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Review of Anon (2018)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 14 May 2018

Niccol has framed his story in a world of dimly-lit interiors in soft browns and creams, devoid of human warmth but decorated with carefully-placed…

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Review of 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 09 May 2018

At a time when we're seeing a shocking resurgence of anti-semitism, this film might have delivered an eye-opening jolt, but instead it feels…

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Review of Sweet Country (2018)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 05 Apr 2018

In a film striking for its absence of background music, the story is told through natural ambient sounds and some glorious cinematography…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 28 Mar 2018

The film excels in its hectically brilliant action sequences, where the screen seethes with energy, anarchy and in-jokes…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 08 Mar 2018

Many bluffs, feints and subterfuges are in store before the piece reaches its quite satisfying destination, mostly capably handled by its strong…

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Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 08 Mar 2018

It's a film distinguished by the force of its images and the compression of its narrative, and while its impact leaves you dazed, you can't…

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Review of The Light of the Moon (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Mar 2018

The Light of the Moon is the first feature by writer-director Jessica M Thompson, who has leveraged maximum value from her cast and a shoestring…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Feb 2018

It's a film that doesn't want to be categorised, but it's no trouble at all to lose yourself in its swirling currents…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 18 Jan 2018

It's formulaic and you can probably guess the ending, but it's a pacy, enjoyable thriller capable of laughing at itself…

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Review of Hostiles (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 05 Jan 2018

The best of Hostiles is powerful and memorable, its strengths amplified by Masanobu Takayanagi's haunting cinematography and Max Richter's score…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 27 Dec 2017

Sorkin continues to enjoy himself hugely as the piece moves into its courtroom endgame…

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Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Dec 2017

Played with frantic energy and dentifrice-exhibiting bonhomie by Hugh Jackman, this Barnum is a feel-good character who exists in only two dimensions…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Sprawling and over-long as it is, this is a movie with a good heart and a sense of humour…

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Review of Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Making the transition from long-arc TV series to 100-minute feature film is no simple matter, but they've accomplished it with some skill here…

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Review of Child 44 (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

You're left with the sense of a film attempting to say some ambitious things about a specific time in history and what a crushing totalitarian…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Southpaw is always watchable, and visceral enough to let you temporarily overlook the holes and pitfalls, but it's frustrating because it could…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Where the TV show's Robert Vaughn and David McCallum enjoyed an effortlessly bickering, bantering rapport, Cavill and Armie Hammer's Kuryakin…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Nov 2017

Mann's problem is that, like other directors before him, he can't find a way to make cybercrime look very interesting on screen…

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Review of Ferrari: Race to Immortality (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 02 Nov 2017

This film isn't designed as a multiplex-buster, but anyone with a taste for motorsport history will find it irresistible…

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Review of Journey's End (2017)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 11 Oct 2017

Armed with a taut, uncluttered screenplay by Simon Reade and a splendid group of actors, Dibb evokes the terror and misery of the trenches…

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