite didn't get bogged down in making points about reality TV or documentary ethics, focusing instead, as all good films should, on character. Brilliant performances from Diane Lane, Tim Robbins and James Gandolfini... saw to that.
Posted Jun 3, 2020
43
Little Murders (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

Ruthlessly funny.
Posted Jun 2, 2020
44
Summer of '42 (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

Thanks to director Robert Mulligan and a largely unfamiliar cast it turns cut to be a delightful film.
Posted Jun 2, 2020
45
The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

A real spellbinder.
Posted Jun 2, 2020
46
Tribes (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

It is a thoughtful, punishing film and, despite the constantly screamed orders designed to turn an individualist into a conformist, quietly effective.
Posted Jun 2, 2020
47
Doctors' Wives (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

Almost every member of the cast has done, creditable work elsewhere, so I won't shame them by naming them.
Posted Jun 2, 2020
48
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

For me, Sunday, Bloody Sunday is far and away the best film John Schlesinger has ever made: the surest, the truest, the most uncluttered.
Posted Jun 2, 2020
49
Wuthering Heights (1970)

Margaret Hinxman

I admire its courage and the always welcome presence of Harry Andrews (as Earnshaw), Judy Cornwell (as Nellie), Pamela Browne, Rosalie Crutchley. But I can't forgive its dullness.
Posted Jun 2, 2020
50
Valdez Is Coming (1971)

Margaret Hinxman

The luck of Valdez, though, is in having Burt Lancaster to play him: an actor whose self-contained neatness of style belies the flamboyance of his appearance. He belongs to a dying breed: a real star.
Posted Jun 2, 2020