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Wild Card – Review

Con Air's director, The Princess Bride's writer, and Jason Statham's everything - Wild Card may have decent odds, but it's a long 40 minutes until the Stath even finds his fists. It all feels like a...
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Home – Review

Home is an enjoyable family movie. All the ingredients for DreamWorks magic are present: imagination, expert animation and plenty of comic charm. While perhaps not as precise as the creators may have hoped...
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Suite Française – Review

Suite Française shows the civilian casualties of war, taking attention far from the frontline to an untroubled countryside. Williams and Schoenaerts display a compelling chemistry in their doubly...
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Run All Night – Review

There's nothing about Run All Night that you haven't seen before in a dozen other Liam Neeson movies, though this one's assured execution makes it an entertaining watch at least. While Neeson could (and...
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Still Alice – Review

Still Alice is increasingly immersive, with dynamic camerawork and layered soundscapes replicating Alice’s perceptions for the audience, and conveying her alarmingly rapid decline. In comparison,...
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Chappie – Review

From the brief setup and first exhilarating droid deployment (complete with bot’s-eye view camerawork), Chappie appears to fulfill the premise’s potential to be this director’s masterwork. Watch with...
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The DUFF – Review

Based on Kody Keplinger's teen novel, The DUFF aims to be this generation's Mean Girls. Labelled a 'Designated Ugly Fat Friend’, Bianca Piper (Mae Whitman) enlists popular jock Wesley 'Wes' Rush (Robbie...
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Catch Me Daddy – Review

The spirit of Barry Hines and Ken Loach is clear to see in this electrifying thriller about honour killings. Like the classic '80s drama Threads, a social-realist view of life on the Yorkshire moors...
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Focus – Review

Focus is a film of clear halves; a time jump refreshes the narrative just as you start to wonder if its hackneyed premise is actually going anywhere. Despite a somewhat predictable conclusion, Ficarra and...
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It Follows – Review

Suburban paranoia gets an anxious new neighbour in David Robert Mitchell's stylishly mounted teen horror It Follows, which is essentially Nightmare on Elm Street dressed as a daydream. Here, the bored yet...
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The Wedding Ringer – Review

14 years after it was actually written, The Wedding Ringer finally makes it to screen. Was it worth it? Well, no, but… Had it been released all those years ago the story might be different; wouldn’t it...
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Cake – Review

Cake has all the ingredients of a good film. It has a compelling narrative about emotional and physical pain which is refreshingly explored with wit and sleight of hand. The beautiful cinematography captures...