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Review of Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang (1966)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 24 Nov 2018

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a quite brilliant, funny, and not altogether unnuanced, pastiche of fatalistic, old-school LA noir…

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Review of The Fallen Idol (1948)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 24 Nov 2018

One of the movies' great treatises on the projection and (ultimate) limitations of a child's inner-world…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 24 Nov 2018

Evidence of a filmmaker at the top of his game…

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Review of Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 24 Nov 2018

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a quite brilliant, funny, and not altogether unnuanced, pastiche of fatalistic, old-school LA noir…

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Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 21 Nov 2018

As is common with the short film format, it's more about narrative sleight-of-hand than thematic sophistication, but each story has its own merits…

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Review of Taxi Driver (1954)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 20 Nov 2018

An absolutely nailed-on portrait of solipsism in its purest form, and how, in Travis' case, it takes hold as a lethal cocktail of narcissism,…

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Review of Taxi Driver (1976)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 20 Nov 2018

An absolutely nailed-on portrait of solipsism in its purest form, and how, in Travis' case, it takes hold as a lethal cocktail of narcissism,…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 20 Nov 2018

The problem with a five (soon to be six) movie franchise is that there can't help but seem a touch of the law of diminishing returns by the…

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Review of Inception (2010)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 20 Nov 2018

Inception is the apotheosis of Nolan's directorial signature whereby he seeks to merge ingenious narratives containing weighty psychological…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 20 Nov 2018

In some of the longer scenes, Tarantino gives the impression he's feeling for a touch of his old dialogue gold dust, yet it never really quite…

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Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 20 Nov 2018

Befitting the plucky spirit and gaucheness of his three protagonists, Moodysson keeps the scenario simple, avoiding the temptation to overly…

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Review of The Railway Man (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

The film's attempt at moral equivalence when Lomax seems destined to act a fitting revenge on his old captor feels not only a touch vindictive,…

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Review of The Human Stain (2003)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

The Human Stain bears all the scars and stretch marks of a work that has tried to condense the necessarily literary elements of an esteemed…

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Review of The Invisible Woman (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

Fiennes has crafted one of the more original heritage movies of recent years…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

The summary work of Nolan: apotheosis of his signature where he attempts to merge the philosophical and emotional in entertaining genre packages…

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Review of X2 (2003)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

Spends way too much time reverently aggrandising its mutant/outsider theme, when in reality we're talking about people with non-pitiable superhuman…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

Avengers Assemble does exactly what it says on the tin: the Avengers assemble and proceed to smash things up...a lot…

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Review of Bastards (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

The film's title Bastards is a suitable epigram for the way that fiscal and sexual depravity have insidiously destroyed every single character…

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Review of Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

It's hard to go too far wrong with a documentary on Italian cycling sensation, Marco Pantani, when the sheer raw materials are so compelling…

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Review of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

It's sweeping, visually comprehensible, and has a nice tactile, sensuous quality…

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