Press Reviews The Observer

A Hijacking

Director: Tobias Lindholm

Starring: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling

Film Denmark - Drama

Trailer | Showtimes (21)

Review of Philip French

'The style is sober and semi-documentary, Lindholm avoids Hollywood-style heroics and histrionics, and his picture has apparently been shown widely to corporations eager to see how such incidents should be handled.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Deadfall

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Starring: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde

Film USA - Thriller

Trailer | Showtimes (17)

Review of Philip French

'A strong cast makes up for thinnish characterisation, and it's so like Fargo it might as well be called 'Fargone''

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Mud

Director: Jeff Nichols

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan

Film USA - Drama

Trailer | Showtimes (82)

Review of Philip French

'Mud is a movie of striking performances and memorable images and of people who seem to belong in rather than being imposed upon their environment... Nichols is a writer-director whose next film I eagerly await.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Our Children

Director: Joachim Lafosse

Starring: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim

Film Belgium , Luxembourg , France , Switzerland - Drama

Trailer | Showtimes (9)

Review of Philip French

'part Greek tragedy, part case history, part admonitory social parable about class, race and colonialism. It's a quiet, immaculately acted study of appalling cruelty committed unconsciously by those who believe they're acting in the best interest of others.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Vehicle 19

Director: Mukunda Michael Dewil

Starring: Paul Walker, Katelynn Tilley

Film USA - Action

Trailer | Showtimes

Review of Philip French

'The clever gimmick determinedly pursued in Vehicle 19 is that the camera never leaves the car, though Woods does so briefly. At first it's intriguing, then annoying, and finally it gives us the urge to get out and walk.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Village at the End of the World

Director: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson

Film United Kingdom , Denmark - Documentary

Trailer | Showtimes

Review of Philip French

'It's a beautiful, austere movie, and a sequence in which a cruise ship puts in for the day, its passengers believing they're in touch at last with an authentic primitive community, is both funny and oddly touching.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Star Trek Into Darkness

Director: J.J. Abrams

Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto

Film USA - Science Fiction

Trailer | Showtimes (510)

Review of Philip French

'The film is short on the provocative ideas that Gene Roddenberry's original TV series had plenty of, but offers bangs for bucks on a prodigious scale'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

21 & Over

Director: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

Starring: Skylar Astin, Miles Teller

Film USA - Comedy

Trailer | Showtimes (218)

Review of Philip French

'It makes respectability and adulthood in the form of the young, would-be medical student's ambitious, suit-wearing doctor father look rather attractive. That is not, however, the film's intention'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

All Stars

Director: Ben Gregor

Starring: Theo Stevenson, Akai Osei-Mansfield

Film United Kingdom - Comedy

Trailer | Showtimes (117)

Review of Philip French

'It's very sub Grange Hill and Waterloo Road'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Chimpanzee

Director: Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill

Starring: Tim Allen

Film USA , Tanzania - Documentary

Trailer | Showtimes (15)

Review of Philip French

'The presentation makes one wince, and the most striking footage is some behind-the-scenes shots that accompany the credits. Surely children raised on the kind of documentaries the BBC produces in Bristol demand and deserve better than this.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Dead Man Down

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Starring: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace

Film USA - Thriller

Trailer | Showtimes (20)

Review of Philip French

'Dead Man Down is a self-consciously dark movie that's ultimately let down by JH Wyman's script. Simultaneously labyrinthine and simplistic, it's unconvincing in its sense of place and implausible in the development of its storyline'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Gimme the Loot

Director: Adam Leon

Starring: Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson

Film USA - Drama

Trailer | Showtimes (16)

Review of Philip French

'Rather more lively than most low-budget independent mumblecore movies... The film's strong suit is its use of locations.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

I'm So Excited

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Starring: Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces

Film Spain - Comedy

Trailer | Showtimes (47)

Review of Philip French

I'm So Excited! is a slight, likable movie, beautifully designed and charmingly performed.

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

The Eye of the Storm

Director: Fred Schepisi

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush

Film Australia - Drama

Trailer | Showtimes (3)

Review of Philip French

'It's a chilly, cruel film about characters that are difficult to like or warm to, and it obviously means a great deal to a country that for so long rejected its greatest writer.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Bernie

Director: Richard Linklater

Starring: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine

Film USA - Thriller

Trailer | Showtimes (4)

Review of Philip French

'a fascinating slice of bizarre Americana... Linklater has turned it into an extremely amusing, socially accurate docudrama.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

In The Fog

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Starring: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin

Film Russia , Latvia , Germany , Netherlands - Drama

Trailer | Showtimes (2)

Review of Philip French

'In the Fog is a deeply serious, utterly humourless story of social and spiritual conflict of the kind we encounter in the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Iron Man 3

Director: Shane Black

Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow

Film USA , China - Action

Trailer | Showtimes (434)

Review of Philip French

'the third blockbuster about Marvel Comics' Tony Stark – inventor, industrial tycoon, bionic man and superhero – is a loud, overlong, oppressively violent tale of saving the world from yet another megalomaniac.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

Scarecrow

Director: Jerry Schatzberg

Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino

Film USA - Drama

Trailer | Showtimes (1)

Review of Philip French

'Scarecrow, an elliptical mixture of the tough (Pacino is raped on a prison farm) and the whimsical (the title tells us that scarecrows are successful because crows find them funny), is the best film in Schatzberg's small but interesting oeuvre'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

The ABCs of Death

Director: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet

Starring: Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Erik Aude

Film USA , New Zealand - Horror

Trailer | Showtimes

Review of Philip French

'rather tedious, not so much a satisfying meal as a platter (or splatter) of gores d'oeuvres'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer

The Look of Love

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Starring: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel

Film United Kingdom - Biopic

Trailer | Showtimes (9)

Review of Jeremy Kay

'This is meaty material and Coogan carries the movie with aplomb, although Matt Greenhalgh's script dilutes what could have been a more deeply satisfying drama into something that feels episodic.'

The full review est disponible sur le site The Observer