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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Out of the Past (1947) Film4 Staff Mournful and seeped in sensuality, it's highly atmospheric and also visually innovative.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Film4 Staff There are far worse sequels in the world than this.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) Film4 Staff Gung-ho space invader action delivered with plenty of style and verve. Neat effects, big explosions and hectic pacing ensure there isn't a moment to stop and think.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Requiem for a Dream (2000) Daniel Etherington What makes this gruesome tale of woe worthwhile is its raw cautionary power. Be warned - despite the funky style, this film will repulse as well as compel.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) Film4 Staff At a bad-taste banquet Wiederhorn would sit at the head of the table. His dead-hand direction owes little to Romero and more to Ed Wood as his characters stumble blindly around in search of a plot.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Film4 Staff Script writer O'Bannon directs with a relish for the tasteless, and cannot help getting carried away at times. But, what the hell - from the punk rock party in the graveyard to the apocalyptic climax, it's all good gory fun.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Day of the Dead (1985) Saxon Bullock The resulting pessimistic worldview means that not even the relatively happy ending can prevent the film from being the bleakest, most downbeat and savagely violent of Romero's undead chillers.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Final Destination (2000) Film4 Staff A fresh take on a tiring genre. Final Destination is sensitive and spooky without being too sincere, and has all the inventive teen death you could want.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible II (2000) Film4 Staff Mission: Impossible II isn't really big, loud or exciting enough to be this year's big, loud, exciting film.
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible (1996) Film4 Staff Energetic but sometimes confusing spy caper.
Posted May 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) Film4 Staff The horror of Jar Jar Binks aside, there's plenty in Episode I to keep us entertained...
Posted Apr 16, 2025  Edit critic review
American Psycho 2 (2002) Film4 Staff This inoffensive and relatively tame so-called sequel is nothing more than formulaic campus frolics with a light twist and just enough surprises to keep the viewer's attention.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
State Fair (1933) Film4 Staff A perfect slice of Americana.
Posted Nov 08, 2023  Edit critic review
9 to 5 (1980) Film4 Staff Nine To Five is light and undemanding, and ends up quavering somewhere between weak and entertaining.
Posted Mar 02, 2023  Edit critic review
The Hidden Fortress (1958) Daniel Etherington It's a thrilling adventure yarn and epic in scale to boot.
Posted Jun 28, 2022  Edit critic review
The Power and the Glory (1933) Film4 Staff The Sturges script pulls its punches and Howard's direction is not in the business of suggesting that redemption isn't the normal outcome of rapaciousness. Having said that, it's worth seeing if only for Tracy's performance.
Posted May 13, 2021  Edit critic review
Nothing But a Man (1964) Jamie Russell This powerful tale of racism and poverty was years ahead of its time and has a groundbreaking Motown soundtrack.
Posted Feb 05, 2020  Edit critic review
L'Atalante (1934) Fran Hortop True filmic poetry which turns a simple love story into a raw and off-beat fairytale. Given its monumental reputation, L'Atalante does not disappoint.
Posted Jul 22, 2019  Edit critic review
Godzilla Raids Again (1955) Film4 Staff Great fun.
Posted May 24, 2019  Edit critic review
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) Film4 Staff Godzilla is re-created as a more scarier creature than ever before.
Posted May 23, 2019  Edit critic review
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) Film4 Staff While Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains falls short of being the word on the movement, it is a fascinating, entertaining and authentically grimy trawl through the seamy side of the music-biz.
Posted Apr 11, 2019  Edit critic review
The Cell (2000) Film4 Staff The Cell is Hollywood at its most meretricious.
Posted Apr 01, 2019  Edit critic review
Reefer Madness (1936) Film4 Staff Perhaps the mother of all bad movies, however, the didactic film, unlike later stinkers, takes itself extremely seriously, seeing itself as an important instrument in the campaign against drugs. However, the film's ignorance is the audience's bliss.
Posted Mar 30, 2019  Edit critic review
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) Film4 Staff Poor Bela.
Posted Mar 30, 2019  Edit critic review
Bad Boys (1995) Film4 Staff Rousingly good Saturday night fun.
Posted Mar 28, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
Zardoz (1974) Film4 Staff Boorman's finest film is a wonderfully eccentric and visually exciting sci-fi quest.
Posted Mar 27, 2019  Edit critic review
4/10
Harlem Nights (1989) Film4 Staff The story, spread thin over two hours, owed something to better films but is entirely devoid of charm, wit, acting skill or excitement.
