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Review of Wadjda (2012)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 17 Jul 2013

Movies written and directed by women are unthinkable in Saudi Arabia, and indeed this film is banned in filmmaker Mansour's home country…

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Review of Eden (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 17 Jul 2013

Director-cowriter Megan Griffiths refuses to sensationalise the tabloid aspects of this harrowing true story about human trafficking within the USA…

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Review of Les Invisibles (2012)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2013

A simple approach carries a strong emotional wallop in this sensitive documentary by French filmmaker Sebastian Lifshitz…

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Review of Blancanieves (2012)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2013

This exquisite Spanish take on the Snow White fairy tale is in a different league from Hollywood's two recent attempts to retell the story…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2013

The best thing about this massive blockbuster is the way it updates the classic Japanese monster movie to the 21st century, with a first-rate…

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Review of Trap for Cinderella (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2013

Tylish and moody, this twisty dramatic thriller gets under our skin with its mysterious tone and darkly insinuating performances…

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Review of We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2013

With a subject matter that oddly feels both timely and out-of-date, this documentary is packed with telling details about WikiLeaks, Although…

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Review of Monsters University (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2013

Pixar revisits the characters from 2001's Monsters, Inc. for a frat-house prequel. Which is kind of an odd setting for a kids' movie…

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Review of The Bling Ring (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 04 Jul 2013

Once again, Sofia Coppola confounds expectations with an astutely relevant approach to a true story…

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Review of The Internship (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 04 Jul 2013

This Wedding Crashers reunion has enough snappy dialog to keep us laughing even if the film itself feels like little more than a two-hour Google…

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Review of This Is the End (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 27 Jun 2013

Comedies don't get much more self-referential than this film, in which a bunch of old friends get together and play themselves facing a biblical-style…

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Review of The East (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 27 Jun 2013

Despite a bunch of cold characters and a deeply contrived plot, this film is so infused with hot topicality that we are held in its grip all…

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Review of A Haunted House (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 Jun 2013

Yet another spoof from Wayans and Alvarez, this movie isn't nearly as bad as it could have been (they also produced the resolutely unfunny…

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Review of Spike Island (2012)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 Jun 2013

There's a terrific blast of nostalgia in this finely crafted film, which will probably make it a hit for Stone Roses fans, but it's so jaggedly…

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Review of Snitch (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 Jun 2013

Dwayne Johnson tries to flex his acting muscles in this smarter-than-usual action movie, based on a true story that gets under our skin…

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Review of Admission (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 13 Jun 2013

We generally expect more wacky humour from Fey and Rudd than this comedy, which is packed with perhaps too-smart dialog and a lot of warm sentiment…

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Review of Summer in February (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 13 Jun 2013

A simplistic approach undermines this intriguing true story about a romantic triangle among artists in pre-WWI England…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 13 Jun 2013

Superman gets the Dark Knight treatment, as Christopher Nolan offers a much grittier, more intensely personal look at the biggest superhero…

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Review of In Secret (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 06 Jun 2013

Filmmaker Charlie Stratton takes a rather obvious approach to Emile Zola's iconic 1867 novel Therese Raquin, ramping up the melodrama while…

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Review of The Iceman (2012)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 06 Jun 2013

Much more involving than the usual hitman thriller, this film takes a deliberately personal approach to its characters that makes it unusually…

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