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Review of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 23 Dec 2011

By turns eye-watering, knee trembling, heart-pounding and rib-tickling, this gravity-defying blockbuster is what popcorn was invented for. Chomp away…

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Review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 19 Dec 2011

Chipwrecked is derivative and predictable and not for anyone who'd rather be watching Schindler's List. But it's good, clean old-fashioned family fun…

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Review of Ladies VS. Ricky Bahl (2011)

By Manish Gajjar (25) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 16 Dec 2011

The film starts off with the fraudster's conniving life and ends up as a romcom with a half-baked climax and a conventional end…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 16 Dec 2011

For all of the dazzling (and sometimes chameleonic) costume changes and clever art direction, A Game of Shadows also lacks a genuinely emotive core…

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Review of The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 11 Dec 2011

The film opens with an aural barrage of violins, before the camera is soon swirling around limbs on a bed with such inventive style it challenges…

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Review of New Year's Eve (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 11 Dec 2011

New Year's Eve is like Woody Allen lite for the masses (…

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Review of Another Earth (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 11 Dec 2011

The little-known but very attractive [Brit] Marling certainly gives a very good performance, (…

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Review of The Deep Blue Sea (1994)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 11 Dec 2011

The film opens with an aural barrage of violins, before the camera is soon swirling around limbs on a bed with such inventive style it challenges…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Dec 2011

The Two Towers, then, is the greatest blockbuster ever made without either a beginning or an end, a feisty beast with a hollow ring in its bones…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Dec 2011

When I met the barefooted scruff [Peter Jackson] two years ago, he regretted he'd never been to Birmingham to see Tolkien's inspirations at…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 09 Dec 2011

Director Peter Jackson has not only attempted the most ambitious film project in modern cinema history, he's pulled it off with a breathtaking…

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Review of Happy Feet Two (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 02 Dec 2011

At its best, this film offers some fantastic panoramic views of the kingdom of the multitudinous Emperor penguin…

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Review of Hugo (2012)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 02 Dec 2011

( ... ) goose down floating around the set takes Scorsese's hard-hitting career into soft new dimensions…

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Review of Hugo (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 02 Dec 2011

( ... ) goose down floating around the set takes Scorsese's hard-hitting career into soft new dimensions…

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Review of My Week with Marilyn (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 25 Nov 2011

The film's gorgeous set designs evoke a marvellous sense of style, time and place…

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Review of Trespass (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 19 Nov 2011

People have been strung up for lesser crimes than this…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 19 Nov 2011

I do wonder if seeing Bella turn into a near anorexic with a face that's bordering on Gollum might have subliminal implications for some vulnerable…

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Review of Arthur Christmas (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 19 Nov 2011

Well-intentioned and above average for the genre, Arthur Christmas is British enough to play well at home as well as being a universal tale…

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Review of The Awakening (2011)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 11 Nov 2011

A truly fine effort, a worthy reminder of the quality of traditional British pictures and just how good the ghost genre can be when it relies…

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Review of The Awakening (2010)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 11 Nov 2011

A truly fine effort, a worthy reminder of the quality of traditional British pictures and just how good the ghost genre can be when it relies…

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