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Review of Everything or Nothing (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Oct 2012

It's archive footage of Connery that provides the documentary's best, if somewhat unfair, barb…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Oct 2012

It's disappointing that the vacuous teen love story is so predictable and that the quality of the gags isn't better…

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Review of The Campaign (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2012

Director Jay Roach lets swing with some comic haymakers - literally so when Cam aims a punch at his rival and ends up socking a baby in the…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2012

The dialogue is salty, stylised and beautifully performed…

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Review of Hysteria (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2012

The film's light-hearted fictionalising of real events combines a mild feminist history lesson with mildly saucy fun…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2012

You don't need time-travel to spot a future cult classic…

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Review of The Intouchables (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2012

It's a situation ripe for culture-clash comedy, a set-up that co-directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache exploit with gusto, as Driss takes…

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Review of Now Is Good (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Sep 2012

Teenage girls will be gushing like fire hydrants…

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Review of Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Sep 2012

Like its slacker hero, the Duplass Brothers' offbeat comedy is shambling, easygoing and slow to get going, but if you don't mind the film's…

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Review of Hope Springs (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Sep 2012

Streep and Jones's acting is probably better than the film's direction and script deserve, but, thanks to them, Hope Springs is tender, sad,…

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Review of To Rome with Love (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 12 Sep 2012

Woody Allen's latest cinematic postcard from Europe is decidedly patchy, but the funniest bits made me laugh louder and longer than any other…

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Review of Total Recall (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Aug 2012

Your mind isn't playing tricks. You have seen this before…

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Review of Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Aug 2012

The estimable Jones does a very good job of conveying Gilderoy's mental disintegration, but as psychological thrillers go Berberian Sound Studio…

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Review of A Few Best Men (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Aug 2012

How can you resist a film in which Aussie national treasure Olivia Newton-John as the bride's mother lets her hair down for a raucous, cocaine-fuelled…

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Review of The Watch (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 23 Aug 2012

We could have had comic fireworks; instead, thanks to slapdash direction and slack pacing, The Watch is a damp squib - so much so that even…

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Review of Detention (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 23 Aug 2012

The Breakfast Club meets Scream in self-consciously quirky teen horror comedy mash-up Detention - with elements of Freaky Friday, Donnie Darko…

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Review of Shadow Dancer (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 23 Aug 2012

Man on Wire director James Marsh has come up with a thriller that's as taut as his earlier film, and whose protagonist is striving to pull…

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Review of Jackpot (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Aug 2012

Jackpot lacks the breakneck narrative drive of the previous Nesbo screen adaptation, the terrific Headhunters, but keeps things gripping with…

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Review of The Expendables 2 (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Aug 2012

Sylvester Stallone and his creaky band of ageing action heroes haul their battered musclebound frames into another old-school adventure, hoping…

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Review of Brave (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Aug 2012

Strip away the Highland myth and mystery and the heart of the story is a prickly mother-daughter relationship…

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