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Review of Shelter (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Paul Bettany makes a strong impression with his first film as a writer-director, exploring the big issue of homelessness from a variety of…

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Review of The Program (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

A whooshing pace and snappy dialogue help bring this true story to life, tracing the triumphant and scandalous career of cyclist Lance Armstrong…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Gifted Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) makes an odd misstep with this overwrought gothic horror thriller, which is so…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

For his latest adventure, James Bond mixes the personal drama of Skyfall with the vintage globe-hopping action of the previous 23 movies…

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Review of Shelter (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Paul Bettany makes a strong impression with his first film as a writer-director, exploring the big issue of homelessness from a variety of…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Suzanne Collins' saga comes to a suitably epic conclusion in a climactic series of battles that are packed with emotional kicks to the gut…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Based on real events a century ago that still resonate loudly today, this movie takes a cleverly fictionalised angle to explore the suffrage…

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Review of Kill Your Friends (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

First-time director Owen Harris boldly attempts a comedy even blacker than American Psycho or Filth with this 1990s Britpop satire, but he…

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Review of The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Vin Diesel makes a bid for yet another franchise with a supernatural action romp that's both deeply ridiculous and enjoyably entertaining…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Director John Crowley and writer Nick Hornby never even try to temper the flood of emotions that this story elicits, instead wading straight in…

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Review of Tangerine (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

The fact that this film was shot entirely on an iPhone is forgotten before it reaches the end of the snappy opening conversation…

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Review of Mississippi Grind (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

As the story snakes south through the United States along the Mississippi River, this movie builds up a bleak, mopey vibe that's difficult…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Director John Crowley and writer Nick Hornby never even try to temper the flood of emotions that this story elicits, instead wading straight in…

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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Nov 2015

Sidestepping arguments about accuracy, writer Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle take an artistic, impressionistic approach to this biopic…

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Review of Pan (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 12 Oct 2015

After several high-profile grown-up movies (from Atonement to Anna Karenina), director Joe Wright aims this Peter Pan origin story squarely…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 12 Oct 2015

A rare film that adds up to much more than the sum of its parts, this works as both a dramatic character study and a tense thriller…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 12 Oct 2015

After the Oscar-winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire told this story with such energy and suspense, it was only a matter of time until someone…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 Oct 2015

Marketed as a horror-thriller, this sharply well-made film is actually a bleak drama with a strong message about bullying…

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Review of Life (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 Oct 2015

Beautifully written and directed, this fact-based drama is an odd mixture of excellent acting and not-quite-right casting…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 Oct 2015

Just as people began to write off veteran director Ridley Scott after a series of merely OK movies, the 77-year-old casually releases his most…

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