Category Archives: Film Reviews

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Review: Norwegian Wood

Beautiful and affecting, even if it does collapse under the weight of its own earnestness at times.

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Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Jack Sparrow has finally become the irritating wiseass who just won't leave the party.

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Review: Water for Elephants

Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design.

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Review: Rabbit Hole

An uncomfortable watch, Rabbit Hole is nonetheless essential viewing.

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Review: Black Swan

A ferocious work from a filmmaker at the height of his game, Black Swan is an incredibly satisfying piece of cinema.

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Review: Tron Legacy

Flourishes of brilliance, but buried beneath disjointed action sequences and a story that fails to make any sense at all.

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Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

The bleakest Potter outing yet.

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Catfish – Not a Review

Despite having watched Catfish at the Leeds International Film Festival, you will find no review of it here.

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LFF 2010 Film Review: The American

Though George Clooney is excellent, The American fails to hit the emotional notes expected.

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Film Review: Dolores Claiborne

Gripping and meticulously structured. Held together by yet another screen bursting performance from Kathy Bates.

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Film Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Tarantino, without the extraneous dialogue.

Knight and Day_Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise Persol Havana_© 2010 Twentieth Century Fox

Film Review: Knight and Day

Once you cotton onto the fact you’re watching ‘Carry on Bourne’, you might even enjoy it.

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