
Adam Lee Davies
Movies reviews only
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Arcadia (2016) |
Arcadia layers its tumbling images to form a portrait of an idiosyncratic nation that hasn't so much lost its way, but rather fallen out of love with itself. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jun 22, 2018
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The Party (2017) |
A claret catastrophe of upper middle class navel gazing and hackneyed barbs. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Oct 13, 2017
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Brimstone (2016) |
Some nice ingredients, but all placed together, tastes pretty foul. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Sep 28, 2017
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The Queen of Spain (2016) |
Like the tortoise and the hare, it takes so long to get going that the end is one mad, unsuccessful dash. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Aug 15, 2017
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Snowden (2016) |
Juicy angles are set aside in favour of a straightforward, unquestioning biopic of a dull man who very publicly quit his job. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Dec 08, 2016
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All American High Revisited (2014) |
An enigmatic snapshot that loses its charm under too much scrutiny. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jul 02, 2015
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Ardor (2014) |
Gael Garca Bernal is the only saving grace of this schizophrenic rain forest drama. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jun 23, 2015
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) |
A welcome final bow for Peter Jackson's Middle Earth mega saga. Let's just promise to never go back. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Dec 11, 2014
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The Equalizer (2014) |
Revenge is simple. Revenge is universally relatable. Revenge shifts Blu-rays in Asia. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Sep 25, 2014
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) |
Apart from the runtime there's little to distinguish this from an episode of any run-of-the-mill TV cop drama. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Sep 18, 2014
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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014) |
Could do with a brisker edit, but the bizarre, exotic nature of the subject matter is wholly riveting and confidently staged. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jul 24, 2014
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Hercules (2014) |
Brett Ratner's take on Zeus' most ripped offspring is a bumbling, dizzy-headed chore. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jul 23, 2014
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Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013) |
You'll be looking him up as soon as it ends. The feeling this is all some huge elaborate hoax only adds spice! - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jul 17, 2014
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Jersey Boys (2014) |
This is an age-old rise-and-fall story that we've all seen a hundred times before, so maybe embalming it in molasses is not the way to go. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jun 19, 2014
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I Declare War (2012) |
Tweenie woodland warmongering is at the centre of this tonally haywire fantasy satire. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jun 05, 2014
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For No Good Reason (2012) |
A mewling yet occasionally deafening - and seemingly arbitrary - soundtrack overflowing with upstart folk-rock nobodies adds little to the experience. - Little White Lies
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| Posted May 29, 2014
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Godzilla (2014) |
Gareth Edwards' Godzilla is one of the great blockbusters of modern times. Believe. - Little White Lies
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| Posted May 14, 2014
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Next Goal Wins (2014) |
Slightly muted closing stretch lets the air out of the ball ever so slightly, but by then it's already in the top corner. - Little White Lies
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| Posted May 08, 2014
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Muppets Most Wanted (2014) |
Kermit and co return for a delectable, gag-laden Euro pudding that might just be a Muppet masterpiece. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Mar 27, 2014
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) |
Chris Evans' welcome return to the superhero fold can't save this sequel from feeling like an awkward franchise mid-point. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Mar 26, 2014
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Peter Gabriel: Back To Front (2014) |
A pleasant rock memento, but hardly a concert-film classic. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Mar 20, 2014
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Back to the Garden (2013) |
Shallow insights in the long grass make for a dozy yet irritating afternoon in the Kent countryside. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Mar 13, 2014
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The Godfather, Part II (1974) |
Either taken alone or together with the original, The Godfather Part II is an astounding work. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 20, 2014
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Eight Minutes Idle (2012) |
Director Mark Simon Hewis has a good eye, but his ear for material is way off. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 13, 2014
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Love Is in the Air (2013) |
A delectable piece of French Valentine's Day fluff with charming turns from Ludivine Sagnier and Nicolas Bedos. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 13, 2014
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Fonzy (2013) |
Yet another local spin on Ken Scott's (not very good to start with) 2011 comic sperm doner parable. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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Last Vegas (2013) |
A lost weekend that's unlikely to linger long in the memory. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jan 02, 2014
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) |
It mostly works, even if it starts getting a bit flat during the second act. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Dec 18, 2013
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) |
One suspects that if it was any other name but Jackson's above the title, we would be baying for the head of which ever journeyman hack had force-fed us this unnecessary volley of (upper-)second division fantasy clichés. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Dec 12, 2013
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The Counselor (2013) |
An inert, dispiriting, detached, disjointed, counterfeit and clumsy film ... - Little White Lies
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| Posted Nov 14, 2013
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Seduced and Abandoned (2013) |
Jolly good fun, even if it doesn't exactly manage to fulfil its wonky remit. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Nov 07, 2013
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Milius (2013) |
There's fire and firepower a-plenty in this elegiac profile of '70s moviemaking stalwart, John Milius. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Oct 31, 2013
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Ender's Game (2013) |
Disappointing YA sci-fi in which the future of humanity is placed in the hands of a snot-nosed kid and his computer games. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Oct 24, 2013
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Thor: The Dark World (2013) |
Familiarity trumps originality in this fun and very funny comic book sequel with Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Oct 24, 2013
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The Lebanese Rocket Society (2012) |
This rickety doc on the little-known Lebanese space program lacks thrust and direction. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Oct 17, 2013
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Viva! Hysteria (2013) |
A slick and soulless trawl through the hits as Def Leppard pitch their stall at a Vegas burger joint. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Sep 19, 2013
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Upstream Color (2013) |
Baffling, intoxicating, elegant, Shane Carruth's long-overdue follow-up to Primer is among the year's best. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Aug 29, 2013
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2 Guns (2013) |
A fairly indistinct Tex-Mex time-filler that soon gets lost amid memories of cooler, dustier, sweatier tear-ups. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Aug 15, 2013
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Alan Partridge (2013) |
A slightly unsatisfying experience, and unlikely to match the re-watch value of Partridge's sublime TV excursions. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Aug 08, 2013
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The Heat (2013) |
The bland visuals and point-and-shoot directorial style mean that not much sticks in the mind, but 'The Heat II' would be an entirely welcome proposition. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jul 31, 2013
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The Wall (2012) |
A lover and a fighter. This will remind you to hold everything dear. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jul 04, 2013
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The Internship (2013) |
This will date rather badly, and possibly very quickly. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jul 03, 2013
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The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) |
Introspective and self-conscious, it's a chill offering that struggles to find its own voice. - Little White Lies
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| Posted May 23, 2013
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Red Dawn (2012) |
With any luck this will be the spanner that finally jams up the works of Hollywood's dangerously overcranked '80s remake Wurlitzer. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Mar 14, 2013
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Parker (2013) |
Things get off to a flying start, but you just know your luck isn't going to hold. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Mar 07, 2013
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Cloud Atlas (2012) |
The perfect film for all those people whose one, undying wish in life is to swim with dolphins. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Run for Your Wife (2013) |
A bizarre, ill-advised antediluvian folly. Like Jurassic Park. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 14, 2013
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) |
Any remaining good faith in the franchise is now lost. Bruce's threatened sixth outing must surely be a bridge too far now. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 14, 2013
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Chinatown (1974) |
See this film as many times as you can. Please. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Jan 03, 2013
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
The board is set, the pieces are moving and we're set up nicely for Jackson to tighten the noose with the love of second-act grit he displayed in The Two Towers. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Dec 11, 2012
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