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73%
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
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"Annoyingly entertaining."
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Ed Whitfield
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50%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"Why didn't the maestro didn't just go the whole hog and rename it "Jazz Hands: A Love Story"? A bottle of your best champagne says he thought about it."
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Ed Whitfield
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99%
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Mud (2013)
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"As Mud might say, it's a hell of a thing."
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Ed Whitfield
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87%
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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"A bad cover of your favourite song."
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Ed Whitfield
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71%
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The Look of Love ()
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"The unedifying spectacle is cut with sadness."
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Ed Whitfield
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"Marvel's employed a core vote strategy with this movie: it's about keeping the audience they have rather than building on the one they've got."
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Ed Whitfield
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47%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
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"There's a single line of dialogue that interrogates America's sanctions against some of the poorest people in the world. And who said this kind of thing couldn't be thought provoking?"
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Ed Whitfield
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62%
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Evil Dead (2013)
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"The result is something less than the sum of its parts; in other words, the diametric opposite of that beloved original."
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Ed Whitfield
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34%
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Dark Skies (2013)
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"It could be a test case for copyright law."
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Ed Whitfield
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82%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)
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"Duck out at the 110 minute mark and don't look back."
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Ed Whitfield
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55%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"We must hope that the women don't get younger as Cruise gets older as the result could be illegal by the time he hits his seventies."
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Ed Whitfield
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28%
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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"The self-deprecating humour, including what sounds like an in-production bet to place lyrics from Tears for Fears and Queen songs in the mouths of the bad guys, means the film plays like a Bond movie written by Russell T Davis."
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Ed Whitfield
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68%
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Trance (2013)
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"Boyle's film is barking: the kind of story that could only have been dreamt up under hypnosis. "
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Ed Whitfield
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89%
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Compliance (2012)
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"The perfect companion piece to your copy of Fast Food Nation. "
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Ed Whitfield
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51%
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Welcome to the Punch (2013)
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"A thriller fashioned as the British Heat. Not too distinctive then but at least the cockney version dazzles as it regurgitates."
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Ed Whitfield
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40%
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Parker (2013)
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"Statham puts the fun back into discriminate, pornographic violence."
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Ed Whitfield
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59%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
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"Did anyone watch the 1939 movie and say, "it was good but I'm not satisfied that I know enough about the Wicked Witch of the West's early years"?"
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Ed Whitfield
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87%
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Arbitrage (2012)
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"An absorbing character study that teases some vicarious revenge on a perfidious member of the billionaire's club."
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Ed Whitfield
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14%
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
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"What will Terra Firma's new overlords think of us if, by some freak set of circumstances, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is all that remains of our once proud hominid civilisation? "
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Ed Whitfield
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67%
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Stoker (2013)
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"It's tempting to call this pure cinema but pure seems like the wrong word for a film that gleefully despoils its audience."
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Ed Whitfield
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66%
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Mama (2013)
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"It seems churlish to admonish Andrés Muschietti for pushing our buttons so effectively for much of the running time, but one wonders how many variations on this increasingly well-worn theme remain. "
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Ed Whitfield
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15%
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A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
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"All concerned should be dropped from the 30th floor of a high rise."
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Ed Whitfield
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63%
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I Give It a Year (2013)
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"I only wish this review could have had a happier ending."
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Ed Whitfield
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63%
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Hitchcock (2012)
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""A nice, clean, nasty piece of work" is how Hopkins' stand-in describes the superior film within the film. Gervasi's movie is just nice and clean and that's not nearly Hitchcockian enough for a film that carries the name."
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Ed Whitfield
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89%
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Lincoln (2012)
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"One never feels alive or inspired watching this history, merely intrigued, as if watching a film made for a museum exhibit."
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Ed Whitfield
|
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78%
|
Flight (2012)
|
""God help me" cries Denzel, as he contemplates his ruinous addiction but it might have been better if he'd helped us by instructing Zemeckis and Gatins not to be so heavy handed in the religious symbolism department. "
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Ed Whitfield
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93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013)
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"In the absence of cinematic grandeur and didacticism, we're left as empty and as lost as Chastain's agent as she boards a symbolically empty plane for an uncertain future. Just what are we to think of the so-called War on Terror?"
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Ed Whitfield
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59%
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The Last Stand (2013)
|
"The last stand? Poor Arnie looks as though he can barely stand."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012)
|
"Tarantino's made a great movie but an underwhelming film."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
69%
|
Les Misérables (2012)
|
"This is a Sing-A-Long Review. Press play on the backing track to "I dreamed a dream" before reading."
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Ed Whitfield
|
|
19%
|
Texas Chainsaw (2013)
|
"Texas Chainsaw 3D is the sort of movie that makes you wish they made kevler contact lenses. "
|
Ed Whitfield
|
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81%
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The Impossible (2012)
|
"Nothing beats God's eye for scale and perspective."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012)
|
"Did Gerard really leave the UK and a guaranteed pundit spot on Match of the Day for an automatous son and callous wife? Playing for Keeps asks difficult questions like these but provides no satisfying answers."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
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61%
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Jack Reacher (2012)
|
"What's missing? Chutzpah."
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Ed Whitfield
|
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012)
|
"I thought of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the King of Swamp Castle's determination to build on that sodden earth. It stayed up in the end but it wouldn't take much for it to fall over."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
|
"This is hobbit cordial, one part juice to nine parts water."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
82%
|
Sightseers (2013)
|
"The result is something like a heterosexual Carry On film."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
|
"It's honest you see; and honestly, as any fule no, is the bedrock of any successful relationship whether it be between two homo fictives or an audience and their movies."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012)
|
"Planning on shooting your next movie handheld? Hoping for that realism dividend? Please read this first. "
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
19%
|
Gambit (2013)
|
"It's mirthless, languid and obvious. Well, you can relate."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)
|
"Let's forget that any of this ever happened."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
56%
|
For a Good Time, Call... (2012)
|
"For a Good Time, Call... is one of those pleasant surprises sometimes experienced in the cinema when the Gods of Celluloid, reading your attendance as a sign of defeat, take pity and alchemise the material you'd braced yourself to despise."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
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86%
|
The Master (2012)
|
"Anderson operates within the only industry to give institutional cover to Hubbard's nefarious clique... The Master then, is a braver piece of work than it may appear; it's like a critique of clerical fascism smuggled out of wartime Vatican City."
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Ed Whitfield
|
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012)
|
"Skyfall doesn't have the layers it needs to strut so casually for so long. "
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
|
"Further evidence that dog owners are mentally ill people hiding in plain sight."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
93%
|
Lore (2013)
|
"A reminder that not every young victim of Hitler's struggle was an enemy of the state."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
40%
|
Midnight's Children (2013)
|
"Rather more virtuosity behind the camera was required to induce the desired hypnotic effect. Deepa Mehta just isn't up to it."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012)
|
"What was ornate on the page becomes doggerel in translation."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
|
65%
|
Antiviral (2013)
|
"Like his progenitor, Brandon likes a bad taste burlesque but so do you, so let's not rush to judgement."
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Ed Whitfield
|
|
——
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Blood (2013)
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"A morbid melodrama."
|
Ed Whitfield
|
73%
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