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Review of New Year's Eve (2011)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 05 Sep 2017

New Year's Eve impresses with its guest list but here these famous acquaintances are to be forgotten and never brought to mind…

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Review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 05 Sep 2017

Like its predecessor, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a race against time to survive, but the inclusion of new characters adds a little…

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Review of Arthur Christmas (2011)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 05 Sep 2017

Sentimentality is unavoidable as this rollicking adventure comes to an end, but it doesn't force-feed a Christmas message…

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Review of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 23 Aug 2017

It's not the most dazzling documentary, but the urgency of the issue is well-illustrated, and the power is placed firmly in the hands of the…

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Review of In Between (2016)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 23 Aug 2017

Hat really stands out about Hamoud's work is that it's female-centric and about sex, and there's not a terrorist in sight…

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Review of The Trip to Spain (2017)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 16 Aug 2017

Familiarity aside, these two gentlemen are excellent company, and the southern coast of Spain a worthy destination. Not a bad way to pass the time…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 16 Aug 2017

There's a surfeit of Stephen King references that are fun to identify, and more than one impactful set-piece, but it's clear that the mythic…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 10 Aug 2017

I would usually be more than ready to endorse a film that presented little more than a surfeit of eye-popping visuals, but liking a movie shouldn't…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Siena Yates (8) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 02 Aug 2017

When It Comes At Night came to an end, the entire audience collectively released the breath we'd all been inadvertently holding…

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Review of God's Own Country (2017)

By George Fenwick (9) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 02 Aug 2017

God's Own Country is an impressive debut that cleverly subverts cliché…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 02 Aug 2017

It may be little too concerned with dishing out twist after predictable twist, plot-wise, but that ultimately doesn't really matter when a…

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Review of Hampstead (2017)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 26 Jul 2017

Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson are two good reasons to see this sweet, pleasant romantic comedy - even if they've been short-changed with…

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Review of 47 Meters Down (2017)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 26 Jul 2017

[it's not] a rip-off of last year's The Shallows... 47 Meters Down was completed before The Shallows was released…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 19 Jul 2017

Christopher Nolan affirms his status as contemporary cinema's boldest blockbuster director with this intensely immersive and relentlessly stirring…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 19 Jul 2017

Baby Driver is a mix of La La Land, Fast and the Furious, Reservoir Dogs and The Blues Brothers…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 12 Jul 2017

Diverting by only the lowest of standards, this film is saved from one-star indignity by mere virtue of its production value…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 12 Jul 2017

A thoughtful, nimble argument for a more character-focused superhero movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming demonstrates what can be gained when the…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Greg Bruce (1) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 29 Jun 2017

When the stuff we're watching in the theatre is mostly dross, and we're sharing not others' pleasure but their disappointment, isn't it nice…

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Review of Despicable Me 3 (2017)

By Dominic Corry (151) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 28 Jun 2017

The proceedings are also buoyed by such franchise mainstays as the endearing sweetness of Gru's relationship with his three adopted daughters…

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Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 21 Jun 2017

Thankfully, director Roger Michell's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1951 novel just manages to balance the story with the handsome production…

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