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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 10 Aug 2016

I took my twin ten-year-old nieces and they sat on the edge of their seats throughout, utterly rapt, then pronounced the film 'really, really,…

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Review of The Carer (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 04 Aug 2016

It's a slight but touching story, and the film also makes some sharp observations about the immigrant experience. I liked it…

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Review of Up for Love (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 04 Aug 2016

The forces of political correctness can be acutely tiresome but they're not always wrong, and this is rather like a white actor blacking up…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 04 Aug 2016

It's explosive, preposterous, exhilarating and like all the best films based on comic-book characters, doesn't take itself too seriously…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 30 Jul 2016

The short-term memory-loss business very quickly becomes more wearing than funny…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 30 Jul 2016

It's thrilling stuff, and really does compound Greengrass's reputation as a terrific action director; a couple of the chase scenes make Bond's…

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Review of Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 30 Jul 2016

This does become a fascinating tale; after all, who doesn't love to hear about celebrities being taken for a ride…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 23 Jul 2016

It's not always easy to follow, but Born To Be Blue does help us to appreciate Baker's unique talent - and to understand why he came to such…

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Review of Chevalier (2015)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 23 Jul 2016

The concept is strong, the acting fine, and in parts the film is funny and likeable…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 20 Jul 2016

It's a crashing disappointment because it strains way too hard for laughs, and contains one of the most distractingly irritating performances…

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Review of Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 20 Jul 2016

All good epochs come to an end ... and this one should have done so before it started to whiff quite so strongly of commercial exploitation…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 22 Jun 2016

Liza Johnson's intriguing film semi-fictionalises the events leading up to the real-life brief encounter between the pair, in December 1970…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 22 Jun 2016

Fun, with enough wit and invention to please the whole family…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 22 Jun 2016

Of course, silliness and the alien attack blockbuster have never been unacquainted, but about 20 minutes in, it occurred to me that the best…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 15 Jun 2016

Wan and his (American) screenwriters work hard to evoke place and period, and let's forgive them the anachronistic use of The Clash's London…

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Review of Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 15 Jun 2016

The film does have a certain heart, but I can't be the only one hoping not to see a Barbershop 4, whatever the obvious temptation to complete…

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Review of Tale of Tales (2015)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 15 Jun 2016

Matteo Garrone's deliciously saucy, magnificently loopy, exquisitely presented version of three of the stories of Giambattista Basile, the…

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Review of Where to Invade Next (2015)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 08 Jun 2016

There's lots of fascinating material in this (overlong) documentary. But . . . French kids don't touch Coca-Cola? Pull the other one…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 08 Jun 2016

A film that is less than the sum of its parts…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 08 Jun 2016

Claims to explore different aspects of motherhood, but does so as profoundly as a toddler with a plastic spade explores for treasure…

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