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Review of Mean Streets (1973)

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

An utterly electric, jazzy, freewheeling saunter through the lives of a motley crew of young men on the mean streets of Little Italy in Manhattan…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

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

Nolan's sole conceit is to create an industrial ode to the chaos of warfare, but I'd take Terrence Malick's anti-war ode, The Thin Red Line,…

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Review of Hadewijch (2009)

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

Bruno Dumont has crafted a compelling modern day fable about a self-possessed young woman who finds the unlikeliest of outlets in her quest…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

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

La La Land falls ironically foul of the dialectic it is trying so ardently to dramatise…

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Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

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

My Cousin Rachel really is prototypical claptrap. It's possessed of such a flat and minimal conceit that is so telegraphed, it's beyond satire…

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Review of The Virgin Suicides (2000)

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

A brilliant external commentary on patriarchy, affluence and homogeneity, as well as an experiential ode to the intangibles and inherent mysteries…

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Review of On the Waterfront (1954)

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

A parable of the conscience to rival any moral drama across the history of American cinema (only Michael Mann's The Insider offers a recent…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

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

The film is all style and no substance…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

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

The corporate satire is decently enough conveyed, though it's rhetorically obvious…

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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

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

The shift into postmodern mode in the film's final act is too expository and feels like a belated attempt to inflect a bit of spice to an intelligent,…

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Review of The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Nov 2018

Within its very mainstream, crowd-pleasing confines The 40 Year Old Virgin is actually a pretty enjoyable confection with a high gag quotient…

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Review of Supersonic (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Nov 2018

Oasis: Supersonic is one of the better musical documentaries of recent years, as it finds a visual and storytelling correlative to honour the…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Nov 2018

By its final act, Silence starts to become more distinctive and strikes upon fertile territory with the end-game of Father Rodrigues' resistance…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Nov 2018

Good Time seems destined to be a cult classic…

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Review of Silence (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Nov 2018

By its final act, Silence starts to become more distinctive and strikes upon fertile territory with the end-game of Father Rodrigues' resistance…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Nov 2018

It is perhaps one of the unsubtlest satires and lamest of American social allegories I've ever seen…

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Review of Mister John (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Nov 2018

It's an intriguing hybrid of genre piece and interior psychodrama pinned together by ingenious direction and a great central performance by…

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Review of Spider-Man 3 (2007)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 31 Oct 2018

The film is phenomenally poorly structured, with too many characters necessitating their own little arcs and epiphanies…

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Review of God's Own Country (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 31 Oct 2018

Francis Lee shapes the story so tenderly and poetically, and actors Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu generate huge pathos with two exceptionally…

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Review of La Ciénaga (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 31 Oct 2018

The air of stultifying decadence is captured to a T by Martel…

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