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Review of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)

By David D'arcy (130) for Screen International (2,241) on 05 Jun 2016

The closer the documentary gets to individual musicians and their histories, the more engaging it becomes…

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Review of Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2026)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 02 Jun 2016

Versus is as watchable for those who have never seen a Ken Loach film as it is informative for those who think they know him…

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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

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

Packed with better action sequences and a smidgeon more emotional resonance, this sequel may be more engaging than its predecessor, but the…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

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

Lacking some of the simplicity and elegance of the first instalment, The Conjuring 2 is nonetheless a smoothly efficient horror movie, building…

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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 31 May 2016

A superbly silly sendup of the modern musical landscape, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is as thimble-deep as the throwaway hits it’s…

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Review of Now You See Me 2 (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 31 May 2016

Doubling down on the giddily ridiculous tone of its predecessor, Now You See Me 2 is diverting, but the film’s rampant, cheeky cleverness…

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Review of Chasing Asylum (2016)

By Sarah Ward (538) for Screen International (2,241) on 25 May 2016

Just as successive Australian governments have proven effective in…

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Review of Unlocking the Cage (2016)

By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 24 May 2016

It’s a classic underdog story, effective for its engaging chronicle of outsiders trying to change the system…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Charles Gant (85) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 May 2016

Resistance to this delirious romantic tragedy is futile, save for that nagging voice in our head wondering if it really has to be this way…

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Review of The Wailing (2016)

By Jason Bechervaise (13) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 May 2016

Na’s screenplay takes viewers to the root of evil in a manner that subverts expectations and cleverly manipulates cause and effect at almost…

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Review of Zero Days (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 May 2016

While the urgency of the message emerges powerfully, the details are often hard to absorb, as Gibney skips from political information to technical…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By John Hazelton (142) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 May 2016

The film takes a long time to build dramatic momentum and gets interrupted by what seem like unnecessary plot points; some of them, perhaps,…

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Review of The Ones Below (2016)

By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 May 2016

The economical, precisely calibrated screenplay is nicely filled with enough simmering conflicts, character flaws and guilty resentments to…

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Review of Divines (2016)

By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 May 2016

Fizzing with ideas, as difficult to pin down as its heroine, Divines keeps generating electricity long after the lights have gone down…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen International (2,241) on 22 May 2016

The young cast, from the newbie leads to an army of go-for-it extras, are terrific, and Marillier is something else – ferociously expressive…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Lisa Nesselson (145) for Screen International (2,241) on 21 May 2016

This audacious, irony-laced, convention-jumbling tale is just plain fun to watch…

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Review of Hands of Stone (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 21 May 2016

Hands Of Stone tests how far a film can go solely on heart, and in this case, it turns out to be just enough to overcome biopic conventionality…

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Review of Dog Eat Dog (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen International (2,241) on 20 May 2016

One thing that can be said about brazen crime comedy Dog Eat Dog is that it’s a full-blooded venture in every respect, with Schrader and…

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Review of The Salesman (2016)

By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Screen International (2,241) on 20 May 2016

Farhadi remains a master of pace and tension, slowly upping the stakes in an unsettling narrative fuelled by a lingering sense of powerlessness,…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 20 May 2016

The film manages the tricky feat of both staying true to Waters breathless, page-turning prose, and creating a wholly persuasive new milieu…

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