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Review of Amy (2015)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 21 May 2015

If the film has a fault, it's that it doesn't try to explain where her genius came from. But then it's all there, in front of us…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 14 May 2015

This summer's blockbuster offerings may be setting box office records, yet seem like holograms when compared with this weighty offering…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Richard Godwin (3) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 14 May 2015

It's at least 20 minutes too long. But Banks marshals things with such cheery uplift you're all too happy to spend time in the Bellas' company…

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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 07 May 2015

Would you confess to crimes you hadn't committed? I know I would…

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Review of Samba (2014)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 30 Apr 2015

There are no weak links in the cast and Tahar Rahim is good value as a bubbly Brazilian, willing to package himself as an exotic to get on…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 30 Apr 2015

This is clever, even poignant stuff. Oldies as well as adolescents will find themselves intrigued…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 23 Apr 2015

No one needs to be told if he, or even she, likes superhero movies. If you like them at all, you'll adore Avengers: Age of Ultron…

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Review of Good Kill (2015)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 09 Apr 2015

Good Kill convincingly shows us a development in warfare that's only going to become ever more important, one that we've been preferring not…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 09 Apr 2015

Östlund and his superb cast have made an odd, gripping movie. Let it rock your world…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 02 Apr 2015

[It] has one great strength: an outstanding performance in this difficult, perhaps fundamentally incoherent, role from Carey Mulligan, far…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 02 Apr 2015

The latest instalment of the franchise cost a pretty penny, yet often feels less like a slick blockbuster than a demented day-time soap…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 02 Apr 2015

This handsome, earnest bit of piffle not only stars Russell Crowe but marks his directing debut…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 02 Apr 2015

It's a rueful look at what those in their mid-twenties and mid-forties have to offer each other and what the cultural differences are between…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 27 Mar 2015

A remarkably faithful, full-hearted live action rendition of Cinderella, well cast and sumptuously staged, picking its way carefully between…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 27 Mar 2015

A remarkably faithful, full-hearted live action rendition of Cinderella, well cast and sumptuously staged, picking its way carefully between…

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Review of Wild Tales (2014)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 27 Mar 2015

Portmanteau films are not that common, or usually successful, but Argentine writer-director Damián Szifron has fashioned a collection of six…

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Review of Insurgent (2015)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 20 Mar 2015

It was always going to be hard to match the fire-power of The Hunger Games series, but the gap is now huge…

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Review of The Gunman (2015)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 20 Mar 2015

This isn't so much a film in which every ageing male fantasist can invest as a film that works as an allegory for the state of Penn's career…

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Review of Run All Night (2015)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 13 Mar 2015

The third collaboration between Neeson and Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra is made almost endurable by excellent acting from Neeson (his…

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Review of X+Y (2014)

By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 13 Mar 2015

X+Y probably equals small returns at the box office. But who cares when it has the ability to multiply one's happiness tenfold…

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