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Review of Frank (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

Michael Fassbender gives a virtuoso physical performance as the affable Frank: we may never see his face, but that doesn't prevent Fassbender…

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Review of Ping Pong Summer (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

In Ping Pong Summer, director Michael Tully has managed to distill everything awful about eighties movies - the fashion, cheesy dialogue, political…

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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

Just because the kids can't make sense of their acting out doesn't mean the film shouldn't try to…

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Review of How to Grow a Band (2012)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

There are are scenes in Mark Meatto's documentary, How to Grow a Band, about the progressive bluegrass band, Punch Brothers, that seem to be…

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Review of Belle (2013)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

But in trying to give us a woman to root for [Amma] Asante drops twenty-first century characters into the 1700s, taking many liberties with…

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Review of Night Moves (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

[Night Moves] can be a bit one-note at times, but watching the characters live in and respond to the trouble they've caused for themselves…

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Review of Hellion (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

Candler gets strong performances from both her young cast and adult players…

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Review of Veronica Mars (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Aug 2017

There are no perfectly happy endings in noir, but if this is the last word on Veronica Mars, it's a fitting and even hopeful one, but it also…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

Spending a couple of hours with impeccably dressed (even for the Bond franchise), amazingly talented, and utterly gorgeous stars doing stagy…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

The Martian would be a great engineering recruitment film - if it ever mentioned the word 'engineering…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

It's a big step forward that [Gillian] Robespierre's indie comedy never treats whether Donna should have an abortion as a debate; Instead,…

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Review of Take Me to the River (2015)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

[Matt Sobel] illuminates blurry lines in a fascinating way, but what those lines mean, how they've been crossed, and where things go from there…

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Review of The Riot Club (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

They may be scum, but those Riot Club boys sure know how to fill out a tuxedo handsomely…

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Review of Cold in July (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

By the end, the genre conventions have shifted enough to make you feel like you're in a different movie, and yet it has a satisfying, if dark,…

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Review of Nahid (2015)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

Sareh Bayet gives a terrific performance as Nahid, a woman forced into silence, who starts to behave recklessly, sabotaging everything…

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Review of Dear White People (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

With his first film, Dear White People, Justin Simien has proven himself to be one the most exciting emerging voices in cinema. See it…

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Review of The Grand Seduction (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

Rent the original, La Grande Séduction, instead…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

The verse, in [Justin] Kurzel's hands, is barely even identifiable as poetry. But what is Shakespeare without the unforgettable language…

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Review of 10,000 Km (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

Long distance relationships have a tendency to expose and magnify existing problems in romantic relationships…

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Review of Test (2014)

By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 13 Aug 2017

It's not worth the trek out to a mediocre cinema, but in the comfort of your own home, those dance numbers make it well worth a watch…

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