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Review of The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for The National (UAE) (421) on 01 Nov 2018

There is a sprightly energy to the proceedings and a neat twist that makes this mindless fun something of a guilty pleasure…

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Review of Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for The National (UAE) (421) on 01 Nov 2018

Nights in Rodanthe has some strange edits, and the unhappily married mother Lane and the estranged father Gere are so badly directed that most…

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Review of 17 Again (2009)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for The National (UAE) (421) on 01 Nov 2018

Having previously shown that he can dance with the best of them, Efron now proves that he can act as well…

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Review of Last Chance Harvey (2008)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for The National (UAE) (421) on 01 Nov 2018

With a deficit of good characters, a poor script and surprisingly weak central performances, Last Chance Harvey is only for those who have…

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Review of Tell No One (2006)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for The National (UAE) (421) on 01 Nov 2018

Suspend belief and forgive the absurdities and these are two of the most enthralling hours you'll spend in the cinema this year…

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Review of Amelia (2009)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for The National (UAE) (421) on 01 Nov 2018

These have to be some of the least exhilarating flight scenes ever committed to film, as Swank looks as if she has been put in a box in a studio…

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Review of Obey (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

It's an ambitious first film, with a lot to admire, but there is also the nagging feeling that despite wanting to present another perspective,…

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Review of My Life Story (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

This film is one for those fans not looking for an investigation or warts-and-all portrait of a subject, and will please those who are happy…

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Review of Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2019)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

They are prisoners in all but name…

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Review of The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

It's a marvellous film that will please those more au fait with Welles' body of work as well as those looking for a unique, accessible introduction…

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Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

Everyone is looking out for themselves, and while that ambition helps them on the way up, it also leads to their downfall…

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Review of Human Flow (2017)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

Human Flow is a remarkable film, vast in scope, but pondering the nature of humanity in a world of vast movement and change…

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Review of Loving Pablo (2017)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

The film is oddly reluctant, given that this is being told from Vallejo's point of view, to spend the time needed to explore the relationship…

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Review of Victoria & Abdul (2017)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

Fatally shifts its focal gaze away from the viewpoint of Abdul to being told from the perspective of the head of the British Empire, which…

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Review of My Masterpiece (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

This tale of forgeries and friendships survives on fine performances from Guillermo Francella and Luis Brandoni…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

Haigh loses the reins somewhat as the film drifts away from the tracks and becomes obsessed, as so many European filmmakers are when working…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 31 Oct 2018

Maoz has made a film with many moments of heart-breaking brilliance, but he also makes the plot veer in so many different directions until…

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Review of Lords of Chaos (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 24 Oct 2018

Intriguing, well-acted and impressively crafted story…

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Review of Outlaw King (2018)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 18 Oct 2018

A very uneven film...this has been a passion project for Scottish director MacKenzie, but this film was always going to struggle from the moment…

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Review of Tell It to the Bees (2019)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 11 Oct 2018

Fails to create sufficient amounts of adrenaline to carry the relationship at the heart of the story, and consequently, the central romance…

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Kaleem Aftab has written reviews for:

Time Out (7,510)
Indiewire (3,631)
Independent (UK) (2,026)
The List (2,018)
IGN Movies (1,472)
The National (UAE) (421)
Vice (43)
Cineuropa (34)
Good Movies for Kids (2)

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