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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

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

The early, seminal avalanche scene is a particular masterclass in direction - its effect is as uncanny as the sense of unease it spawns in…

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Review of The Kite Runner (2007)

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

Forster can't solely blame the impossibility of condensing the breadth of a 350-page novel into two hours of screen time, but his own shoddy…

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Review of Following (1999)

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

Following certainly offers evidence to Nolan's now hallmark visual ingenuity - not only with the black-and-white photography but with the quasi-Hitchcockian…

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Review of Eden (2014)

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

Eden's main strength is its ability to capture the sheer ragtag spirit of its DJs and to make that the trajectory of the story…

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Review of Tale of Tales (2015)

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

Garrone revels in outing the rhetoric and ironies of his stories through a maverick approach to cinematography and the overall geography of…

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Review of The New Girlfriend (2014)

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

The film devolves into a slightly timid exercise in kitsch; it's the sort of thing Pedro Almodóvar would do a lot more convincingly…

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Review of Mallrats (1995)

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

Smith manages to successfully subsume his slackers feel into a more cartoony aesthetic…

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Review of Deadpool (2016)

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

Its two key errors are an assumption that breaking the fourth wall in itself denotes wit, and that when you have a smart idea, you're best…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

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

It's as visually proficient as a calculating, multi-million dollar, live action studio offering should be…

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Review of Envy (2001)

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

The film devolves into a slightly timid exercise in kitsch; it's the sort of thing Pedro Almodóvar would do a lot more convincingly…

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Review of Clerks (1994)

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

Still such a treat to watch over twenty years later, is through its ingenious snapshot of small-town Americana and the inertia of Generation Xers…

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Review of Dogma (1999)

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

Smith finds exactly the right pitch between the cogent religious referencing required to drive the narrative versus sending most of that religiosity…

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Review of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

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

Though it earns the odd chuckle on occasions, it's essentially just an elongated and largely pointless spoof movie designed only to glorify…

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Review of Holes (2003)

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

This Burtonesque slice of Southern whimsy works much better on the page than it does on screen where its events transpire arbitrarily and seem…

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Review of Chasing Amy (1997)

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

A reductive juncture in Smith's career compared to his more situationally-specific and fine-tuned predecessors, Clerks and Mallrats…

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Review of Spice World (1997)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 04 Nov 2018

A bizarre artefact that captures the sheer oddness of the Spice Girls' rampant hold on the British (and indeed, global) consciousness for a…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 04 Nov 2018

Asif Kapadia mines the subject matter and narrative arc competently enough - although, it's almost a director-proof proposition with the amount…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 04 Nov 2018

Crowe has always been an underrated comedian and here he is to the manor born with a role that suits his gruff, but warm, persona perfectly,…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 04 Nov 2018

What director Sebastian Schipper gets entirely wrong is to assume an automatic profundity and import by simply co-opting the technique of a…

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Review of Notes on Blindness (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 04 Nov 2018

A worthwhile look at the emotional refuse of blindness; such as how memories can fade under the condition, as the ability to remember is only…

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