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3/5
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71%
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The Look of Love () |
"
Coogan puts in a restrained turn as the puddle-deep soft porn billionaire who only occasionally brings to mind a certain Norfolk DJ. But he's such a cold fish it's hard to care about his impending fall."
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Daily Star
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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|
4/5
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78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
A witty and rather surprising take on the superhero movie."
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Daily Star
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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3/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Like most of Boyle's work, this is a stylish and clever film. But it's also one of the few that I don't feel like going back to. "
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Daily Star
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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4/5
|
90%
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Good Vibrations () |
"
It's the background of the Troubles that gives this rousing biopic its edge."
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Daily Star
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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4/5
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48%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
After the dull last Die Hard, this all-American slice of hokum is the gung-ho blast action fans have been craving. "
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Daily Star
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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1/5
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29%
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All Things To All Men () |
"
Dreary, ridiculous and utterly unfathomable."
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Daily Star
Posted Apr 2, 2013
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4/5
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Singer is more concerned with old-fashioned storytelling than chasing a target audience's fleeting fads."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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5/5
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83%
|
Tyrannosaur (2011) |
"
A stunning and memorable debut."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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2/5
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52%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Plucking the audience's heartstrings feels like the worst possible way to make a film about someone called The Iron Lady."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
91%
|
Arthur Christmas (2011) |
"
A new Christmas classic."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
93%
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50/50 (2011) |
"
It's a brave plan to make a cancer movie that's moving, uplifting and pant-wettingly funny. But against the odds, it's definitely a case of remission accomplished."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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3/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
It's another great performance from the star who appears now to have mastered the fed-up stare."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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1/5
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13%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
It may not be laughably awful - like her and Ritchie's Swept Away - it's something far worse...boring. "
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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1/5
|
46%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
An irritating 130-minute dripathon."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
1/5
|
26%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
The laziest, most cack-handed, most unromantic and most excruciatingly unfunny rom-com I can remember having to sit through."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
100%
|
Wild Bill (2013) |
"
There's a lot more to this likeable crime flick than your usual dunderheaded Danny Dyer vehicle."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
——
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The Pirates! An Adventure With Scientists () |
"
It's the attention to detail that really shivers the timbers. "
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
74%
|
Blackthorn (2011) |
"
With Paul Newman no longer with us, no other actor could have fitted so snugly into the legendary outlaw's old boots."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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2/5
|
11%
|
Gone (2012) |
"
Unbelievably lazy."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
2/5
|
17%
|
Strippers vs Werewolves (2012) |
"
Badly-directed trash which looks like it might have been shot and edited on a mobile phone."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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2/5
|
22%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
Diaz's plotline seems to revolve solely around an argument with Morrison over the merits of circumcision. She's pro-cut. He's fanatically anti-cut. Clearly, as is the film's editor."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
83%
|
Klitschko (2011) |
"
There are some fascinating side stories in this engrossing documentary about the Ukrainian boxing brothers. "
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
2/5
|
29%
|
Red Lights (2012) |
"
It's crushingly disappointing when it falls apart so completely in the second half."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
1/5
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
In what ends up as a nightmarish fusion of Glee and Sister Act 2, a mixed-race church choir makes a bid for glory by painfully "Christianising" scraps of once perfectly acceptable pop songs."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
4/5
|
80%
|
Magic Mike (2012) |
"
Raucous, funny and disgracefully entertaining."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
The CGI wolf would have been rubbish a decade ago, the clearly indoor village set looks like it once featured in an old episode of Star Trek and the central love story is lacking in bite. "
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
1/5
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
Relentlessly witless."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
4/5
|
93%
|
Mission To Lars () |
"
The film, which plays a little like a real-life Rain Man, may be a bit rough around the edges but that only adds to its charm. Kate and Will show their relationship with their brother in all its messiness. "
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Daniels probably makes the mistake of putting character and atmosphere ahead of plot. But with a cast like this you can hardly blame him."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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3/5
|
59%
|
Maniac (2013) |
"
See this and you'll never be able to look Frodo Baggins in the eye again."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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3/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Director Don Scardino plays it too safe to make this a cult classic but he does provide a few very funny set pieces. "
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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3/5
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
Refreshingly, this is a London-based crime flick that completely breaks with the usual chirpy Cockney formula. But have we really got to the stage where we have to tool-up Mr Tumnus?"
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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4/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
It's the way Gere and director Nicholas Jarecki create sympathy for the devil that makes this so gripping."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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3/5
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
There are just enough twists to the old formula to keep you guessing to the end. "
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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|
2/5
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
In the end, the cards fall roughly where you'd expect them to in a clichéd thriller."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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3/5
|
40%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
It does sag in the middle but its witty enough to make realise how charmless the latest Die Hard film is."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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|
3/5
|
52%
|
Broken (2013) |
"
The film could have done with fewer characters and a tighter plot but it's still an accomplished debut for director Rufus Norris."
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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|
4/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Gripping, stylish and delightfully pulpy. "
—
Daily Star
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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|
3/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
The wizard may not be wonderful enough to warrant a film of his own but the sidekicks and special effects make Disney's much-anticipated prequel a solidly entertaining, if not quite magical, family adventure."
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Daily Star
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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3/5
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
Yes, it's utter trash. But if, like me, you've spent weeks sitting through overlong, award-baiting dramas, this gleefully cheesy treat should hit the spot."
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Daily Star
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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|
1/5
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
If you are going to baffle an audience for nearly three hours, you'd better make sure you have a damn good pay-off. But like the last two Matrix films, this peters out into embarrassing hippy drivel about reincarnation and cosmic interconnectedness."
—
Daily Star
Posted Feb 19, 2013
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4/5
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
Witty, inventive, beautifully animated and, most importantly, heartfelt. "
—
Daily Star
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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4/5
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
A very funny and surprisingly sweet mash-up of a zombie action film and Romeo & Juliet. It's a bit like a Twilight movie but with better effects and a smarter script. And weirdly, a lot less moping. "
—
Daily Star
Posted Feb 5, 2013
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|
3/5
|
63%
|
I Give It a Year (2013) |
"
It may start off edgy but it ends with a double helping of schmaltz."
—
Daily Star
Posted Feb 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Horrible Bosses (2011) |
"
Colin Farrell is a comedy genius."
—
Daily Star
Posted Jan 30, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Denzel Washington's face says more in the first ten seconds of this film than Zemeckis managed with over five hours of dead-eyed computer imagery. "
—
Daily Star
Posted Jan 30, 2013
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|
1/5
|
13%
|
Deviation () |
"
In Buried, Ryan Reynolds spends the whole film underground in a coffin - child's play compared to what Anna Walton is put through here. She spends an entire night locked in a car with Danny Dyer - while he acts at her."
—
Daily Star
Posted Jan 23, 2013
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|
2/5
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
You might find the political tub-thumping behind this cockle-warming drama a tad disconcerting."
—
Daily Star
Posted Jan 23, 2013
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|
5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Bigelow and Boal are not in the business of providing easy answers. But they are trying to turn out a gripping, tense, political thriller. And this one is a masterpiece."
—
Daily Star
Posted Jan 23, 2013
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