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Review of Blended (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 28 May 2014

Even with its inane script and limp direction, this film is watchable simply because Drew Barrymore is present to humanise Adam Sandler…

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Review of Don Peyote (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 17 May 2014

The most surprising thing about this comedy is that it's not very funny, but then it's not meant to be…

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Review of The Two Faces of January (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 17 May 2014

This sun-drenched thriller is much more than a pretty picture: it's also a slow-burning story about moral compromises that worms its way under…

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Review of Concussion (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 17 May 2014

A sharply observed odyssey of middle-aged self-discovery, this strikingly offbeat film may feel a little vague in its approach, but it carries…

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Review of Touchy Feely (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 17 May 2014

After a couple of gimmicky transgressive comedies (Humpday and Your Sister's Sister), writer-director Lynn Shelton takes a more observant approach…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 17 May 2014

For a blockbuster about gigantic radioactive monsters, this is a remarkably humane movie…

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Review of Before the Winter Chill (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 May 2014

Reuniting with filmmaker Philippe Claudel (I've Loved You So Long), Kristin Scott Thomas delivers yet another brittle, understated performance…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 May 2014

While this comedy-drama is sometimes wilfully absurd, it's also exhilarating cinema, telling its story with conflicting amounts of warm emotion…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 May 2014

There's a blast of raucous energy to this lively comedy that sets it apart from the pack; aside from a willingness to get deeply rude and incorrect,…

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Review of Sabotage (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 May 2014

Arnold Schwarzenegger gets one of his most complex roles yet in this messy, violent thriller, another trip to the dark side for filmmaker David Ayer…

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Review of Stage Fright (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 May 2014

By mashing up so many genres, filmmaker Jerome Sable has made a thoroughly entertaining romp that's impossible to categorise…

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Review of Plastic (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 May 2014

Lazy filmmaking undermines this sparky caper thriller, from paper-thin characters and convenient plot points to limp direction and corny editing…

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Review of A Thousand Times Good Night (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 May 2014

Too prickly for mainstream crowds and rather emotionally sentimental for arthouse fans, this drama may have trouble finding an audience…

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Review of Bad Johnson (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 May 2014

The central joke in this low-budget comedy should have been a springboard to something either blackly hilarious or more amusingly complex,…

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Review of Pompeii (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 May 2014

Like an ancient Roman version of 2012, this disaster epic is a pure guilty pleasure, sparking plenty of laughter along with the massive effects-based…

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Review of Tarzan (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 May 2014

The 90th film based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this German-made animated romp adds little to the century-old canon besides some…

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Review of Next Goal Wins (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 May 2014

This documentary about the worst World Cup competitors in history is much more than a football movie: it's an engaging and hugely uplifting…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

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

Far too slow-paced to work as a thriller and too shallow to properly challenge us as science fiction, this film is unlikely to please many…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

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

Dark and freaky, this brutal, low-key revenge thriller throws a bunch of relatively simple people into a moral quagmire, and drags us in as well…

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Review of The Other Woman (2014)

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

While the story isn't particularly original, and the movie tends to drift over the top into broad slapstick, this comedy wins us over due to…

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