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Review of Mr. Pip (2012)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

What [director Andrew Adamson] hasn't been able to do is pull off the story's central narrative shock in a way that preserves its unity rather…

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Review of Carol (2015)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

The story can be a little over-leisurely in its unfolding but it builds to a powerful finale…

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Review of Café de Flore (2011)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

For 90 of the total 120 minutes two story threads remain frustratingly unconnected…

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Review of The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

Clear your head of any awkward preconceptions and prepare for a wild emotional ride that takes you from the heights of amorous passion to the…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

Even for Haneke this is astringent stuff, light on visual flourish or narrative surprise, but driving it all are magnificent performances that…

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Review of Whiteley (2017)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

This is a major documentary that deserves to be seen by anyone in Australia with even a passing interest in art…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

All this would be far less effective without a suitably sturdy villain, and a slimmed-down Spall, while far from obvious casting in the role,…

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Review of What's in a Name (2012)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

Adapting their own material, directors Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere keep it all moving at breakneck speed while adding…

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Review of Frances Ha (2013)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

It's a creative marriage forged in heaven or at least the Manhattan equivalent…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

Polley proves expert at holding back key information, revealing it at a point where she can most effectively recreate her own emotional journey…

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Review of The Rocket (2013)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

It's a charming and visually appealing tale filled with energy, humour and heart, yet without a hint of sentimentality…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

The New York winter has never looked more frosty or hostile, and yet the gorgeous compositions and the plentiful offbeat humour keep the depression…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

Whether you call this an exaggeratedly tall tale or simply a good old shaggy dog story, its ultimate meaning matters less than its maker's…

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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

In an eponymous lead role owing more than a little to A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche DuBois, whom she played on stage not so long ago,…

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Review of We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

The film has access to some fascinating expert witnesses and commentators…

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Review of A Royal Affair (2012)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

The great achievement of director Nikolaj Arcel and screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

All this would be far less effective without a suitably sturdy villain, and a slimmed-down Spall, while far from obvious casting in the role,…

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Review of Healing (2014)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

The film's true star is the lyrical avian cinematography by Andrew Lesnie, of The Lord of the Rings renown…

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Review of Kill Your Darlings (2013)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

I'm not sure John Krokidas's lively debut film makes the Beats very likeable - to this reviewer they come across as a gang of spoiled and pretentious…

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Review of Belle (2013)

By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

Though the story is set up elegantly, by the halfway point it's obvious where it's headed and it ploddingly sets about going there…

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