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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 29 Apr 2018

Joe and Anthony Russo's film is like an over-egged birthday cake, edible in patches but spoilt by too many competing ingredients…

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Review of Beast (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 29 Apr 2018

There's a haunting starkness to [Michael] Pearce's direction and bleak poetry in his tricky, icky story, which starts out as a psychological…

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Review of The Cured (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Apr 2018

Freyne's film is full of good ideas shot in and around north central Dublin…

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Review of Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Apr 2018

[Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts] is gorgeously composed and photographed and also singularly unpleasant…

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Review of The Leisure Seeker (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Apr 2018

It's hard to sentimentalise something as nasty as Alzheimer's, but The Leisure Seeker certainly gives it a try and only the wily acting of…

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Review of Making the Grade (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Apr 2018

Wardrop's latest film uses the seemingly innocuous subject of piano lessons as the platform for an... absorbing human journey…

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Review of Ghost Stories (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Apr 2018

Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's nicely atmospheric chiller... evokes the great traditions of British horror…

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Review of Rampage (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Apr 2018

One takes this kind of Cgi for granted these days, but the creatures really are impressively rendered and let's be honest, who doesn't want…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 08 Apr 2018

The links between the stories seem tenuous and the overall enterprise feels contrived…

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Review of Love, Simon (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 08 Apr 2018

It sticks to the rules of its genre, right down to the cloying music and obligatory schmaltzy climax, and uses them to demonstrate a truth…

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Review of Michael Inside (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 08 Apr 2018

It's moving, emotionally gripping and every scene has the ring of truth…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 08 Apr 2018

[Blunt is] excellent, as is her husband's film…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 08 Apr 2018

[Blunt is] excellent, as is her husband's film…

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Review of Blockers (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 01 Apr 2018

This film isn't just funny, it has heart, and is one of the best comedies to come out of Hollywood in the last five years…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 01 Apr 2018

It could be argued that the most quintessential Anderson film was his 2009 Roald Dahl-inspired stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr Fox, but…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 01 Apr 2018

The film is necessarily derivative, but hardly ever witty...It's entertaining by and large, but left me wanting less…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 25 Mar 2018

Pacific Rim Uprising is sort of tolerable for the first hour or so, before a rolling Cgi battle sinks this inane enterprise…

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Review of Dark River (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 25 Mar 2018

Clio Barnard's film is full of weather and brooding atmosphere, and Wilson is superb as the nervy but resourceful Alice…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 25 Mar 2018

New age philosophy and hippy platitudes are unsubtly blended with actual science to create a sickly blancmange of a screenplay that is not…

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Review of Unless (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 19 Mar 2018

It's a handsome film, soulful but efficient, and Keener and Hannah Gross deliver fine performances…

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