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Review of The Deep (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

There's such a broody feel to proceedings; it's not realism as such, because there are mournful sequences where the fishermen disappear into…

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Review of Sexy Beast (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

An extended short film par excellence, and we're permitted to luxuriate in Glazer's skills…

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Review of The Act of Killing (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

To take Anwar's own dramatic projection of his gradual humanisation seems a much more murky and less conclusive process than Oppenheimer wants…

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Review of Key Largo (1948)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A classy little '40s chamber piece that is competently handled by writer-director John Huston and supremely well acted by its starry cast…

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Review of In the House (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

An unconvincing, sub-Almodóvarian twist on fantasy projection, sexual awakening, and the unreliability of storytelling…

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Review of All the President's Men (1976)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A bravura piece of filmmaking to rank alongside his earlier 'paranoia' gem, The Parallax View…

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Review of The Deer Hunter (1978)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for One Room With A View (90) on 16 Dec 2018

The Deer Hunter is a work of staggering scope and ambition: an epic treatise on the malignancy running through American civilian and political…

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Review of The Maltese Falcon (1941)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

There's two competing frames of reference throughout: the narrative itself, then a meta-narrative with the characters continually voicing the…

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Review of Casino Royale (1954)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for One Room With A View (90) on 16 Dec 2018

In Daniel Craig, the producers found a suitably tarnished and brutal icon for this new iteration of Bond…

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Review of The Sixth Sense (1999)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

One of Hollywood's most accomplished genre films of the last 20 years…

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Review of Breathe In (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A beautifully realised piece of cinema, and Doremus seems to understand that storytelling on film needn't just be about dramaturgy, but also…

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Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

Carruth places us in the same radical position as his two stranded protagonists, who have been forced into a Thoreauvian journey to discover…

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Review of The Big Wedding (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

If the whole set-up wasn't so apologetically dire, you could call its politics offensive…

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Review of Casino Royale (1967)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for One Room With A View (90) on 16 Dec 2018

In Daniel Craig, the producers found a suitably tarnished and brutal icon for this new iteration of Bond…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A quasi-Derridan, deconstructionist enquiry by Sarah Polley into her family history…

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Review of The Big Sleep (1946)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

The plot's complexity and slow unravelling of its subject matter of exploitation, blackmail and murder, make it the obvious precursor to some…

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Review of Syriana (2005)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

I'm hard-pushed to think of a more cynical and self-critical American picture, and one that so radically and empathetically portrays the genesis…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

One of the most charming Hollywood screwball comedies of recent years…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 15 Dec 2018

It's pure aesthetic the whole way through, and, certainly, for the first 30-40 minutes the genuinely unsettling atmosphere is brilliantly sustained…

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Review of My Friend Dahmer (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 15 Dec 2018

What's impressive is despite the film's huge subtextual residue (Dahmer's future serial killer status), Meyers still wraps it all up in a cogent…

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