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Review of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 02 Jan 2014

This flight of fancy doesn't quite offer the feel good lift it seems to be aiming for, perhaps because its structure dictates that Walter spends…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 02 Jan 2014

Disney's animation renaissance continues apace…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 02 Jan 2014

Adèle and Emma have stayed with me since I left the cinema. Blue is the Warmest Colour is one of the year's best…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 02 Jan 2014

If Cuarón's long-gestating thriller is perhaps not quite the masterpiece we were hoping for, it is still a thrilling and visually striking work…

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Review of Don Jon (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 02 Jan 2014

The messages of the film are stark and genuine, much more so than one might expect having seen the promotional material…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 11 Jun 2013

There's really very little to complain about in this warp-speed sequel…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 11 Jun 2013

That it can't match the classics it takes as inspiration shouldn't be used to condemn it too harshly…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 11 Jun 2013

Alvarez does show some directorial flair but this is not as frightening as it would like to believe it is, nor as interesting…

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Review of Mama (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 17 Mar 2013

In the end the clichés and overly repetitive plot structure can't derail what is a well-played, well-shot horror flick…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 17 Mar 2013

Bigelow tells the story very well, very efficiently, but doesn't really say much about it, which is ironic given the response to the film in…

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Review of Red Dawn (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 17 Mar 2013

In the wake of the Oscars, we have an early contender for worst film of the year…

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Review of Broken City (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 17 Mar 2013

It has ideas and, in places, verve, but it can't help but feel like a pretty standard thriller with some big names rather erroneously attached…

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Review of Pitch Perfect (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 20 Jan 2013

Is Pitch Perfect this year's Bridesmaids? If by that we mean a thoroughly likable and surprisingly funny comedy, then yes, I suppose it is…

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Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 20 Jan 2013

Its misjudged villain and generic action film structure put it some way below the staples of the LA thriller sub-genre…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 20 Jan 2013

This is a very different film to Audiard's most recent release - the impressive A Prophet - but it has a similar sense of maturity about it,…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 20 Jan 2013

This feels like a fairly disposable entry in Eastwood's filmography, and represents a confident if uninspiring start to Lorenz's directorial career…

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Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 20 Jan 2013

The sense that the different elements don't really add up to much may well leave some feeling cold; for others, the sharp dialogue and comic…

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Review of The Watch (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 29 Sep 2012

If the scenes between the four leads had been stronger, it might have been easier to overlook the film's structural and tonal weaknesses, but…

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Review of Savages (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 29 Sep 2012

Stone has put together a technically sound and sporadically thrilling thriller, but it drops the ball at the end, and tries to squeeze a bit…

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Review of Taken 2 (2012)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 19 Sep 2012

This is an expensive and lazy rehash that either doesn't understand what made its predecessor popular, or doesn't care…

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