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Review of Armored (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 22 Jan 2010

The internecine calamity that ensues is nicely paced by Nimród Antal - great name- and played with full-grimace intensity by Laurence Fishburne,…

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Review of The Boys Are Back (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 22 Jan 2010

Owen's voiceover is a cringeworthy accompaniment on the film's heavily signposted road to redemptive hugs and Joe's tentative romance with…

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Review of The Book of Eli (2010)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 15 Jan 2010

Just how badly does this guy want beatification? Perhaps someone should remind him that the Book in question mentions vanity as a sin…

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Review of OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 15 Jan 2010

It's puerile slapstick for the most part, energetically performed and shot in period style (splitscreen effects, garish decor) - but nobody…

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Review of Up in the Air (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 15 Jan 2010

The film, written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner, is consistently entertaining, though it coasts through a long middle and towards the end threatens…

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Review of 44 Inch Chest (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 15 Jan 2010

A brooding Pinteresque menace hangs over this chamber-piece of London lowlife, though any expectation of Louis Mellis and David Scinto's screenplay…

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Review of All About Steve (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 15 Jan 2010

In which Sandra Bullock flails through another non-com of an awfulness she seems unerringly inclined to repeat…

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Review of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 08 Jan 2010

What the film tries to project as Dury's loveable irascibility too often just looks like charmlessness…

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Review of It's Complicated (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 08 Jan 2010

On it drags, simpering the while over the lavish accoutrements of upper-middle-class life as though they contained the key to all happiness…

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Review of Treeless Mountain (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 08 Jan 2010

The writer-director So Yong Kim, drawing on events from her childhood, directs so unobtrusively you may forget the camera is there, but you…

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Review of Spread (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 05 Jan 2010

[Kutcher's] not a bad actor, in a lazy, self-conscious sort of way, but he's being propelled through a plot that has no guile, no subtlety,…

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Review of Post Grad (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 05 Jan 2010

Post Grad is trying to reproduce the wackily dysfunctional manners of family life that made Little Miss Sunshine a hit, but hasn't the charm,…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes (2011)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

Ritchie is all at sea because he has no grasp of language as something comic, a problem intensified by the thin overlay of period…

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Review of St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

A cavalcade of schoolgirls filled out the press screening of this movie, and very welcome to it they were…

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Review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

Three digimated rodents play guitar, go to school and create merry hell, all for the benefit of the holiday season audiences that made the…

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Review of Nine (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

You will not tap your toes, you will not come out humming, you will not want to hear their like - Those scenes I love to see/ From Guido's…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

Ritchie is all at sea because he has no grasp of language as something comic, a problem intensified by the thin overlay of period…

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Review of Nowhere Boy (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

This study of a boy damaged by loss yet determined to honour his talent strikes a mighty chord, and marks a hugely promising feature debut…

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Review of Humpday (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

Forget the buddy movie and the bromance, this wryly provocative comedy takes man-love to a place of palm-sweating uncertainty…

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Review of The Limits of Control (2009)

By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 11 Dec 2009

Jarmusch's characteristic indifference to narrative excitement makes it hard to love - and may indeed return you to being agnostic…

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