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Review of Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Sweet and simplistic, it won't offer you the bells and whistles of Frozen…

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Review of The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

In a have, have-not society the script might have had less threat of gore and more depth as a genuine thought-provoking social commentary of…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Cotillard's pill-popping Sandra handles every face-to-face meeting and twist and turn of her heartbreaking plight with such openness, honesty…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Hollywood is mourning the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, but fear not... others will be waiting in the wings to grab their chance…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Winter Soldier has enough intrigue to satisfy fans and a Heat-style street battle cements it as a stand-alone thriller, albeit one which doesn't…

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Review of Secret Sharer (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Cloud Atlas star Zhu Zhu is mesmerising as the stowaway, Li, especially as she is cleverly filmed frequently naked…

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Review of The Railway Man (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

As an Oscar winner for The King's Speech (2010), Firth has nothing to prove…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

( ... ) having two Kermits means there's not enough of the no-nonsense Miss Piggy…

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Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Its filmic style, quirks and humour make this the best vampire movie for five years since Tomas Alfredson's original Swedish thriller Let The…

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Review of The Armstrong Lie (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

( ... ) a riveting, insider's view of the unravelling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Much of the story could have been introduced with a prologue, leaving Clooney's character Frank Stokes to either concentrate on one raid or…

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Review of The House of Magic (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

A sweet and harmless exercise in physical fun and its busyness should keep children under seven well entertained…

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Review of Of Horses and Men (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

If you want to see the year's most original, comedic and shocking film all rolled into one, look no further than this feature from Iceland…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

What is most surprising about Need For Speed is how badly it starts off…

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Review of Devil's Knot (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

It doesn't quite gel as either a proper whodunnit, an insight into a killer's mind, a debate about lyrics in heavy metal music or a gripping…

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Review of Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

You can have all of the big name stars in a film that you like…

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Review of Joe (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

A fantastic story of destiny finally calling for a drifter (…

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Review of Starred Up (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Despite its inevitable hard-surface jailhouse cliches, Starred Up is impressively well filmed, impeccably acted and, for those of a nervous…

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Review of Lone Survivor (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Peter Berg is effectively offering four Rambos for the price of one - the Seals' bullet-whistling gunfight scenes are a combination of Saving…

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Review of Veronica Mars (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Oct 2014

Despite its middle-class magnolia feel in one respect, it has some sharp lines, twists and turns, revived characters, a neat score and good…

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