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Review of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

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

Rickman's casualness is the unwitting emblem of this silly, but enjoyable, Hollywood romp from yesteryear…

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Review of Citizen Kane (1941)

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

Welles almost creates a mise en abyme throughout Citizen Kane, inviting but ultimately refuting the tendency to want to reduce everything to…

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Review of Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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

Tarantino's jumbling of his chronology and the clever changes of context from the claustrophobic warehouse section to various character origin…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

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

A distinctly gallows take on contemporary financial mores, as one absurdly rich man's limo ride across town for a haircut functions as a state-of-the-nation…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

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

Betrays the series' increasingly transparent three-yearly exercise in blandly aspirational, deluxe brand management par excellence…

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Review of The Mission (1986)

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

The film is an exposé of a time when Western cinema was struggling to film stories of indigenous peoples in modes other than unintentionally…

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Review of Trading Places (1983)

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

What really resonates about this comedy, some 30 years after its release, is how it was able to intuitively crystallise the whole socio-political…

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Review of Slow West (2015)

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

Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender, both physically and in the way they inhabit their roles, dovetail excellently…

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Review of Mommy (2014)

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

Dolan's weakness is that beneath the razzamatazz, he's saddled himself with a straightforward narrative, thus his artillery merely serves the…

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Review of The Cannonball Run (1981)

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

Cannonball Run exists somewhere in between being a last bastion of an 'old boys' Hollywood comedy, versus offering a wry send-up of those values…

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Review of The Wicker Man (1973)

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

A genius conflation of the on-screen pagan versus Christian (and provincial versus federal) dichotomies into an equally combustible cinematographic…

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Review of In Another Country (2012)

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

Hong tries to create an ironic narrative tapestry, à la a Woody Allen schema, in having the scenario of Anne coming to Mohang play out multiple…

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Review of Carol (1990)

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

The main problem is that the social tapestry is far, far less interesting than in Far from Heaven…

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Review of Carol (1974)

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

The main problem is that the social tapestry is far, far less interesting than in Far from Heaven…

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Review of Fear of Fear (1975)

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

An intentional air of theatrical experimentation - almost as if Fassbinder is playing on the excesses of the representations to make clear…

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Review of The Prestige (2006)

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

Nolan's most perfect commentary on his favourite auteur theme of mise en abyme, as both magicians in their own ways make near Faustian pacts…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

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

A fantastic commentary on modern celebrity, PR, image politics and the struggle to retain personal integrity amid the sheer swirl of the internet…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

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

It's in the Hamptons setting, the clichéd Super 8 family flashbacks and the demonstrative piano score that the film's pretensions to overly…

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Review of Robin Hood (2009)

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

Rickman's casualness is the unwitting emblem of this silly, but enjoyable, Hollywood romp from yesteryear…

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Review of What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

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

Structurally and content-wise it's near perfect: the film cleverly opens on a thematising visual anecdote before taking us back to the beginning…

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