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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 May 2016

Green Room is a nasty, cold-hearted, claustrophobic film with moments of gratuitous violence and sick comedy. I liked it much more than Almost Famous…

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Review of I Am Belfast (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 07 Apr 2016

This is an admiring portrait of the city but it's also tinged with sadness…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 31 Mar 2016

All credit to the actors for sustaining this intensity for more than two hours, especially Costa who, by the end of the film, gives a turn…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 31 Mar 2016

All credit to the actors for sustaining this intensity for more than two hours, especially Costa who, by the end of the film, gives a turn…

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Review of The Pearl Button (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 18 Mar 2016

This is a film of masterly artistry, heaving political anger and uncontained ambition…

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Review of Anomalisa (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 11 Mar 2016

It has a haunting, desolate beauty, and it's achingly sad, like a half deserted zoo in the middle of a Midwestern winter…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 04 Mar 2016

A hugely entertaining romp. But Hail, Caesar…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 03 Feb 2016

This is narrative film-making stripped of unnecessary detail or fabricated sentiment, and it's all the better for it: Spotlight is absorbing…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 22 Jan 2016

The result is a gripping blend of psychological drama and epic adventure, brutal and bloody but underpinned with a delicate lyricism…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 22 Jan 2016

The Big Short does such a good job of shining a light into the dark crevices of financial mismanagement it almost performs a public service…

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Review of Bolshoi Babylon (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 08 Jan 2016

What emerges is a toxic fairytale about the beauty of artistic endeavour and the beastly behaviour that sometimes accompanies it…

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Review of Sherpa (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 18 Dec 2015

With vertiginous helmet-mounted point-of-views of the slow crawl upwards, the film gives a terrifyingly immediate sense of the dangers the…

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Review of How to Change the World (2014)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

How to Change the World is in clear sympathy with the environmental causes Greenpeace champions but its portrait of the organisation is quite…

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Review of Snow in Paradise (2014)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

Hulmes' film is intelligent and original, a debut of promise…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

With an immensely sympathetic performance from Witherspoon, Wild is a quietly uplifting and delicately moving film about the transformative…

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Review of White God (2014)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

White God, quite aside from its allegorical aspects, is on its own terms impressively original cinema, combining tense and subtle moments of…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

From out of the (climatic and mood-enhancing) fog of Inherent Vice something strange and rather glorious emerges…

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Review of Dreamcatcher (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

Much of this unflinchingly observed film - titled Dreamcatcher and named after Brenda's organisation - has the flavour of a nightmare…

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Review of Manglehorn (2015)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

Thanks to a performance of wintry ferocity and dark charisma from Pacino, Manglehorn remains a fascinating enigma…

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Review of The Tribe (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 12 Dec 2015

While The Tribe often makes for troubling, confrontational viewing, it is ferociously engaging…

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