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3/5
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30%
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Emperor (2013) |
"
It's all done with care and authentic Japanese locations ... But there's scant drama."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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4/5
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100%
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The Crash Reel () |
"
Lucy Walker has assembled one of the great sporting docs - partly because its scope extends beyond the slopes."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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3/5
|
100%
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Metro Manila (2013) |
"
It's pacy, engrossing, and Jake Macapagal's turn as the plucky schmuck protagonist is stellar"
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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2/5
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44%
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The Call (2013) |
"
Just when the movie has us in its grasp, the script falls to pieces and turns into a crass female-in-peril button-pusher."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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3/5
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100%
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The Big Risk (Classe tous risques) (1960) |
"
Sautet's characteristic restraint lacks the killer snap of Melville at his best, and the impetus rather flags as events proceed."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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3/5
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73%
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Borrowed Time () |
"
A sweet-natured character study that's altogether charming, if not exactly hard-edged."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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2/5
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68%
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The Artist and the Model (2013) |
"
That old arthouse chestnut, about the restorative power of naked young women, gets another outing in this pretty but superficial musing on the creative process."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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4/5
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92%
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Museum Hours (2013) |
"
Its encouragement to let ourselves be captivated by everyday humanity as well as the old masters is both richly illuminating and quirkily endearing."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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2/5
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50%
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Jadoo () |
"
No shortage of appetising ingredients here, yet the execution sadly fails to make the most of them."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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5/5
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85%
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Upstream Color (2013) |
"
The most visually imaginative American film since David Lynch's Eraserhead."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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3/5
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50%
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When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2012) |
"
A lengthy, demanding but worthwhile film ... admirably clear-headed about the deep splits within the Tibetan opposition."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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3/5
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93%
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Kuma () |
"
The true-life subject matter makes for chewy drama while also exploring the issue of women's rights."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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2/5
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63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
In this star vehicle for Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, the headlights are on full beam but the engine is struggling in second gear."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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3/5
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93%
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Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope) () |
"
Seidl gestures towards understanding rather than confrontation - turning in a slighter, softer-grained film than its predecessors, but no worse for it."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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4/5
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93%
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Frances Ha (2013) |
"
A film that's well aware of its own hipness, but never too cool to laugh and cry."
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Radio Times
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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|
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100%
|
Törst (Thirst) (Three Strange Loves) (1949) |
"
On balance, his strongest offering of the 1940s. "
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Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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|
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100%
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En Lektion i Kärlek (A Lesson in Love) (1954) |
"
A minor but mostly agreeable picture, which finds Bergman gearing up for his altogether more resonant exercise in wise comedy, Smiles of a Summer Night."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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|
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80%
|
Hamnstad (Port of Call) (1948) |
"
It's no less schematic than it sounds, but solid performances and straightforward handling make Bergman's fourth feature the most fully achieved, though hardly most characteristic, of his fledgling film career to that point."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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|
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40%
|
Kris (Crisis) (1946) |
"
Don't just take our word for it. 'A bona fide fiasco,' was Bergman's own assessment of his directorial debut."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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3/5
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58%
|
Viramundo () |
"
'Viramundo' makes up in sheer warmth what it lacks in incisiveness."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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3/5
|
69%
|
Days Of Grace (Dias De Gracia) (2011) |
"
The dizzying narrative pings hither and thither, with first-time director Gout confidently deploying different screen ratios and film stocks to remind the audience where they are in the timeline."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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4/5
|
86%
|
Easy Money (2012) |
"
It's gripping stuff - even if the original title 'Snabba Cash' is way cooler than the English one."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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4/5
|
100%
|
The Deep () |
"
A film as uplifting, dramatic and mysterious as the startling events on which it is based."
