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Movie Reviews by David Parkinson - Page 8 of 39

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1976)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 18 May 2016

Some may find the blizzard of ideas and images a little spurious and overpowering, but this is a deeply personal expression of visionary art and love…

Review of Chicken (2016)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 18 May 2016

Scott Chambers reprises the role he originated on the London fringe stage and excels in debutant director Joe Stephenson's careful, if not…

Review of Journey to the Shore (2015)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 18 May 2016

Cinematographer Akiko Ashizawa's use of light and texture should be applauded as much as Fukatsu's touching performance…

Review of Heart of a Dog (2015)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 18 May 2016

Some may find the blizzard of ideas and images a little spurious and overpowering, but this is a deeply personal expression of visionary art and love…

Review of Pure Country (1992)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 17 May 2016

Your opinion of this tale of a troubled country superstar will depend totally on your reaction to George Strait…

Review of The Seventh Fire (2015)

By David Parkinson (764) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 11 May 2016

A gruelling watch and a searing indictment of America's disregard for its indigenous peoples…

Review of Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 04 May 2016

Rules dont mean much to Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes and he concludes his masterly triptych by confounding expectations…

Review of Golden Years (2017)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 27 Apr 2016

The humour is exceedingly gentle and the plot increasingly improbable. But John Miller directs steadily and the performances are irresistibly knowing…

Review of Golden Years (2016)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 27 Apr 2016

The humour is exceedingly gentle and the plot increasingly improbable. But John Miller directs steadily and the performances are irresistibly knowing…

Review of Steel Magnolias (2012)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 25 Apr 2016

This is a little too dependent on sassy one-liners and is awash with sentiment by the end, but is still wonderful entertainment…

Review of Steel Magnolias (1989)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 25 Apr 2016

This is a little too dependent on sassy one-liners and is awash with sentiment by the end, but is still wonderful entertainment…

Review of Desert Dancer (2014)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 20 Apr 2016

There is so little political depth and dramatic tension in the leaden script that the subversive aspect of Ritchie and Pinto's platonic partnership…

Review of Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 20 Apr 2016

Co-directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have turned a homophobic accusation into an aesthetic exhortation, as they urge viewers to look…

Review of Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 13 Apr 2016

As always with Greenaway, the dialogue tends towards the florid and the intellectual…

Review of The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 07 Apr 2016

Even bemused viewers will delight at Dietrich's sublimely ridiculous costumes as well as some of Hollywood's most awe-inspiring imagery…

Review of I Am Belfast (2016)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 07 Apr 2016

Visually striking and touchingly sincere, this moving mosaic lacks the trenchancy to match its assured sense of place…

Review of Mary Poppins (1964)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 05 Apr 2016

This is easily the best of Disney's experiments in combining animation and live action, and one of the studio's best-loved films…

Review of Marguerite (2015)

By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 17 Mar 2016

Frot is superb as the oblivious chanteuse, with her touchingly excruciating warbling hiding a pain that cannot be staunched after she discovers…

Review of The Pearl Button (2015)

By David Parkinson (764) for Empire (3,446) on 14 Mar 2016

Despite the striking photography, this fascinating denunciation of 150 years of persecution and oppression lacks Guzmán's customary trenchancy…

Review of Next to Her (2014)

By David Parkinson (764) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 10 Mar 2016

Intelligently scripted, tactfully directed and superbly played, this is a compelling study in doing the right things for the wrong reasons…

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David Parkinson has written reviews for:

Time Out (7,510)
Empire (3,446)
Empire Magazine (3,326)
Radio Times (2,421)

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