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Review of Heart of a Dog (1988)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some,…

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Review of The Silent Storm (2014)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

The high winds of hamminess roar through the rafters in Corinna McFarlane's The Silent Storm…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1976)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some,…

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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

Zoolander No. 2 proceeds at a consistently hysterical pitch and, though it drags in parts, is worth watching for some genuinely hilarious moments…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

Bryan Singer has made enough of these superhero things to know how to put them together, and for long periods balances competing story lines…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

Tom Twyker's film is nicely photographed and alive to the beauty, absurdity and hidden dangers of Saudi life…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 May 2016

A kind of home movie with hidden depths, Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is discursive, whimsical, jokey, profound: it will infuriate some,…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 18 May 2016

I'm not really sure what it all means, but it is gorgeous to look at, and rather entertaining…

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Review of The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

Jokes come thick and fast in a film that plays to the cheap seats but may bewilder the younger viewers at whom it's presumably aimed…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

Green Room is one of those rare horror movies that actually gets better rather than worse as it proceeds…

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Review of Mustang (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

It's a wonderful film, beautifully made and a compelling argument against the perversions of puritanism…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

There's a TV movie tinniness to the film's rather pat denouement, but plenty to enjoy otherwise, and Damian Lewis's portrayal of the cagey…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 May 2016

Mr Linklater may be a fan of Marcel Proust, because this film is suffused with a heady nostalgia for the lost past…

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Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 05 May 2016

Ms Streep is delightful in the role, giving Florence a kind of quiet grace that counteracts her silliness, and getting tremendous comedy out…

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Review of Atlantic (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 01 May 2016

It's a fine, if rather depressing documentary…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Apr 2016

Captain America: Civil War rumbles busily towards a confrontation between Cap and Iron Man, but that fistfight is perhaps the least interesting…

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Review of Son of Saul (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Apr 2016

It is relentless, horrifying, and skilfully implies the endless carnage going on in the background while driving forward a simple but powerful…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Apr 2016

Davis wishes to deconstruct his old life, and begin a new one…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 25 Apr 2016

All of this is most intelligently handled by Monsieur Vallée and his screenwriter Nick Hornby in a film that's handsome, entertaining and…

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Review of Testament of Youth (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 25 Apr 2016

It's very nicely, if a little safely made, and gives you a compelling sense of how blithely an entire generation was squandered…

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