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The Connection
French version of The French Connection; technically solid & performed fine, but you’ve seen a hundred films just like it. →
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Weak, forgettable, joyless and tired. →
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Suite Française
A movie based on an unfinished book turns out to feel unfinished. Ends just as it gets going. →
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London Road
A peculiar adaptation of a musical based on quotes from the public about prostitute murders. Really just didn’t work at all. →
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White God
Like a fun Disney film in which adorable stray dogs make a bid for freedom except live-action & with throat-ripping. Recommended. →
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Carol
Excellent stuff. Beautifully shot and performed, slow-burning but deep and intense. →
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The Devil’s Backbone
SPINE-TINGLING STUFF lol no but seriously this is a magnificent film and creepy as hell. →
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Maggie
Solidly gloomy zombie film. Abigail Breslin great as a teen coming to terms with her terminal illness, Schwarzenegger decent as well →
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Spy
Quite surprised by how much I liked this. Enjoyed it so much I almost didn’t mind that Miranda Hart is in it. Almost. →
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Howl
Like Dog Soldiers, but on a train. Recommended if you liked Dog Soldiers, and trains. →
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Unbreakable
A dreary slog of a film, but at least it has Samuel L. Jackson saying ‘Teletubbies’. →
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Far From the Madding Crowd
A solid enough adaptation but felt like much was left out to fit it into a film. Would have preferred a series. →
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Funny Face
Wanted to like it but the ludicrous romantic pairing of Hepburn (28) and Astaire (58) just made it creepy as hell. →
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Interstellar
Not as terrible as I’d expected at all, but why so much explanation? Should have gone for 2001-style wonder and mystery. →
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Rio Bravo
A perfect slow-burning Western. →
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Blade II
Certainly to my mind Luke Goss’s second best film. →
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Amazing visuals & set pieces but two hours with Tom Cruise and his children had me rooting for the Martians. →
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Sabrina (1954)
Perfectly enjoyable stuff, but the 30 year age gap between Bogart and Hepburn made the whole thing kind of skeevy. →
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Knock Knock
Just…shit. →
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Catch Me Daddy
Brilliantly shot, scored and performed, but so nihilistic and grim it left even me feeling empty by the end. →