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Review of This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 08 Dec 2018

A slight, sweet tale about would-be novelist Bella whose life is governed by rules and checks until she tackles her overgrown garden…

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Review of Allied (2016)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 07 Dec 2018

An entertaining wartime period piece; Cotillard is a knockout, Pitt less believable…

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Review of Tulip Fever (2017)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 07 Dec 2018

Parts of the plot make the tulip buyers themselves look positively restrained…

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Review of Bad Santa 2 (2016)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 06 Dec 2018

Released 13 years after the darkly funny yet rather uplifting original, this sequel is a bad-tempered misery fest which laughs at the weaker…

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Review of Bad Santa (2003)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 06 Dec 2018

This tale of a misanthrope and a bullied boy is grossly funny yet rather affecting…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 06 Dec 2018

Not a story you should question beyond the world it has created, but that doesn't matter…

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Review of The Mountain Between Us (2017)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 05 Dec 2018

Elba and Winslet are such accomplished performers they make this film reasonably watchable; with lesser leads the survival tale would have…

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Review of Swimming with Men (2018)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 04 Dec 2018

Warm but predictable, men drown their sorrows then almost drown training for the Synchronised Swimming World Championships; I wish Oliver Parker…

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Review of The Ref (1994)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 04 Dec 2018

A film so bleak even Krampus had to watch Elf immediately afterwards to regain his Christmas spirit…

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Review of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 04 Dec 2018

Quite funny and sometimes emotional, it switches from entertaining to embarrassing and back again in the time it takes to say Money Money Money…

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Review of Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 03 Dec 2018

Whereas many of us find the Internet intermittently breaks us, here Ralph's doing the damage…

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Review of New Life (2016)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 01 Dec 2018

A familiar story about a family torn apart by illness. The voiceover is unnecessary, though Erin Bethea is impressive as Ava…

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Review of Train to Busan (2016)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 01 Dec 2018

Part horror and part satire, this is an exceptional movie that drags you screaming along at bullet-train speed…

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Review of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 01 Dec 2018

A remarkably faithful adaptation with a classy straight man and a dark side…

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Review of Colette (2018)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 30 Nov 2018

Knightley excels -- Colette's growing confidence is entirely believable, precisely because she's never a complete walkover, even at the beginning…

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Review of A Christmas Horror Story (2015)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 30 Nov 2018

Unlike those piles of beautifully wrapped presents from our childhoods, this festive horror delivers considerably more than it promises…

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Review of Mad to Be Normal (2017)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 29 Nov 2018

David Tennant's masterful portrayal of a man driven to do good, but with astonishingly little self-awareness of the chaos he leaves in his…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 29 Nov 2018

A sparkling and thought-provoking romcom (though as usual I wished the heroine ditched him)…

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Review of Never Steady, Never Still (2017)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 28 Nov 2018

Kathleen Hepburn's film is spellbindingly beautiful, though its vistas are desolate; a visual strain of unsentimentality which weaves its way…

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Review of The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 28 Nov 2018

There's a cosiness to the word count guzzling Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, in a lie-back-and-think-of-postwar-England kind…

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