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Movie Reviews by Matthew Bond - Page 26 of 34

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

Danny Boyle returns to direct and uses the same relentless mix of music, camerawork and editing to induce that familiar adrenaline-fuelled movie high…

Review of 100 Streets (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

Acting and writing are a little uneven, and the three strands sometimes feel contrived, but there's a strong central theme about the mess that…

Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

Parker writes, directs and stars in a film that initially seems mired in the familiar cliches of the Deep South, but gains real power as its…

Review of Sully (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

If 9/11 was the day when everything went wrong in New York, this -- albeit on a smaller scale -- is the day when everything goes right…

Review of Your Name. (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

The vital second half feels ponderous and over-blown, and the eventual explanation too complex for its own good…

Review of Arrival (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

It's intelligent, pleasingly complex and visually fascinating…

Review of Silence (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

At a buttock-numbing two hours and 41 minutes, my goodness this is hard work…

Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

With so much visual imagination on display I wanted to enjoy it more than I did, but the misery is a bit too all-pervading…

Review of Assassin's Creed (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

I've never played Assassin's Creed but it's got to be more fun than watching the extraordinarily tedious feature film that has now been adapted…

Review of Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

It's just vampires vs werewolves for the next 90 blood-soaked minutes, and there's nothing remotely difficult about keeping up with that…

Review of The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

Hailee Steinfeld lifts this likeable offering from first-time writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig towards the higher slopes of the high-school,…

Review of Bleed for This (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

Despite a decent central turn from Miles Teller, the film is predictable and has a healthy relationship with genre cliché…

Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

With a running time of more than two hours, this sprawling, would-be epic needed to deliver far more…

Review of Passengers (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

The film does have a certain visual appeal, but the story is thin and riddled with plot holes…

Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

It's a cracking story and impressively executed by a director clearly going out of his way to show he has lost none of his passion for film-making…

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in the title role, and Shailene Woodley, as his long-time girlfriend Lindsay Mills, are decent enough, but there's a…

Review of Indignation (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

What ensues is slow and wordy but beautifully acted and turns out to be about fate, choices and why a boy should always listen to his mother…

Review of Lion (2015)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

The ending is predictably lovely but it might have been lovelier still if we'd got there faster…

Review of Sing (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

It's over-long and flags when we need it to build to a climax but it's also colourful, funny and tuneful, and sometimes that's good enough…

Review of La La Land (2016)

By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

Gosling's effortless-looking performance is relaxed, understated and, thanks to months of piano lessons, totally convincing…

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