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Review of Song to Song (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

Malick seeks only to gorge on the emotional malcontent of his disaffected players…

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Review of Prevenge (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

There's the germ of a good concept in Alice Lowe's debut as writer-director, but the shoddy way she merges the different ideas in that concept…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

Frozen is, to put it simply, all technique and iconography in desperate search of a story and its own viable mythology…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

It's almost a thesis on the pleasures of simplicity, quietude, detachment and a form of solipsism…

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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

What's so great about Davies' work here is that he's made a film that is at once extremely political and dramatic while also being compellingly…

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Review of Broken Flowers (2005)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

The film, and its very oxymoronic title, Broken Flowers, acts as a metaphor for the anti-epiphanies that exploring your past can present…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

What we're eventually left with is one long, depthless ode to structure…

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Review of Paddington (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

It's very genteel, and the ingenious skits of Paddington and the Brown family celebrate the essential inventiveness and eccentricity at the…

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Review of Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

It's instantly forgettable, but perhaps contains a smidgeon of nostalgia value for those who were fans of the TV sketch…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

T2 never quite escapes the shadow of its culturally colossal predecessor, but it does offer enough moments of ragged inspiration to warrant…

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Review of After Life (1999)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

It is, quite simply, a stunning and meta-cinematically deft ode to the enduring properties of memories and sensations…

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Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

James Baldwin is exactly the right discursive proxy for this film's balance between history lesson and impressionistic treatise on the African-American…

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Review of Hot Fuzz (2007)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

A literate deconstruction of action movie tropes, while also being intelligent enough to actually offer a passable genre movie in the process…

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Review of The Levelling (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

It shouldn't go unnoticed just how accomplished an achievement it is for its debut director Hope Dickson Leach in pulling off such a tricky…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

The film finds a watchful, plaintive ambience for documenting the legacy of machismo and problematic identity politics at the heart of young…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

If, in truth, the actual narrative never truly breaks free from Baumbach's conceptual concerns, it's still a really interesting watch just…

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Review of Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

By the film's end, truthfully, no greater insight has been extracted as to who this strangely anomalous superstar really was…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

Once the story is allowed to relax into itself by about the 30-minute mark, it's a funny and entertaining adventure with some good, but not…

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Review of Modern Times (1936)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

What elevates Modern Times - above even its cleverness - is its sense of spectacle. It's as entertaining as it is socially and politically resonant…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 03 Nov 2018

It's not a whodunnit in the conventional sense as the masked stalker is essentially a metaphorical representation of a grotesque patriarchal…

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