Movie Reviews Published by Patrick Nabarro - Page 9 of 16

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Review of Frank (2014)

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

Abrahamson makes such light, subtle work of this film's potentially stodgy moral…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

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

Malick's most ambitious statement yet for his belief in the overwhelming transcendence of the sensory and material ephemera of the world over…

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Review of The New World (2005)

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

Closer to a symphonic poem than any conventional form of dramaturgical motion picture, Terence Malick's The New World is a triumphant work…

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Review of The Thin Red Line (1998)

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

War is depoliticised and shown to be uniformly evil, perverse and unnatural, a complete antithetical counterpoint to mankind's craving for…

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Review of Election (2005)

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

Suffers from a tyrannical sameness of tone where Payne doesn't trust his audience to 'get' the crashing subtext, so he batters them over the…

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Review of Election (1999)

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

Suffers from a tyrannical sameness of tone where Payne doesn't trust his audience to 'get' the crashing subtext, so he batters them over the…

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Review of Special Correspondents (2016)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Gervais wraps ingenious skits and initially wry conceits (natural by-products of his talents as stand-up comedian and sitcom specialist) in…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Darren Aronofsky's take on the story of Noah's Ark intuitively imagines the whole saga within the grammar of a more familiar fantasy-action,…

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Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

A bravura exemplar of mature storytelling where the temptation to wrap things up in an epiphanic, cathartic ending is waived for a more truthful…

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Review of Half Nelson (1985)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

The more interesting aspects of the film come in its less pre-determined margins…

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Review of Half Nelson (2006)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

The more interesting aspects of the film come in its less pre-determined margins…

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Review of Vertigo (1958)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

A film totally in thrall to the lure/peril of looking, and filmed almost entirely from the perspective or emotion of the subconscious…

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Review of Romper Stomper (1992)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

One can see why Crowe's star sky-rocketed from this point on: his performance is intense and compelling, revealing a genuine, steely-eyed menace…

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Review of Detachment (2011)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Tony Kaye's ragged, expressionistic aesthetic may have its detractors but it intuitively suits the wrought scenario of Detachment…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

The conceit of having the film refracted through four stories-within-stories beautifully thematises the idea of nostalgia and storytelling…

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Review of Rear Window (1954)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

As is commonplace in many of Hitchcock's films, there's a wry tension between the seemingly talky, classical Hollywood feel, and their very…

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Review of Noah (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Darren Aronofsky's take on the story of Noah's Ark intuitively imagines the whole saga within the grammar of a more familiar fantasy-action,…

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Review of Noah (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Darren Aronofsky's take on the story of Noah's Ark intuitively imagines the whole saga within the grammar of a more familiar fantasy-action,…

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Review of Youth (2015)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Sorrentino's floating gaze transcends mere petty politics for much deeper, almost epiphanic readings of his characters' respective journeys…

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Review of Smart People (2008)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 07 Nov 2018

Very much a poor man's Wonder Boys, Smart People is almost a non-entity due to its utter prototypicality and extremely transparent attempts…

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