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4/5
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100%
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Le Week-End (2013) |
"
Such psychological candour gives Le Week-End gut punch. All three lead characters are brimful of insight."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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4/5
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88%
|
Life Of Crime () |
"
This is an unexpectedly winning take from one of the less splashy directors to have attempted Leonard."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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4/5
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96%
|
Sunshine on Leith () |
"
A remorselessly rousing attempt to do for the Scottish pub rock twins what Mamma Mia! did for Abba or Tommy for The Who."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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1/5
|
——
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Third Person () |
"
Third Person is a work of staggering trash; an ensemble drama with the aesthetic of an in-flight magazine, but less classy writing."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 11, 2013
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1/5
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36%
|
Devil's Knot () |
"
It reduces a complex and extraordinary case to soap. It makes you care less, for all its heavy-breathing and cheapo coaxing."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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2/5
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64%
|
August: Osage County (2013) |
"
Wells sacrifices flair to fidelity. Letts is one of the most formidable talents around today, but in handling his screenplay with such kid gloves, Wells puts a passenger in the driver's seat."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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4/5
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70%
|
Fading Gigolo () |
"
Turturro has given Allen his biggest and best on-screen turn in years: the part was written for him and it's full of scope for aimble kvetching and nimble slapstick."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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4/5
|
——
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The Railway Man () |
"
[An] extremely affecting and accomplished drama ..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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3/5
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67%
|
Labor Day (2013) |
"
Reitman must be aware of the potential for innuendo, and the leap of faith such earnestness asks of its audience. He dares us to care."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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4/5
|
85%
|
The Invisible Woman (2013) |
"
Fiennes has done the right and proper thing here. He has, at 50, made a mature movie, prudent in the best possible sense."
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Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 6, 2013
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3/5
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35%
|
The Fifth Estate (2013) |
"
This is highly competent catnip for the watercooler crowd."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 6, 2013
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4/5
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
For all the longueurs, there are still enough moments of near brilliance to sustain you through the trip."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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2/5
|
62%
|
About Time (2013) |
"
Curtis has managed to achieve the impossible. Specifically: he has gone back to 1993 and remade Groundhog Day with a ginger Hugh Grant."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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4/5
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
The Heat is lean, mean and completely uninterested in anything that isn't funny."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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4/5
|
84%
|
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () |
"
You'd expect an Alan Partridge movie to be funny. You wouldn't expect it to be a coup de cinema. And yet, in its own superficially low-brow, cheapo way, Alpha Papa is exactly that."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 24, 2013
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|
|
50%
|
Now You See Me (2013) |
"
A fairly unmagical couple of hours at the cinema."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
Coppola's dialogue is remorselessly authentic in its inanity, and this blankness runs deep in what finally feels a shallow film about shallow people."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
85%
|
A Field in England () |
"
Almost unbearable."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
72%
|
The Wall (2013) |
"
The sheer quantity of voiceover - or, more likely, subtitles - acts as a barrier to deep psychological immersion."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
——
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Tropicália () |
"
For beginners keen for a crash course, this hits every button with precision."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
21%
|
Bula Quo! () |
"
It's not often a brutal murder is soundtracked by a three-chord riff, but this amiable cobblers somehow gets away with it."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
79%
|
Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013) |
"
Smart and modulated, with attention given to the broader cultural background, and a platform offered to the rioters' detractors."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
38%
|
Paris Manhattan (2013) |
"
It's less affectionate homage than deeply freaky case study."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
|
|
|
75%
|
Paradise: Faith (2013) |
"
For believers, it'll be an essential tract. Such is its commitment even the sceptical can't help but be impressed through the retching."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
95%
|
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)(Every Man for Himself and God Against All) (1974) |
"
A compassionate, traumatic masterpiece, every frame amazing."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
30%
|
Chasing Mavericks (2012) |
"
While the religious undertones are largely drowned out by the endless spumy slo-mo and board porn, there's only one way this current is flowing: towards church."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
|
71%
|
Out in the Dark (2013) |
"
A tender gay romance conducted across the Gaza Strip that flips into thriller territory halfway through, to unsettling effect."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
|
|
|
35%
|
The Internship (2013) |
"
Getting explicit sponsorship from Google is one thing; acting as an extended ad for Silicon Valley's finest strip joint does seem a bit seedy."
—
Observer [UK]
Posted Jul 7, 2013
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|
4/5
|
79%
|
Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013) |
"
By the end, they are speaking with enormous precision and passion, an intellectual rigour miles superior to the work that landed them in trouble in the first place."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
7%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
Weddings can often be occasions of trauma, as well as joy, and so it proves with this ensemble comedy. Well - minus the joy, that is."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 23, 2013
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|
|
——
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Suzanne () |
"
The second feature from 33-year-old Katell Quillévéré, it's the sort of woozily shot, remorselessly emotional, acutely observed socio-realist soap that both confounds and confirms chick-flick prejudice."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
57%
|
Borgman () |
"
There's the frustrating sense of ideas bubbling too low beneath the surface, of mordant jokes serving as an end rather than a means."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 19, 2013
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|
1/5
|
46%
|
Jimmy P. () |
"
"How much longer do I have to stay here?" he enquires of a nurse at one point. You ask her, Jim, ask for us all."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2013
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|
4/5
|
60%
|
Heli () |
"
Squint, and the title makes more sense. Shut your eyes entirely to its horrors and you'll really miss out."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2013
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|
2/5
|
38%
|
The ABCs of Death (2013) |
"
It presents 26 disparate (read: in need of an editor) slices of dicing from 26 directors you've almost certainly never heard of (and indeed, the one you have - Ben Wheatley - feels tainted by association)."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Crawl (2011) |
"
A squeaky door steals the show."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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|
3/5
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
It is, in its way, a curious sort of auteurist cinema, in which a lone wolf (Cruise produces as well as stars) has taken an impeccably mainstream product and made it strange around him."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
27%
|
Life Just Is () |
"
Gogglingly boring and appallingly acted: if this is east London's answer to mumblecore, god help us."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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|
3/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
By the end, you feel like a piñata on the dancefloor: empty, in bits, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Some Guy Who Kills People (2012) |
"
In the sober light of day, the flaws here seem to glare and screech; under the right conditions, this is cheery genre fun."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
Almost every frame is astonishing."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Much Ado may be a bit of a B+ staple on the Shakespeare circuit, but Whedon - as well as improving student grades the world over - makes it feel second to none."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Everyday () |
"
This is a strange and stirring film, which combines a Malick-ish concern with the emotional import of nature with a rare charm and levity. Everyday is a red letter treat."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 13, 2012
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4/5
|
93%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
Noah Baumbach, making his most compassionate movie since 2005's The Squid and the Whale, gives these lives the full French new wave/mid-period Woody Allen treatment, conferring charm and substance on even their most mundane interaction."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
Hoffman has delivered a love letter to the elderly thesps of his adoptive country. We can forgive him its falsehoods."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 11, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
37%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Linney is terrific, and Murray, too, but he doesn't shy in showing that, in some respects, Roosevelt was as much the product of an earlier age as his buttoned-up house guests."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
There's a generous pinch of very funny lines, mostly bestowed on Robbins."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Midnight's Children (2013) |
"
Director Deepa Mehta slathers proceedings in a haze of period whimsy - sometimes engaging, sometimes less so."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
There are scenes of complete brilliance, Walken is better than he's been in years, cute plot loops and grace notes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 7, 2012
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