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Review of Predestination (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 29 Aug 2014

There are clues scattered throughout the story that point towards the ending, which would be clever if they weren't plonked in so loudly…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 13 Aug 2014

An environmental, post-apocalyptic, revolutionary-uprising sci-fi action movie on a train. Sub-genres don't come much more specific than Snowpiercer…

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Review of These Final Hours (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 31 Jul 2014

These Final Hours is tragic, sad, thrilling and tense, a triumph of cinema that tells its gut-wrenching tale in under 90 minutes - take note,…

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Review of Sex Tape (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 17 Jul 2014

Not a great movie but still one of the funnier iPad commercials I've seen lately…

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Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 04 Jul 2014

AT the centre of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Not even light can escape from its powerful gravitational pull…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 20 Jun 2014

22 Jump Street is not just a sequel, it is a 112-minute running gag about sequels, including the adaptation of the title…

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Review of The Rover (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 12 Jun 2014

The familiarity of the setting and everyday items clashes with the Armageddon atmosphere and the eerie soundtrack to make a strangely creepy setting…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 22 May 2014

This is Mystique's movie…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 15 May 2014

Gareth Edwards, who directed the genre-twisting film Monsters, knows how to turn a monster flick into something more thoughtful while still…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 09 May 2014

There seemed to be two separate movies running in parallel, and I couldn't shake the feeling that these two halves just didn't fit together properly…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 04 May 2014

Davis gives possibly the performance of her career in The Babadook, portraying this emotionally destroyed woman with an authenticity and honesty…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 24 Apr 2014

What should have been a brain in a vat just became a brain in a blender…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 11 Apr 2014

Fiennes is magnificent, his droll wit and a keep calm and carry on delivery occasionally peppered with highlights of profanity and fire…

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Review of Non-Stop (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 28 Feb 2014

It probably warrants a second viewing, just to see if it all holds together under closer scrutiny once you know its secrets…

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Review of Non-Stop (2014)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 28 Feb 2014

It probably warrants a second viewing, just to see if it all holds together under closer scrutiny once you know its secrets…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 14 Feb 2014

Now, weight loss does not equal acting, but in this case it forms a central part of McConaughey's remarkable dedication to completely inhabiting…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 27 Jan 2014

Scorsese seems to have mixed every genre and every tone from all his previous work together in one big three-hour character-driven opus…

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Review of The Book Thief (2013)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 12 Jan 2014

While it might lose some of the finer detail and plotting of the book, it more than makes up for this in the sensuous way it recreates its…

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

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 03 Jan 2014

I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of watching the movie, but I felt a bit disengaged with the story, as if it only existed as a device to…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 30 Nov 2013

It might be remade almost shot-for-shot, but times have changed since the `70s, and I personally think Peirce's clear agenda for updating its…

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