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Review of Hunky Dory (2011)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for The List (2,018) on 17 Apr 2012

There's at least one sub-plot too many, but audiences willing to suspend disbelief will be swept up as the greatest high school band in the…

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Review of Café de Flore (2011)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for The List (2,018) on 16 Apr 2012

Vallée appears content to put his audience through the emotional wringer for no discernible purpose, and the result is a film that is objectionable…

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Review of All in Good Time (2012)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for The List (2,018) on 16 Apr 2012

Reece Ritchie and Amara Karan are charmingly sincere and easy to root for as the young couple who know very little about sex, a rare and refreshing…

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Review of Submarine (2011)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 05 Aug 2011

This is a rare thing: a British comedy debut that's surprising, witty, hugely accomplished and fully capable of finding an audience worldwide…

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Review of Monsters (2010)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 15 Apr 2011

Monsters looks and feels like a major studio film, and Edwards is clearly a talent to watch…

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Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 18 Feb 2011

It's not a film that has anything like the thematic weight of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but what it does offer is a fun and exciting…

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Review of Burke & Hare (1972)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 29 Oct 2010

Burke and Hare is a film that's hard not to like, imbued as it is by American director John Landis with a charm and naivety that belies its…

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Review of Burke & Hare (2010)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 29 Oct 2010

Burke and Hare is a film that's hard not to like, imbued as it is by American director John Landis with a charm and naivety that belies its…

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Review of Buried (2010)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 01 Oct 2010

One of the film's great strengths is that Sparling's script doesn't pull any punches with the scenario…

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Review of Role Models (2008)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 05 Jul 2010

This is an obviously contrived plot, but the script, co-written by Rudd, director David Wain, support actor Ken Marino and writer Tim Dowling,…

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Review of Robin Hood (2010)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 12 May 2010

In their efforts to do something new and different with the Robin Hood character, Scott and his merry band of filmmakers have robbed him of…

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Review of Iron Man 2 (2010)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 04 May 2010

A series of carefully-planned, effects-heavy sequences strung together with slapdash storytelling, underdeveloped character ideas and the occasional…

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Review of Whip It (2009)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 07 Apr 2010

With Page easily handling what little dramatic weight there is, the support players are free to focus on being funny, and they give it their all…

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Review of Astro Boy (2009)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 05 Feb 2010

It's ironic that Astro Boy's story is rooted in the concept of uniqueness and invention, as director David Bowers (Flushed Away) has failed…

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Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 25 Dec 2009

It is the director's ceaseless creativity that stands out in Imaginarium, and makes the film worth watching despite its narrative and logical flaws…

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Review of A Serious Man (2009)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 01 Oct 2009

A film that's as difficult as it is brilliant…

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Review of Zombieland (2009)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 01 Oct 2009

A pleasant surprise indeed (that is, if your definition of pleasant allows room for multiple depictions of gruesomely splattered zombies. Mine does)…

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Review of Jennifer's Body (2009)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 17 Sep 2009

While it is unmistakeably from the same witty and culturally aware mind as Juno, it falls short of the high bar that Cody set for herself with…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 25 Jun 2009

The characters are fictional, but writer Mark Boal spent time in Iraq following soldiers who really do this, and the film never feels anything…

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Review of Knowing (2009)

By Paul Gallagher (60) for Future Movies UK (245) on 20 Mar 2009

In the film's conclusion Proyas undoes most of his good work from earlier, resulting in the disappointing ruin of what could have been a rather…

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