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Review of The Age of Shadows (2016)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 11 Sep 2016

The first half of Age of Shadows feels muddy as momentum builds; the latter stages boast a cinetic energy - cutting a violent melee to classical…

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Review of Blair Witch (2016)

By Kim Newman (791) for Screen International (2,241) on 11 Sep 2016

It’s an intense, imaginative piece of work – which treads over familiar ground but modestly ventures a bit further in the climax…

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Review of Carrie Pilby (2017)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 10 Sep 2016

This is not a film which challenges the stereotypes of teen coming of age movies…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 10 Sep 2016

A workmanlike and sometimes clumsy screenplay is not enough to extinguish the spark from this real-life fairytale romance, which delivers both…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 09 Sep 2016

For all its originality, the film fails to leave much of an impression…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Screen International (2,241) on 09 Sep 2016

The abutting of Conor’s conscious and unconscious states justifies the pullulating images, but the film’s overwrought tone can grate…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 08 Sep 2016

It’s a bruisingly effective piece of entertainment carried by comedy, which hits its targets rather more successfully than the wildly strafing…

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Review of The Magnificent Seven (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 07 Sep 2016

Because the roles are underwritten and the players struggle to establish a rapport, The Magnificent Seven never lets the audience feel like…

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Review of Una (2017)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Sep 2016

Mendelsohn makes Ray plausibly remorseful, yet the suspicion remains that he’s as creepily self-serving as Humbert Humbert in Nabokov’s…

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Review of The Journey (2017)

By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Sep 2016

Although it breaks no new ground, there’s heart, humour, charm and even a little healthy mischief in a film that re-imagines the rapprochement…

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Review of Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2017)

By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Sep 2016

An impressionistic, poetic cosmic journey that asks far more questions than it answers, many of them in Malick's by now familiar quasi-religious…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Sep 2016

Larraín’s highly varied visual invention and command of complex structure serve as a reminder of how vitally an imaginative director can…

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Review of Tunnel (2016)

By Jason Bechervaise (13) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Sep 2016

Kim successfully captures the loneliness and entrapment underneath the debris and the chaos outside…

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Review of The Bad Batch (2017)

By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 05 Sep 2016

After the tense opening, coherent drama goes by the board…

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Review of One More Time with Feeling (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen International (2,241) on 04 Sep 2016

To say that Dominik’s film touches on a raw nerve is an understatement, but the film, dedicated to the memory of Arthur, is revealing both…

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Review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 04 Sep 2016

In its own deja vu way, Bridget Jones Baby is intermittently entertaining, mainly thanks to Zellweger’s performance…

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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 03 Sep 2016

Hacksaw Ridge returns to the themes which have professionally and personally motivated 60-year-old Gibson for his entire life; he’s never…

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Review of Brimstone (2016)

By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 03 Sep 2016

What’s lacking here, mostly, is a clarity of vision and control of tone that would give this prestige Euro-Western’s mannerisms a focus…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 03 Sep 2016

Ambitious in scope but precise in its execution, this deceptively small-scale character piece reverberates with compassion and insight…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Sep 2016

Though not always as confident outside of the cockpit, Sully mostly earns its crowd-pleasing, lump-in-your-throat sentiment…

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