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4/5
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76%
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Filth () |
"
You'll be scraping this film out from under your fingernails for weeks."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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3/5
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77%
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Kelly + Victor () |
"
It's not all convincing. Campbell-Hughes (remote, brittle) is odd casting ... But once we're in the bedroom, the film takes on a shocking, bold air."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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4/5
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91%
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Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
You have to dig deep in Allen's back catalogue to find a single performance as affecting and well-judged as the one Cate Blanchett delivers."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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3/5
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86%
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Young & Beautiful (Jeune Et Jolie) () |
"
It's to Ozon's credit that he never serves up easy answers, and even after ample scenes of sex and showdowns with those closest to Isabelle, and even a scene with a psychologist, we're none the wiser as to what's driving her."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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4/5
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88%
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Rush (2013) |
"
Fast, slippery, stormy and dangerous. "
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Time Out
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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4/5
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89%
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Locke () |
"
This is a masterclass in how the most local, most hemmed-in stories can reverberate with the power of big, universal themes."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 8, 2013
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4/5
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100%
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The Stuart Hall Project () |
"
Akomfrah finds an imaginative way of telling Hall's story.'"
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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5/5
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88%
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Under the Skin () |
"
An intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime. "
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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5/5
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91%
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The Great Beauty () |
"
Sorrentino is so often compared to Fellini that it feels right that he has made the city of 'La Dolce Vita' the focus for this heady, beautiful, entrancing film."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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3/5
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58%
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The Zero Theorem () |
"
A lo-fi, future-tech farce with an air of high-end cyber panto. "
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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4/5
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93%
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Philomena (2013) |
"
A terrifically moving film that has a fitting earthbound feel to it as well as a barely suppressed anger at crimes inflicted on the powerless"
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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4/5
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100%
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Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1996) |
"
It's Delon -- impossibly beautiful, impossible to read, cold, cool -- who steals the film."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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2/5
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56%
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Morrissey 25: Live (2013) |
"
Even if the performances range from rousing to ropey, watching the cult of Mozza in action still offers some unintended pleasures."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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4/5
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89%
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Mahanagar (The Big City) (The Great City) (1967) |
"
Ray's style is direct, realist and sympathetic."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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3/5
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27%
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Planes (2013) |
"
An endearing enough David-and-Goliath tale, aimed squarely at younger kids. "
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Time Out
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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3/5
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62%
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About Time (2013) |
"
In Curtis's hands, time travel is really a way of learning how to live a better life. (Strangely, though, we're not meant to think there's anything creepy about playing puppetmaster with people's lives.) "
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Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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4/5
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90%
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Silence () |
"
Enigmatic and rewarding."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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3/5
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79%
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Foxfire () |
"
In lesser hands, the same story could feel like a misguided, girl-power exploitation flick."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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1/5
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40%
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Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
Style over substance doesn't really tell the half of it: you can bathe a corpse in groovy light and dress it in an expensive suit, but in the end that rotting smell just won't go away."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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3/5
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81%
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The Moo Man () |
"
Some may find it a soothing counterpoint to the heady agricultural storylines on 'The Archers'. Udders may be more discerning."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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4/5
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100%
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Les Invisibles () |
"
It's an inspiring, often surprising watch."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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5/5
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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) |
"
The conflict between logic and the unknowable is as fascinating and exciting for us as it clearly is for Herzog."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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3/5
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98%
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Before Midnight (2013) |
"
Hawke and Delpy remain as charming as ever, and their combined goofiness is more endearing than annoying."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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4/5
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56%
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Man of Steel (2013) |
"
'Man of Steel' is punchy, engaging and fun, even if it slips into a final 45 minutes of explosions and fights during which reason starts to vanish and the science gets muddy."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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4/5
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95%
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Behind the Candelabra (2013) |
"
It's both a romp and uncomfortably real."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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3/5
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67%
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The Iceman (2013) |
"
Even the always-watchable Shannon can't give much life to Kuklinski's two-dimensional presence: he's little more than a series of murders and pained looks."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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4/5
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82%
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Something in the Air (2013) |
"
Free of nostalgia and not overly critical in hindsight, it captures the immediacy of youth in hugely endearing fashion."
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Time Out
Posted May 21, 2013
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5/5
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92%
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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
"
The Coens have given us a melancholic, sometimes cruel, often hilarious counterfactual version of music history. It's a what-if imagining of a cultural also-ran that maybe tells us more about the truth than the facts themselves ever could."
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Time Out
Posted May 20, 2013
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4/5
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98%
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Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) |
"
It's refreshing to watch a music doc, especially one with such intimate access to its subject, in which barely anyone is unreservedly polite about the person in question."
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Time Out
Posted May 14, 2013
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4/5
|
100%
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Village At The End Of The World () |
"
Much like its subject, this film by Sarah Gavron has a leisurely, warm pace."
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Time Out
Posted May 8, 2013
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|
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100%
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) |
"
It's a bold attempt to get inside the mind of someone who's losing theirs, and Hertzfeldt has a grip on the idea and reality of death that's deeply unsettling."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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3/5
|
92%
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Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
'Gimme the Loot' is ... meandering and a little shallow. And even at 79 minutes it feels a little too long for what's essentially the film equivalent of a short story."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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4/5
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87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
A stop-gap tale that's modest, fun and briefly amusing rather than one that breaks new ground or offers hugely memorable set pieces."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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3/5
|
100%
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White Elephant (2013) |
"
'White Elephant' throws us into the fray of an urban slum without in any way demonising or romanticising the theatre within which Trapero's meandering story unfolds."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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3/5
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66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
It's campy and comic at times, but Korine also gives the film a downbeat, melancholic edge, with voiceovers, pointed repetition of dialogue and images, and hallucinatory camera work, sound and editing."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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4/5
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73%
|
One Mile Away () |
"
Genuinely eye-opening."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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4/5
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68%
|
The Spirit of '45 () |
"
The film works all at once as a lament, a celebration and a wake-up call to modern politicians and voters."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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3/5
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62%
|
Broken (2013) |
"
Norris works hard to inject some joy and wonder into what could easily be a much more dark and miserable experience."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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4/5
|
91%
|
Caesar Must Die (2013) |
"
It's an arresting, playful and moving film ..."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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4/5
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83%
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The Road: A Story of Life & Death () |
"
More than a film about immigration, this is a film about London - a city where journeys begin as often as they end and where life's roads are far too unpredictable to be mapped."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
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4/5
|
100%
|
Gangs of Wasseypur () |
"
The storytelling is brisk and the language and violence are surprisingly frank for popular Indian cinema."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
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2/5
|
44%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
There's a phoniness to the film's people and places that keeps us at a fatal distance from the big ideas with which 'To the Wonder' seeks to engage us."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
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3/5
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94%
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Side by Side (2012) |
"
Keanu Reeves is a game frontman of this fact-filled, slightly chaotic doc about the rise of digital technology in film."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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2/5
|
14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
As workmanlike as men in fluorescent tabards repainting the white lines on the North Circular on a wet Tuesday."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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4/5
|
89%
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Lincoln (2012) |
"
'Lincoln' works as a snapshot of a great man without ever slipping into a portrait of sainthood."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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2/5
|
27%
|
Life Just Is () |
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Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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3/5
|
61%
|
Jig (2011) |
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Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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3/5
|
44%
|
Helen (2010) |
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Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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|
2/5
|
80%
|
We Are Poets () |
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Posted Jan 22, 2013
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