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3/5
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74%
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Greenberg (2010) |
"
A film of powerful, memorable moments -- some striking dialogue, some great performances, a handful of beautifully played, bracingly discomfiting love scenes -- in search of a structure and, perhaps, a soul."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2010
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2/5
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70%
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Ondine (2010) |
"
A clunky third-act shift into thriller territory only makes 'Ondine' more confused: ambitious and deeply felt, to be sure, but also winsome and wildly uneven."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 5, 2010
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2/5
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71%
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The Crazies (2010) |
"
There's too much story and key details are absent or underexplained. Though far from unwatchable, The Crazies feels like a missed opportunity."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2010
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4/5
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91%
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Crazy Heart (2009) |
"
Crazy Heart feels familiar, even comforting, offering few surprises but a wealth of lovingly crafted, immaculately judged, wholly authentic emotion."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 19, 2010
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3/5
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66%
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Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
The tone throughout is moderately quirky rather than full-on teen-flick vulgarian, bolstered by indie-cred cameos."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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4/5
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100%
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Oil City Confidential (2009) |
"
What emerges is a film to rank alongside Temple's own Joe Strummer elegy 'The Future is Unwritten' as the very best in British rock documentary. Riveting, even if you don't like the music."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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4/5
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84%
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The Princess and the Frog (2009) |
"
Randy Newman's songs are a little too blandly Randy Newman-ish and the story is uneven, but there are some great characters, some even better jokes, a general sense of good humour and that entrancing, eye-ravishing old-school animation."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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4/5
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83%
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Ddongpari (Breathless) (2009) |
"
Blending a thoughtful cycle-of-violence subplot with a piercing study of how even the most hateful and isolated people inevitably affect those around them, 'Breathless' is a challenging, dynamic experience."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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4/5
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95%
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Crude (2009) |
"
A bleak, necessarily incomplete tale, and suffers from a late intrusion by celebrity eco-botherer Trudi Styler. But with this gripping, angry film, Berlinger has put himself back on the side of the angels."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2010
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2/5
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6%
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All About Steve (2009) |
"
Mary is a memorable comic creation for all the wrong reasons: glibly written, offensively characterised and bizarrely dressed, she's the classic screwball ditz taken to grotesque and at times unwatchable extremes."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2010
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4/5
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76%
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) |
"
You don't need to be a fan of Dury's music to enjoy 'Sex & Drugs...'. This is just gorgeous, celebratory cinema, unfettered and courageous, if unashamedly scattershot, much like the man himself."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 8, 2010
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3/5
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75%
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The Road (2009) |
"
Hillcoat's movie is a resounding triumph. Stunning landscape photography sets the melancholy mood, and Nick Cave's wrenching score reinforces it. But it is the performances that ultimately hold the film together."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 8, 2010
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2/5
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21%
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Spread (2009) |
"
Shallow, melodramatic, pretentious and wildly misguided, it's also ambitious, entertaining and rather funny."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2010
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4/5
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79%
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Humpday (2009) |
"
What finally lifts 'Humpday' above macho junk like 'The Hangover' is its all-inclusive warmth: for all their adolescent self-delusion, Shelton truly loves these characters. And after 90 minutes, so will you."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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2/5
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83%
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Avatar (2009) |
"
Cameron's signature achievement may have been to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the oldest of all Hollywood maxims: all the money in the world is no subsitute for fresh ideas and a solid script."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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2/5
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74%
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Unmade Beds (2009) |
"
There's real promise in 'Unmade Beds': the photography is luminous, the direction loose but involving, the acting superb. But ultimately it's a joyless, indulgent film about joyless, indulgent people."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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5/5
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98%
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The Red Shoes (1948) |
"
Blending impressionist art and expressionist film, blurring the barriers between theatre and cinema, body and camera, reality and dream, drawing equally on the avant-garde and the classical."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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3/5
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64%
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The Merry Gentleman (2009) |
"
A flawed but decidedly promising first movie."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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2/5
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15%
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Mr. Right (2006) |
"
Most disastrous is the script, which carries about as much dramatic weight as an episode of 'Heartbeat'."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 27, 2009
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4/5
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48%
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Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
This may be a minor movie, but it displays the hallmarks of a major talent."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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3/5
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21%
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Amelia (2009) |
"
Inoffensive, arcane and ultimately rather sweet, 'Amelia' is one to take your grandmother to."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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4/5
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39%
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2012 (2009) |
"
Bigger, louder, crazier and more wildly exhilarating than anything previously attempted."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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4/5
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100%
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L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno) (2010) |
"
What survives is a striking cautionary tale for budding filmmakers and a haunting evocation of experimentation run amok."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 6, 2009
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2/5
