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3/5
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93%
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For Those In Peril () |
"
As a portrait of encroaching mental illness, For Those in Peril works superbly."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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3/5
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73%
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Forget Me Not (2011) |
"
Ambitious it ain't, but Forget Me Not is a modest, memorable and rather moving slice of DIY cinema."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 25, 2013
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3/5
|
90%
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Hawking (2013) |
"
The focus is on Hawking's scientific achievements and celebrity status at the expense of much emotional content, but it's hardly fair to expect a warts-and-all portrait"
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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3/5
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50%
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White House Down (2013) |
"
If all you're after is a pair of mismatched heroes wisecracking their way through a series of explosive, well-mounted set pieces, look no further."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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4/5
|
86%
|
The Great Hip Hop Hoax () |
"
The hoax may have fallen flat, but the insights Boyd and Bain's story offers into creativity, commerce, obsession and insanity are unique and unmissable."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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2/5
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
It's flavourless: the aliens are unscary and easily despatched, Vin's too silent to be interesting, and the other characters are either dull or offensive."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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4/5
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
This isn't just the best-looking film of the year, it's one of the most awe-inspiring achievements in the history of special-effects cinema."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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3/5
|
30%
|
Hammer Of The Gods (2013) |
"
It's hardly high art, but for a cheapjack homegrown action flick this is surprisingly solid."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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5/5
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85%
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Bonjour Tristesse (1958) |
"
The final shot is one of the most convincingly grief-stricken in cinema."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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3/5
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
The first hour may be Bay's career high point: it's fast, freaky, gloriously tasteless and startlingly pointed in its attacks on western insecurity, shallowness and greed."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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3/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
[A] conceptually bold, sporadically engaging but ultimately bland blockbuster. "
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Time Out
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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3/5
|
84%
|
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () |
"
Has plenty to recommend it, thanks to a string of memorable one-liners and Coogan's unmatched knack for skin-crawling physical comedy. But this is a long way from the back-of-the-net strike it should have been."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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1/5
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38%
|
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
The young cast are smug and forgettable; the action sequences barely get going before they're over; and the whole affair is riddled with product placement and pop cultural references ..."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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2/5
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31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
Frustrating, lazy and lifeless."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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2/5
|
61%
|
My Father and the Man in Black (2013) |
"
The result will amuse hardcore Cash fans, but few others."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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3/5
|
57%
|
The Frozen Ground (2013) |
"
This is an unambitious, old-school thriller, nothing more and nothing less."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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3/5
|
88%
|
Springsteen And I (2013) |
"
All the little blue-collar Bosses and Bossettes out there in Jungleland will lap up this lively low-budget love letter."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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4/5
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
This is a tighter, smarter film than either 'Shaun of the Dead' or 'Hot Fuzz', and buried beneath all the blue-goo aliens and terrible punning is a heartfelt meditation on the perils and pleasures of nostalgia."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2013
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3/5
|
56%
|
Citadel (2012) |
"
Despite its defiantly un-PC 'fear-a-hoodie' message, the film nails its urban setting, filling every frame with a richly sustained sense of despair, decay and dread."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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|
3/5
|
72%
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Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
If Del Toro is pitching for an audience of 12-year-old boys (and we do mean boys: this is old-school macho), he's done a bang-up job."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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4/5
|
85%
|
A Field in England () |
"
This is a film built on sensation, misdirection and randomness. The result can be maddeningly obtuse, but it's also breathtakingly lovely and genuinely unsettling."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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|
3/5
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
No comedy classic, then, but a good natured and engaging slice of goonish self-mockery."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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4/5
|
88%
|
The Battle Of The Sexes () |
"
A smart, gripping and enormously enjoyable parable."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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|
3/5
|
48%
|
Black Rock (2013) |
"
'Black Rock' is never dull, but it's hardly the attention-grabbing calling card its creator presumably intended."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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2/5
|
41%
|
Spike Island () |
"
None of this ever feels remotely honest or real."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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3/5
|
25%
|
009 Re: Cyborg () |
"
It's beautifully animated - the climactic sequence in Earth orbit is breathtaking - and its philosophical digressions are fascinating, if completely bananas."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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2/5
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
Most disappointing is the film's lack of ambition, as what could have been a sparky mainstream space opera becomes just another tedious jungle chase movie."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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|
3/5
|
53%
|
The Comedian () |
"
For all its honesty, the film feels frustratingly incomplete, a great character in search of a story."
—
Time Out
Posted May 29, 2013
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3/5
|
55%
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
"
There's much to enjoy in 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist': fine photography, juicy supporting turns from Kiefer Sutherland and Om Puri, and a powerfully sustained sense of a man adrift in a world going mad."
—
Time Out
Posted May 8, 2013
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|
3/5
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
It's undeniably entertaining - and worth seeing for Kingsley alone - with the misfires never fully overshadowing the moments of glory."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 22, 2013
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4/5
|
95%
|
L'ordre et la morale (Rebellion) () |
"
It's superbly structured and consistently suspenseful, offering keen insight into a conflict most of us won't even be aware of. Welcome back, Mathieu."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
Fuck For Forest () |
"
A fascinating, timely film."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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|
3/5
|
73%
|
Simon Killer (2013) |
"
The overall sense
of chilly disengagement becomes trying, and there's a last-minute switch that suggests that Campos is trying to have his croissant and eat it."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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|
4/5
|
82%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Carefully observed and consistently compelling, it feels like an instant American classic, if a minor one."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
Time and again, Stewart squanders the opportunity to do anything remotely interesting or worthwhile ..."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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|
3/5
|
78%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
The result is a perfectly serviceable, well acted melodrama - but why so serious?"
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Good Vibrations () |
"
An impassioned, funny and monumentally likable myth-making comedy."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
It looks as though some bright spark at Joe HQ decided that what the series needed was to lose its fun, post-'Team America' self-awareness and replace it with unironic jingoism, military-fetish hardware and heavy-handed nods to real world events."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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4/5
|
92%
|
O Som ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds) (2012) |
"
The film promises a little more than it delivers, and at over two hours there are moments where it drags. But as a statement of intent, 'Neighbouring Sounds' is incredibly bold."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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|
3/5
|
50%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
When it's over, all you'll remember is a whole lot of gunfire and shouting."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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|
2/5
|
36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
In the end, there's nothing here beyond the obvious riches-to-rags, friendship-lost-and-found, celebrity-rivalry clichés."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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3/5
|
83%
|
Babeldom () |
"
As a philosophical statement it lacks freshness, and voiceover artist Mark Caven's overcooked delivery doesn't help. One for fans of the form, perhaps."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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|
4/5
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
A riveting, horrifying film, shot through with beautifully observed moments of unwelcome truth."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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|
2/5
|
29%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
Somewhere in here there's a cogent, timely attack on the links between business and politics."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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4/5
|
66%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
A film which piles on the action, the romance, the philosophical inquiry and the silly accents until the viewer is left punch-drunk and reeling. Seriously, what's not to love?"
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
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|
1/5
|
0%
|
Run For Your Wife () |
"
Run for the exit."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
I Wish (2012) |
"
Every performance works, every character fits, every observation rings true."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
'Flight' is predictable in its plotting and soft in its conclusions. But thanks to that dynamite opening and Washington's effortless performance, it's also an enjoyable, compelling slice of old-school melodrama."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 30, 2013
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|
3/5
|
37%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Somewhat uneven and ultimately underwhelming, but there's plenty to admire and enjoy here nonetheless."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 29, 2013
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