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3/5
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88%
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Waitress (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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5/5
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89%
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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan) (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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3/5
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75%
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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3/5
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66%
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The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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—
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68%
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Close to Home (Karov La Bayit) (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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3/5
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83%
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Frownland (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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—
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82%
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Offret (The Sacrifice) (1986) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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4/5
|
——
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Throw of the Dice (Prapancha Pash) (1930) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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3/5
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81%
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Obsluhoval Jsem Anglického Krále (I Served the King of England) (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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|
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93%
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Drive (2011) |
"
A more or less conventional Los Angeles-set hot-rod/getaway-driver movie with neo-noir decoration -- albeit satisfying enough on its own terms."
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Sight and Sound
Posted Sep 27, 2011
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4/5
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82%
|
Post Mortem (2012) |
"
Larraín's clever use of almost humorously unconventional framings, expressively washed-out colour tones and mysterious low-key performances brings together human comedy and historical tragedy to unique, and surprisingly emotional, effect."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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4/5
|
100%
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The Salt of Life (2012) |
"
Wittily observed, humorously understood and keenly felt."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2011
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2/5
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86%
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Kill The Referee (les Arbitres) () |
"
Even for footy fans, the film's a game of guesswork."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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3/5
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90%
|
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009) |
"
No, not a Toho creature feature, but a diverting, slightly meandering, mini- DV-shot documentary on the Japanese love for insects."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 28, 2011
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|
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97%
|
Animal Kingdom (2010) |
"
An ambitious and effective thriller."
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Sight and Sound
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) |
"
Provides rousing enough young family entertainment - though there's less to engage maturer Lewis fans and possible disappointment for older teenagers."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 9, 2010
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2/5
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65%
|
Tamara Drewe (2010) |
"
The dullness of British mainstream cinema is epitomised by this Stephen Frears -- didn't he used to be an auteur? -- adaptation of Posy Simmonds's gently teasing 2005-2007 Guardian comic strip about rural goings-on."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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3/5
|
85%
|
Black Dynamite (2009) |
"
The portentous dialogue, two-track-recorded soundtrack (by Adrian Younge) and eager performances are all highly diverting."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 12, 2010
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4/5
|
100%
|
Rapt () |
"
A tense hostage-thriller with a difference."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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3/5
|
90%
|
London River (2011) |
"
In the film's latter stages, Blethyn's heart-on-the-sleeve acting style finally combines with the marvellous Kouyaté's watchful intelligence and frail dignity to moving effect."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 8, 2010
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4/5
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55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest. "
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Time Out
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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4/5
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The Killer Inside Me (1998) |
"
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom, the genre-swapping director of A Mighty Heart, Genova and The Road to Guantanamo, is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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2/5
|
28%
|
Remember Me (2010) |
"
Be warned, if you're vulnerable to outrageous, cringe-inducing implausibilities -- not least the ludicrous stand-up row between Tyler and his father in the latter's Twin Towers boardroom -- you'd best give this one a miss."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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3/5
|
80%
|
Tony (2009) |
"
Not a reassuring vision, for sure, and no tourist plug for Dalston, Hackney or Haggerston, but the film's a fair calling card for Johnson's talent."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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2/5
|
56%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
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3/5
|
78%
|
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Lost in Rio) (2010) |
"
It's the grooving to composer Ludovic Bource's fab xylophone beats and Dujardin's hyena laugh and heroic self-regard you'll remember."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2010
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2/5
|
41%
|
44 Inch Chest (2010) |
"
Aiming for black comedy and a redemptive satire on self-deluding male machismo, ham fisted debut director Malcolm Venville instead gives his cast enough rope to hang themselves rather than the characters they play."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Hofshat Kaits (My Father My Lord) (2008) |
"
You could say this film is at once a secular fable on a religious dilemma and an almost religious parable about an all-too-human tragedy."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
This remains one of the most approachable and moving of all cinema's masterpieces."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
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3/5
|
53%
|
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"
Cinematographer Robert Presley and the design team provide many instances of graphical triumph, influenced by silent cinema."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
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4/5
|
96%
|
BirdWatchers - La terra degli uomini rossi (2008) |
"
Writer-director-producer Marco Bechis's absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Chiko (2008) |
"
Impressive directorial skills, if a trite plotline, are on offer in Turkish-German writer-director Özgür Yildirim's occasionally violent debut feature."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Home (2009) |
"
A first film of laudable ambition and Meier's directorial confidence suggests promise for the future."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 7, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
Mad, Sad & Bad () |
"
A disconcerting fluctuation in tone - from sorrowful satire to cheesy sitcom - proves the film's fatal flaw."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Kærlighed på Film (Just Another Love Story) (2007) |
"
Ambitious cross-cutting and occasional bursts of strident music hint at psychologically complex parallels and readings that the film fails to deliver."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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|
5/5
|
96%
|
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008) |
"
Denis magically evokes a liberal meditation on family, harmony, loyalty and belonging and their corollaries - loss, transgression, loneliness and separation - and achieves a sweet unity."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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3/5
|
84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
Longer than the last, the sixth episode of the adventures of the increasingly burdened magic warrior of Privet Drive is a more human affair than its predecessors."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
45%
|
New Town Killers (2008) |
"
A seemingly self-mocking jumble of sour literary, cinematic, class and genre affectations."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Accident (1967) |
"
'Accident' now seems a little self-conscious in its modernist, 'quality' art-cinema pretensions."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2009
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4/6
|
68%
|
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"
One of the most delicate, approachable and rewarding Holocaust movies of recent years."
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Time Out
Posted May 29, 2009
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4/6
|
73%
|
La Fille Coupée en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two) (2008) |
"
This is one of Chabrol's most elegant, acerbic and heartfelt entertainments in years."
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Time Out
Posted May 22, 2009
|
|
4/6
|
93%
|
Slepe lásky, (Blind Loves) (2009) |
"
Deliberately intimate, while never invasive, it's a film that allows and shows vulnerability while never exploiting it."
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Time Out
Posted May 22, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
52%
|
Chéri (2009) |
"
The multi-talented and adaptable director Stephen Frears has produced one of his most dull, airless and conventional films."
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Time Out
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
82%
|
Párpados Azules (Blue Eyelids) (2007) |
"
Ably mounted and shot, 'Blue Eyelids' is a welcome cliché-free zone, often touching and occasionally very funny, played out in a minor register suitable for the lives it describes."
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Time Out
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
84%
|
State of Play (2009) |
"
Despite the clichéd nature of much of the dialogue and the derivative thriller set-ups, 'State of Play' provides sufficient old-fashioned entertainment value to justify the ticket."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2009
|
|
4/6
|
96%
|
Shifty (2008) |
"
Creevy's fine ear for dialogue, sensitive and productive direction of actors and confident control of tone is all the more impressive for being delivered under the short schedule and tight budgetary exigencies."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2009
|
|
4/6
|
85%
|
Tony Manero (2009) |
"
This tough, impassive, marvellous second feature from young Chilean Pablo Larraín exhibits a candour and keen eye for its 'lower depths' milieu worthy of Pasolini at his most austere and non-judgmental."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 9, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
87%
|
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) |
"
Its lack of political nous and cinematic ambition makes it seem small on the big screen."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 9, 2009
|
|
2/6
|
60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
'The Ship That Sank' would be a more appropriate title for writer-director Richard Curtis's latest and most disappointing entertainment. It's a cripplingly self-conscious and self-satisfied tribute."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 3, 2009
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