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2/5
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76%
|
Filth () |
"
Truly dirty work, in fact."
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This is London
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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|
4/5
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
A propulsive drama set in New York and San Francisco about a woman's self-destruction as a result of her inability to look truthfully at her own life. It's a serious warning, brutal even."
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This is London
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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|
3/5
|
80%
|
One Chance (2013) |
"
A lot of the film, especially the courtship of Potts and his Julz, is touching and funny. It works."
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This is London
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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|
2/5
|
3%
|
Diana (2013) |
"
Although [Watts] assiduously imitates Diana's walk and cadences, her martyred-saint sideways and upwards looks, she just never seems mad or posh or even English enough. She's too nice, too normal."
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This is London
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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|
3/5
|
76%
|
How I Live Now (2013) |
"
Daisy, urban, punky and sulky before she turns native, is played by 19-year-old Saoirse Ronan - and she's brilliantly watchable"
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This is London
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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|
4/5
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
It's both touching and ludicrous and it shows that we lost in Gandolfini an accomplished comedian we barely knew."
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This is London
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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|
2/5
|
35%
|
The Fifth Estate (2013) |
"
Watching people do stuff with computers isn't just as boring as watching paint dry, it's a lot more irritating."
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This is London
Posted Sep 6, 2013
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|
4/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Just as the creation of a future nightmare, one that disturbingly resembles the world we already know, Elysium is masterful - definitely worth seeing."
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This is London
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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|
2/5
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
"But did we make the world a better place?" they keep asking each other. Kick-Ass 2 sure doesn't."
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This is London
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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|
3/5
|
62%
|
About Time (2013) |
"
You might feel you've seen it all before but you can always play spot the difference."
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This is London
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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|
4/5
|
84%
|
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () |
"
Steve Coogan is so good at making Alan simultaneously repellent and endearing: his rubbery mug alone justifies the big screen."
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This is London
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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|
4/5
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
Like it or not, this is a study in weakness, submission, impotence, symbolic castration even."
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This is London
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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|
4/5
|
93%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
Frances Ha might well strike some viewers as ridiculously twee and tiresomely indulgent to its immature heroine. Not me, though. I'm happy to be enchanted."
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This is London
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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|
3/5
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
if you loved Shaun and Hot Fuzz, don't hesitate. You need some affection for men who are having problems growing up, perhaps."
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This is London
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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|
2/5
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
If it's human drama you like ... you'll be less richly served. "
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This is London
Posted Jul 12, 2013
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|
2/5
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
Soon reveals itself to be grimly repetitious, simply showing these kids stealing, then partying, taking pictures of themselves and putting them on Facebook, over and over again, until they are caught."
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This is London
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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|
4/5
|
95%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
What saves it is our realisation that it isn't just a documentary."
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This is London
Posted Jun 28, 2013
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|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
It's one of the most gruelling and disturbing films you will ever see but, if you want the truth, essential."
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This is London
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Before Midnight (2013) |
"
So much better written than contemporary novels, this film is a literary as well as cinematic achievement to cherish. For grown-ups."
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This is London
Posted Jun 22, 2013
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|
3/5
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
Some films make you wish you were 12 again so you could appreciate them as they deserve."
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This is London
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone () |
"
It's an adulatory recording of the band - that's right, he adores them - but it's much more than that."
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This is London
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
As a sketch of life on the margins in a tatty seaside resort, it works well enough. As an action pic, though, it's just too slow, too long."
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This is London
Posted May 31, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
The problem is that in such a raucous adaptation, the cast can only act coarsely, too."
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This is London
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
In a more or less wholly libertarian society of the kind we now have in the West, the very idea of camping it up like this seems unnecessary, therefore tiresome."
—
This is London
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Reactionary fantasy, then - but what else are action films for?"
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This is London
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
The Look of Love (2013) |
"
The Soho of the Seventies is lovingly recreated, Coogan sports a truly dreadful mullet, and there's a lovely cameo by David Walliams as a salacious vicar."
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This is London
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Although the film is derivative and predictable, it nonetheless makes no sense whatsoever in the end."
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This is London
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
You start the film wondering what the moral take on all this uninventive debauchery is going to be - is it a satire? - but then realise with dismay there is no take on offer at all."
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This is London
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
It's trippily entertaining but vanishes up its own tricksiness. What will the blessed Boyle do next?"
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This is London
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
A story of derring do and social climbing, serving as an excuse for colossal battles with a load more orcs, the true purpose of the movie."
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This is London
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
It may yet become a camp classic, if no other kind."
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This is London
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
This movie is pure hokum, just as Hitchcock's great originals are, but you only realise this after - just like all the people in the film - you have been thoroughly hooked and duped yourself."
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This is London
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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|
4/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Arbitrage is a slick, intelligent psychological thriller that works to connect public and private immorality."
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This is London
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
66%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
Fantasy-fiction audiences might enjoy seeing Cloud Atlas repeatedly, I suspect, picking up more clues each time."
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This is London
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
It's a sitcom, then, with no real story or structure."
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This is London
Posted Feb 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
What Gervasi and his scriptwriter John McLaughlin bring to the table are banality and predictability, quintessentially non-Hitchcockian qualities."
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This is London
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Here, after the truly alarming crash sequence, there are no special effects, just deft and committed film-making, letting us see steadily in long takes."
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This is London
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Terrifically good, propulsive film-making ..."
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This is London
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Tarantino's best for ages, absolutely not to be missed."
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This is London
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
It made me bad-tempered for two days, a personal record."
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This is London
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
This is a simple story quite brilliantly told."
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This is London
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Lee is a wizard, Life of Pi is an incredible spectacle and the technical effects are brilliant."
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This is London
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Jackson has delivered plenty more of the big setpieces that fans loved in the trilogy, albeit at the cost of making The Hobbit far more imperial and epic than it needs to be."
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This is London
Posted Dec 14, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
There's not much point to a meta-film once the actual film has ceased to grip."
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This is London
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Sightseers (2013) |
"
Brilliantly funny and perturbing ..."
—
This is London
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
Seeing it a second time has made me love it even more, not always the case."
—
This is London
Posted Nov 23, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
It is unequivocally a masterpiece."
—
This is London
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Surprisingly enjoyable, given that you may have little prior commitment to this story and only mildly fancy Affleck."
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This is London
Posted Nov 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
It doesn't ultimately make any sense at all and, for me, its charm wasn't enough to sustain the whole ramshackle structure."
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This is London
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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