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Review of Deadpool 2 (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 15 May 2018

Deadpool 2 is everything that it is supposed to rail against: a generic comic book movie that is only a step above the lesser entries in the…

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Review of Tully (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 15 May 2018

While this isn't a particularly cheery movie for an alleged comedy, it's a finely tuned work that provokes without tipping itself over the edge…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 02 May 2018

Unsane is not much more than potentially dangerous boilerplate designed to make people fear the mental health profession…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 25 Apr 2018

There's a lot to meditate on in this breathlessly told comic book adventure film…

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Review of Super Troopers 2 (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 23 Apr 2018

For fans of the original, Super Troopers 2 has enough of that Broken Lizard flavour that they've been craving for almost two decades…

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Review of The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 23 Apr 2018

This is a sweet, well-shot and well-acted piece drawn from a thoughtful script…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 11 Apr 2018

You may not quite be able to put a finger on what you're watching, but Isle of Dogs is a hand-crafted adventure through garbage, fire, and…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 04 Apr 2018

There is nothing to recommend the film itself, which may as well have been assembled by the soulless corporate drones that it purports to hold…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 16 Mar 2018

Annihilation is science fiction that is unashamed to be weird and disturbing. There's a market for that, though it may not be a mass one…

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Review of Tomb Raider (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 15 Mar 2018

Tomb Raider is an action adventure movie that is almost okay, but it runs out of steam long before it gets to the time to raid tombs…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 23 Feb 2018

Lady Bird is a teen movie written by someone who remembers what it was like to be a teen, and one that understands that a character can be…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 21 Feb 2018

Black Panther gives you everything that you want from a Marvel movie, but it goes just that little bit further to sink its claws in and reward…

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Review of Sweet Country (2018)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 01 Feb 2018

Sweet Country is a landmark work of Australian cinema, even if it lacks commerciality: what it does offer is the diamond hardness of certainty…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 11 Jan 2018

Ultimately, if you want to hear Churchill talking about fighting them on the beaches, you could just watch Dunkirk again - Oldman's performance…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 03 Jan 2018

If Mildred is not a memorable character, the movie isn't being watched correctly…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 28 Dec 2017

Downsizing would have been compromised if it had been designed to please everybody; Payne's undiluted vision is admirable, and you almost owe…

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Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 28 Dec 2017

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a decent light-comedy adventure film that forgets much of what distinguished its predecessor, but stands…

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Review of Paddington 2 (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 21 Dec 2017

If more writers and directors respected their audiences as King and Farnaby clearly does, the world's entertainment output would be significantly…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 21 Dec 2017

If you can accept the excess, the weird humour, the entirely inessential subplot, and the fact that it could stand to end a scene earlier,…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 08 Dec 2017

Wonder Wheel has a fundamentally solid concept and theme, but Allen's approach to heaping on miseries and neuroses becomes exhausting, and…

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