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Review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 22 Dec 2021

The net effect of all this techno-philosophic yackety-yak is the not altogether pleasant feeling that you are simultaneously watching a movie…

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Review of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 20 Dec 2021

The pace is always zippy but rarely hyper, and there is just enough space for the film’s many emotional beats to resonate…

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Review of The King's Man (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 17 Dec 2021

In its best moments, The King’s Man feels like you and your friends have just dumped out your great grandfather’s dusty crate of tin soldiers…

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Review of The Tender Bar (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 16 Dec 2021

It’s diluted, a little flat, but sweet and familiar enough to evoke long ago memories, if not quite strong enough to give you a reason to…

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Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 18 Nov 2021

It is true that with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jason has entered the unofficial family business of trying and failing to recreate the inexplicable…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 24 Oct 2021

Zhao keeps these far-reaching propositions grounded through the laser-like focus of her vision and the precision of the images dreamed up by…

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Review of Halloween Kills (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 15 Oct 2021

Rarely will you see a more soul-numbingly empty product of this tragic operation than Halloween Kills, a film that so completely sucks the…

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Review of Cry Macho (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 15 Sep 2021

So much of Eastwood’s career over the last two decades has proven that his age and experience has incredible cinematic value when he holds…

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Review of The Card Counter (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 10 Sep 2021

It’s not for everybody, and it’s far from perfect, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more thrillingly necessary use of the filmmaking…

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Review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 23 Aug 2021

Marvel's latest movie feels just as sanitized and safe as its other products, even with its killer cast and talented director Destin Daniel Cretton…

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Review of Don't Breathe 2 (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 13 Aug 2021

The film itself plays like an extended riff on the famous scene where the Frankenstein monster befriends a little girl…

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Review of F9 (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 24 Jun 2021

Even the film’s copious weaknesses are a reason to smile, taking us back to both the series’ B-movie roots and to less fraught periods…

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Review of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 20 Jun 2021

By shining the light on Stone, Agrelo’s movie rightfully makes a national hero out of a historical footnote…

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Review of Ailey (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 20 Jun 2021

For a movie that pulses with joyful expressiveness and brims with possibility, there is a tragic undertone to Ailey…

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Review of The Sparks Brothers (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 20 Jun 2021

By the time Wright’s somewhat exhaustive film concluded, every moment of it propelled by a high-octane geeky affection that felt like a newly…

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Review of The Woman in the Window (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 17 May 2021

There’s little weight, not much style and even less sense to the psychological terror The Woman in the Window attempts to inflict…

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Review of Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 28 Apr 2021

Without the grounding of richly drawn characters and burdened by ideas that reflect Pentagon policy papers of the late 1980s rather than our…

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Review of Mortal Kombat (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 23 Apr 2021

It will more than likely meet fans’ expectations for what they want in a Mortal Kombat movie but will fall short of exceeding them…

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Review of Nobody (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 25 Mar 2021

The filmmakers’ attempts to play around with the concept of the unlikely action hero are only moderately successful…

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Review of Chaos Walking (2021)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 05 Mar 2021

Yes, it’s a bit helter-skelter, but it is also an adequately enjoyable and untaxing way to kill off a couple of hours…

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