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2/5 |
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"if you strip away all the references to other films, and all the play on genres, what remains is a film without its own soul, as insubstantial, and as difficult to credit, as a spectre half-glimpsed through the Scottish mist."
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"High ideals clash with Bush-era realities in this class debut - well balanced, wonderfully performed, and refreshingly free from cliche."
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(1978) |
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"The original, and one of the best, 'Halloween' cuts much deeper than its knife-wielding imitations."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Blighted but bold, this Shakespearean adaptation messes with the Dane to the ultimate disadvantage of its own narrative coherence."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"This is consummate filmmaking, where every frame beguiles and unnerves in equal measure."
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(1972) |
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"More outrageous than funny, the Hanzo trilogy is an unruly mix of bloody violence, soft porn and political intrigue, with a hero whose intentions are (largely) admirable, but whose modus operandi will repel any but the most hardened misogynists."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Thoroughly confounding the 'normal' relationship between abuser and victim, first-time director Slade presents a complex morality tale under the guise of an exploitation thriller."
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Channel 4 Film |
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5/10 |
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(2003) |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Director Danny Leiner has now elevated the stoner comedy to its highest peak..."
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"just like its protagonist, Harsh Times is fatally flawed, but in a manner that still remains compelling to watch."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"usually the choice between "fun party" and "mad badness" is a no-brainer - but in Hatchet, viewers get the best of both worlds, as carnivalesque hilarity and carnage go hand in bloody hand."
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(1969) |
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Movie Gazette |
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5/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1920) |
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"In fact Haxan is a deeply rationalistic piece of humanism, exposing the horrors of superstition and hysteria rather than of witchcraft itself."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1920) |
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"two all-new soundtracks bring Haxan into the noughties in much the same way that Daniel Humair and Jean-Luc Ponty's jazz score made the film seem a product of the 1960s."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1958) |
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"commenting on the difficult dynamic between freedom and control within any system... it is an important missing link between the cinéma du papa and the emerging nouvelle vague"
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Little White Lies |
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9/10 |
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(2006) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"A confronting examination of human evil in all its enduring banality, Heartbeat Detector takes a crooked path towards its bid for some straight talking."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1975) |
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"If you were ultimately disappointed by the agitprop entertainment of Fahrenheit 9/11, then check out its older, wiser brother to see how a real documentary is made."
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(1989) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3/5 |
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"Performances are intercut with file footage, home videos and family photos, creating a mannered film language that, like the music it documents, links the present to the past in a series of echoes."
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"Its beauty and sadness are simply overwhelming. Anglo-Irish cinema gets a new, fully-formed identity."
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Little White Lies |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"This good-looking superhero adventure tackles all of life's big questions -- what is the nature of evil, are genes more influential than the environment, and who would win in a fight between a shaven-horned demon and a giant hellborn squid."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"Cinema is full of monsters, but few in recent memory have been so capable of eliciting our sympathy and understanding"
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(1987) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4.5/5 |
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"This 'unmaking-of' documentary is as mesmerisingly compelling as its subject might have been, and adds some splendidly disorienting reels to the cinema of anxiety. Unmissable - even if we all missed the film at its centre."
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Stunningly stylized period actioner in which the pen really is mightier than the sword."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"One claustrophobic location, two men, a relationship that shifts with the flood tide... and a film that far exceeds the limitations imposed by its low budget and small scale."
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Eye for Film |
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5/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(1962) |
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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[dvd review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"The resulting bloodbath, both nasty and hilarious, is a master class in the art of the remake, wavering somewhere between respectful reimagining and gleeful pastiche."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"a film as bloodily pointless as the current conflict in Iraq that it so unsubtly allegorises."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Good acting and production design ... plodding pace, unengaging characters ... meandering plot."
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"No amount of ironic gift wrapping can conceal the triteness within, in this double-plotted festive chick flick that is too long by half, and too cloyingly sweet to be healthy."
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Channel 4 Film |
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2/10 |
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(2003) |
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"... in this lacklustre affair, even (Harrison) Ford manages to put in his most wooden performance on record ..."
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"every bit as ambitious, if never as flawed, as the characters it portrays."
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musicOMH.com |
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1973) |
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"a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours, free-floating archetypes and picaresque episodes, all packaged to disorient and confound us with its sheer exuberance, before finally bringing us right back to exactly who we are and what it is that we are seeing."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In showing a family's self-destructive intransigence (or is it self-preserving cohesion?), Ursula Meier unravels a modern fable in which the forces of conservatism and change pass each other by."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"No work of genius, but unexpectedly endearing."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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3/10 |
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(1989) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"Its take on the workings of vengeance is remarkably responsible, rooting our discomfort in its ethical challenges as much as its visceral thrills."
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"like a mutant hybrid spawned from the improbable union of Little Miss Sunshine and Godzilla; for in this family comedy and political satire an unnaturally evolved tadpole just happens to loom (very) large."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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