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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2016

Eva Green is typically enchanting as the pipe-smoking, crossbow-wielding, shape-shifting Miss Peregrine (her name's the clue) and her strangely…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2016

Kate Beckinsale is perfect in the leading role of young widow Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and cunning woman who makes Machiavelli look like…

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Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Oct 2016

Pipes judder, valves strain and needles tip alarmingly into the red…

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Review of The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 25 Sep 2016

McCarthy gives us some startling images... and some weighty moral issues to ponder…

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Review of The Magnificent Seven (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 25 Sep 2016

The sight of Denzel twirling his six-guns and shooting from the hip will be more than enough, for many, to make The Magnificent Seven a rousing…

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Review of Little Men (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 21 Sep 2016

Sachs indicates the boys' easy rapport with joyous travelling shots showing them breezing through the Brooklyn streets on scooter and roller-blades…

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Review of Friend Request (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Sep 2016

It's all very glossy and shallow, but there are some genuinely creepy animated sequences (purportedly the work of Liesl Ahlers' weird Gothic…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Sep 2016

Frat-boy jocks usually get a bad rap in movies (filmmakers tend not to be former jocks)…

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Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Sep 2016

Eight Days a Week captures John, Paul, George and Ringo at their youthful charismatic peak: brimming with wit in their encounters with the…

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Review of Anthropoid (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Sep 2016

Get past the off-putting title, which sounds as though it belongs to a schlocky sci-fi film. Get past the iffy Czech accents…

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Review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Sep 2016

Sarah Solemani supplies rude chuckles as a brazenly sassy newsreader…

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Review of Don't Breathe (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 09 Sep 2016

Suffocatingly tense for most of its taut 88-minute running time, home-invasion thriller Don't Breathe should, in the interest of the viewer's…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 09 Sep 2016

The children are equally adept at butchering a deer and dissecting the US Constitution…

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Review of Honeytrap (2015)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 09 Sep 2016

Writer-director Rebecca Johnson gives a fresh, female perspective on urban gang crime with this debut feature and gets a beguiling lead performance…

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Review of Morning Glory (2010)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 04 Sep 2016

The perky heroine played by Rachel McAdams.... is so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed she probably showers with caffeinated soap…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 02 Sep 2016

Robert Downey Jr's billionaire playboy inventor Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, gets the film's self-aware, tongue-in-cheek tone spot on, delivering…

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Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 27 Aug 2016

Yet again the Coens parade a carnival of stupidity before us, another cavalcade of caricatured schmucks, imbeciles and idiots…

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Review of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 26 Aug 2016

As Mike and Dave's parents observe of the boys' rowdy behaviour, 'This shtick was cute for a while, but it's gotten stale…

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Review of Keeping Rosy (2014)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 26 Aug 2016

A whirl of conflicting emotions visible on her porcelain-pale skin, [Maxine Peake] makes her off-putting character credible and compelling…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 26 Aug 2016

War Dogs' gobsmacking revelations will have you seesawing between tears of laughter, incredulity and rage…

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