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Review of David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 08 Apr 2018

How did the youngster who says he came from a super happy household end up as a cinema prince of darkness…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 08 Apr 2018

This star-laden action drama is proof that more money and gizmos do not necessarily make for a bigger thrill ride…

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Review of Cell (2016)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 08 Apr 2018

Predictable in a lot of places, but all concerned wisely play things for knowing laughs when the occasion demands (and it often does) and Cusack…

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Review of Tom of Finland (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 08 Apr 2018

An affectionate tribute with Pekka Strang just right as the man of few words and many drawings…

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Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

Everything is geared towards packaging Barnum as a sort of cuddly pioneer of inclusivity, rather than the hard-nosed businessman of his times…

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Review of Early Man (2018)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

The creators of Wallace and Gromit can usually be relied upon for a chuckle…

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

Olivier Assayas's drama does not quite know what it wants to be - a thriller, a study in grief, or one long advert for luxury brands…

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Review of The Party (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

This is the kind of artistic gamble that either sets a picture up to soar, or to come crashing down. Happily, it is the former…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

Set around the Mexican festival of the Day of the Dead, Coco is a riot of colour peppered with great songs, gags and thrills…

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Review of Last Flag Flying (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

Carell and company turn in uniformly terrific performances, with the screenplay by Linklater switching between unbearably poignant and laugh-out-loud…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

This is a director having the ride of his life, one going all out to bring the audience along in the passenger seat…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

A tasty performance from Kaluuya, together with Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford as the parents, but Peele is the star find here…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

Preposterous, but Collet-Serra keeps the action going at a terrific lick and if you like to see Mr Neeson, 65, do his geriaction thing, get on board…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 02 Apr 2018

Downsizing finds Payne taking a more ambitious direction, as if having something of a crossroads moment himself...Courageous, certainly…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 01 Apr 2018

Such an out of the ordinary picture demands an unconventional heroine and del Toro could not have chosen better than Hawkins…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 01 Apr 2018

If the production method is a touch hit and miss, Foy's performance is an out and out triumph…

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Review of All the Money in the World (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 01 Apr 2018

The screenplay wisely digs deeper by taking a look at the earlier relationship between grandson and grandfather...All kudos to Plummer, who…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 01 Apr 2018

I, Tonya is a sympathetic portrayal, made more so by the always engaging Robbie, which may not sit well with some...shifts in tone become more…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 01 Apr 2018

This is an old-fashioned film about romance that dares to play out like the love affair it depicts…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 01 Apr 2018

At a deeper level it is a testament to the audacious power of pure elemental filmmaking…

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