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Review of The Violators (2016)

By Ed Owen (5) for The Arts Desk (640) on 16 Jun 2016

Six months into the year it's time to start thinking about the best films of 2016, and The Violators is comfortably up there…

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Review of Where You're Meant to Be (2016)

By David Kettle (28) for The Arts Desk (640) on 16 Jun 2016

With its mix of dark melancholy and bawdy humour, its grime and its visual magnificence, Where You're Meant to Be feels like a celebration…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 13 Jun 2016

Into Darkness is an enjoyably solid effort, but it suffers from a lack of the innovation and inspiration of its predecessor (or indeed of Abrams's…

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Review of Where to Invade Next (2015)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 09 Jun 2016

The case studies get more interesting as the film progresses…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 02 Jun 2016

I haven't read the book and would imagine that the material's multiple irritations, both large-scale and small, might be somewhat more tolerable…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 02 Jun 2016

At the end of the day though, it's what it is -- a big-budget commercial franchise spun off from a computer game…

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Review of The President (2014)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 30 May 2016

Makhmalbaf's script, co-written with his wife Marziyeh Meshkiny, doesn't finally compensate for loss of narrative direction…

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Review of The President (2013)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 30 May 2016

Makhmalbaf's script, co-written with his wife Marziyeh Meshkiny, doesn't finally compensate for loss of narrative direction…

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Review of Hockney (2014)

By Marina Vaizey (2) for The Arts Desk (640) on 25 May 2016

He result is rather disjointed, held together by Hockney's own charm, apparent candour, and extraordinary energy…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Ed Owen (5) for The Arts Desk (640) on 25 May 2016

If you can see past the problems, Alice Through the Looking Glass is enjoyable, visually spectacular and finally satisfying…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Saskia Baron (43) for The Arts Desk (640) on 24 May 2016

Money Monster is an enjoyable soft-liberal satire on American TV shows and the wickedness of Wall Street…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Alexandra Coghlan (1) for The Arts Desk (640) on 24 May 2016

Love & Friendship is Stillman's first foray into period drama, and it shows -- in a good way…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Nick Hasted (66) for The Arts Desk (640) on 18 May 2016

Where Blue Ruin announced Saulnier, Green Room is his career breakthrough…

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Review of Mustang (2015)

By Graham Fuller (154) for The Arts Desk (640) on 18 May 2016

This is lovely comedy, but the mood turns harrowing when it becomes clear most of the sisters will be forced to become the servile wives of older men…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By Matthew Wright (1) for The Arts Desk (640) on 18 May 2016

Carney seems to be viewing his imagined world with both sepia and rose tints, yet the result is still, with sufficient suspension of disbelief,…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Jasper Rees (81) for The Arts Desk (640) on 18 May 2016

What's left is the pleasure of Hanks, the same as he ever was, in an inconsequential shaggy dog tale…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 17 May 2016

While the rest of the film is lit up by a string of spectacular set-pieces, after two and a half hours, the concluding clash of the titans…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Jasper Rees (81) for The Arts Desk (640) on 11 May 2016

The spycraft elements make for some nailbiting sequences... Despite an impressive cast on reliably good form, there's no one really to root for…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Nick Hasted (66) for The Arts Desk (640) on 11 May 2016

Linklater's non-judgemental observations of thoughtfully unpredictable characters do, though, make it linger in the mind…

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Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 05 May 2016

Amid inevitable and deserved praise for Streep, one must pay very real tribute to Grant, who seems to have found a humanity not evidenced from…

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