Most overrated films
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Tom Hooper’s blockbuster adaptation of the hit musical doesn’t lack soul, but all that ‘live’ singing makes it excruciating to watch, writes Marta Bausells
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Parent to a legion of crap imitations – I blame it for Shrek – the hype over Tarantino’s film renders it almost meaningless. So, would I go back and strangle it at birth, asks Stuart Heritage
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Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy seem to think they’re scaling the intellectual heights as they swan around the sun-kissed Greek countryside, but their conversational ramblings are as dull as ditchwater, writes Ellie Violet Bramley
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It may well be Philip Seymour Hoffman’s ‘superb swansong’, but no amount of dressing up will disguise the spy thriller cliches and utter lack of suspense
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The Searchers radically reinvented every wild west trope, the critics said. Trouble is, no one told John Wayne or John Ford, writes Xan Brooks
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Christopher Nolan wows audiences with verve, but multiple plots packed like sardines in a tin and a humourless superhero make this Batman film leaden viewing, writes Alex Hess
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Daniel Day-Lewis may have won an Oscar for his bow-legged, Selleck-moustached performance, but don’t be fooled: Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic drama was truly awful, writes Peter Walker
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Film-goers were fooled into buying into Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s heavy-duty quirk in 2012 as two maladjusted lovers struggling to mend their broken hearts, writes Tom Ross
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Forget the five-star reviews and out-of-this-world technical wizardry – Alfonso Cuarón’s epic space odyssey is the cinematic equivalent of a drum solo, writes Alan Evans
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Peter Bradshaw kicks off our new series on the films our writers think are overrated by bursting Billy Liar’s bubble, which starred Tom Courtenay as a dreamer who creates a fantasy world to escape his boring life