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Review of Blind (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 07 Jan 2018

Baldwin and Moore have an appealingly mature chemistry that allows us to forgive the predictability of the story that brings them together…

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Review of The Book of Henry (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 06 Jan 2018

Like a drunk clown at a children's party, this is the kind of movie you watch mouth agape…

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Review of The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 28 Dec 2017

What with the mishmash of accents, and Helmar's soporific voiceover, The Ottoman Lieutenant is ludicrous from start to finish…

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Review of The Hunter's Prayer (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 28 Dec 2017

The modest scope of B-movie action thriller The Hunter's Prayer can be gauged by the fact that its big-time criminal tycoon (played by Downton…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Dec 2017

A departure for Carney is that Sing Street is set in the past; another is that it has teenage protagonists; and this combination gives his…

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Review of Come and Find Me (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 18 Dec 2017

Mystery thriller Come and Find Me has its share of suspenseful scenes, but countless flashback scenes…

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Review of Heartbeats (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 09 Dec 2017

Striving for a fusion of Hollywood and Bollywood, dance music drama Heartbeats concocts a cross-cultural romance for an aspiring hip-hop dancer…

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Review of Scottish Mussel (2015)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 07 Dec 2017

Talulah Riley is clearly aiming for the whimsical Caledonian charm of Bill Forsyth's Local Hero or Ken Loach's The Angels' Share [with this]…

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Review of Life (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 06 Dec 2017

The plot may not withstand calm reflection after the credits roll, but while the film is running Espinosa keeps our nerves far too jangled to care…

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Review of Mine (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 02 Dec 2017

Hammer does a fine job in his largely solo role, so it's a shame directing duo Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro choose to saddle him with…

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Review of Mine (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 02 Dec 2017

Hammer does a fine job in his largely solo role, so it's a shame directing duo Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro choose to saddle him with…

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Review of Upside Down (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 24 Nov 2017

Bizarre romantic fantasy Upside Down is mostly desperately twee, but Argentine director Juan Solanas displays flashes of visual ingenuity,…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 24 Nov 2017

This absurdly drippy fable makes about as much sense as its daft title…

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Review of The Girl in the Book (2015)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 23 Nov 2017

Fittingly, at a time when the issue of sexual harassment is more urgent and raw than ever, this subtly compelling drama portrays a young woman…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 21 Nov 2017

Throughout, Coppola keeps the film's pressure-cooker tensions on the boil, introducing elements of suspense, sensuality and sometimes near-camp…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Nov 2017

Director Jon Watts is avowedly channelling the spirit of 1980s John Hughes teen movies…

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Review of In a Valley of Violence (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Nov 2017

There's a streak of darkly funny absurdity running through the film as well, not least in the climactic in-the-street showdown, which finds…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 17 Nov 2017

As the pair pound away at each other, it's the hapless viewer who's left begging for mercy, battered into submission by Snyder's overbearing…

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Review of Mum's List (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 12 Nov 2017

The scene at a dinner party in which Spall's Singe likens the pain of bereavement to struggling against the sea's undertow will knock you off…

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Review of Casino Royale (1967)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Nov 2017

When Bond kills an adversary in a hotel stairwell, the violence is nasty and brutal - and you feel bystander Vesper's shock and revulsion too…

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