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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 06 Mar 2014

Noam Murro takes the helm this time around, having proven his slow-motion 3-D action chops on... indie drama Smart People…

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Review of In a World... (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 03 Mar 2014

Though she had to write, direct, and produce the damn thing herself, Bell finally has a film that puts her full range of comedic, rom-com-ready…

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Review of Videograss: The Darkside (2012)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 23 Feb 2014

There will always be room for a funny, weird, spooky, moving curio from one of our best filmmakers…

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Review of The Darkside (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 23 Feb 2014

There will always be room for a funny, weird, spooky, moving curio from one of our best filmmakers…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 20 Feb 2014

Alexander Payne is back in prime, prickly form with Nebraska, a marked improvement over his soggy, false-feeling melodrama The Descendants…

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Review of It's a Disaster (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 16 Feb 2014

Full of ingenuity and genuine surprises, this movie…

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Review of A Coffee in Berlin (2012)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 16 Feb 2014

Though the black-and-white feature has its fair share of jazzy stings on the soundtrack, what it really needs are the infamous horns from Curb…

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Review of Drinking Buddies (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 10 Feb 2014

For a film all about the betrayal of those we love the most, Drinking Buddies is a supremely optimistic, warm-hearted picture, with fine, freeing…

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Review of The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 09 Feb 2014

The Broken Circle Breakdown doesn't jerk tears. It attempts to extract them by using enhanced interrogation techniques…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 09 Feb 2014

Cannes winner Blue is the Warmest Colour details a relationship forming and curdling in graphic fashion (much like in the way the director's…

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Review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 28 Jan 2014

Because of its uncanny insight and frighteningly prescient satirical edge, Dr. Strangelove is a document of its time and also timeless…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 21 Jan 2014

True story: my priest phoned midway through the screening of The Wolf of Wall Street, as if he had sensed - rightly - that I had been revelling…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 14 Jan 2014

I felt affection. I felt sympathy. I felt finally the Coen brothers had a hero they loved, and I in turn have grown to love him too…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 13 Jan 2014

The fortuitously named [Steve McQueen] follows up his previous pictures Hunger and Shame with this similarly pit-of-the-stomach venturing,…

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

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 17 Dec 2013

We're now 343 minutes deep into the saga of The Hobbit, and I'm still having trouble keeping the names of Bilbo Baggins' thirteen (thirteen…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 16 Dec 2013

It's the best bad time I've had all year…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 16 Dec 2013

Sufferers of 'Stendhal syndrome' - that singularly wonderful and hopelessly human disorder in which people confronted with particularly beautiful…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 10 Dec 2013

Lying is an ugly, grubby business, which is why hair maintenance amongst con artists is so important…

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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 09 Dec 2013

It's not the narrative of how something good and pure was turned into pap. It's a reminder that art means something to its makers…

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Review of What Richard Did (2012)

By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 09 Dec 2013

Newcomer Jack Reynor gives a startling, star-making performance in the slow-burn Irish drama What Richard Did…

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