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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 21 Mar 2014

Gilliam's spellbinding vision is a chaotic, poverty-and-wealth mixture of retro, futuristic, comic book, James Bond and the original Total Recall…

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Review of Last Vegas (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 05 Jan 2014

[Michael] Douglas's ability to laugh at himself by proposing at a funeral is priceless (…

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Review of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 05 Jan 2014

[Idris Elba is brilliant, but] every time the film might have cut loose as a drama, it either holds back or we simply move on to another time…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 05 Jan 2014

A tour-de-force piece of filmmaking about the art of survival - and a cinematically-glorious throwback to the Gene Hackman era…

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Review of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 05 Jan 2014

Do not ask yourself: 'Why is even half of this being filmed at all…

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Review of How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 27 Dec 2013

Persuasive, possessive and powerful, you'll feel like you've had a shot of nasal gold dust after just five minutes and the highs keep coming…

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Review of Moshi Monsters: The Movie (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 27 Dec 2013

It's enough fun to even put a smile on adult faces…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 27 Dec 2013

The film generates a wonderful sense of claustrophobia on the open sea…

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Review of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 27 Dec 2013

The phrase 'a Walter Mitty character' looks set to outlast everyone's memories of a film which seems to rely more on special effects than the…

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Review of 47 Ronin (1994)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 27 Dec 2013

The colourful clothes in 47 Ronin and the roles of the women make this seem like a fresher, more heightened take on a Tolkien-esque world than…

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Review of The Harry Hill Movie (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 27 Dec 2013

The Happy Pill Movie would more accurately describe what is a uniquely British and deliriously silly excuse to sit back eating pick 'n' mix…

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Review of 47 Ronin (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 27 Dec 2013

The colourful clothes in 47 Ronin and the roles of the women make this seem like a fresher, more heightened take on a Tolkien-esque world than…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 19 Dec 2013

The people around me in a public preview audience laughed often at the raunchy humour, but the plot keeps fragmenting…

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Review of Day of the Flowers (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 10 Dec 2013

If the plot gets a bit confusing there are mild diversions with the landscapes and music, though even that is unlikely to send you dancing…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 10 Dec 2013

There's only so many times you can watch 13 mostly anonymous dwarves dancing along in a line without singing to yourself: ''Let's all earn…

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Review of Kill Your Darlings (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 06 Dec 2013

Krokidas unflinchingly shoots even the film's most dramatic moments with an unusually shallow depth of field…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 06 Dec 2013

A fabulously festive, funny and enjoyable return to form that Walt would surely have adored…

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Review of Getaway (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 06 Dec 2013

If you want to see a film make any kind of sense - or at least not to profit from attacking scores of others with a high-speed vehicle on the…

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Review of Homefront (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 06 Dec 2013

Statham is not the English Clint Eastwood yet, but if someone fancied calling him Dirty Jason... who knows…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 06 Dec 2013

There are insights into old age, pearls of wisdom and gags galore, all wrapped up in a coating that's more akin to a bitter lemon than sugar…

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