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Review of The Prestige (2006)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Nolan's most perfect commentary on his favourite auteur theme of mise en abyme, as both magicians in their own ways make near Faustian pacts…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

A fantastic commentary on modern celebrity, PR, image politics and the struggle to retain personal integrity amid the sheer swirl of the internet…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

It's in the Hamptons setting, the clichéd Super 8 family flashbacks and the demonstrative piano score that the film's pretensions to overly…

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Review of Robin Hood (2009)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Rickman's casualness is the unwitting emblem of this silly, but enjoyable, Hollywood romp from yesteryear…

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Review of What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Structurally and content-wise it's near perfect: the film cleverly opens on a thematising visual anecdote before taking us back to the beginning…

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Review of It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

One problem with the film is that it's only in the acquisition of money and the community subjugating their own savings and needs for George,…

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Review of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

A compelling documentary which doesn't need to work too hard to out the sheer absurdity and 'Emperor's New Clothes' air that hangs over the…

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Review of The Crying Game (1992)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

With 20 years' perspective, it really does seem an irretrievably ropey and dated melodrama, hamstrung by any number of strange elements…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Purveys an air of faux spiritualism, and, ironically on a similar bent to Twelve Years A Slave, it confuses epic with meaningful, and sadism…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Having the presence and dramatic lineage of three characters the Prequels weren't afforded the luxury of accessing (Han, Leia and Luke) adds…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

The main problem is that the social tapestry is far, far less interesting than in Far from Heaven…

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Review of Carol (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

The main problem is that the social tapestry is far, far less interesting than in Far from Heaven…

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Review of Timbuktu (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

A work of staggering dramatic and ethnographic lucidity: a crystal-clear ode to life in a harsh outpost of Mali, namely the northerly, desert-laden…

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Review of Cemetery Junction (2010)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

An uncomfortable compromise between the evident comic talents that brought Gervais to the fore in the first place, and the commercial apparatus…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 10 Nov 2018

Dolan's weakness is that beneath the razzamatazz, he's saddled himself with a straightforward narrative, thus his artillery merely serves the…

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Review of Touch of Evil (1958)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 08 Nov 2018

Welles manufactures another of his masterly treatises on the power of light and shade - Touch of Evil is as gothic and expressive as any Murnau…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 08 Nov 2018

The strange juxtaposition between the film's rampant self-confidence versus its paucity of actual humour is especially prominent in the ropey…

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Review of The Ring (2002)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 08 Nov 2018

A thoroughly prosaic and prototypical spooker that commits the cardinal sin of devaluing what made the raw materials of its fable so original…

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Review of Days of Heaven (1978)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 08 Nov 2018

The peak moment of Malick's career where he found the perfect blend of a respectful command of storytelling versus the more abstract submission…

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Review of Zoolander (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 08 Nov 2018

Although it's in the lineage of other bombastic Fratpack numbers, it lacks the self-regarding tenor of many of those films…

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