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Review of Project Almanac (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 22 Feb 2015

The film has an appealing energy and a fresh young cast, but its stylistic, shaky hand-held camera quickly becomes tiresome and irritating…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 22 Feb 2015

It is a crime thriller, but rises above its genre; it is a character study but it creates a mythic persona; and it is a morality tale but it…

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Review of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 22 Feb 2015

While it's agreeable to spend another interlude with the characters we met four years ago in the first film, this second chapter is too slight,…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 16 Feb 2015

The scale and visuals of this high concept sci-fi spectacle are as extraordinary as the plot is confusing, but you have to hand it to the Wachowskis,…

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

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 14 Feb 2015

Perfectly capturing the tone of E.L…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 14 Feb 2015

Perfectly capturing the tone of E.L…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 09 Feb 2015

Some wild ideas and crazy situations by themselves don't make a 106 minute comedy. Please try harder…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 07 Feb 2015

It's a role of a lifetime for classically trained English actor David Oyelowo, whose distinguished performance ably embodies the physicality…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 07 Feb 2015

The trivia fact that Selma and Salem are anagrams of each other is only relevant because as were the 17th witch hunts of Salem, the 20th century…

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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 02 Feb 2015

A beguiling mash-up of the spy movie genre with a seamless blend of action, satire and spoof, Matthew Vaughn's envelope-pushing film offers…

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Review of Mortdecai (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 02 Feb 2015

There are a few amusing touches, but overall, Mortdecai sinks to the depths, its potential battered by an overdose of ham and a mannered performance…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 26 Jan 2015

There are many elements to this true story about wealth, wrestling and winning but it is Steve Carell's extraordinary metamorphose as the creepy…

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Review of The Wedding Ringer (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 26 Jan 2015

It's a mix of silly, crass, wild and predictable, but one thing is for sure, Garelick's debut feature is hare-brain funny…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 26 Jan 2015

Defying every expectation both scientific and personal, this film depicting the extraordinary story of Stephen Hawking is unforgettable…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 26 Jan 2015

Eddie Redmayne's performance - wrapped in his uncanny physical investment - is the absolutely vital key in this film and it's a scorcher, both…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 17 Jan 2015

A stunning central performance from Reece Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, who overcomes physical hardships to confront her inner demons to find…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 17 Jan 2015

It is impossible not to be affected by this devastatingly sad portrait of a woman, whose reliance on memory and its compilation to communicate…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Jan 2015

AN incongruous, edgy and brilliant film from Alejandro Inarritu, whose dark comic tones agitate the unfathomable world of the creative actor…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Jan 2015

Surprising us most just when we think we know exactly what's coming, combining humour, pathos, drama, magic realism and a potential bag of…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Jan 2015

Surprising us most just when we think we know exactly what's coming, combining humour, pathos, drama, magic realism and a potential bag of…

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