Review of Partisan (2015) by Peter Bradshaw for Guardian — 07 Jan 2016

Oddly underpowered, anticlimactic and torpidly acted ...

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This review of Partisan (2015) was written by Peter Bradshaw and published by Guardian on 07 Jan 2016.

Partisan has generally received mixed reviews.

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