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Review of Election (1999)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 08 Nov 2018

Suffers from a tyrannical sameness of tone where Payne doesn't trust his audience to 'get' the crashing subtext, so he batters them over the…

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Review of Special Correspondents (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Gervais wraps ingenious skits and initially wry conceits (natural by-products of his talents as stand-up comedian and sitcom specialist) in…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Darren Aronofsky's take on the story of Noah's Ark intuitively imagines the whole saga within the grammar of a more familiar fantasy-action,…

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Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

A bravura exemplar of mature storytelling where the temptation to wrap things up in an epiphanic, cathartic ending is waived for a more truthful…

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Review of Half Nelson (1985)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

The more interesting aspects of the film come in its less pre-determined margins…

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Review of Half Nelson (2006)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

The more interesting aspects of the film come in its less pre-determined margins…

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Review of Vertigo (1958)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

A film totally in thrall to the lure/peril of looking, and filmed almost entirely from the perspective or emotion of the subconscious…

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Review of Romper Stomper (1992)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

One can see why Crowe's star sky-rocketed from this point on: his performance is intense and compelling, revealing a genuine, steely-eyed menace…

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Review of Detachment (2011)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Tony Kaye's ragged, expressionistic aesthetic may have its detractors but it intuitively suits the wrought scenario of Detachment…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

The conceit of having the film refracted through four stories-within-stories beautifully thematises the idea of nostalgia and storytelling…

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Review of Rear Window (1954)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

As is commonplace in many of Hitchcock's films, there's a wry tension between the seemingly talky, classical Hollywood feel, and their very…

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Review of Noah (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Darren Aronofsky's take on the story of Noah's Ark intuitively imagines the whole saga within the grammar of a more familiar fantasy-action,…

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Review of Noah (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Darren Aronofsky's take on the story of Noah's Ark intuitively imagines the whole saga within the grammar of a more familiar fantasy-action,…

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Review of Youth (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Sorrentino's floating gaze transcends mere petty politics for much deeper, almost epiphanic readings of his characters' respective journeys…

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Review of Smart People (2008)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Very much a poor man's Wonder Boys, Smart People is almost a non-entity due to its utter prototypicality and extremely transparent attempts…

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Review of Knight of Cups (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 05 Nov 2018

A deeply sensual and mesmeric evocation of the alienating effect of Tinseltown as refracted through our ghostly conduit, Rick…

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Review of Skellig (2009)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 05 Nov 2018

I can't help but feel if the film hadn't been quite so reverent to its source material, it could have fashioned a more distinctive end-result…

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Review of The Little Prince (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 05 Nov 2018

This is further evidence of the unattractive industrialism and obsessive control tendencies at the heart of much of contemporary animation…

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Review of Love (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 05 Nov 2018

Noé also indulges his penchant for the tracking shot, and I am reminded these marvels of camerawork and logistics are as much commentaries…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 05 Nov 2018

Coogler proves a true dab hand at mining the rich backstory of the Rocky universe to fashion a surprisingly tasteful take on its characters,…

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