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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 31 May 2016

Battle of the Five Armies sets out to deliver the killer climax promised by its two prevaricating predecessors, and to some extent succeeds…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 26 May 2016

Stillman's film unfolds delightfully, is full of fun and wit, and Tom Bennett is superb as the idiotic but inordinately wealthy suitor…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 26 May 2016

A fine supporting cast includes a crazed Helena Bonham-Carter, the special effects are splendid, but the film is hamstrung by a storyline that…

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Review of The Daughter (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 26 May 2016

The Daughter rises nicely to a memorable crescendo, and while its script is pretty ordinary, Odessa Young is outstanding as the unfortunate Hedvig…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 26 May 2016

The pleasures of Money Monster come from watching old pros like Clooney and Ms Roberts negotiate their way effortlessly through this formulaic…

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Review of The Price of Desire (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 26 May 2016

The Price of Desire takes a wonderful story and makes a bit of a hash of it…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 23 May 2016

For long periods, to be fair, Jurassic World is easy to watch and pretty entertaining, especially when Chris Pratt is on the screen…

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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 23 May 2016

Efficient, well-crafted and solid to a fault, The Finest Hours might have been made 30 or 70 years ago, and starred Gary Cooper or James Stewart…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1988)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some,…

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Review of The Silent Storm (2014)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

The high winds of hamminess roar through the rafters in Corinna McFarlane's The Silent Storm…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1976)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some,…

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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

Zoolander No. 2 proceeds at a consistently hysterical pitch and, though it drags in parts, is worth watching for some genuinely hilarious moments…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

Bryan Singer has made enough of these superhero things to know how to put them together, and for long periods balances competing story lines…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

Tom Twyker's film is nicely photographed and alive to the beauty, absurdity and hidden dangers of Saudi life…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some,…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 18 May 2016

I'm not really sure what it all means, but it is gorgeous to look at, and rather entertaining…

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Review of The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

Jokes come thick and fast in a film that plays to the cheap seats but may bewilder the younger viewers at whom it's presumably aimed…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

Green Room is one of those rare horror movies that actually gets better rather than worse as it proceeds…

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Review of Mustang (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

It's a wonderful film, beautifully made and a compelling argument against the perversions of puritanism…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

There's a TV movie tinniness to the film's rather pat denouement, but plenty to enjoy otherwise, and Damian Lewis's portrayal of the cagey…

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