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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Colourful and engaging, this lively comedy-drama gives a handful of mature actors terrific roles to play within a bustling international setting. It feels a bit cute and tame, but it's still entertaining.Seven retirees meet at...
Movie Review posted on 24th February 2012
Black Gold
The history of the oil industry in Arabia is reduced to a fast-paced adventure movie in this lively project that probably should have been a TV series. It keeps us thoroughly entertained, but only manages...
Movie Review posted on 24th February 2012
Safe House
With a cool Cape Town setting and constant sweaty, kinetic violence, this entire film plays like a wildly thrilling segment from a Bourne movie. It's sharply well-made and acted, but nothing about it remotely scratches...
Movie Review posted on 24th February 2012
Red Dog
Shamelessly enjoyable, this raucous Aussie movie keeps us laughing - and ultimately sniffling back the tears - as it recounts an urban myth. A terrific sense of the time and place, rambunctious characters and a...
Movie Review posted on 24th February 2012
Rampart
Harrelson reunites with The Messenger writer-director Moverman for this grim drama about police corruption in late-1990s Los Angeles. But while it's sharply well-made, the film doesn't really offer anything new to the bad-cop genre.Dave (Harrelson)...
Movie Review posted on 24th February 2012
The Oscars 2012: Avoid The Dark Side, What The Nominations Tell Us
As we head into the hysterical final stretch of the Oscar season, we have a bit more perspective on this year's awards race. Odds-makers are going crazy trying to second-guess who the Academy members will...
Review posted on 17th February 2012
Girl Model
This documentary takes a remarkably frank look at the fashion business, using the unusual perspective of a young Russian seeking work in Japan. And along the way it reveals unsettling truths about the global modelling...
Movie Review posted on 16th February 2012
Hadewijch
Instead of his usual confrontational style, Dumont infuses this reflective drama with raw tenderness. But he's as provocative as always. Which is probably unavoidable with a film about religious devotion (the title refers to a...
Movie Review posted on 16th February 2012
Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel
An essential documentary for movie fans, this exploration of the work of iconic filmmaker Roger Corman revels in the joy of exploitation movies made on a minuscule budget with lashings of gore, explosions and nudity....
Movie Review posted on 16th February 2012
The Woman in the Fifth
This intriguing experiment in cinematic disorientation is so well-made that it can't help but pull us into its perplexing narrative. It's a little too vague to be satisfying, but it's thoroughly haunting.One-time novelist Tom (Hawke)...
Movie Review posted on 16th February 2012
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Based on the Jonathan Safran Foer novel, this film holds its heavy emotional weight in check right up to a rather overwrought conclusion. But along the way, its characters worm their way under our skin.Oskar...
Movie Review posted on 16th February 2012
The Muppets
Using their long absence from the screen as a premise, this film astutely taps into the nostalgia former fans still feel for these anarchic, loveable characters while winning over new followers. And even though it's...
Movie Review posted on 9th February 2012
Big Miracle
A grounding in the real-life story makes this film much less sentimental than it looks. Strong characters, some surprisingly dark touches and a genuinely thrilling series of events helps to engage us right to the...
Movie Review posted on 9th February 2012
A Dangerous Method
Cronenberg's brainy approach makes this film fascinating but demanding as it traces the birth of psychoanalysis through the relationship and rivalry between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The film radiates intelligence through clever direction and...
Movie Review posted on 9th February 2012
The Vow
Inspired by a true story, this film is watchable mainly because of the extraordinary events, which are genuinely involving and moving. Although typically, Hollywood has ramped up the emotions while avoiding subtlety at all costs.Goofy...
Movie Review posted on 9th February 2012
Bombay Beach
This startling documentary explores a part of America few even want to admit exists: a place designed as a paradise that has instead become an almost apocalyptic wasteland populated by people who have fallen out...
Movie Review posted on 9th February 2012
The Woman in Black
Based on both the Susan Hill novel and the hit stage play, this creepy ghost story is nicely translated to the screen with a growing sense of menace that keeps us constantly on edge. It's...
Movie Review posted on 9th February 2012
Carnage
Based on Reza's play God of Carnage, this claustrophobic film features only four characters in a single New York apartment. But the acting and directing, as well as a fiendishly entertaining script, make it absolutely...
Movie Review posted on 2nd February 2012
Young Adult
There isn't much on the surface of this prickly comedy, but the sharp script slices through American culture so astutely that we continually see ourselves in characters who are clearly losers. And the film gives...
Movie Review posted on 2nd February 2012
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
With just one character from the 2008 adventure, this film does a decent job continuing the story while playing loosely with another Jules Verne's story. It's an enjoyably ridiculous romp with far-fetched action for the...
Movie Review posted on 2nd February 2012
Martha Marcy May Marlene
With a disturbing tone and skilful filmmaking, this insinuating drama completely unsettles us as it delves into the mental life of its central character. And it has a lot to say about how relationships affect...
Movie Review posted on 2nd February 2012
Man on a Ledge
There's so little to this film that you've almost forgotten everything about it by the time the closing credits start to roll. It's so easy to watch that you're lulled into thinking that it's quite...
Movie Review posted on 2nd February 2012
Chronicle
Taking the found-footage thriller to a new level, this film throws real-life teens into an extraordinary story while deepening the characters and providing exhilarating action. Even Cloverfield seems unimaginative by comparison.Andrew (DeHaan) is a nerdy...
Movie Review posted on 2nd February 2012
The Grey
The story (by cowriter Jeffers) this film is based on was clearly inspired by Jack London's famously bleak short story To Build a Fire, pitting a man against the elements in the harsh, snowy Arctic...
Movie Review posted on 26th January 2012
Intruders
Fractured into two narratives that take far too long to come together, this stylish boogeyman thriller never convinces us that anyone is in actual peril. And without understanding the connections between the characters, we can't...
Movie Review posted on 26th January 2012
Like Crazy
With a deliberately wistful style, this romantic drama never quite convinces us that its central couple is actually in love. There are several wonderfully telling moments along the way, but the over-constructed plot and too-cute...
Movie Review posted on 26th January 2012
The Descendants
As with Sideways and About Schmidt, Payne finds clever ways to blend sharp comedy and warm drama to create a seriously involving and entertaining film. And Clooney has never had a role that was quite...
Movie Review posted on 26th January 2012
X: Night of Vengeance
Like a 1970s-style exploitation movie, this film seems to exist only to showcase tough women in various states of undress being tormented by vile men and then getting even. It's stylishly well-made, but there's nothing...
Movie Review posted on 20th January 2012
Haywire
It's hardly surprising that Soderbergh takes such a bracing approach to the action thriller genre. What makes this film stand out from the crowd is its insistence on making sure that the action is grounded...
Movie Review posted on 20th January 2012
The Nine Muses
More like a cinematic poem or art installation than a movie, this swirly collection of imagery - some new, some found - loosely traces the nine muses from Greek mythology. And it's for adventurous filmgoers...
Movie Review posted on 20th January 2012
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