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Review of Away We Go (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 17 Sep 2009

A rewarding change of pace for Sam Mendes, Away We Go is a small, lovely film that gently sneaks up on you with unexpected depth and feeling. Let it…

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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 23 Aug 2009

QT has let loose completely: flashes of cine-genius curdle with crude, crazy juvenility, although it doesn't stop this being his most purely…

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Review of Afterschool (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 20 Aug 2009

Gripped with an unnerving iciness, Afterschool has style and smarts, but Campos never really manages to slice cleanly into his mega-relevant…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 09 Jul 2009

One of the Potter franchise's breeziest entries yet offers flashes of darkness but lashings of teen tension…

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Review of Up (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 17 May 2009

Gorgeously rendered in subtly immersive 3D and full of organic cinematic nods, this is a rare, wondrous story of true love and dream-catching…

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Review of Up! (1976)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 17 May 2009

Gorgeously rendered in subtly immersive 3D and full of organic cinematic nods, this is a rare, wondrous story of true love and dream-catching…

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Review of Up (1984)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 17 May 2009

Gorgeously rendered in subtly immersive 3D and full of organic cinematic nods, this is a rare, wondrous story of true love and dream-catching…

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Review of Fish Tank (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 17 May 2009

Through it all, Park's film never loses its big, bloody-fanged grin…

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Review of Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 17 May 2009

Boasting strong performances and lightened by a few flashes of much-needed easy humour, Precious is let down by Daniels' ropey direction -…

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Review of Bright Star (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 17 May 2009

For all the exquisite cinematography and fine performances, Bright Star remains curiously unaffecting…

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Review of Coraline (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 07 May 2009

Rich, ingenious and frighteningly close to home, Selick's new nightmare puts him nearer to Guillermo del Toro and David Lynch than Tim Burton…

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Review of Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 24 Apr 2009

Too loose and aimless to sit with Herzog's best, Encounters drifts along on its filmmaker's frostbitten humour and his ever-searching eye for…

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Review of Waveriders (2008)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 02 Apr 2009

The footage of the tiny figures riding these ferocious 50ft monsters goes past awe-inspiring into something almost indefinable…

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Review of American Teen (2008)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for thelondonpaper (91) on 07 Mar 2009

This absorbing doc is a funny, heartbreaking reminder that we're all wounded survivors of the original war zone…

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Review of Watchmen (2001)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 07 Mar 2009

There's a saying that a masterpiece has already found its perfect medium. Snyder has done as good a job as anyone could have done…

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Review of Watchmen (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 07 Mar 2009

There's a saying that a masterpiece has already found its perfect medium. Snyder has done as good a job as anyone could have done…

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Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 06 Mar 2009

Twisted with black comedy, off-kilter performances, unsettling sound design and jolts of violence, Jennifer Lynch's eminently Lynchian psycho-thriller…

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Review of Surveillance (2006)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 06 Mar 2009

Twisted with black comedy, off-kilter performances, unsettling sound design and jolts of violence, Jennifer Lynch's eminently Lynchian psycho-thriller…

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Review of Surveillance (2008)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for Total Film (3,532) on 06 Mar 2009

Twisted with black comedy, off-kilter performances, unsettling sound design and jolts of violence, Jennifer Lynch's eminently Lynchian psycho-thriller…

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Review of New in Town (2009)

By Jonathan Crocker (102) for thelondonpaper (91) on 27 Feb 2009

Zellweger's face looks stuck in a permanent wince…

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Jonathan Crocker has written reviews for:

Time Out (7,510)
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Little White Lies (3,136)
BBC.com (1,500)
Digital Spy (1,161)
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