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Review of Allied (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 30 Nov 2016

This tale of spies in love, which is old-fashioned in its storytelling, mostly in a good way, has enough charm to be worth a look…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 21 Nov 2016

Paterson, for me, succeeds in creating a tone that is very much its own, and by practising exceptional levels of dramatic restraint, delivers…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 17 Nov 2016

Fantastic Beasts is a solid if unspectacular introduction to a new franchise…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 08 Nov 2016

With a cast on great form, a tricky narrative told in a confident way, and excellent technical qualities, there's a whole lot to enjoy in Tom…

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Review of Orange Sunshine (2016)

By Sam Bathe (186) for Fan The Fire (489) on 24 Oct 2016

The remarkable story of one of the most influential illegal drug organisations you've never heard of, Orange Sunshine is William A…

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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 24 Oct 2016

A powerful, important piece of work that sheds light on the treatment of decent people by an increasingly dehumanised state…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 24 Oct 2016

The film is in some ways a triumph, but as a whole lacks the cohesion and charm of some of Marvel's other comic book adaptations…

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Review of Under the Shadow (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 28 Sep 2016

[Under The Shadow] takes many of the standard tropes of haunted-house cinema and makes a good fist of refreshing them with to its good performances,…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 15 Sep 2016

It's hard to imagine anybody not being won over by this charming adventure, which I'm already looking forward to watching again…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 15 Sep 2016

Green Room is a memorable thriller, and I can't wait to see what Saulnier does next…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 24 Aug 2016

I did find the film to have more depth than I thought it was going to, and more political bite, all gravitating around Hill's memorable antihero…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 08 Aug 2016

It's a blackly comic drama dealing with the issue of futility, with a cynical edge that Solondz fans will be familiar with…

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Review of The Hard Stop (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 12 Jul 2016

It' s a film that reminds us about the inequality that persists in our country; about the racial tensions that shamefully still hold sway;…

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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 06 Jul 2016

The triumph of Miller's film comes from the meeting of a great cast with a sensitive, clever script that treats them all with remarkable…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 05 Jul 2016

Like Drive, this is a film whose powerful visual style and hypnotic soundtrack help build the narrative up to a point which it might not otherwise…

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Review of Tale of Tales (2015)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 14 Jun 2016

Where the stories are united, though, is in their strangeness and arresting visuals…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 30 May 2016

Jones holds all the parts together, just about, and the things that work are strong enough to leave an impression…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 25 May 2016

There are contrivances in the story and some of the performances still hover on the annoying side, but this sequel is surprisingly a better…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 16 May 2016

X-Men Apocalypse has a lot of stuff in it, but those elements don't add up to much…

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Review of Special Correspondents (2016)

By Mary Clare Waireri (12) for Fan The Fire (489) on 12 May 2016

Gervais has missed the mark again with Special Correspondents, a lacklustre comedy that's big on absurdity but surprisingly low on laughs…

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