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Review of Kill for Me (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 22 Jun 2013

Kill for Me throws in some gratuitous Sapphic titillation, including an obligatory make-out-in-the-shower scene, but the overwrought plotting…

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Review of Quartet (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 22 Jun 2013

For all the references to its characters' infirmities, Quartet delivers quite a cosy and light-hearted version of old age, but Hoffman's deft…

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Review of The Numbers Station (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 22 Jun 2013

The claustrophobic location gives the film a clammy suspense, though it's so dimly lit that it's sometimes hard to work out who is shooting at whom…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 21 Jun 2013

Where are the scenes of the undead feasting on entrails? The atmosphere of creeping dread? The subversive satire…

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Review of A Field in England (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 17 Jun 2013

At times, the film's spell breaks, leaving the actors looking like a bunch of Sealed Knot re-enactors going bonkers in a field…

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Review of The Iceman (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

The killings quickly begin to bleed into one another and it's sometimes hard to sort out the identities and roles of everyone involved…

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Review of Mud (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

Nichols takes his time unravelling Mud and Ellis's entwined fates, but his characters are so rich that it's well worth being in their company…

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Review of Parental Guidance (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

The film's gags are predictable and fairly lame, but the stars' diehard fans will enjoy Crystal's snarky one-liners and, yes, Midler's singing…

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Review of Deadfall (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

A B-movie with an A-list cast, crime thriller Deadfall sets its plot in motion with some bracing shocks in its first few minutes…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

With Zack 'Watchman' Snyder and Christopher 'Dark Knight' Nolan behind the film, it's no surprise the mood should be dark and serious…

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Review of The Last Stand (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

There are echoes here of Howard Hawks' classic 1959 Western Rio Bravo, in which John Wayne played a similarly beleaguered sheriff trying to…

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Review of Summer in February (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

No sooner has Downton's Dan Stevens cast off Cousin Matthew's tweeds than he's back on screen as a stiff-upper-lipped toff…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

If Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic is the Great American Novel, then this frantically jazzed-up 3D film is the pop-up-book version…

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Review of Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Jun 2013

If the movie sounds like a Hollywood gazillionaire's embarrassing vanity project, think again: filmed in lustrous black and white, Whedon's…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 09 May 2013

JJ Abrams hits warp speed right from the start of Star Trek Into Darkness, kicking off the movie with a breathtaking sequence that combines…

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Review of I'm So Excited! (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 06 May 2013

Cruising at a stratospheric altitude of high camp, Pedro Almodóvar's I'm So Excited is a colourful aerial romp that recasts his native Spain's…

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Review of Robosapien: Rebooted (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 03 May 2013

The film's cloak-and dagger plot barely passes muster, but Cody's antics - which include break dancing, tantrum throwing and blowing raspberries…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Apr 2013

Everywhere you look there are images of beguiling beauty: a mirror-like sea reflecting golden clouds; a sudden swarm of flying fish; an island…

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Review of Bernie (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Apr 2013

Black is a marvel as Bernie, reining in his usual manic persona to give his prissy, camp character an endearing sweetness but leaving what…

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Review of The Look of Love (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Apr 2013

The film tells this story with gaudy brio, but the tone is wildly uneven, veering between Swinging 60s romp, nudge-wink satire and cautionary…

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