Rima Sabina Aouf

Rima Sabina Aouf's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Concrete Playground
MovieFIX
Publications:
Concrete Playground,
MovieFIX
Official Websites:
http://yourmovies.com.au/movie-reviews
Movie Reviews Only
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95% | The Artist (2011) |
There's no such thing as a perfect movie, but there may be one you wouldn't wish to be any different. Such is the magic of The Artist. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 17, 2015
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6/10 | 89% | Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) |
Its biggest charm lies in the understated yet giving and uninhibited performances of its leads ... but not all three hours' worth of scenes deserve to be there. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 10, 2014
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7/10 | 89% | The World's End (2013) |
Maybe it is time to move on from the genre mash-up, but this is a thundering way to go out. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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7/10 | 70% | Stoker (2013) |
It's real strength, perhaps, is in its gaps and silences, which allow director Park to go to town with mood, composition and imagery. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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9/10 | 94% | Stories We Tell (2013) |
Simply the most enthralling, idiosyncratic and entertaining family memoir around. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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8/10 | 95% | Gravity (2013) |
The single most stressful two hours you can have in a movie theatre - in the best possible way. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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9/10 | 95% | The Act Of Killing (2013) |
The film of the year, if not the decade, if not documentary history. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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9/10 | 90% | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) |
There's no Disneyfication; Catching Fire has a distinct look and sustained dark, gritty mood. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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5/10 | 50% | Carrie (2013) |
Not only doesn't Carrie add anything particularly new to the mix, it fails to stand on its own feet and cohere its somewhat disparate components. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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9.5/10 | 98% | Short Term 12 (2013) |
Cretton is able to leap tall towers of everyday humour and humanity and then suddenly drop you into a pit of total, gut-wrenching sadness in a single bound. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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7/10 | 51% | The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (2013) |
A charmer with a good heart and a healthy dose of unrealism. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 7, 2014
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8/10 | 91% | The Spectacular Now (2013) |
The Spectacular Now definitely IS that genuine and refreshing take on the cool-guy-falls-in-love-with-the-dorky-girl story. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Dec 12, 2013
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9/10 | 86% | Upstream Color (2013) |
This gorgeous, unknowable, deeply affecting film makes Primer look almost conventional, given time travel is a genre filmgoers know a little something of. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Aug 26, 2013
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8/10 | 92% | Frances Ha (2013) |
It's all wonderfully tangential, sweet and unerringly funny, and it will have you dancing to Bowie's 'Modern Love' for days and days. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Aug 24, 2013
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4/10 | 32% | Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
If the whole of Kick-Ass 2 had been 'Hit Girl Goes to High School', it would have been great. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Aug 24, 2013
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4/10 | 42% | Only God Forgives (2013) |
If you're caught in Refn's spell, everything holds together. But if the spell glances off you, it's hard to walk away with anything from watching the film. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Jul 31, 2013
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8/10 | 98% | Before Midnight (2013) |
The release of each sequel is becoming an event, so it's particularly great to see Before Midnight not only meeting expectations but raising the bar. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Jul 16, 2013
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5/10 | 56% | Man of Steel (2013) |
In many ways, this is the strongest Superman reboot for a long time. Yet the story manages to be both rushed and overlong, and Snyder doesn't know when to say stop. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Jun 27, 2013
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9/10 | 79% | Iron Man 3 (2013) |
The Iron Mans have always innately had the superhero secret formula ... but this instalment is even funnier and more thrillingly action-packed than its predecessors. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Apr 24, 2013
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8/10 | 82% | De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012) |
Rust and Bone is an unsentimentally lyrical triumph, unexpected in every way. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Mar 31, 2013
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6/10 | 84% | Sleepwalk With Me (2012) |
The idea of the man-boy who can't commit is rather '90s, and neither the film's narrative nor style brings it forward two decades, to where it should be. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Mar 31, 2013
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5/10 | 68% | Trance (2013) |
Trance will divide people. A film like this really rests on the payoff of its twist, and the Trance twist is limp and signposted early on. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Mar 26, 2013
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8/10 | 95% | The Imposter (2012) |
The Imposter at every stage reveals another layer of the bizarreness of which human beings are capable. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Mar 8, 2013
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8/10 | 91% | Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
You can't deny that what Zero Dark Thirty sets out to do, it does excellently. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 26, 2013
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8/10 | 63% | Anna Karenina (2012) |
It's easy to conclude that this Anna Karenina is a superficial portrait of a superficial society, but that would be to dismiss how emotionally powerful it is in key moments. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 26, 2013
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10/10 | 92% | Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
Silver Linings Playbook looks like your run-of-the-mill wacky family comedy, but it's an important film and a great one that deserves to sweep the awards it's nominated for. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 26, 2013
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7/10 | 66% | Cloud Atlas (2012) |
Tykwer and the Wachowskis are aiming for greatness here. They don't make it, and that leaves the unorthodox film open to savagery, far more than it deserves. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Feb 26, 2013
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4/5 | 75% | We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
A remarkable film because it talks about taboos - that we might not love our own children, that there are more victims in murder than just those who died - and it does it in a powerful, incisive and mesmerising way. - MovieFIX
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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3/5 | 45% | Anonymous (2011) |
Anonymous is earnest, high-camp and regularly ridiculous, but it's also a fun and gripping adventure for lovers of stagecraft or Tudor mystery. - MovieFIX
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| Posted Nov 3, 2011
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3.5/5 | 60% | Red State (2011) |
Red State is a bit unpolished - a timestamp appears just once and completely without reason, for instance - but the film has bite and purpose, and it's gripping to watch. - MovieFIX
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| Posted Oct 12, 2011
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64% | Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012) |
Although it's bookended by some stilted dialogue and inappropriately upbeat end credits, the film gets the important things right: explosions and emotional resonance. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Sep 7, 2010
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83% | The Special Relationship (2010) |
It is an insightful portrait of the relationship between Blair and US President Bill Clinton that casts them as men of both action and accident, driven by ideals and petty personal proclivities. - Concrete Playground
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| Posted Aug 3, 2010
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