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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 12 Jan 2017

The film is at its most convincing in those intimate exchanges between Gosling, with his melted eyes, and Stone, with her anime face…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 05 Jan 2017

Tthe movie's emotional and dramatic roots are deep and its writer, Patrick Ness, who adapted his own novel, has brought to the screen intact…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 21 Dec 2016

No movie starring Lawrence is ever likely to be flat-out dumb -- for all that her looks have played a part in her career ascendancy, her defining…

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Review of Assassin's Creed (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 21 Dec 2016

Assassin's Creed, an adaptation of the popular videogame, is a terrible film that doesn't even have the decency to be bad in interesting ways…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 15 Dec 2016

If ever there was a film that was both thought-provoking and deathly dull, it is this one…

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Review of Silence (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 15 Dec 2016

If ever there was a film that was both thought-provoking and deathly dull, it is this one…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 14 Dec 2016

The story clicks nicely into place with the events of Star Wars but that narrative is really just a blank sky in which the film's other elements…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 08 Dec 2016

The movie falls between two stools, however, lacking either the irreverence of satire or the tautness of a well-tooled thriller…

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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 01 Dec 2016

[Chi-Raq], if often muddled, is rarely dull…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 29 Nov 2016

Driver, with his long, sloping brow and soulful lips, is both formidable and sympathetic, like an Easter Island statue that's a really good listener…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 17 Nov 2016

For all the sophisticated special effects, it's rather like being trapped in a two-hour game of Pokémon Go…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 10 Nov 2016

Where Close Encounters of the Third Kind gazed outward in awe at the universe, Arrival asks only how its mysteries might provide succour and…

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Review of The Paperboy (2012)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 09 Nov 2016

Daniels turns out to be the ideal director for a film about the tendency of desire to turn sane minds to guacamole…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 03 Nov 2016

Ford made his priorities clear when he named his film after Edward's novel rather than allowing the story, as Tony and Susan did, to occupy…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Helen Lewis (2) for New Statesman (382) on 03 Nov 2016

Is this film enjoyable? Yes. Is it the kind of film you can fall in love with? No…

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Review of Further Beyond (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 03 Nov 2016

Quite unexpectedly, Further Beyond builds up an emotional weight, partly because the material is so poignant but also because of the manner…

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Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 03 Nov 2016

Cianfrance's film is like a form pushed under our noses. On the dotted line at the bottom you can just make out the words: Cry here…

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Review of Before the Flood (2016)

By India Bourke (2) for New Statesman (382) on 26 Oct 2016

If you want a whistlestop tour of all things climate change then this necessary and urgent film is the movie for you…

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Review of Sonita (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 19 Oct 2016

Ghaemmaghami could be accused of steering the action to make a stronger film but her attempt to save Sonita from being married off is far more…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 19 Oct 2016

Reassurance and confidence are the main tools in Reacher's arsenal, but the director Edward Zwick doesn't seem to have spotted that endless…

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