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Review of Friends (With Benefits) (2010)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 24 Aug 2011

Friends with Benefits is raunchy, funny and ultimately quite sweet - fluffy enough to stay fun and smart enough to stand out from the herd…

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Review of Friends with Benefits (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 24 Aug 2011

Friends with Benefits is raunchy, funny and ultimately quite sweet - fluffy enough to stay fun and smart enough to stand out from the herd…

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Review of Green Lantern (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 20 Aug 2011

I've always considered DC's Green Lantern to be one step too far over the line into come on, that's just silly territory. (Fresh, but only just)…

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Review of The Beaver (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 10 Aug 2011

Aside from having a title that turns me into a puerile, sniggering teenager every time I talk about it, The Beaver is a heartbreakingly good movie…

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Review of Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 03 Aug 2011

Cowboys and Aliens isn't the self-aware, campy romp I was expecting...This movie plays its ludicrous idea dead straight and pulls it off with…

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Review of Bad Teacher (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 27 Jul 2011

The story is predictably thin and the jokes suitably unsophisticated, but the clever characterisations help this paint-by-numbers comedy limp…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 20 Jul 2011

If these movies have done nothing else, they have shown great skill in playing directly to a target audience, never swaying from that mission,…

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Review of Mrs Carey's Concert (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 17 Jul 2011

The only thing more beautiful than the music is seeing those simple, subtle moments that nobody could possibly script…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 13 Jul 2011

The Tree of Life is either a triumph of artistic cinema or an almost inscrutable load of film wank. I'm still not entirely sure which…

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Review of Mozart's Sister (2010)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 09 Jul 2011

While Feret ably conveys the dejection caused by being treated as nothing more than breeding stock, she doesn't quite sell the simmering rebellion…

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Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 06 Jul 2011

Seeing the new Transformers movie was a little like agreeing to go on one more date with someone who has hurt your feelings twice already…

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Review of Bridesmaids (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 22 Jun 2011

As it turns out, fart and poo gags ARE universal, as demonstrated by the mostly female audience completely losing it during some of the more…

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Review of Super 8 (1988)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 15 Jun 2011

Everything about Super 8 harks back to simpler times, the music and technology of the era evoking something nostalgic and comforting without…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 15 Jun 2011

Everything about Super 8 harks back to simpler times, the music and technology of the era evoking something nostalgic and comforting without…

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Review of X-Men: First Class (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 11 Jun 2011

Instead of being all about people discovering or earning their new powers, X-Men: First Class is all about the relationships…

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Review of The Hangover Part II (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 01 Jun 2011

The makers of The Hangover Part II have pulled off one of the most blatantly lazy acts of filmmaking in recent memory. And it still works…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 25 May 2011

PIRATES of the Caribbean 4 is a welcome return to the fun and frivolous form of the original…

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Review of Water for Elephants (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 18 May 2011

Water for Elephants has a distinctly daytime movie feel to it, shot in soft, golden tones with an unchallenging plot…

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Review of Source Code (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 11 May 2011

Even when I thought I had the whole thing figured out early on, the movie allowed me to feel smug for a while before shooting me down. Brilliant…

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Review of Arthur (2011)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 04 May 2011

This is far from a sophisticated movie but the simplicity of the story allows it to have a lot of fun playing with the outrageous characters…

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