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Paul Arendt

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Cass (2008) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Cass has more heart than your average hooligan flick, but it's a clumsy, compromised film, hamstrung by its own redemptive structure and too infatuated with its protagonist to take an objective point of view.” – Film4 Jul 31, 2008 Full Review Iron Man (2008) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Is it summer already? The first of the big budget superhero blockbusters has arrived, and it's a roaring success, thanks to a combination of superb special effects and canny casting.” – BBC.com May 2, 2008 Full Review Strange Wilderness (2008) 2% 2/5 EDIT “There's nothing in this lame, low budget stoner flick that even peeps above the parapet of the ordinary.” – BBC.com Apr 11, 2008 Full Review Lonesome Jim (2005) 61% 3/5 EDIT “Steve Buscemi's third film as a director is a low key affair delivered with a wry sense of humour.” – BBC.com Apr 11, 2008 Full Review Drillbit Taylor (2008) 26% 2/5 EDIT “Leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.” – BBC.com Mar 28, 2008 Full Review The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Unexpectedly gripping.” – BBC.com Mar 25, 2008 Full Review 10,000 B.C. (2008) 10% 3/5 EDIT “Take the kids along; unless you want them to grow up to be palaeontologists.” – BBC.com Mar 14, 2008 Full Review The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) 43% 4/5 EDIT “Ravishing frocks and heaving bosoms are the main constituents of The Other Boleyn Girl, an entertaining bodice ripper lightly disguised as historical fiction.” – BBC.com Mar 7, 2008 Full Review Vantage Point (2008) 34% 3/5 EDIT “The stories are cleverly interwoven, with a couple of unexpected twists, and the patient viewer is rewarded with a doozy of a car chase in the last reel.” – BBC.com Mar 7, 2008 Full Review The Bank Job (2008) 79% 3/5 EDIT “The tone is strangely erratic, aiming for the breezy high-jinks of Ealing comedy in the first half, then collapsing into dead-eyed sadism, then back to cheeky cockney chappies for a reasonably rousing climax.” – BBC.com Feb 28, 2008 Full Review GamerZ (2005) 3/5 EDIT “It would be easy enough to mock the insulated world of Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts, but Robbie Fraser's debut movie takes a gentler and more sympathetic path.” – BBC.com Feb 22, 2008 Full Review Black Water (2007) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Short, sharp and refreshingly nasty, it's a light antidote to all those heavy Oscar hopefuls clogging up the multiplex.” – BBC.com Feb 22, 2008 Full Review Jumper (2008) 15% 3/5 EDIT “Important plot points are left unexplored, and there's no killer climax, so you leave the cinema deflated rather than thrilled.” – BBC.com Feb 19, 2008 Full Review Definitely, Maybe (2008) 71% 3/5 EDIT “A romantic comedy that manages to be cute without sending viewers barrelling into the bathroom to toss their cookies.” – BBC.com Feb 12, 2008 Full Review Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A grimy concoction from Hell's own kitchen, laced with black humour and seasoned with hauntingly beautiful music. Tuck in.” – BBC.com Jan 24, 2008 Full Review No Country for Old Men (2007) 93% 5/5 EDIT “The Coen brothers have once again placed themselves at the very forefront of American cinema.” – BBC.com Jan 18, 2008 Full Review Half Moon (2006) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Surprisingly gripping despite its whimsical subject matter and often very funny.” – BBC.com Jan 4, 2008 Full Review Lust, Caution (2007) 73% 4/5 EDIT “A mesmerising study in emotional cruelty.” – BBC.com Jan 4, 2008 Full Review Man in the Chair (2007) 49% 3/5 EDIT “Man In The Chair feels a bit like a high school movie project, which is appropriate since that's exactly what it's about.” – BBC.com Jan 1, 2008 Full Review Balls of Fury (2007) 22% 2/5 EDIT “It's good natured enough, but laughs are thin on the ground.” – BBC.com Dec 25, 2007 Full Review We Own the Night (2007) 57% 3/5 EDIT “Heartfelt performances from all the leads, certainly. Top 80s tunes and a thrilling car chase in the pouring rain.” – BBC.com Dec 13, 2007 Full Review Bee Movie (2007) 49% 2/5 EDIT “What Bee Movie really lacks is a compelling hero. Seinfeld is essentially playing himself, so what we get is a stand-up comedian in a black and yellow sweater.” – BBC.com Dec 11, 2007 Full Review Southland Tales (2006) 41% 3/5 EDIT “There's too much sizzle and not enough steak.” – BBC.com Dec 7, 2007 Full Review Hitman (2007) 16% 2/5 EDIT “Hitman continues the grand Hollywood tradition of completely failing to turn a computer game into a decent movie.” – BBC.com Nov 29, 2007 Full Review Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Dark subject matter, but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and determinedly optimistic about life.” – BBC.com Nov 23, 2007 Full Review
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