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Review of Red (2002)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 18 Mar 2011

If the prospect of seeing Dame Helen letting rip with a ginormous machine gun while dressed to the nines tickles your fancy, give the film a go…

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Review of Submarine (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 18 Mar 2011

New-Wave-y cinematic tricks such as sudden camera zooms and freeze frames, iris shots and snatches of Super 8 suit the film's introspective,…

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Review of Red (1996)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 18 Mar 2011

If the prospect of seeing Dame Helen letting rip with a ginormous machine gun while dressed to the nines tickles your fancy, give the film a go…

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Review of Red (1993)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 18 Mar 2011

If the prospect of seeing Dame Helen letting rip with a ginormous machine gun while dressed to the nines tickles your fancy, give the film a go…

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Review of Red! (2013)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 18 Mar 2011

If the prospect of seeing Dame Helen letting rip with a ginormous machine gun while dressed to the nines tickles your fancy, give the film a go…

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Review of RED (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 18 Mar 2011

If the prospect of seeing Dame Helen letting rip with a ginormous machine gun while dressed to the nines tickles your fancy, give the film a go…

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Review of Due Date (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Mar 2011

Peter and Ethan are not people you'd care to have sitting next to you on the shortest of bus trips, let alone a 2,000-mile car journey, but…

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Review of Norwegian Wood (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Mar 2011

Murakami's bestselling 1987 novel was long thought unfilmable, but Tran does an impressive job of translating the author's dense and poetic…

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Review of Chalet Girl (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Mar 2011

A cheap and cheerful chick-flick that pads out its thin Cinderella-on-ice storyline with a string of frothy montages…

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Review of On Guard (1997)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 14 Mar 2011

A dashing hero, dastardly villain and winsome distressed damsel, not to mention a melodramatic plot, thrilling sword fights and high-spirited…

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Review of Eat Pray Love (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 14 Mar 2011

A seemingly interminable romantic travelogue that feels as though it takes as long to watch as the year-long spiritual quest it depicts…

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Review of Life As We Know It (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 14 Mar 2011

If you have a taste for poop and projectile-vomit jokes, you'll find some chuckles ... but don't go out of your way to hire a babysitter…

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Review of Another Year (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 14 Mar 2011

Actors will tell you that Leigh's method gives their characters a hinterland…

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Review of Cemetery Junction (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 14 Mar 2011

Gervais has come up with a surprisingly conservative coming-of-age comedy that shows very little of the satirical bite or formal daring of…

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Review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Mar 2011

As is so often the case, you can't help thinking that Oscar voters are easily impressed…

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Review of Donnie Darko (2001)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Mar 2011

A decidedly weird time-travel drama that puzzled viewers so much that many went back to see it again and again…

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Review of Centurion (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Mar 2011

The sight of a technologically superior occupying force coming a cropper in hostile foreign territory inescapably brings modern Afghanistan to mind…

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Review of Five Easy Pieces (1970)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Mar 2011

Boasting a career best performance by Jack Nicholson in the lead role, Rafelson's movie is a penetrating study of American alienation…

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Review of Lymelife (2008)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Mar 2011

Like The Ice Storm, Martini's story climaxes with a devastating event, but whereas the earlier film's denouement had the force of tragedy,…

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Review of Winter's Bone (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Mar 2011

An acutely gripping, grimly authentic thriller…

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