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3/5
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76%
|
How I Live Now (2013) |
"
There's not really enough here to get teenage girls totes emosh. Not enough to sigh and swoon over."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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4/5
|
96%
|
Sunshine on Leith () |
"
A wet, sloppy dog-kiss of a film ... Heart-on-sleeve sweet."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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2/5
|
20%
|
A Belfast Story () |
"
As a snapshot of modern Belfast, the point is that horrors of the past are still present. But honestly, this isn't exactly awash with moral ambiguity."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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3/5
|
50%
|
Mademoiselle C (2013) |
"
For fashion junkies, Mademoiselle C will be like five September issues of Vogue all rolled into one."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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1/5
|
3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
Watts nails the two-cans-of-hairspray helmet hair and spidery mascara. But her captain-of-the-lacrosse-team, onwards-and-upwards performance is way off the mark."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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3/5
|
100%
|
More Than Honey (2013) |
"
Summer's blitz of apocalypse movies has nothing on this bee doc."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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4/5
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
A slow, banjo-string-tight thriller ... Bodies gets under your skin and stays there."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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2/5
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
With jokes cloned from bad taste movies and off-kids-telly villains, it doesn't even qualify for dumb fun."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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4/5
|
88%
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What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
Sensitive and almost unwatchably perceptive about dysfunctional families -- and it's acted with knife-sharp precision."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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3/5
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
No warts, no acne -- there's not even a pimple on the butt of this on-tour portrait of the reality-bred boy popsters."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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3/5
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
You'll still be laughing, but where 'Kick-Ass' giggled at action cliches, this sometimes slips into them."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 12, 2013
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|
2/5
|
50%
|
Looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense) () |
"
Kristen Scott Thomas wanders back from time to time to taunt us with what could have been."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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3/5
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
If you've never seen the point of Sandra Bullock, watch this."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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4/5
|
87%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
Wan builds mounting dread with silence and suspense, lingering the camera unsettlingly long here, creaking a door there."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 30, 2013
|
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4/5
|
93%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
In your twenties you decide on the final version of you. Sophie is working on it; Frances is stuck in her crazy, clueless, can't-pay-the-rent stage."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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4/5
|
73%
|
Breathe In () |
"
What swings it are irresistible performances from Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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3/5
|
100%
|
The Deep () |
"
Director Baltasar Kormákur filmed on an actual trawler, which he sank, and its authentic-looking scenes will leave you shivering and reaching for a cardy."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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4/5
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
This is a funny, sarky, bang-on portrayal of the freakiness of celeb obsession. The story would sound outrageous - if it wasn't true."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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4/5
|
95%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
Everyone has a different story. I found myself holding my breath listening to them talk. The story twists like a thriller."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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|
3/5
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
What's missing is a sense of loss - the horror and grief that should be etched on the faces of the living."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 18, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) (1972) |
"
Made for buttons, it's an awesome feat of filmmaking."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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|
3/5
|
52%
|
Thérèse (2013) |
"
A tad on the stiff side."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 4, 2013
|
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3/5
|
75%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
It's très chic and charming but a bit disappointing when you see where it's headed."
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Time Out
Posted May 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
What's really missing is the vampire's tragedy: that ache, the loss of feeling, the sense that in killing death, the essence of what it is to be human is destroyed."
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Time Out
Posted May 29, 2013
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3/5
|
32%
|
Everybody Has a Plan (2013) |
"
Hats off to Viggo Mortensen. The actor pulls off playing identical twins in this Argentinian thriller - which never quite lives up to his talents."
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Time Out
Posted May 21, 2013
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|
2/5
|
63%
|
The Liability (2013) |
"
Roth's performance and handful of dry-as-a-bone one-liners keep it from the straight-to-DVD pile. Just."
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Time Out
Posted May 14, 2013
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|
3/5
|
97%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
From this classy hostage movie, we learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates, and - perhaps more usefully - how to do male public displays of affection, Scandi-style."
—
Time Out
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
The Look of Love (2013) |
"
There's something a bit over-familiar here - in a solidly entertaining, made-for-telly, nothing-we-haven't-seen-before, way."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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3/5
|
42%
|
Flying Blind () |
"
As drama, it's thin and unconvincing, but still, more McCrory please."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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3/5
|
89%
|
Shell () |
"
'Shell' never fully comes to life. And while Pirrie is brilliant, at 25, I didn't buy her as a teenager."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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|
4/5
|
93%
|
Lore (2013) |
"
It's a close, intimate film - sometimes so close you can feel the breath of its characters in your face."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
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4/5
|
98%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
The case has been widely reported but this is still an important film, laying out who knew what, and when. It's chilling: the conspiracy of silence goes all the way to the Vatican."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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|
3/5
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
However irritating 'This Is 40' is at times, there's a warmth that wins you over, and an honesty about families."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
46%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
This is campy and overcooked, boringly piling on special effects."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 13, 2013
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3/5
|
81%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
It's all very silly and sweet in that indie-nostalgic way that Levine ('The Wackness' and '50/50') has made his own."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
The Campaign (2012) |
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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|
3/5
|
38%
|
Paris Manhattan (2013) |
"
A fun, fluffy, but chic romantic comedy that looks so effortless."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
This is an instant classic."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2013
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|
4/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Tom Hooper gets a bit carried away with swoopy shots, and the close-ups are unrelenting, but crucially he lets the filth and the squalor in."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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4/5
|
100%
|
McCullin () |
"
What a man."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 18, 2012
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|
3/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
'30 Rock' and 'New Girl' writer Kay Cannon has created brilliant characters."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 18, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
I, Anna () |
"
The problem is the script, adapted from a novel and full of psychological gaps and dead-ends."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Up There () |
"
There's plenty to enjoy in the absurd quirkiness of 'Up There' but, as an elongated adaptation of Salim's own short film, its pleasures do start to wear thin."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Mental (2013) |
"
Wrong is wrong. And 'Mental' gets it wrong in too many ways."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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|
4/5
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
The acting is sparky and intelligent, with Cooper proving there's more to him than flashy good looks. As for Lawrence, she acts every role like there's a soulful storm raging inside of her."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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|
3/5
|
68%
|
Great Expectations (2013) |
"
The chief reason to watch Newell's film is for the impeccable acting."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 23, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
5 Broken Cameras (2012) |
"
A tough watch that'll leave you despairing of peace anytime soon."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Pusher (2012) |
"
Another cheap 'n' nasty London gangster flick."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
Kazan's script is observant about how we try to control relationships - making this a smart, modern movie. And how often can you say that about a romcom?"
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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