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Review of Endless Love (2014)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 17 Feb 2014

The love-conquers-all narrative bears as much resemblance to real life as The Lego Movie, but for all its blandness, Endless Love will be pure…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 14 Feb 2014

Clooney seems uncertain of the right tone to take, aiming here for a would-be comic guys-on-a-mission jauntiness and there for race-against-time-suspense…

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Review of The Invisible Woman (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Feb 2014

It's Fiennes's portrayal of the complex, driven private man behind the boundless enthusiasm and charisma of Dickens's public image that makes…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Feb 2014

By turns ornery, obnoxious, dogged, canny, brave and compassionate, McConaughey is mesmerising to watch…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 07 Feb 2014

A bespectacled, bow-tie wearing beagle with a genius IQ and a penchant for terrible puns…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 05 Feb 2014

José Padilha has tinkered with the hero's iconic suit and toned down Verhoeven's ultra-violence considerably, but enough remains of the first…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Feb 2014

12 Years A Slave tackles America's primal sin of slavery with unflinching honesty, leaving in the shade Hollywood's previous efforts to address…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Feb 2014

Martin Scorsese's giddy biopic of stockbroker swindler Jordan Belfort, has all the dazzle and pizzazz of his classic gangster movies - only…

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Review of The Croods (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Feb 2014

Boisterous, colourful and warm-hearted, with energetic action scenes, knockabout slapstick humour and lush visuals…

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Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Feb 2014

The plotting is fairly hackneyed, with standard-issue office break-ins and routine car chases, right down to the inevitable ticking bomb climax…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Feb 2014

Deftly observed, touchingly melancholy and slyly funny…

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Review of The Frozen Ground (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Feb 2014

The Frozen Ground covers familiar territory but benefits from authentically seamy scene setting amid the bars and strip-joints where the killer…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Feb 2014

The film's stage origins tell a little too obviously in places and the acting will seem overripe for some, but fans of Eugene O'Neil, Tennessee…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Jan 2014

The action is spectacular, but the thinly characterised humans who pilot the robots in mind-synched pairs inevitably get dwarfed…

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Review of Le Week-End (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Jan 2014

A funny-sad, shrewdly observant portrait of a marriage, and of the disappointed dreams and thwarted ambitions of late-middle age…

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Review of Trap for Cinderella (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Jan 2014

The plot is ludicrously far-fetched, but despite some plodding dialogue, committed performances from leads Tuppence Middleton and Alexandra…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Jan 2014

Come to Blue Is the Warmest Colour without preconceptions, and it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the intensity of the drama and the integrity…

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Review of Monsters University (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Jan 2014

Animated gem Monsters, Inc was so hilariously inventive and original that it's hardly surprising that Monsters University can't quite recapture…

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Review of Free Birds (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Jan 2014

The muddled story and lacklustre animation makes this a film that's strictly for the birds…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Jan 2014

By far the film's greatest asset is Jennifer Lawrence, who again brings absolute emotional conviction to her haunted and conflicted heroine…

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