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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Attention has rightly focused on Redmayne's extraordinary work as the steadily shrivelling Hawking, and the sense of mischief that he conjures…

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Review of Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Best to leave this one to the diehard fans, who should stay for the post-credit shenanigans…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

There are some laughs to be had (stay for the closing credit bloopers), but the really memorable belly laughs are few and far between…

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Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

The formidable running time will doubtless deter many, which is a shame: Winter Sleep is never less than richly engrossing, even if some scenes,…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

By avoiding this film being a straight bio-pic or relationship drama, DuVernay has created a historical and political drama that resonates today…

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Review of Unbroken (2014)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

As a story about resilience and the power of human spirit go, this is an impressive one…

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Review of Land Ho! (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Unassuming and amiable, this road-trip buddy comedy…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

The syrupy score just adds to the cheesiness of what is a classy disease-of-the-week weepie…

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Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Well, she's Maggie, isn't she? Magnificent to behold, terrifying, pathetic and irreproachable. There ain't nothing like that dame…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

There are times in this brilliantly acted and understated psychological drama when it seems very little happens at all, but when the lights…

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Review of Taken 3 (2014)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

It's Neeson that franchise fans will come back for…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

A guilty, if not particularly memorable, pleasure…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) is front and centre in the new film and he's characteristically brilliant, though anyone hoping for a nuanced…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

A searching examination of middle-class complacency and gender roles in an age of us-or-them individualism, this assured Swedish drama is the…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Pitch-perfect acting and a fine control of high emotion that never slips into treacly sentiment distinguish this small and lovely ensemble…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Russell Baillie (91) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

That frenetic fun factor helps keeps this trotting along, lessening the deadening effect of some of the characters' over-stretched personal crises…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

A guilty, if not particularly memorable, pleasure…

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Review of Me, Myself and Mum (2013)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

Moving seamlessly between stage and screen enactments, Guillaume, who plays both himself and his neurotic, chain-smoking mum, concocts plenty…

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Review of 25 April (2015)

By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 24 Apr 2016

25 April doesn't seek to reinterpret the past: its mission is to document it is a direct and accessible way and it does that magnificently…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Francesca Rudkin (294) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 20 Apr 2016

The Jungle Book is filled with some harsh life lessons, and to Favreau's credit he doesn't shy-away from the darker elements; so though there…

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