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Total Reviews:: 28

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	78%	Metallica Through the Never (2013)	" Watch Some Kind Of Monster instead." — Total Film Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/5	90%	Hawking (2013)	" There's an admirable refusal to canonise the prof, and we're left in no doubt that his life has not been plain sailing either for him or those he relies on ..." — Total Film Posted Sep 15, 2013
2/5	75%	Pieta (2013)	" As the intensity ramps up, Pieta skews more towards silliness than shock." — Total Film Posted Sep 2, 2013
3/5	68%	The Crucible (1996)	" A McCarthy-era retelling of the Salem witch trials, Arthur Miller's 1953 play is a literary classic, but this adap falls short." — Total Film Posted May 17, 2013
4/5	71%	Romeo + Juliet (1996)	" One of the liveliest Shakespeare adaps of the past 20 years ..." — Total Film Posted Jan 25, 2013
4/5	76%	Moulin Rouge! (2001)	" An honest, heartfelt paean to good old-fashioned love that's audacious in its wide-eyed passion, innocent love of fun and sheer showmanship." — Total Film Posted Jan 25, 2013
5/5	100%	Repulsion (1997)	" Filled with indelible images and punishing sound design, Repulsion casts a shadow over everything from Eraserhead to Black Swan, but there's nothing quite like the real thing." — Total Film Posted Dec 17, 2012
2/5	56%	Tortoise In Love (2013)	" The traditional problem of am-dram persists: unless it's your son/daughter/dad/nan doing their thing, you're never as forgiving as the enthusiastic cast would wish." — Total Film Posted Jul 3, 2012
4/5	100%	Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt (I Only Want You to Love Me) (1976)	" It's Fassbinder's eye for detail and psychology that drives things home." — Total Film Posted Jun 12, 2012
3/5	——	Les Lyonnais (A Gang Story) ()	" There are just too many moments of déjà vu to truly satisfy." — Total Film Posted Apr 12, 2012
4/5	66%	This Must Be The Place (2012)	" Succeeding against the odds and adroitly blending its disparate elements, this is a fine entry into the Eurodirector- gawps-at-America subgenre." — Total Film Posted Mar 26, 2012
3/5	66%	We Bought a Zoo (2011)	" It's slight, sure, and there's a better, less-glossy film buried in the material, but warm performances redeem Crowe's agreeable return." — Total Film Posted Mar 5, 2012
4/5	74%	Rampart (2012)	" Harrelson is riveting, and Moverman's gaze is unflinching." — Little White Lies Posted Feb 24, 2012
4/5	88%	Margin Call (2011)	" Chandor presents these characters not as indifferent masters of the universe, nor as vampires, but as people - and his film is the stronger for it." — Total Film Posted Jan 4, 2012
	29%	Machine Gun Preacher (2011)	" Material that might have made a terrific documentary instead becomes a worthy drama." — Total Film Posted Oct 31, 2011
4/5	96%	Ghostbusters (1984)	" The leads' chemistry is almost, well, spooky, Dan Aykroyd's nerdy enthusiasm rubbing deliciously against a persona-perfecting turn from Bill Murray - and there's even the odd surprise." — Total Film Posted Oct 28, 2011
5/5	93%	Jurassic Park (1993)	" One of the big screen's very greatest thrill-rides." — Total Film Posted Sep 19, 2011
5/5	87%	Akira (2001)	" When you absolutely, positively have to get some anime in your life, accept no substitutes; 23 years on, Akira is still the genre's crowning achievement." — Total Film Posted Jun 8, 2011
3/5	91%	Donor Unknown (2011)	" Donor Unknown is a skilfully constructed look at a very modern family." — Total Film Posted May 25, 2011
2/5	60%	The Veteran (2012)	" Clichéd, incoherent and queasily Daily Mail-pleasing, its conspiracy theorising third act is a disaster." — Little White Lies Posted Apr 28, 2011
3/5	50%	Island (2010)	" The quasi-fairytale atmosphere is adeptly handled, and Kathy Li's cinematography imbues proceedings with a chilly beauty." — Total Film Posted Apr 20, 2011
4/5	92%	Armadillo (2011)	" There's no denying the power of the images director Janus Metz Pedersen has captured." — Total Film Posted Apr 7, 2011
3/5	51%	Brighton Rock (2011)	" Enough is done right to make you wish they'd made better decisions and everything looks good in this colour noir... but the central relationship lacks conviction." — Total Film Posted Jan 28, 2011
4/5	94%	Neds (2011)	" NEDS cements Mullan's position in the front rank of British filmmakers." — Total Film Posted Jan 19, 2011
4/5	93%	127 Hours (2010)	" In taking a Movie of the Week plotline and giving it a technical supercharge, Boyle has restated his case among the front rank of filmmakers." — Little White Lies Posted Jan 6, 2011
3/5	75%	The Way Back (2011)	" Ed Harris is as good as he's ever been as a taciturn convict, and the unsparing depiction of the depths to which the travellers sink hints at the punishing hymn to endurance the film might have been." — Little White Lies Posted Dec 27, 2010
2/5	10%	Cuckoo ()	" A centrepiece monologue from Grant on CIA experimentation shows some style, but it's too little, too late, and is rendered moot by the underwhelming climax." — Total Film Posted Dec 20, 2010

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