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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 23 Nov 2014

The fact Gyllenhaal holds our attention and our care for so much of this film is an achievement but also strangely terrifying…

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Review of The Mule (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 19 Nov 2014

It doesn't integrate the humour and violence as seamlessly as Angus Sampson's other recent work like 100 Bloody Acres…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 04 Nov 2014

To this point, I have enjoyed many of Nolan's films but Interstellar's script is terribly inconsistent…

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Review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 21 Oct 2014

What's on display here simply isn't up to par, even by low standards of Hollywood…

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Review of Fury (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 21 Oct 2014

It's a film disturbingly unconcerned by psychology or battle scars but celebrating how many kills a single tank crew can score for their country…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 19 Oct 2014

The film is based on Chazelle's life but is fiction because reality is realising not everything is possible if we're willing to try…

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Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 14 Oct 2014

There doesn't seem to be many layers to unearth in this dour and grizzled adaptation of Lawrence Block's 1992 crime novel…

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Review of Son of a Gun (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 14 Oct 2014

Appropriately visceral, purposely cast and staged with memorable action sequences…

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Review of The Judge (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 07 Oct 2014

Ultimately, the case presented relies on stale precedents we the jury have previously seen in more convincing fashion…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 03 Oct 2014

The film is a deceitful, lying partner, who can tell a good yarn and while we're not ready to believe all of it, we hang on for the ride anyway…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 09 Sep 2014

It's the flurry of memories filtering back into our minds of past events that makes us realise that we're in a controlled world that won't…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 03 Sep 2014

Boyhood is an observant and sometimes profound marriage between fiction and reality…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 03 Sep 2014

Boyhood is an observant and sometimes profound marriage between fiction and reality…

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Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 25 Aug 2014

Magic in the Moonlight has the tiredness of hearing someone tell the same joke consecutive times…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 05 Aug 2014

When the narratives are formally compared as an expression of karma and reincarnation, the juxtaposition is vacuous…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 03 Aug 2014

This slow-burning film about surveillance asks moral questions regarding how long we must contain our racial and prejudicial impulses before…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 28 Jul 2014

Once touted as their riskiest film to date, it is artistically and politically as conservative a film as Marvel Studios has ever made…

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Review of These Final Hours (2014)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 27 Jul 2014

When the film isn't sickeningly violent, it's stupid and when it's not that it's sentimental and boring, with little to recommend…

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Review of Charlie's Country (2013)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 14 Jul 2014

Charlie's Country has a lived-in lead performance, complimented by clean photography, but does the film's love for its central character diminish…

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Review of Belle and Sebastian (2013)

By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 01 Jul 2014

Since when does France adopt the lazy Hollywood model of refurnishing old, safe ideas, rather than challenging us with daring new ones…

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