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Review of Ali (2001)

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

Will Smith takes the wise and sensible option of not trying to impersonate Ali per se, but rather tonally build an impression of Ali from his…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for One Room With A View (90) on 08 Dec 2018

Man of Steel's schizophrenic structure acts as a microcosm for both the profoundly philosophical and the profoundly thuggish dialectic at the…

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Review of Nowhere Boy (2009)

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

There's an effective timelapse montage that shows Lennon's growing musical confidence while under his mother's tutelage, framed by the ever-changing…

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Review of Le Week-End (2013)

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

Confuses a one-dimensional, borderline sadistic view of the mitigations that come with ageing to their actual reality (which is surely a lot…

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Review of Celebrity (1998)

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

Indicative of a time when Allen had a degree of vivacity and ingenuity in his work before it went increasingly down the turgid, tourist-porn…

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Review of Trainspotting (1996)

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

Like the work of some sort of maverick theatre troupe, it's all carried off with a real concentric, anarchic verve…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

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

A brilliant, apocalyptic genre pastiche while also a fiendishly clever commentary on the numbing homogeneity of middle England living…

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Review of Bukowski: Born Into This (2003)

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

This excels by not merely charting the fascinating raw materials of the man's life and work, but in finding a symbiosis between its own aesthetic…

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Review of Down Terrace (2010)

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

A film that is compelling in its own right, while also functioning meta-referentially - as a commentary on the gangster and kitchen sink genres…

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Review of The Whistleblower (2010)

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

All the players in The Whistleblower are broad ciphers, in service of the simplistic, didactic intentions of the plot…

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Review of Ali (2012)

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

Will Smith takes the wise and sensible option of not trying to impersonate Ali per se, but rather tonally build an impression of Ali from his…

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Review of The Pledge (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

Penn intrinsically understands that there can be no epiphanies nor catharsis, as important portents and clues go unanswered as Black drifts…

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Review of Norte, the End of History (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

Most directors would let the medium be subservient to the rich storyline but not Diaz who elevates and elucidates the themes of the narrative…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

It's hard to deny the spectatorial awe that Cuarón has engendered by the story's end as the film's very title (and theme) of gravity reaches…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

An ironic commentary on the complexity and inherent difficulties of old-fashioned, paper-heavy, analogue detective work…

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Review of X-Men (2000)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

The film gains a lot from the grandiose theatrical casting of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the two main roles, but the rest of the film…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

One of the most pictorially concentric American films of recent years…

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Review of Good Will Hunting (1997)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

It's a deceptively good performance by Williams: the schmaltzy raw materials of Maguire would seem to be a trap, but he plays it absolutely…

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Review of Babel (2008)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

An irredeemably overdetermined, far-fetched and transparently schematic piece…

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Review of Babel (2006)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

An irredeemably overdetermined, far-fetched and transparently schematic piece…

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