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Review of Samba (2014)

By Jasper Rees (81) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Based on a novel by Delphine Coulin, this is an affectionate and touching look at the absurdities of life as an illegal, and at its heart are…

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Review of Gender Wars (2015)

By Jasper Rees (81) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

If you accept that you're being sold a simplified snapshot, Battle of the Sexes is a lot of fun…

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Review of Dancing in Jaffa (2013)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Watching the children move from the state they started in to the one with which the film ends is the centre of the film…

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Review of Stray Dogs (2014)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Stray Dogs does have something extraordinary to it, but it left me, finally, almost as cold, if not as wet, as its protagonists on Taipei's…

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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

By Jasper Rees (81) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

If you accept that you're being sold a simplified snapshot, Battle of the Sexes is a lot of fun…

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Review of Stray Dogs (2014)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Stray Dogs does have something extraordinary to it, but it left me, finally, almost as cold, if not as wet, as its protagonists on Taipei's…

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Review of Two Night Stand (2014)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

What's missing is a sufficiently varied narrative engine to keep this extended conceit on track; you may find yourself wishing the snow would…

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Review of Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship (2014)

By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Just immerse yourself in Love Is All for its 70 minutes, and it will flow over and around you gloriously…

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Review of Brakes (2017)

By Veronica Lee (14) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Despite being made on a tiny budget, Brakes often looks like a love letter to London while offering bleak insights into dysfunctional relationships…

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Review of Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

Making the transition from long-arc TV series to 100-minute feature film is no simple matter, but they've accomplished it with some skill here…

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Review of The Philadelphia Story (1940)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

An effervescent social satire that pokes fun at all sides in the class war…

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Review of Child 44 (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

You're left with the sense of a film attempting to say some ambitious things about a specific time in history and what a crushing totalitarian…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Despite Schwarzenegger's presence, this is not an action movie in the slightest, but a sombre account of loss in the most horrific circumstances,…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Southpaw is always watchable, and visceral enough to let you temporarily overlook the holes and pitfalls, but it's frustrating because it could…

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Review of 5 Flights Up (2014)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Burdened with a bewilderingly wrong-headed pair of subplots, British director Richard Loncraine's film makes only partial use of the off-the-charts…

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Review of London Road (2015)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Making full use of the panoramic possibilities that film allows, Norris has widened out his perspective to up the emotional stakes while also…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

That the latest in Allen's record-breaking annual output of films manages not to send itself up but to engage pretty much throughout owes a…

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Review of Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

By Graham Fuller (154) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

A masterpiece of avant-garde experimentalism and, fleetingly, an unexpected critique of the continuing class struggle…

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Review of Gente de bien (2014)

By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Neither star, no matter how comely, can make sense of the gathering idiocy of what amounts to a stale Sam Peckinpah knock-off…

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Review of Legend (2015)

By Jasper Rees (81) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Legend is indecently entertaining, but as an East End western it doesn't have a thought in its head other than to forgive the Krays for all…

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