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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 26 Sep 2013

Blanchett is being tipped for Oscar glory, and this is surely a very good, very committed performance (if a little self-consciously so)…

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Review of Rush (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 12 Sep 2013

Howard shoots the race scenes brilliantly - they a little Tony Scott in terms of over-saturated colour and jump cuts, but it's an effective…

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Review of Lovelace (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 28 Aug 2013

While sympathetic lacks the nerve to fully detail the injustices she suffered at Trainor's hands…

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Review of Frances Ha (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 31 Jul 2013

Frances Ha has a warmth and lightness absent from Baumbach's earlier films, The Squid And The Whale (2005) and Margot At The Wedding (2007)…

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Review of The Bling Ring (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 10 Jul 2013

The film is surface-shallow - but only because the culture it reflects is arguably too superficial to withstand any kind of analysis…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 12 Jun 2013

This is a film we are to take seriously, because nothing says serious more than watching men in capes hitting each other with cars…

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Review of The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 05 Jun 2013

As filmed by Shane Meadows, Made Of Stone is a fudge between fly-on-the-wall doc, concert film and archival trawl…

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Review of Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 15 May 2013

Entertaining documentary about the notoriously cantankerous drummer…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 15 May 2013

It's a film of colossal artifice and superficiality, in love with surface dazzle - but as it turns out, none of the spectacle is remotely thrilling…

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Review of The Look of Love (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 23 Apr 2013

As per previous Winterbottom/Coogan collaborations, the vibe here is loose and episodic…

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Review of Good Vibrations (2012)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 28 Mar 2013

For much of the time, Hooley's tale is, while enjoyably ramshackle, a familiar one of skanky pubs, transit vans, snooty major label executives…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 01 Mar 2013

The play between the three leads is terrific - a bit bonkers, quite creepy, often over-the-top…

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Review of Flight (2012)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 06 Feb 2013

Zemeckis - who hasn't directed a live action film since 2000's Cast Away - shoots the film as straight as possible…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 24 Jan 2013

For much of its three hour running time, Zero Dark Thirty moves like a police procedural: it is rigorous, pared-back and analytical…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 12 Dec 2012

Both a poignant love story and a typically rigorous attempt to dismantle one of the last great taboos in cinema…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 21 Mar 2012

The idea of a future society where the state controls the population through lethal games is familiar from films like Rollerball, The Running…

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Review of Shame (2011)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 18 Jan 2012

[A] bracing and unsettling film about sex addiction in New York that features a powerful central performance from Michael Fassbender…

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Review of Attack the Block (2011)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 17 May 2011

Cornish has made a very accomplished debut; an exuberant genre mash-up, part sci-fi, part action movie, part comedy, executed with tremendous…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 17 May 2011

It's alright. But you could probably have more fun with a Pirates Of The Caribbean Lego set…

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Review of Thor (2011)

By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 26 Apr 2011

Hiddleston does sly and manipulative with relative restraint, that balances out Hemsworth's shouty braggadocio…

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