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4/5
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62%
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I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
With its sprawling satire and knockabout tone, 'I'm So Excited' is the closest Almodóvar has come in years to early romps like 'Labyrinth', 'Pepi, Luci, Bom' and 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?'"
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Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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4/5
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85%
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Side Effects (2013) |
"
As a thriller in the Hitchcock mould, 'Side Effects' is great fun: its characters are well acted without being entirely likeable, which makes their jeopardy all the more enjoyable while putting us at a clinical remove."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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3/5
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47%
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A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) |
"
The varying tones give a patchy feel to the enterprise without adding up to anything as radical as the Pythons' own assault on TV conventions. A cordial tribute to a fascinating chap nonetheless."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2013
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4/5
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88%
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Yossi (2013) |
"
Knoller's superbly underplayed performance ensures that Yossi's sad-sack tendencies aren't allowed to alienate him from our affections."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 27, 2012
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3/5
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65%
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Starbuck (2013) |
"
Its story is formulaic and undisciplined, while its tone is mildly reactionary and hugely sentimental."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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3/5
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86%
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Ninja Scroll (1996) |
"
What it lacks in complexity, it makes up for in often dazzling animation ..."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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4/5
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100%
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Call Me Kuchu (2013) |
"
[A] shocking, moving, enthralling and enraging doc ..."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2012
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4/5
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87%
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Tabu (2012) |
"
Evoking work as disparate as that of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Guy Maddin and Claire Denis - with a dash of 'The Artist' thrown in - 'Tabu' is a tantalising trip."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 5, 2012
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3/5
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69%
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Ted (2012) |
"
Sure, MacFarlane, you can make us laugh, but it's time to grow up. Seriously."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2012
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2/5
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29%
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Red Lights (2012) |
"
The clue's in the title: don't go."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 14, 2012
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4/5
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58%
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The Dictator (2012) |
"
If a comedy is meant to make you laugh, mission accomplished. As a series of wonderfully grotesque set-pieces, The Dictator delivers."
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Time Out
Posted May 11, 2012
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4/5
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——
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Beauty & the Briefcase (2011) |
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Time Out
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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4/5
|
80%
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North Sea Texas (2012) |
"
Family life and adult power are central here, allowing for bittersweet engagement with emotions over time and the compromises of living in reality."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 3, 2012
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4/5
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91%
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Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
The result is gripping, moving and revelatory, an unabashed if implicit critique of the death penalty."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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3/5
|
56%
|
Hunky Dory (2013) |
"
Driver delivers a characteristic combination of savvy and likeability and the period and sun-dappled photography are nicely handled."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 29, 2012
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2/5
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78%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
They might have just got away with it as a Sunday night mini-series but from a cinematic perspective, this trip shouldn't have been embarked upon."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 21, 2012
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2/5
|
46%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
Less a film about communication, in the end, than one with its fingers in its ears."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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3/5
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
Chandor proffers a cross-section of a Lehman Brothers-esque company as the realisation dawns that sub-prime speculation has brought the market to an ominous tipping point."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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5/5
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——
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Uncle David () |
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Time Out
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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5/5
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98%
|
Ten Canoes (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
|
18%
|
Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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5/5
|
94%
|
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"
While the crunchy fights and unflagging pace ensure this delivers as genre spectacle, the muddy ethics also make for a pleasing contrast with standard-issue wham-bammery."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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4/5
|
89%
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California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) (Endless) (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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2/5
|
——
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Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"
Len Wiseman handles many of the set-pieces with flair and tension."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Objectified (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
—
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76%
|
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros) (2006) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
—
|
91%
|
United 93 (2006) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Weekend (2011) |
"
Sexy, provocative, engrossing and occasionally ornery, it should appeal to anyone whose curiosity about someone new has provoked them to question their own identity."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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|
3/5
|
62%
|
Villain (Akunin) (2010) |
"
Offers a bleak and rounded, if ultimately conservative, take on a criminal act and its impact on those involved."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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|
5/5
|
100%
|
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
"
At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
25%
|
Break My Fall () |
"
Both plausibility and suspense, if not quite Fassbinder-grade toxic tension."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 19, 2011
|
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4/5
|
58%
|
Kaboom (2011) |
"
If there's an undercurrent of impending cataclysm in today's culture, 'Kaboom' senses that feeling, seizes it in a surreal clinch and hurtles with it off a cliff."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2011
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|
4/5
|
73%
|
Heartbeats (2011) |
"
It can seem as if style is all in Dolan's films, but as well as revelling in its pleasures, they also dissect its limitations - sometimes without anaesthetic."
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Time Out
Posted May 25, 2011
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|
4/5
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
Herzog notes, 'Time and space lose their meaning.' Inevitably bound by both, his film is as close to their beauty as we will ever get."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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|
2/5
|
24%
|
The Dilemma (2011) |
"
It lacks faith in its story, characters and audience."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
Try to make 'Showgirls' for 12 year olds and you please no one. What a tease."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2010
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|
3/5
|
71%
|
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti) (2010) |
"
The feel is somewhat cloistered and the pace rarely gets the pulse racing but this is engaging and affecting stuff, handsomely shot and well acted: Ilaria Occhini is a stand-out as the grandmother."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2010
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4/5
|
83%
|
On Tour (Tournée) (2010) |
"
There's a strong sense of the tour as work - bland hotels, travel co-ordination, Muzak - as well as the situation's propensity to let cooped-up emotions, from anger to lust, marinate."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 9, 2010
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|
3/5
|
86%
|
Fit () |
"
Avoids preachy didacticism, presenting an impressive range of credible characters undergoing eye-opening experiences."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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|
3/5
|
55%
|
Mr. Nice (2011) |
"
This adaptation of Marks's autobiography -- a student staple throughout the land -- struggles to capture the sheer breadth of his life."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 6, 2010
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|
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81%
|
Four Lions (2010) |
"
The murderous schemes of laughably fallible humans, the film suggests, are no less tragic for being absurd."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Oct 6, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
La Nana (The Maid) (2009) |
"
Deadpan, handheld technique allows director Sebastián Silva to mine mundane situations for subtle hazard but also to take his story in unexpected directions, initial reticence preserving the potential for surprise."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 26, 2010
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|
4/5
|
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
The 'Toy Story' films are deservedly seen as the gold standard for computer-generated animation..."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Whatever Works (2009) |
"
For all its wobbles, Whatever Works is rooted in an agreeable sensibility: life favours fate over luck more than we'd like to think, so grab whatever chances of happiness come your way."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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|
4/5
|
69%
|
Life During Wartime (2010) |
"
Solondz's ongoing interests ... ensure some shocks but his underlying interests are sincere and humane: the consequences of trauma, the capacity for self-delusion, the possibility of change and the necessity of forgiveness."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 22, 2010
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|
3/5
|
57%
|
Cemetery Junction (2010) |
"
It's refreshing to see a mainstream British film with the ambition to strut its stuff on studio terms."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010) |
"
Vaughn directs with efficiency and a good sense of action while Johnson puts in an engaging turn that maintains sympathy and helps paper over some of the plot's more jerky, episodic aspects."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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