Posted Mar 26, 2019  Edit critic review
Xanadu (1980) Film4 Staff This is not nostalgia: it's a choreographer's worst nightmare.
Posted Mar 26, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
The Lord of the Rings (1978) Film4 Staff A genuine cult movie
Posted Mar 26, 2019  Edit critic review
Young Guns (1988) Film4 Staff It's glossy, slick and stylish, but boasts very little in the way of substance or excitement.
Posted Mar 25, 2019  Edit critic review
Cherry 2000 (1988) Film4 Staff It's tolerably entertaining while the characters are in motion and Griffith is blasting the bad guys, but it grinds to a rusty halt whenever she feigns emotion.
Posted Mar 22, 2019  Edit critic review
Cruel Intentions (1999) Film4 Staff Director and writer Roger Kumble serves up a delicious feast of piquant evil one-liners which are delivered superbly by Geller, on great form, and the suave Phillippe.
Posted Mar 21, 2019  Edit critic review
The Amityville Horror (1979) Film4 Staff A scary movie that does not frighten or surprise you is as bad as a comedy that is not funny, and there's nothing here to have even the most mousish ducking under covers.
Posted Mar 20, 2019  Edit critic review
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Film4 Staff The zoom-frenzy direction of Ted Post, and a vague satire of Vietnam featuring some hysterical protesting peacenik chimps, does little to cover-up the film's difficulties. But it does have its moments.
Posted Mar 18, 2019  Edit critic review
A Chorus Line (1985) Film4 Staff Attenborough's efficient workmanlike adaptation of the hugely popular Broadway musical works surprisingly well transferred to the big screen.
Posted Mar 07, 2019  Edit critic review
Zombi 2 (1979) Daniel Etherington One of the finest zombie movies ever made.
Posted Mar 06, 2019  Edit critic review
Rope (1948) Film4 Staff It's Hitchcock experimenting. It's great.
Posted Feb 09, 2019  Edit critic review
Bed Sitting Room (1969) Film4 Staff An inspired piece of madness which, strangely, has improved with age.
Posted Feb 09, 2019  Edit critic review
Sholay (1975) Film4 Staff This magnificent Eastern Western effectively ushered in a new age in Indian filmmaking.
Posted Feb 09, 2019  Edit critic review
Hot Blood (1989) Film4 Staff All the lively song-and-dance routines and steamy shots of a scantily clad Russell can't make up for the crass dialogue and boring melodramatics.
Posted Jan 28, 2019  Edit critic review
Italianamerican / The Big Shave (1974) Film4 Staff It helps that mama and papa are such characters, providing such priceless moments as chiding Marty for not visiting the dentist more often.
Posted Jan 28, 2019  Edit critic review
The First Wives Club (1996) Film4 Staff Ultimately First Wives Club fails as a piece of feminist film-making just as miserably as it does as Hollywood entertainment.
Posted Jan 09, 2019  Edit critic review
Dracula's Daughter (1936) Film4 Staff That rare thing, a sequel of true merit.
Posted Dec 28, 2018  Edit critic review
Event Horizon (1997) Film4 Staff Anderson's attempt to show the world that Britain could do big-budget sci-fi just as well as Hollywood may have fizzled at the box office, but it's still a relatively effective deep space frightener.
Posted Dec 15, 2018  Edit critic review
Willow (1988) Film4 Staff Predictable and highly derivative.
Posted Dec 06, 2018  Edit critic review
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) Film4 Staff Disappointing.
Posted Dec 06, 2018  Edit critic review
Species (1995) Film4 Staff There's basic pleasure to be had from the gruesome, orgasmic demises of its gaggle of mid-price character players.
Posted Dec 03, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
Silent Light (2007) Jamie McLeish While there will be those who'll have issues with the film's torpid pacing, those who are willing to submit to Reygadas' astonishing vision will find themselves entranced and ultimately uplifted by the incredible transformative power of his filmmaking.
Posted Dec 03, 2018  Edit critic review
Lucia (1968) Film4 Staff By turns, it's touching, lively and nostalgic. One to see.
Posted Jun 19, 2018  Edit critic review
3/5
The Devil's Wanton (1949) Laura Bushell Good for fans of the director but perhaps too heavy going for an afternoon in front of the television.
Posted Feb 06, 2018  Edit critic review
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