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David Parkinson

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2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Highlighting the humbling ordinariness of the combatants and their poignant camaraderie, Chernov refuses to spare us when it comes to casualties. Despair creeps into his voiceover, but weariness can't sap the zeal of the volunteers...” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Leaves From Satan's Book (1921) 3/5 EDIT “The finale is easily the most accomplished sequence cinematically, with Clara Pontoppidan's death being a moving montage of meticulously matched close-ups.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Grandma's Boy (1922) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The shrunken suit and the mothballs in the candy sequences rank among the highlights. But this is a delight throughout.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Manhatta (1921) 3/5 EDIT “Shown as a trailer in the States and exhibited at a French Dadaist happening, it was subsequently hailed as the keystone of the American avant-garde.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review The Informer (1929) 4/5 EDIT “The performances are admirably restrained, although Swede Lars Hanson lacks the mix of menace and vulnerability that earned Victor McLaglen the Academy Award for best actor in the same role.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Secrets of a Soul (1926) 4/5 EDIT “Predominantly shot in the camera, the multiple superimpositions achieved by cinematographers Robert Lach, Curt Oertel and Guido Seeber have lost none of their extraordinary potency, although Freud, apparently, wasn't impressed.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) 3/5 EDIT “In her first starring role, the 15-year-old Young is enchantingly natural. But it's Chaney's command of mime—whether slapsticking with Siegel or suppressing his bruised emotions—that makes this hoary and dated melodrama so moving.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Strass (2002) 4/5 EDIT “Pierre Lekeux and Lionel Bourguet excel as the feuding tutors, but everyone is so in the slot that it's often easy to forget you're watching a spoof.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Bullet Scars (1942) 3/5 EDIT “Director D Ross Lederman struggles to generate much suspense, but he deftly plumbs comic relief from Ben Welden's hypochondriac sidekick and makes nifty use of a hay truck during a couple of high-stakes set-pieces.” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review The Ace of Hearts (1921) 3/5 EDIT “The introduction of his sinister vigilante bureau is splendidly atmospheric and quite contentious, given its anti-capitalist stance just four years after the rise of Bolshevism. ” – Radio Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Top Gun (1986) 55% 3/5 EDIT “There is no denying the quality and entertainment value of the flying sequences... But the rivalry between Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, and Cruise's tempestuous affair with Kelly McGillis, are pure bunk. ” – Radio Times Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Beautiful City (2004) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The humanism that has informed much Iranian cinema since the late 1980s is readily evident in Asghar Farhadi's affecting and often gently amusing drama.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Who Goes Next? (1938) 3/5 EDIT “The banter between the Brits is highly amusing and Meinhart Maur is splendidly Preminger-esque as the monocle-wearing commandant.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review New York Doll (2005) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Greg Whiteley's bittersweet memoir is a compelling confounding of rock expectations that's given added poignancy by Kane's unexpected demise soon after the band's brief reconciliation.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Vodka Lemon (2003) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Kurdish director Hiner Saleem evokes the wry observational humour of Otar Iosseliani (Monday Morning) and Aki Kaurismäki in this gentle take on life in post-Soviet Armenia.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Devils on the Doorstep (2000) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Jiang Wen's sprawling study of life in an isolated Chinese village in the last days of the Japanese occupation provides a fascinating insight into a forgotten aspect of the Second World War. ” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) 3/5 EDIT “Of course it's romcom fluff, but it's beautifully lit, while Norbert Glanzberg's score is lovely and the photogenic Bardot holds her own against the chic Presle and the charismatic Jourdan.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Great Train Robbery (1903) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Its most important contribution to film grammar was the introduction of continuity editing, in which the action cross-cuts between parallel events to increase the narrative tension. ” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Au grand balcon (1949) 3/5 EDIT “While director Henri Decoin includes an extended scene of stunt flying, it's his focus on the human aspects that keeps the various storylines airborne.” – Radio Times Mar 31, 2026 Full Review Pal Joey (1957) 89% 3/5 EDIT “...the demands of the Production Code meant that the screenwriter Dorothy Kingsley had to heavily sanitise the narrative, with the result that an unregenerate heel became merely a flawed hero.” – Empire Magazine Mar 26, 2026 Full Review The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) 42% 2/5 EDIT “This far-fetched sports comedy sequel is sentimental to the point of patronising and overburdened with coy insights into growing up. ” – Radio Times Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Walking Target (1960) 3/5 EDIT “Foster makes an edgy antihero and there's a pleasing snap to his exchanges with Anders's blowsy blonde fatale and Harp McGuire's bullet-headed cop.” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) 3/5 EDIT “Hammer wasn't aiming for subtlety; the film was advertised as being filmed in widescreen Strangloscope, and some of the violence is still shocking.” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Fear No More (1961) 3/5 EDIT “The twist isn't difficult to guess, but Wiesen plays his hand shrewdly to stack the odds against the excellent Powers. ” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Innocent Meeting (1959) 3/5 EDIT “Director Godfrey Grayson makes solid use of his location footage, while encouraging the cross-class chemistry between Lynch and Rogan. ” – Radio Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review
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