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Review of Jimmy's Hall (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Ken Loach has fashioned one of his purest and most lovely films here in Jimmy's Hall…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

The careworn Marion Cotillard is a suitable icon for this most commendable of morals on the perils of neglecting social responsibility during…

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Review of Sideways (2009)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for One Room With A View (90) on 12 Nov 2018

Where Payne's fondness for template narratives has started to become a problem, Sideways - as the title evinces - has much a more complex take…

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Review of Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Away from Murphy's iconic comic status and star quality at the time, he was a limited dramatic actor - making almost untenable the tauter moments…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

There's a slightly wearing tyranny in the film's insatiable, gurning desire to be congratulated on its postmodern 'cleverness' at nearly every…

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Review of Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

A very competent technical director replicating scenes of formulaic visual tableaux, all in the service of a slightly juvenile vigilante narrative…

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Review of Lilting (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Probably the quietest and least histrionic film I've seen for a long time (no mean feat when the subtext to the story is raw grief)…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

The story gets neutered into an Austenesque romantic drama that stereotypes and fails to get beneath the pretty surface of its period costumes…

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Review of Donnie Darko (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

It's ultimately the piece's surprisingly sincere, compassionate edge which transmits the most…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Its digressions shed a novel light on its otherwise over-familiar story, without losing the uplifting, fablistic ethos in the process…

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Review of Sideways (2004)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for One Room With A View (90) on 12 Nov 2018

Where Payne's fondness for template narratives has started to become a problem, Sideways - as the title evinces - has much a more complex take…

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Review of Bronson (2009)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

It's actually quite an intuitive work, taking Bronson's publicity-courting profile as a base to conjure a lurid opera on the phenomenon of 'Bronson…

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Review of Last Love (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

The use of Paris is an especially lame attempt to fasttrack some pathos and twee romance into the mix and jars with the sometime deep politicking…

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Review of Layer Cake (2004)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

It's mediocre, inane, superficial technique - coupled with a grossly saturated soundtrack - all for no discernible dramatic effect…

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Review of Nostalgia (1983)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Almost seemed to be anticipating Tarkovsky's own demise with its strange sensibility of apocalyptic proselytising juxtaposed with a more soothing,…

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Review of Roly Poly (1968)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

It's mediocre, inane, superficial technique - coupled with a grossly saturated soundtrack - all for no discernible dramatic effect…

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Review of Columbus (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 11 Nov 2018

Kogonada creates a recurring juxtaposition between the axis of the dramaturgy (where narrative cinema nominally places the audience) and a…

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Review of What Richard Did (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Where Abrahamson is beyond reproach, and, in fact quite masterly, is in the film's forensic dissection of its middle-class milieu…

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Review of The Blair Witch Project (1999)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Directors Sanchez and Myrick understand the lure of legend and storytelling to the horror genre, and they cleverly choose to wrap the film…

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Review of Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

This strange hotch-potch of an animation falls between all stools: failing to honour the seasonal elements to this most famous of Christmas…

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