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Karl French

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 77% EDIT “Ultimately, while far from dull, this lacks the energy and wit of the first and third films, and sadly has more in common with the uninspired Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” – Financial Times Apr 12, 2023 Full Review Iron Man (2008) 94% EDIT “Still, if the film is ultimately disappointing it is in part because it begins so well, and there is a lot to enjoy before the over-the-top final act.” – Financial Times Oct 7, 2018 Full Review P2 (2007) 35% EDIT “It is like a Michael Haneke film but without the intellectual underpinnings and is therefore just pointlessly plain and, in one long scene of torture, unwatchably sadistic.” – Financial Times Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Made of Honor (2008) 15% EDIT “An abysmal fusion of When Harry Met Sally and My Best Friend's Wedding with an unwelcome Caledonian twist.” – Financial Times Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Nim's Island (2008) 51% EDIT “This film wants to be cute but is instead nauseatingly twee, and features what is by a great distance the weakest performance of Foster's career.” – Financial Times Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Tovarisch: I Am Not Dead (2007) EDIT “Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is a documentary that has been nearly 20 years in the making, but anyone wanting a rounded, resolved story will be a little disappointed by this odd, in many ways impressive film.” – Financial Times Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience (2009) 21% 1/5 EDIT “Accompanying parents can don blindfolds and ear-plugs and indulge in the sweet fantasy that they are somewhere, anywhere, else.” – Financial Times May 29, 2009 Full Review Fugitive Pieces (2007) 68% 2/5 EDIT “There are fleeting moments of poignancy and poetry, significantly when the script features narration taken almost directly from the novel, but this is clunkily written and poorly edited.” – Financial Times May 29, 2009 Full Review Fermat's Room (2007) 70% 3/5 EDIT “An ingenious Spanish thriller.” – Financial Times May 29, 2009 Full Review Fireflies in the Garden (2008) 21% 3/5 EDIT “Consistently watchable and sometimes rather moving, although it is a rather slighter piece than the film-makers seem to think.” – Financial Times May 29, 2009 Full Review Drag Me to Hell (2009) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Hokum and trash, but very entertaining hokum and a classy kind of trash.” – Financial Times May 29, 2009 Full Review Pierrot le Fou (1965) 88% 4/5 EDIT “At times infuriatingly indulgent but is also an intoxicating, wildly inventive picaresque fantasy.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) 43% 2/5 EDIT “This is designed to appeal to attention-deficit youngsters but will irritate or exhaust more discerning cinephiles.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review Awaydays (2009) 39% 2/5 EDIT “Script, editing and some poorly staged fight sequences render this inchoate and almost unforgivably uninteresting.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review Tormented (2009) 68% 3/5 EDIT “Tormented is a neat, stylish British horror film which, while not quite as resonant as last year's Eden Lake, still packs a punch.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review Mark of an Angel (2008) 86% 3/5 EDIT “There are flaws in plotting and pacing but this is always interesting.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review A Girl Cut in Two (2007) 73% 2/5 EDIT “By the time the story springs to life and becomes the thriller, of sorts, that it seems set up to be, we have had to sit through 90-odd minutes of turgid melodrama.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review Blind Loves (2008) 93% 4/5 EDIT “It's hard to define what kind of film Blind Loves is, but whether you categorise it as animated docu-drama or perhaps as docu-fantasy, it is a peculiar, affecting piece.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review Everlasting Moments (2008) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Although punctuated with moments of shocking violence, this is a quiet, slow-moving film but it is also involving and at times deeply moving.” – Financial Times May 22, 2009 Full Review Fighting (2009) 40% 2/5 EDIT “It's lively, relentlessly cliché-ridden and, for no good reason - this certainly doesn't contribute to an air of authenticity - presented in a succession of apparently and often uncomfortably semi-improvised scenes.” – Financial Times May 15, 2009 Full Review French Film (2008) 50% 3/5 EDIT “The treatment of French cinema is rather facile, and ultimately this is no more substantial than a half-decent television sitcom, or one of the slight, love-themed sketches in Scenes of a Sexual Nature, writer Aschlin Ditta's previous credit.” – Financial Times May 15, 2009 Full Review City Rats (2009) 0% 1/5 EDIT “An inane urban drama with a strong cast - Susan Lynch and James Lance among them - and big themes - death, art, love, sex - but no discernible point.” – Financial Times Apr 25, 2009 Full Review Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009) 35% 2/5 EDIT “The film resembles nothing so much as an indifferent and wildly over-stretched episode of space sitcom Red Dwarf.” – Financial Times Apr 24, 2009 Full Review The Uninvited (2009) 31% 2/5 EDIT “Its most intriguing quality is that its final five minutes are so much more interesting than anything that goes before.” – Financial Times Apr 24, 2009 Full Review From Russia With Love (1963) 97% 3/5 EDIT “The narrative is plodding, time has not been kind to set-pieces that were once so thrilling and now seem oddly perfunctory, and 007's misogyny and casual slapping of several women is more than faintly repellent.” – Financial Times Apr 24, 2009 Full Review
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