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Review of The Invisible Woman (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

Fiennes has crafted one of the more original heritage movies of recent years…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

The summary work of Nolan: apotheosis of his signature where he attempts to merge the philosophical and emotional in entertaining genre packages…

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Review of X2 (2003)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

Spends way too much time reverently aggrandising its mutant/outsider theme, when in reality we're talking about people with non-pitiable superhuman…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

Avengers Assemble does exactly what it says on the tin: the Avengers assemble and proceed to smash things up...a lot…

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Review of Bastards (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

The film's title Bastards is a suitable epigram for the way that fiscal and sexual depravity have insidiously destroyed every single character…

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Review of Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

It's hard to go too far wrong with a documentary on Italian cycling sensation, Marco Pantani, when the sheer raw materials are so compelling…

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Review of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 18 Nov 2018

It's sweeping, visually comprehensible, and has a nice tactile, sensuous quality…

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Review of Jimmy's Hall (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Ken Loach has fashioned one of his purest and most lovely films here in Jimmy's Hall…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

The careworn Marion Cotillard is a suitable icon for this most commendable of morals on the perils of neglecting social responsibility during…

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Review of Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Away from Murphy's iconic comic status and star quality at the time, he was a limited dramatic actor - making almost untenable the tauter moments…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

There's a slightly wearing tyranny in the film's insatiable, gurning desire to be congratulated on its postmodern 'cleverness' at nearly every…

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Review of Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

A very competent technical director replicating scenes of formulaic visual tableaux, all in the service of a slightly juvenile vigilante narrative…

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Review of Lilting (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Probably the quietest and least histrionic film I've seen for a long time (no mean feat when the subtext to the story is raw grief)…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

The story gets neutered into an Austenesque romantic drama that stereotypes and fails to get beneath the pretty surface of its period costumes…

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Review of Donnie Darko (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

It's ultimately the piece's surprisingly sincere, compassionate edge which transmits the most…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Its digressions shed a novel light on its otherwise over-familiar story, without losing the uplifting, fablistic ethos in the process…

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Review of Bronson (2009)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

It's actually quite an intuitive work, taking Bronson's publicity-courting profile as a base to conjure a lurid opera on the phenomenon of 'Bronson…

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Review of Last Love (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

The use of Paris is an especially lame attempt to fasttrack some pathos and twee romance into the mix and jars with the sometime deep politicking…

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Review of Layer Cake (2004)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

It's mediocre, inane, superficial technique - coupled with a grossly saturated soundtrack - all for no discernible dramatic effect…

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Review of Nostalgia (1983)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 12 Nov 2018

Almost seemed to be anticipating Tarkovsky's own demise with its strange sensibility of apocalyptic proselytising juxtaposed with a more soothing,…

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