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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

This is explicitly not a film about young love, or being torn between boyfriends...It's about being brave, and being alone, and having to grow…

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Review of This Must Be the Place (2011)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

It's a beguilingly strange, distancing, even discombobulating venture, at times gently lyrical, at others nightmarish…

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Review of North by Northwest (1959)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

By seeming to acknowledge the insanity that surrounds him and taking droll pleasure in it, Grant implicitly allows the audience to revel in it too…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

Playing outspoken, emotionally damaged young widow Tiffany, Lawrence is a firecracker, a powder keg, a force of nature…

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Review of The Queen of Versailles (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

Greenfield's affection for her subjects ensures that they never remain the victims of their own story for long - Jackie herself is ceaselessly…

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Review of Damsels in Distress (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

A rare, perplexing, rather joyous oddity…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

It's a dated, often clumsy drama buoyed by two eminently fresh and graceful performances…

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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

On Chesil Beach has been a film of close sensitivity, in which Saoirse Ronan - musician that she is - plays never less than exquisitely…

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Review of Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

This is a heartfelt and smart-tongued micro sci-fi with a tone and voice entirely its own, faltering only in its half-hearted attempts to become…

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Review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

Perks hits on a kind of universal nostalgia for the teenage years...without blunting the sharp, dark edges it simultaneously imparts…

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Review of Simon Killer (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

[Simon] is an alienated and alienating character, and this chilling character study is near-impossible to love but easy to admire…

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Review of Robot & Frank (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

Robot & Frank nonetheless feels like a story in search of an emotional pay-off…

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Review of The East (2013)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

As it is, crippling plot holes and underdrawn characters may mean you're less than wholly seduced by The East…

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Review of I, Anna (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

This is an unusual film, a visually bold film...that hits on some painful, largely unspoken truths about aging and isolation…

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Review of Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

The story is as simple as it gets, but this is closer to sense experience than narrative, the kind of pleasure that sweeps you up and sets…

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Review of Magic Mike (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

Magic Mike is less strip than strip search, its aesthetic thrills giving way to a probing and deceptively simple study of characters wresting…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 May 2018

There are scenes here with the potential to become genuinely iconic…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 17 May 2018

It will leave you feeling traumatized and ugly and soul-sick, and so it should…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 17 May 2018

A passionate, wrenching and genuinely complete portrait of a human being in flux…

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Review of The Bling Ring (2013)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for The Arts Desk (640) on 17 May 2018

Coppola has captured this troubling moment of modern truth in a glossy, shrewd snapshot…

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