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What we said:<\/strong> \u201cEven the superest superfan of the legendary US TV comedy show Saturday Night Live is going to struggle with the unbearable self-indulgence and self-adoration of this exhausting film from director and co-writer Jason Reitman.\u201d Peter Bradshaw Snow White<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cHere is a pointless new live-action musical version of the Snow White myth, a kind of un-Wicked approach to the story and a merch-enabling money machine. Where other movies are playfully reimagining the backstories of famous villains, this one plays it straight, but with carefully curated revisionist tweaks. These are all too obviously agonising and backlash-second-guessing, but knowing that at some basic level the brand identity has to be kept pristine.\u201d PB<\/strong> Partir un JourJuliette Armanet as C\u00e9cile B\u00e9guin and Bastien Bouillon as Rapha\u00ebl Tenreiro in Partir un Jour. Photograph: Courtesy: Cannes Film Festival<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cThe opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed festival slot which few films need or want, and whose occupants so often turn out to be the squawking overfed turkeys of the big screen. Such a one, sadly, is this listless and supercilious musical \u2013 ostensibly on the theme of heartwarming home town values \u2013 which flatlines like a hedgehog run over by an 18-wheeler the moment the female lead opens her mouth to sing one of the film\u2019s many terrible songs.\u201d PB Alpha<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cThe madly, bafflingly overwrought and humourless storytelling can\u2019t overcome the fact that everything here is frankly unpersuasive and tedious. Every line, every scene, has the emoting dial turned up to 11 and yet feels redundant.\u201d PB High RollersJohn Travolta Mason Goddard and Gina Gershon as Amelia Decker in High Rollers. Photograph: PR<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cHere is a cheap-ass knockoff of Ocean\u2019s Eleven starring John Travolta that makes the Soderbergh film look like something by Andrei Tarkovsky or Ingmar Bergman \u2026 It is a heart-slowing work of staggering stupidity and charmlessness, ineptly made and quite frankly dull except when its flaws become so egregious you can\u2019t help but guffaw.\u201d Leslie Felperin Jungle Trouble<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cWith a supremely annoying lead character called Mohsen, here is a jungle adventure that feels sewn together like a cruddy Frankenstein\u2019s monster from the corpses of other shoddy animations \u2013 which themselves are patched together from far better films.\u201d Catherine Bray Jay KellyGeorge Clooney in Jay Kelly. Photograph: Peter Mountain\/AP<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cIn this dire, sentimental and self-indulgent film, George Clooney has the look of a man who has found strychnine in his Nespresso pod and can\u2019t remember which of the cupboards in his luxury hotel suite contains the antidote.\u201d PB The Boatyard<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cThere\u2019s something dispiriting about The Boatyard\u2019s pointlessness, its lack of wit, empathy or basic film-making skill. The acting achieves such a finely tuned pitch of atrociousness it\u2019s impossible to endure.\u201d LF Mission Alarum<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cNo one seems to be quite sure what Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight\u2019s \u2018special ambassadorships\u2019 entail, or if any of that troika of rightwing fellow travellers have fulfilled any official duties. But on the evidence of this, Stallone is already letting the side down \u2013 by making a film so bad it shames American cinema itself.\u201d LF Mr Blake at Your Service!John Malkovich as Andrew Blake and Fanny Ardant as Nathalie in Mr Blake at Your Service! Photograph: Capital Pictures\/Alamy<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cWhat makes this film such an ordeal to watch is Malkovich\u2019s amazing line-readings in French, in his laboriously slow and unmistakably American accent \u2026 He sounds like Dr Hannibal Lecter having smoked a hundredweight of weed, doing a derisive impression of an unctuous French headwaiter he intends to eat.\u201d PB<\/strong> Tron: Ares<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cThe matrix of pointlessness is reloaded in this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi, more a screensaver than an actual film \u2026 there is no drama or jeopardy or human interest anywhere. This franchise now looks about as urgently contemporary as an in-car CD player.\u201d PB Christmas Karma<\/p>\n What we said:<\/strong> \u201cKeen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens\u2019s A Christmas Carol, and keen also to hear from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha, this cynically Christmassy movie is leaden, unconvincingly acted and about as welcome as a dead rat in the eggnog.\u201d PB<\/strong>
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