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Review of Testament of Youth (2015)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 16 Apr 2015

The filmmakers end up making a rather gloomy chick-flick, rather than the war drama with a modern heroine, which it might have been…

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Review of Black Sea (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 05 Apr 2015

The hidden treasure genre is full of inventive stories and this is yet another one, a smart screenplay that pushes all the right elements to the fore…

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Review of Black Sea (2009)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 05 Apr 2015

The hidden treasure genre is full of inventive stories and this is yet another one, a smart screenplay that pushes all the right elements to the fore…

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Review of Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 20 Mar 2015

The film's saving grace is the cast, especially perhaps the two girls, Imogene Wolodarsky and the younger Ashley Aufderheide, who deliver vibrant…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 20 Mar 2015

With garlands galore, Leviathan sets up high expectations, with its warts and all glimpse into Putin's Russia, a dictatorship in all but name…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 20 Mar 2015

Disney's live action Cinderella benefits from Ken Branagh's kudos in being able to attract the kind of cast and achieving the kind of tone…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 20 Mar 2015

Disney's live action Cinderella benefits from Ken Branagh's kudos in being able to attract the kind of cast and achieving the kind of tone…

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Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 20 Mar 2015

The wonderful English eccentricity of Aardman's Wallace and Gromit captured our hearts and minds; there is still a trace of all that here but…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 14 Mar 2015

It's fascinating to discover that an item of what is essentially pop culture with which one was familiar some years ago has such a colourful history…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 14 Mar 2015

Endearingly performed by Alfred Molina (as George) and John Lithgow (as Ben) as two ageing New York lovers who finally marry, Love Is Strange…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 22 Feb 2015

It is a crime thriller, but rises above its genre; it is a character study but it creates a mythic persona; and it is a morality tale but it…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 09 Feb 2015

Some wild ideas and crazy situations by themselves don't make a 106 minute comedy. Please try harder…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 07 Feb 2015

The trivia fact that Selma and Salem are anagrams of each other is only relevant because as were the 17th witch hunts of Salem, the 20th century…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 26 Jan 2015

Eddie Redmayne's performance - wrapped in his uncanny physical investment - is the absolutely vital key in this film and it's a scorcher, both…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Jan 2015

Surprising us most just when we think we know exactly what's coming, combining humour, pathos, drama, magic realism and a potential bag of…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Jan 2015

Surprising us most just when we think we know exactly what's coming, combining humour, pathos, drama, magic realism and a potential bag of…

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Review of Unbroken (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Jan 2015

Laura Hillenbrand's exceptionally detailed and superbly written book is a vast, immersive experience; Angelina Jolie's sensitive and faithful…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 17 Dec 2014

Huge in scale and in ambition, the film is given extra dimension by the 3D process (pardon the pun) by emphasising distance and size, matching…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 15 Dec 2014

This quiet determination (of an important private objective) is well managed in the screenplay and in Crowe's direction and performance, serving…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 15 Dec 2014

I am reasonably familiar with the subject matter, yet the film still manages to knock my socks off…

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