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Review of Point Break (2015)

By James Marsh (180) for Screen International (2,241) on 03 Dec 2015

Core’s incarnation of Point Break is about one thing, extreme sports, and it is no small relief that the film at least handles those sequences well…

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Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 02 Dec 2015

Fluid, shifting and tense, the action here easily outstrips the film’s basic set-up (man tests himself against nature, is humbled), which…

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Review of Victor Frankenstein (2015)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 24 Nov 2015

This Grand Guignol riot of rotting animal and Godless creations is great fun…

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Review of A Royal Night Out (2015)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 24 Nov 2015

There’s a jazzy air throughout and the sound of the dance halls resonate…

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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By John Hazelton (142) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 Nov 2015

Though it sometimes recalls the irresistibly energetic, genre-bending feel of Lee’s best films – Do The Right Thing in particular – it…

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Review of Criminal Activities (2015)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 20 Nov 2015

Its combined cast has an all-ages appeal, although Robert Lowell's screenplay struggles to drive through 94 minutes…

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Review of Secret in Their Eyes (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 19 Nov 2015

Alongside a sharp supporting cast that includes Dean Norris and Michael Kelly, Secret’s leads do what they can and never embarrass themselves…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 18 Nov 2015

Since so much of Creed’s emotional oomph comes from audience familiarity with the past films, the movie mostly shadowboxes with its past…

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Review of The Night Before (1988)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 17 Nov 2015

A so-so stoner film where the premise is almost always better than the execution…

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Review of The Night Before (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 17 Nov 2015

A so-so stoner film where the premise is almost always better than the execution…

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Review of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

By Mike Goodridge (67) for Screen International (2,241) on 16 Nov 2015

It's frustrating to watch a movie which has been so painstakingly crafted and is so extraordinarily designed and yet in which the storytelling…

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Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 13 Nov 2015

It might be a given that Pixar’s movies are visually spectacular, but The Good Dinosaur may be the studio’s most purely cinematic, the…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 13 Nov 2015

The Big Short means to infuriate its audience, but it’s smart enough to know that such an approach doesn’t preclude a film from being darkly,…

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Review of Concussion (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 11 Nov 2015

Landesman’s film may not be scintillating drama, but it aches with muted anger, and his cast makes sure to keep the proceedings at a consistent…

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Review of By the Sea (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Nov 2015

Roland and Vanessa simply aren’t sufficiently compelling to provoke us to fill in the blanks…

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Review of What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy (2015)

By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 05 Nov 2015

A Nazi Legacy – What Our Fathers Did comes to a climax in Lviv, but the film is a layered examination of brutality, self-deception, guilt…

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Review of In the Basement (2014)

By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 05 Nov 2015

It's in more conventional observation and confessions to camera that the film really delivers its strange, melancholic universe…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 04 Nov 2015

Mockingjay — Part 2 proves to be the most satisfying, gripping and emotional film in the franchise, resolving Katniss Everdeen’s odyssey…

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Review of Sand Dollars (2015)

By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 03 Nov 2015

It's a film with a restless motion, a film about people in transit (on motorbikes, on foot, in life), in which the question of whether to stay…

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Review of The Peanuts Movie (2015)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 02 Nov 2015

The Peanuts Movie isn’t so much an homage as it is an echo and a call-back, one that certainly has heart but also feels dispiritingly riskless…

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