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Review of About Alex (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 14 Sep 2014

A riff on the 1983 classic The Big Chill, this ensemble drama's reunion of old friends differs because Alex's suicide fails this time…

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Review of In Order of Disappearance (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 14 Sep 2014

This Norwegian revenge thriller may move at a steady, meandering pace, but it has such a sharp sense of pitch-black Scandinavian humour that…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 14 Sep 2014

Photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn continues to show striking maturity with only his third movie (after Control and The American)…

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Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 03 Sep 2014

A relentlessly smiley-glowy tone threatens to undo this film at every turn, but it's just about rescued by a spiky script and the adept cast…

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Review of Finding Fela (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 03 Sep 2014

While the eventful life of Fela Kuti provides more than enough subject matter for a biographical documentary, award-winning filmmaker Alex…

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Review of They Came Together (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 03 Sep 2014

How do you spoof a genre that's already a joke…

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Review of Sex Tape (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 03 Sep 2014

Although it presents itself as a rude sex comedy, this movie is actually a prudish exercise in simplistic moralising…

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Review of Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 03 Sep 2014

A clever premise can't help but grab the audience's attention as this mystery-thriller plays with ideas of identity and memory, but the simplistic…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Aug 2014

An inventive take on the rom-com genre, this genuinely hilarious film is even more engaging because its characters and premise are unexpectedly…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Aug 2014

Based on the Gayle Forman novel, this teen weepie is wrenchingly emotional and packed with girly fantasies…

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Review of Million Dollar Arm (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Aug 2014

Based on a true story, this is one of those relentlessly uplifting Disney movies that mixes comedy and emotion to inspire and move the audience…

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Review of Obvious Child (2009)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Aug 2014

An inventive take on the rom-com genre, this genuinely hilarious film is even more engaging because its characters and premise are unexpectedly…

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Review of Mystery Road (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Aug 2014

This tightly wound drama evokes a strikingly inventive sense of the Wild West in the Australian Outback…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 26 Aug 2014

The Dardenne brothers consistently make compelling dramas that win awards, from Rosetta (1999) to The Kid With a Bike (2011), and this drama…

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Review of Lucy (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 26 Aug 2014

Luc Besson gleefully combines two of his favourite movie elements - fit women and wildly insane action - in this raucous guilty pleasure…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 26 Aug 2014

It's taken nearly 10 years for filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and graphic novelist Frank Miller to get around to making this sequel, but it was…

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Review of God Help the Girl (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 26 Aug 2014

With bouncy pop tunes and a breezy tone, this Scottish musical sometimes feels so weightless that it seems to float right out of existence…

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Review of Blood Ties (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 Aug 2014

While the story centres on twisted moral dilemmas, this 1970s-set thriller takes such a hesitant, internalised approach that if never lets…

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Review of Dinosaur 13 (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 Aug 2014

Cleverly assembled to tell a complex true story from a hugely engaging perspective, this documentary can't help but spark a sense of righteous…

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Review of Blood Ties (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 Aug 2014

While the story centres on twisted moral dilemmas, this 1970s-set thriller takes such a hesitant, internalised approach that if never lets…

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