Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
54%
3/5
“So this is a bizarre, Janus-like creature, looking both backward and forward, setting the scene for a story that it never quite gets around to telling. Still, thats Star Wars for you. An ongoing story, a narrative jigsaw, a phenomenon in portions.” –
Independent (UK)
Apr 16, 2025
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Food of Love (1997)
“The stabs at humour are tentative; the acting tones clash worryingly. It's a film afflicted by a barely disguised crisis of confidence.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Boys on the Beach (1999)
“Cue misanthropic misadventures, slangy backchat and laddish antics; all carelessly arranged by twentysomething creator Djamel Bensalah.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Run Lola Run (1998)
94%
“While there's much substance behind the style, its caffeine-rush rhythm sets the blood pumping.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Simply Irresistible (1999)
16%
“Of course it's tempting fate to dub your film Simply Irresistible, but this vacuous soufflé about a magically-empowered caterer is genuinely rank. ” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Detroit Rock City (1999)
51%
“Rifkin's yoof comedy hits a lot of easy buttons, but it's ultimately rather charming.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Bowfinger (1999)
82%
“Breathless and breakneck, Bowfinger marks a rousing return to form for writer-star Martin.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
86%
“It's like Video Nation gone horribly astray -- rawly dealt, poorly paced, yet with a definite voyeuristic appeal.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Tarzan (1999)
90%
“The script is bright and busy, the animation punchy. Only Phil Collins's soupy songs hit a bum note in this otherwise enjoyable cartoon romp.” –
Independent (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Heretic (2024)
91%
4/5
“Wringing the maximum mileage from its claustrophobic location, Heretic merrily spins us around and steers us towards darkness. It’s a tense, tight fairground ride of a film.” –
Observer (UK)
Nov 3, 2024
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Juror #2 (2024)
93%
3/5
“A jaundiced rewrite of 12 Angry Men that proceeds to ride roughshod over several plot implausibilities. ” –
Observer (UK)
Nov 3, 2024
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
98%
3/5
“Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s polished, respectful documentary does well in linking both sides, painting the whole person and showing how his essential good character was revealed and sharpened by the crisis that befell him. ” –
Observer (UK)
Nov 3, 2024
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Blitz (2024)
81%
3/5
“Simplicity sometimes has an honest worth of its own. What the film-maker has built for us here is the cinematic equivalent of an Anderson shelter: basic, sturdy and unfussy. It’s there if we need it and have nowhere else to go.” –
Observer (UK)
Nov 3, 2024
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Anora (2024)
93%
5/5
“What a jolting, tragicomic journey Baker and Madison arrange for us here. Their film clatters and squeals like an unoiled crosstown train.” –
Observer (UK)
Nov 3, 2024
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Small Things Like These (2024)
94%
4/5
“Mielants and Walsh pace their Samaritan tale to perfection, which is to say that Small Things Like These plays out as a halting study in human decency, taking the high road in hesitant steps.” –
Observer (UK)
Nov 3, 2024
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Battlefield (2024)
3/5
“Gianni Amelio’s tense wartime saga is better than most but that counts for little when the battle heats up.” –
Guardian
Sep 3, 2024
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And Their Children After Them (2024)
80%
4/5
“This is a state-of-the-nation drama dressed up as a coming-of-age tale; it is at once intimate and expansive in the way in which it connects the low-rise estates to the posh homes on the hill. It also brings a dose of dirty social-realism.” –
Guardian
Sep 3, 2024
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I'm Still Here (2024)
97%
3/5
“[Director Walter Salles'] fact-based account of their plight is understandably compromised and prone to a streak of sentimentality. Nonetheless, I’m Still Here remains a sombre, heartfelt drama about the nation’s disappeared. ” –
Guardian
Sep 3, 2024
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Wolfs (2024)
67%
3/5
“The film itself never amounts to much more than a silly, self-satisfied crime caper, but the headline stars look as though they are enjoying themselves and their sense of fun, by and large, is infectious.” –
Guardian
Sep 3, 2024
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
4/5
“A hothouse Spanish shrub transplanted to stony foreign soil. It wilts and it droops; it almost gives up the ghost. Then when it flowers it feels like a small miracle. The film’s very fragility is what makes it so gorgeous.” –
Guardian
Sep 3, 2024
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One to One: John & Yoko (2024)
89%
4/5
“The medium, surely, has [John Lennon] well covered already. But Macdonald and Rice-Edwards have managed to find and mine a rich source of material, tightly tucked away amid all the other wildcat wells.” –
Guardian
Aug 30, 2024
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Babygirl (2024)
76%
2/5
“For all its excited carnality and seesawing power struggles, the film’s thrills feel machine-tooled and vacuum-packed.” –
Guardian
Aug 30, 2024
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Kill the Jockey (2024)
96%
3/5
“It’s too skimpy and self-conscious, more a series of gestures than an organic whole. But Ortega frames his action with a delicious high style, interspersing tense standoffs with formal dance sequences. ” –
Guardian
Aug 29, 2024
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Riefenstahl (2024)
100%
5/5
“Riefenstahl does not come to praise or reclaim the late director, but nor does it mean to bury her. It acknowledges her as a trailblazer... But the film also demonstrates the ways in which her work is inextricably linked to nazism” –
Guardian
Aug 29, 2024
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Separated (2024)
96%
4/5
“The cruelty was the point. In documenting Trump’s policy of family separation, Separated shows the route by which the US crossed over into darkness. It is an exacting, harrowing and quietly furious film.” –
Guardian
Aug 29, 2024
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