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Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Oct 2014

Competently made, this rather bleak film set in the disturbing, ugly reality of drug trafficking and depraved killings, feels rather routine…

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Review of Tammy (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Oct 2014

Contender for worst film of the year, Tammy is painful…

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Review of John Doe: Vigilante (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Oct 2014

Although a bit muddle headed about what tone to adopt and confused about its moral stances, John Doe provides a talking point, if nothing else,…

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Review of Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Oct 2014

Feels rather manipulative as it tries to assert its premise..(but) this is just about the only negative in an otherwise taut and terrific thriller…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 10 Oct 2014

Thrilling and disturbing in equal parts, Damien Chazelle's magnificent film Whiplash, about a young jazz drummer obsessed with greatness and…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 05 Oct 2014

The resolution of the emotional crises seems manufactured, and the final sequence on a tourist coach driven by an incompetent idiot also…

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Review of The Judge (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 03 Oct 2014

There is much to enjoy with its dysfunctional 'Picasso painting family' and great performances from Downey Jnr and Duval…

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Review of Siddharth (2013)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 03 Oct 2014

Propelled by a hauntingly beautiful music score, Richie Mehta's film about a missing 12 year old boy and the father who searches for him is…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 28 Sep 2014

As far as adaptations go, this is one of the best, Gillian Flynn's screenplay perfectly capturing the tone of her sensational novel, in which…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 28 Sep 2014

My overriding sense about Gone Girl is that director David Fincher wanted to make a flawless murder thriller in which the audience loyalty…

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Review of The Equalizer (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 18 Sep 2014

The pensive, brooding calm of an in-form Denzel Washington as the man who has to do what he does - because he can - alleviates this gritty…

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Review of The Little Death (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 18 Sep 2014

Overcooked at times and not always cohesive, Josh Lawson's debut feature about intimacy is a case of hit or miss, but in its favour, there…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 18 Sep 2014

Dark secrets are revealed and raw emotions laid bare in this hard-hitting and moving film in which an indestructible bond between twins is…

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Review of The Boxtrolls (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 14 Sep 2014

The stop-motion animation is extraordinary, but there is something lacking in this third film from Laika Studios - heart…

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Review of The House of Magic (2013)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 13 Sep 2014

It's the whimsy and mix of lovable characters that make this animated family film from Belgium a winner, especially for the youngsters, who…

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Review of Wish I Was Here (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 12 Sep 2014

Lashed together with bands of humour.... is a darkish parcel of stumbling humanity in search of answers we all seek - like the meaning of life…

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Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 12 Sep 2014

Impeccably, nay astonishingly, performed by Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin and Liv LeMoyne, the film sweeps us into their world…

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Review of The Infinite Man (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 12 Sep 2014

The screenplay is a clever riff on the notion of time travel as a way of improving the past, and some will see an echo of Groundhog Day, the…

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Review of The Maze Runner (2014)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 12 Sep 2014

It doesn't quite have the bite or originality of The Hunger Games, but there are parallels in this first of a new sci-fi action fantasy franchise…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 12 Sep 2014

The mood is dry as gunpowder - and as explosive…

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