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57%
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9 (2009) |
"
This film will surely be remembered as an intriguing failure: a triumph of ambition over ability, of ideas over emotional resonance - just another grim fairy tale for these troubled times."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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3/5
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38%
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"
There are also so many characters that some barely register, while others - like our teen hero - are just unlikeable. It's very energetic, but a more relaxed sequel, in which everyone has fun, might be a big improvement."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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4/5
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81%
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Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
A rollicking, hysterical splatter-sex-comedy only confirms 'Thirst' as one of the year's more extreme, enjoyable entertainments."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 16, 2009
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2/5
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64%
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
It's unlikely Gilliam's own, undeniably brilliant career will be revitalised by this rambling, undisciplined and indulgent piece of work."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 16, 2009
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3/5
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46%
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Management (2009) |
"
There's more to Stephen Belber's debut than just manufactured whimsy, not least a wise and witty script, and some beautifully sketched side characters supporting two reliably charming leads."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 25, 2009
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4/5
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87%
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"
'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' may not scale the artistic heights of a 'Finding Nemo' or 'Wall-E', but it's the most satisfying and original non-Pixar CG animated movie to hit screens in a while."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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2/5
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25%
|
Blind Dating (2007) |
"
Pleasant but forgettable, it's destined to end up as little more than a minor footnote on Pine's megastar CV."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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3/5
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60%
|
Shank (2009) |
"
'Shank' has a lot more to say than the average no-budget gangland exposé, resulting in a film which, for all its clichés, feels surprisingly real."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2009
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2/5
|
21%
|
Sorority Row (2009) |
"
A booty-shakin', text-messagin', Facebook-referencin' multiplex moneyspinner for undemanding twenty-first-century teens."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2009
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3/5
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20%
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The Red Baron (Der rote Baron) (2008) |
"
So while the earthbound sequences may drag, when 'The Red Baron' takes to the skies, it soars."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2009
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4/5
|
91%
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District 9 (2009) |
"
Perhaps we're witnessing a new dawn for politically engaged sci-fi and horror, with Blomkamp as a latter-day George Romero. Either way, this is a stunningly impressive debut."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2009
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3/5
|
68%
|
Funny People (2009) |
"
This is a generous, goodhearted, enjoyable movie, loaded with memorable characters and genuine wit. But there's such a thing as giving a little too much."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 29, 2009
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3/5
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29%
|
The Final Destination (2009) |
"
The film's 15 certificate is surprisingly generous. But this is harmless, inventive fun, a rollercoaster ride on the 3D bandwagon, before the wheels fall off."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 29, 2009
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2/5
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31%
|
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"
Fleeting charms are largely outweighed by an unexceptional script, a brace of shabby performances (from both kids and adults) and some dismal CG effects."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 14, 2009
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2/5
|
15%
|
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) |
"
How could one hate a film where a giant shark jumps out of the sea and brings down a plane?"
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Time Out
Posted Aug 7, 2009
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3/5
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34%
|
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"
'GI Joe' is big, dumb, loud and utterly relentless: basically, everything you could ever want from a summer blockbuster."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 7, 2009
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2/5
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51%
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"
'The Taking of Pelham 123' is not a bad film: it's ponderous and shallow, but always watchable. But what it crucially fails to do, especially in the light of its illustrious predecessor, is justify its own existence."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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1/5
|
85%
|
Skin (2009) |
"
Director Anthony Fabian and his team of writers have lost sight of the conflicts inherent in her story, relying on TV-movie cliché and tired, unsuccessful attempts at emotional manipulation."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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3/5
|
86%
|
The Blues Brothers (1980) |
"
The film retains a huge nostalgic kick, thanks in large part to Aykroyd and Belushi's easy rapport, a smattering of daft, shaggy humour and some truly iconic musical sequences."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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5/5
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97%
|
Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land (Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country) (2008) |
"
It's a flawlessly constructed piece of work, as relentlessly gripping as it is educational, a righteous and even uplifting paean to the continued importance of collective protest."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 17, 2009
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4/5
|
85%
|
Soul Power (2009) |
"
As a concert film it's unparalleled: a stunningly photographed, soul-stirring celebration."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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5/5
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95%
|
Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985) |
"
Graced with a throbbing orchestral score from Philip Glass and John Bailey's luminous photography, this is appropriately monumental filmmaking."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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2/5
|
14%
|
Year One (2009) |
"
'Year One' wants to be seen as a freeform, knockabout trawl through Biblical history, perfect for an undemanding Saturday night. There are only two problems: it's kind of dull and just isn't funny."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2009
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3/5
|
80%
|
Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y Chocolate) (1994) |
"
While the central story may lack edge, 'Strawberry and Chocolate' remains an entertaining, thoughtful take on the absurdity of confusing sexuality and politics."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2009
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3/5
|
20%
|
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
While it would be hard to make a case for 'Revenge of the Fallen' as 'good' in any normal sense of the word, it possesses such brute force that the viewer is left with two options: surrender, or suffer in silence."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 19, 2009
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3/5
|
37%
|
Gigantic (2009) |
"
'Gigantic' is a film that succeeds by wearing the viewer down, as an infuriatingly coy, self-conscious first act gives way to a sweet and affecting climax."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 19, 2009
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