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(2003) |
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"A seamless pastiche of 1970s and early 1980s horror, resulting in a blend of mean-spiritedness, gore and comedy that is truly infectious."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2005) |
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"This is a cut above the usual behind-the-scenes fare."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"Here, no image and no act of viewing seems entirely innocent."
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Eye for Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"one can only assume that it was the accumulation of Berlusconi's own indiscretions that cost him the 2006 elections rather than the muted blows of this aimlessly incoherent and over-clever satire."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a surrealist fairy tale bringing gothic glee to its meditations on performance and passion."
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Eye for Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Simon DaVison gets the charmingly clunky look and feel of 1950s SF spot on - but he also captures the genre's more tedious shortcomings a little too accurately for the average viewer's patience to bear."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"Does exactly what it says on the tin, grabbing viewers unawares and keeping them in its thrall for an hour and a half of non-stop, heart-pounding exploitation kicks."
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Little White Lies |
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(2003) |
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"inspires in the viewer something which was conspicuously absent from the original trial - reasonable doubt."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"Argento, the once great king of giallo, goes down the drain - which is the only royal flush to be seen in this sub-par gambling thriller."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1962) |
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"Harvey leaves enough questions unanswered in this twilight zone to ensure that Carnival Of Souls enjoys a haunting afterlife in the viewer's mind."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"it abandons these models of action, comedy and the supernatural, preferring instead to root its horror in the grimly realistic human drama of four random wanderers gradually losing everyone and everything that they hold dear."
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Eye for Film |
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"this is no ordinary torture porn, no ordinary slasher, but a far more self-conscious, postmodern take on horror and its peculiar viewing pleasures."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"Overlong, heavy-handed and thoroughly humourless it may be, but it is also a spectacularly stylised mutation of the way we look at the world of war."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2002) |
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"despite its exquisite artwork and expert voice cast, this still looks a bit like the bedraggled runt of the Ghibli litter."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"the cosmetics at the plot's centre do at least serve as a convenient metaphor for everything which is wrong with this shallow, superficial film."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"a mournful elegy for the passing of an entire culture."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2006) |
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"Just about the best thing that can be said for this spiritual potboiler is that it is not much worse than The Da Vinci Code."
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Eye for Film |
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(1999) |
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"A twisty, and at times twisted, kidnapping thriller - just a pity the direction seems so sterile."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"It is not that Caotica Ana lacks ideas - it positively brims with them - but they are all treated with a shallow desultoriness that brings little satisfaction..."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"Charlie Bartlett is not terrible - but in the crowded market of teen comedies, you need to work a whole lot harder to be top of the class, or even to sit at the back with the cool kids."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"In Mike Nichols' smart satire of US engagement with the Middle East, history is shown to repeat itself as both tragedy and farce."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Na Hong-Jin's feature debut is a bleakly frantic psycho-noir, furiously edited, ferociously performed - and despite allying itself to the serial killer genre so beloved in the west, it is distinctly Korean in its settings and references."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Like the ubiquitous image that it celebrates, this documentary says many things about history, culture and ideology, without ever seeming anything less than clear and compelling."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"the cinematic equivalent of a battery-farmed egg: not exactly rotten, but surrounded by dozens of others just like it in appearance, shape and taste."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(1954) |
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"Hardly Mizoguchi's finest film, but this period passion play has moments of brilliance amidst all the complicated melodrama."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"In Özgür Yildirim's vibrant thriller, the exigencies of genre clash with the realities of Germany's urban multiculturalism - but a bland central performance, and a paucity of surprises, hinder its rise to the top of the drug-movie hierarchy."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"a creepy genre treat that is damn-near perfect in its execution."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"he only thing that strikes a false note here is...the final sequence (and a sound heard over the closing credits)... Otherwise a perfect film."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(1984) |
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"As ye sow, so shall ye reap - and for all its initial creepiness, in the end this Mid-western gothic yields a big cropful of corn."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"JeeJa Yanin is a sensational discovery but this mixed assortment of high kicks and even higher melodrama may be an imperfect vehicle for her."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"an erotic gospel for the secular age"
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2007) |
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"For all its concern with social and mental disintegration, Choking Man is a strangely tender film."
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"The cast expertly incarnates this family haunted by loss, lovelessness and (literal) bad blood, but the film's unduly protracted duration makes the Vuillards feel like Christmas guests who just will not leave."
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2004) |
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"Space opera, a prison breakout, spectral zealots and an anarchist anti-hero - dumb, maybe, but this film has enough in it to make you see the light."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2001) |
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"Like an Edward Hopper painting commissioned by Monty Python, Chunky Monkey brings together an unlikely cast of off-kilter caricatures."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"The choice between fantasy and reality is ultimately what CJ7 addresses and dramatises. Chow's film is charming, to be sure - but that is just the half of it."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Thanks to its low-key naturalism and its seriousness of purpose tempered with occasional fly-on-the-wall humour, even those sitting in the back row will find themselves giving The Class their full and rapt attention."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1982) |
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"Whether for its eighties nostalgia, or its absurdly reactionary violence, this is one guilty pleasure that still makes the grade."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Smith's attempt to get all introspective about growing up yields a plot that is at core rather mawkish and cliched - but when it comes to writing hilariously juvenile lines, he still has the old magic."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Dress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"Intimacy both attracts and repels in this smart, modern and biting treatment of love's endless merry-go-round."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"As a hyperbolic exposé of unnatural obesity and environmental destruction, in many ways this serves as an unacknowledged prequel to the post-apocalyptic nightmare envisaged in Wall-E. Chew (and choke) on that!"
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"once the film has fully run its course there is little left to take away with you beyond rattled nerves, a mild sense of nausea, and the uneasy suspicion that the true horror of 9/11 has just been reduced to a dumb-assed entertainment."
[movie review] |
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musicOMH.com |
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(2004) |
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"Achingly elegiac sci-fi story of love and memory lost - an Oedipal tragedy for the genetically modified age."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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1.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"too clumsy to be the sophisticated parody of memory-loss films it might have been, too bland for its action sequences to kick any ass, too dumbed-down to make much out of the clashes of race, class and gender at the heart of its fish-out-of-water comedy"
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"Eleven smart breaks from everyday reality."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"Glasson's feature debut boasts both writing and performances of great subtlety, although the effect is somewhat undermined by the odd moment of sensationalist grotesquery (fish-fellating, eye-gouging, flashbacks to patricide, etc.)."
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2003) |
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"despite dead horses, crazed hicks and plagues of snakes, the only truly horrifying moment here is the hint at the end that there may be a sequel."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2003) |
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"A classically crafted Civil War epic with actions and ideas aplenty - but not enough to fill its excessive length"
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Movie Gazette |
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