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Review of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 08 Mar 2018

It's Lamarr who sums up her own apparent contradictions best: I'm just a simple complicated woman…

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Review of Sweet Country (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 08 Mar 2018

Uses western tropes to zero in on the savage racism of Australia, exploring the deep-rooted conflict between Aboriginal Australians and their…

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Review of Walk Like a Panther (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 08 Mar 2018

Just when it seemed like we were done with knock-offs of The Full Monty, along comes Walk Like a Panther to pound the crumbling bones of its…

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Review of The Party's Just Beginning (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Mar 2018

Blunts any edginess with random moments of Brit-com naffness, contrived plotting, underdeveloped supporting characters and an over-reliance…

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Review of Columbus (2017)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 25 Feb 2018

A chance encounter brings these two lost souls together and the resulting film charts their evolving relationship with such serenity, the restorative…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 22 Feb 2018

Anderson's signature whimsy isn't for everyone, but his evolving ability to temper delight with dread and vice-versa is superlative here, ensuring…

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Review of The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 08 Feb 2018

Descends into a barely coherent people-going-crazy-in-space film that borrows liberally from the Alien franchise, Solaris, Event Horizon, Sunshine,…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 08 Feb 2018

This is a monster movie made with real love…

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Review of Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Feb 2018

The film is not without merit, although it remains too much of a slow-burn to really catch fire as the gritty, medieval Euro western its set…

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Review of Dirty Wars (2013)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Feb 2018

It's scary stuff, and though director Richard Rowley sometimes milks the thriller overtones too forcefully, Scahill explores the subject with…

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Review of The Railway Man (2013)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Feb 2018

Scrupulously tasteful films stuffed with Oscar-winning talent have a tendency to feel like awards bait, but Railway Man manages to escape such…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Feb 2018

If Daniel Day-Lewis is genuinely going to make good on his recent retirement announcement, he couldn't have picked a better swansong than Phantom…

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Review of Floating Skyscrapers (2013)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Feb 2018

Tomasz Wasilewski uses the bleak, rigid industrial spaces against which the film is set to neatly parallel how the lack of fluidity in modern…

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Review of Delivery Man (2013)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Feb 2018

Gooey sentimentality and group hugs follow, but Vaughn is not entirely unappealing…

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Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Feb 2018

It's tedious stuff, and the elaborate, drawn-out bank robbery plot doesn't make a lot of sense, especially when it tries to pull off a final…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 25 Jan 2018

For all the high concept wonders at work, Payne can't seem to break out of his own rut…

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Review of Early Man (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 25 Jan 2018

Early Man's reliance on groaning dad-humour and stereotypical celebrations of British daftness feels prehistoric in all the worst ways, especially…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 23 Jan 2018

It's preposterous, of course, but the what-would-you-do conundrum gives it an amusing kick and Neeson's hollowed out everyman is surprisingly…

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Review of The Final Year (2018)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 23 Jan 2018

It's compelling in ways you wish it wasn't…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 23 Jan 2018

It's certainly a substantial improvement on recent misfires like The Good Dinosaur and last year's barrel-scraping Cars 3…

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