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Review of Black Sea (2009)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Jan 2016

It's a tense and watchable tale but without any real surprises, and demands that you drown a little too much of your disbelief…

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Review of Love at First Fight (2014)

By Kieron Tyler (16) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Jan 2016

Les Combattants is diverting enough, but it is not exceptional…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By Emma Simmonds (380) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Jan 2016

The Gift is ostensibly about the power of an idea, but this thoughtful film encourages us to look afresh at our own behaviour and relationships…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Jan 2016

This is a fine story splendidly designed, performed and shot, and it will be fascinating to see who emerges clutching what on Oscar night…

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Review of Joy (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Jan 2016

Despite its sheen of fairy-dust, much of Joy is about the brutal obstacle course of American capitalism, permanently poised to asset-strip the unwary…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Jasper Rees (81) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Jan 2016

This is a wannabe tragedy (with whips) about the knightly failure to commit to the maiden's romantic narrative…

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Review of Black Sea (2014)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Jan 2016

It's a tense and watchable tale but without any real surprises, and demands that you drown a little too much of your disbelief…

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Review of Timbuktu (2014)

By Emma Simmonds (380) for The Arts Desk (640) on 30 Dec 2015

The imposition of a brutal jihadist regime is relayed with formidable articulacy and a surprising lightness of touch in this gut-wrenching…

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Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 29 Dec 2015

A host of pictorially arresting, even painterly images can't make a satisfying whole out of In the Heart of the Sea, Ron Howard's film that…

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Review of Sisters (2015)

By Veronica Lee (14) for The Arts Desk (640) on 17 Dec 2015

Sisters is a feelgood Hollywood movie, so of course it all ends neatly, with loose ends tied up and Kate and Maura having learnt a life lesson…

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Review of The Forbidden Room (2015)

By Graham Fuller (154) for The Arts Desk (640) on 11 Dec 2015

If you're up for The Forbidden Room, it fulfills it's oneiric promise by leaving you with the vague impression that you dreamed it - and dreamed…

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Review of Hector (2015)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 10 Dec 2015

Jake Gavin has captured the world of his film very nicely, beautifully supported by Barker's melancholic voice, and tight cinematography from…

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Review of Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015)

By Marina Vaizey (2) for The Arts Desk (640) on 09 Dec 2015

It is a unique story, and brilliantly shown…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 08 Dec 2015

Despite following fast in the warp drive of Gravity, Interstellar and Scott's own Prometheus, this fabulously entertaining film doesn't suffer…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 08 Dec 2015

Despite following fast in the warp drive of Gravity, Interstellar and Scott's own Prometheus, this fabulously entertaining film doesn't suffer…

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Review of Victor Frankenstein (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 03 Dec 2015

Daniel Radcliffe continues to demonstrate the dignity that seems to inform almost all of his performances…

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Review of Sunset Song (2015)

By David Kettle (28) for The Arts Desk (640) on 03 Dec 2015

It's hard not to be swept along by the sheer painterly beauty and emotional intensity of Davies's achievement, conveyed in the visual grandeur…

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Review of Carol (1990)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Dec 2015

It's a film that justifies repeated viewing, each time a new detail underlining its resonant depiction of love as an adventure…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Dec 2015

It's a film that justifies repeated viewing, each time a new detail underlining its resonant depiction of love as an adventure…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 01 Dec 2015

It's a film that justifies repeated viewing, each time a new detail underlining its resonant depiction of love as an adventure…

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