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Radio Times
Posted Jul 12, 2013
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3/5
|
46%
|
Cleopatra (1963) |
"
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, for good and ill. "
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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4/5
|
95%
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We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) |
"
This thorough, engrossing film shows how idealistic Aussie hacker Julian Assange took on the might of the US, exposing their military and diplomatic misconduct, then allowed his own murky personal life to tarnish his credibility."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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4/5
|
78%
|
Monsters University (2013) |
"
It has enough of the right stuff to haunt the imagination long after the immediate buzz of its fluffy-furred cuteness has melted away. For a mere prequel, that's a result. "
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Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
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1/5
|
21%
|
Bula Quo! () |
"
Not so much a movie, more a pub chat that got way out of hand, this ludicrous attempt to plonk veteran rockers Status Quo in an exotic international thriller is so laughably lame it verges on the surreal."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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4/5
|
72%
|
The Wall (2013) |
"
This mesmerising, austere and contemplative film provides a rarefied yet utterly immersive viewing experience."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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2/5
|
50%
|
Now You See Me (2013) |
"
Bustling, glittery, uninvolving."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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2/5
|
49%
|
Redemption (2013) |
"
Kudos to Statham for having a go, but this is fitfully successful at best."
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Radio Times
Posted Jun 28, 2013
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3/5
|
100%
|
Lal gece (Night of Silence) () |
"
Humane empathy carries the story along, and occasional spectacular moments when the film steps out of the bedroom raise the hope that Çelik gets the chance to work on a wider scale soon."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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3/5
|
72%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
Thanks to ace Taiwanese cameraman Mark Ping Bing Lee, it conveys the inspirational qualities of sun-dappled light and rosy flesh."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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4/5
|
94%
|
Shun LI And The Poet (2013) |
"
Segre's film captures the misty elision of land and sea in the Veneto lagoon and how it perfectly expresses the characters' yearning placelessness."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 19, 2013
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2/5
|
57%
|
I Am Nasrine () |
"
Worthwhile ideas, but lax execution lets it down."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 19, 2013
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3/5
|
52%
|
Thérèse (2013) |
"
Tautou's central performance [is] utterly mesmerising as her implacable inner demons push her into conflict with everything around her."
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Radio Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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1/5
|
7%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
It's not the sheer predictability of the ensuing frolics that's hardest to take, or even the dismal attempts at humour ... but the sheer misery of watching actors you once respected demean themselves in such utterly worthless fodder."
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Time Out
Posted May 29, 2013
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2/5
|
33%
|
Benjamin Britten: Peace And Conflict () |
"
Promising in theory, but clunky writing and direction in the boyhood flashbacks combines with seemingly arbitrary time-shifts to make this a turgid viewing experience."
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Time Out
Posted May 21, 2013
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4/5
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
This is a junior adventure story echoing Huckleberry Finn and Stand By Me, a tale which is in no hurry to unfold, but beautifully done, exquisitely performed, and filled with terror and wonder."
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Radio Times
Posted May 16, 2013
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4/5
|
97%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
The results are gripping, with the action growing increasingly tense as gun-toting violence looms."
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Radio Times
Posted May 16, 2013
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5/5
|
100%
|
Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954) |
"
Rossellini stealthily ushers us towards a sense of heady affirmation so primal that 'romance' isn't a strong enough word for it."
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Time Out
Posted May 8, 2013
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2/5
|
38%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
A way-too-leisurely thriller whose destination is fairly obvious from early on, but to which the talented cast apply themselves with effortful seriousness."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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4/5
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
The cliché-averse will doubtless resist, but the laughter and tears here are never less than fully earned. A lovely film."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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2/5
|
33%
|
Home (Yurt) () |
"
The story is too vague and episodic, though it is told with sincerity and passion."
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Radio Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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3/5
|
94%
|
First Position (2012) |
"
Undeniably effective as drama, as we ponder the varying degrees of ambition and talent driving these young people to push their bodies beyond the limit in the hope of grasping a future in the spotlight."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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2/5
|
33%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
Odd indeed."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
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2/5
|
29%
|
All Things To All Men () |
"
The spiralling plot becomes increasingly academic while it seems to think it's being terribly clever."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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4/5
|
88%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
A witty, naughty, insight-packed provocation which never takes its seriousness too seriously."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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3/5
|
54%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
The film does come across as an evidently sincere attempt to create a new kind of cinema, but opinion will certainly vary on whether Reygadas really does offer, as his title suggests, light after darkness."
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Radio Times
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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1/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
It saddles Bateman with a thankless uptight straight-man role while heaping serial slapstick ignominies on his co-star, who gamely bounds through everything the script throws at her."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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