31 Anmeldelser
6 Particularly excellent are the striking set-pieces...
6 Ziehl's imaginative direction brilliantly negotiates the occasional clunkiness of the script...
6 ...[Petty] gets as close to the sprit of the character as the film's ludicrous plot will allow.
6 Debut director Morahan pulls off a few dazzling special effects and Lambert hones in on a splendidly fitting grim stoicism.
6 Starting off in familiar film noir territory and slowly developing into an almost Cronenbergian vision of social breakdown, the film appears to run the A to Z of filmmaking techniques.
8 ...[features] a set of sense-assaulting production values that equals anything Hollywood was producing at the time.
8 Russell's success (...) in creating a film that avoids being freaky or an exercise in titillation by employing a mixture of sympathetic writing and black, black comedy.
8 A sardonic but perfectly-realised depiction of a mayhem-fuelled near future.
8 ...simultaneously a howl of rage against the restrictions of low-budget movie-making and a celebration of how, sometimes, things actually get done.
10 Marvin is exceptional.
8 ...nicely portends both Downey’s subsequent rocketlike professional rise and the metal-suited character that has fueled it.
6 ...the excellent work put in by Oldman and a charged Bacon give the film an undeniable core.
8 Possibly the most Oliver-Stoney Oliver Stone movie to date, Pacino essentially plays the director himself, as a hard-drinking football coach who must reverse the Sharks' losing streak...
6 ...the performances alone are worth the watch.
6 ...a film which may have run out of ideas, but still has energy to spare.
8 ...an achingly beautiful and quite touching movie, which also serves as a timely reminder that being a refugee is very much one of those there-but-for-the-grace-of... scenarios.
6 The antidote to the 'gore-blimey-g'v'nor' school of gangster film- making. This is sleekly shot and features scene stealing turns by Bettany and McDowell.
8 It is difficult to describe NBK as good entertainment in any classical sense...
8 It is Hodgkinson’s relationship with his daughter Dasha... which gifts an extra emotional dimension to this tale of sporting mayhem and lunacy.
8 ...reside somewhere in the same keg-and-vomit-strewn ball park of humour as 'National Lampoon's 'Animal House', while also featuring a character-building subtext about the importance of getting all that one can out of life...
8 ...an excellent debut from director Hytner who never lets Alan Bennett's script linger too long in either farce or tragedy.
6 A loose semi-documentary about New York's teen youth, Clark's highly controversial debut feature tells the story of 24 hours in the life of pubescent layabout Telly...
8 ...a decent-minded, brilliantly executed movie about race and injustice...
6 This largely dialogue-free film follows a group of French legionnaires as they sweat and train and sweat.