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Will Self

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Along Came Polly (2004) 27% EDIT “All I wanted out of this film was a scant 90 minutes reprieve from the dolour of a wet February in London, and all I got was a sense of irritation and torpor.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review 21 Grams (2003) 80% EDIT “21 Grams soars into the chilly empyrean of first-class film-making by virtue of the most traditional of values: sympathetic characters and clever plotting.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Dogville (2003) 70% EDIT “For its exuberance and its difference, its fine performances and its devastating finale, Dogville is essential viewing.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review EDIT “Not the least virtue of Spare Parts is that it resists moral certainty. In this crepuscular realm of motorways, pine forests, fast-food joints and crumbling Soviet-era apartments, the ethics are of as low a wattage as the light fixtures.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review The Barbarian Invasions (2003) 81% EDIT “Arcand's own script is delightfully fluid, his direction poised.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Grand Theft Parsons (2003) 48% EDIT “Shannon does a great turn as the archetypal failed hippy idealist... and while the rest of the cast are sterling rather than shining, the script and David Caffrey's tyro direction are tight enough to pull the whole vehicle along.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 84% EDIT “I don't even want to do Tarantino and his pathetic accomplices the honour of recounting the narrative of the second "volume" of this exercise in trashpedalling, and frankly I don't need to, because there isn't a plot to speak of.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review The Passion of the Christ (2004) 49% EDIT “If I believed in life eternal with access to a heavenly multiplex I still wouldn't advise you to see this film, but, as things stand, if thou goest anywhere this week, be it to see an honest piece of graven imagery, not this religiose rubbish.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Capturing the Friedmans (2003) 97% EDIT “While with any number of... documentaries one can happily say "wait until it turns up on the small screen", with Capturing the Friedmans it is well worth sitting in the dark to find out the extent to which you think you are being deliberately kept there.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Carandiru (2003) 68% EDIT “We know the massacre is going to happen from the off, and yet, despite this, the tension doesn't build much, perhaps because the film is over-long.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Big Fish (2003) 76% EDIT “Big Fish really belongs to Albert Finney, who proves that when it comes to large performances there is no one who can quite match a British Shakespearean with good camera sense.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Van Helsing (2004) 24% EDIT “The exteriors are fantastic, the castles mega-looming, and there's a beautiful -- if fanciful -- masqued ball which shows off to perfection the costumes contrived by Gabriella Pescucci.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 93% EDIT “For all its high-falutin' references this is just another rom com with a bit of angst and ontological confusion thrown into the mix.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review The Football Factory (2004) 38% EDIT “An unsparing depiction of the ugly violence surrounding the beautiful game, The Football Factory uses jagged camera work and a pumpedup soundtrack to create a strangely seductive choreography of fists, boots and bricks on flesh.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Troy (2004) 53% EDIT “Brad is worth the ticket price alone and others turned in creditable performances, particularly Eric Bana as an upright family man who just happens to be the prince of a warlike city-state, and Sean Bean as Odysseus the Ironic.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review The Day After Tomorrow (2004) 45% EDIT “I don't think The Day After Tomorrow will pacify audiences as well as its predecessors, because even as disaster movies go, this one is a write-off.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Bad Education (2004) 88% EDIT “The problem with the film is its very staginess -- it never really seems to get out of drag. Between the impersonations of the priesthood, the impersonations of the transvestites and the impersonations of the actors themselves, there is little to choose.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review The Ladykillers (2004) 54% EDIT “It is not the blockbuster the (Coen) brothers hanker after, and it is not going to be a critical success, but, for me, it is the best comedy they have managed.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review The Reckoning (2004) 38% EDIT “As for young master Bettany, his Nicholas never managed to convince at all. His priest was insufficiently Godfearing, his adulterer not lusty enough, his actor too facile, and his detective too forensic.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review I'm Not Scared (2003) 90% EDIT “If you had despaired of Italian cinema ever regaining the lyricism of the Tavianis and Rossellini, I'm Not Scared will come as a welcome surprise. And if you seek a good yarn well spun, you won't be disappointed.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Intimate Strangers (2004) 85% EDIT “In what is essentially a two-hander you have to expect a little more combustion between the leads, but I never really bought the complicity between them to begin with, so the pay-off seemed preposterous.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Blueberry (2004) 22% EDIT “I have no requirement that film genres, any more than literary ones, should be pure, but it's difficult to imagine that an enthusiastic audience for this stoners' western would comprise anyone apart from crystal-dangling deadheads.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review I, Robot (2004) 57% EDIT “The plot unravels rather than cranking up. The McGuffin with Spooner can be seen coming from a long way off, while the film jinks rather than twists towards its inevitable climax.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review The Village (2004) 43% EDIT “Frankly, if you believe this twaddle, you'll believe anything, and if you believe anything, you don't need to go to the films -- you can just sit at home and fantasise for free.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Open Water (2003) 71% EDIT “Open Water is being touted as one of the most frightening films to chomp into your psyche for a long time, but either I'm secretly being fed sedatives or this is a case of good old hype meets collective hysteria.” – London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018 Full Review
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