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Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Well, she's Maggie, isn't she? Magnificent to behold, terrifying, pathetic and irreproachable. There ain't nothing like that dame…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) is front and centre in the new film and he's characteristically brilliant, though anyone hoping for a nuanced…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

A searching examination of middle-class complacency and gender roles in an age of us-or-them individualism, this assured Swedish drama is the…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Pitch-perfect acting and a fine control of high emotion that never slips into treacly sentiment distinguish this small and lovely ensemble…

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Review of Me, Myself and Mum (2013)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Moving seamlessly between stage and screen enactments, Guillaume, who plays both himself and his neurotic, chain-smoking mum, concocts plenty…

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Review of 25 April (2015)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 24 Apr 2016

25 April doesn't seek to reinterpret the past: its mission is to document it is a direct and accessible way and it does that magnificently…

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Review of Noma: My Perfect Storm (2015)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 20 Apr 2016

Any attempt to examine Redzepi's philosophy, much less interrogate the reasons for the restaurant's success (is it more than a fad or a gimmick?),…

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Review of Orphans & Kingdoms (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 14 Apr 2016

The script, which [Director Paolo] Rotondo wrote, shows meticulous and clever plotting as the balance of power shifts minute-by-minute…

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Review of St Trinian's (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 17 Oct 2008

It is smart-arse rather than witty and the predictable sight gags (the fart cushion gets a trot) seem to have been dreamt up by a committee…

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Review of The Painted Veil (2006)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 01 May 2008

Norton, an American, and Australian Watts are so busy struggling with their accents that they never really find their characters' hearts…

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Review of The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2006)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 24 Apr 2008

It also, not incidentally, an inspiring vision of the way forward for food production, a portrait of what Peterson calls a dead farm coming…

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Review of I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 24 Apr 2008

Much more than a hagiography, the film nevertheless cannot escape the charge of being excessively reverential…

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Review of Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 10 Apr 2008

A charmingly improbable and delicately emotionally nuanced Capraesque fable about the healing power of love…

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Review of The Bucket List (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 29 Feb 2008

This is a film for people who find cereal-packet philosophy a bit taxing…

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Review of Rescue Dawn (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 22 Feb 2008

The most un-Herzog-like Werner Herzog film you're likely to see, this based-on-fact Vietnam War drama is very classy if rather standard stuff…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 15 Feb 2008

A moviemaker's film: particularly in the sequences of work, in which blood and sweat and sweet crude mix and no one speaks, it is pure retina-searing…

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Review of No Country for Old Men (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 01 Feb 2008

It's Jones who carries the film's meaning, and does so effortlessly. He -- and the Coens -- have never been better…

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Review of The 11th Hour (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 01 Feb 2008

Well-intentioned save-the-planet doco is dense with factoids but ultimately something of a bore…

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Review of After the Wedding (2006)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Jan 2008

A top-notch piece of work by a director whose richly authentic dramas are regular inclusions in festival programmes…

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Review of The Kite Runner (2007)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 21 Dec 2007

At times it flies, but it never comes close to soaring…

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