Film Review
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Dallas Buyers Club Review
Hollywood's current renaissance man, Matthew McConaughey, is almost completely unrecognisable as he radically transforms his much-beloved physique into a skeletal
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Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom Review
Based on the late revolutionary’s autobiography, ‘Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom’ ought to have the warmth and calculated pragmatism of its apartheid-ending hero, Nelson
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Labor Day Review
Dripping with ham-fisted sincerity and gawky sentimentality, 'Labor Day' is the sort of film that you would assume was written by Nicholas Sparks and would star Zac
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Grudge Match Review
What if Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta fought one another?
'Grudge Match' was clearly conceived as an answer to that very question, but it's been forty years since... -
Inside Llewyn Davis Film Review
Meet Llewyn Davis. The rugged musician is as handsome and gifted, as he is mostly intolerable. As a musician it is easy to become swept away by his melancholic lyrics and
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12 Years A Slave Review
12 Years a Slave is a beautiful and emotionally haunting film that deserves to be recognised for the masterful work that it is.
It is also unapologetically... -
Filth Review
“I’m not well.”
In 'Filth', the chameleonic and electrifying James McAvoy delivers the performance of a lifetime, as he literally throws every single inch of his... -
The Grandmaster Review
Flawed yet visually luxurious, veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai’s 'The Grandmaster' is an imperfect fusion of art-house, martial arts, historical drama and
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The Past Review
Esteemed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s follow up to his Academy Award winning 'A Separation' is a deliberately paced and realised study of family turmoil and the lies we
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Blue Ruin Film Review
Jeremy Sauliner’s 'Blue Ruin' is a clever, taut and tense low-budget revenge thriller made with the same love for small-town noir pieces as the Coen Bros of old.
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Rush Movie Review
Real life is messy.
It's very rare that the elements for a perfect story, in the Hollywood sense of the word, will actually come together in real life. There... -
Rush: Faster Lauda
Playing Formula One champion Niki Lauda in Rush, from director Ron Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan, might be the highest profile role of actor Daniel Brühl’s
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The Turning Review
“Although I do not hope to turn again. Although I do not hope. Although I do not hope to turn.”
The Turning is arguably the most unique and ambitious Australian... -
Blue Jasmine Review
Devastated by the sudden and catastrophic collapse of her high-flying, upper-class lifestyle and marriage, Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) flees the skyscrapers of New York for the
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White House Down Review
The American entertainment industry has a perverse fascination with kicking the red, white and blue colored holy crap out of their executive branch.
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What Maisie Knew Review
Told through the eyes of an adorable and perceptive little girl, What Maisie Knew is a beautiful, yet deeply upsetting insight into the devastation of divorce and
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Jobs Review
Jobs lamely follows the cliché-ridden framework of biopic filmmaking so closely that I couldn’t help but feel offended for the legacy that Steve Jobs has left
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Kick Ass 2 Review
We've been spoiled by sequels.
For decades, sequels were so often an afterthought; usually a way to squeeze a little extra cash out of a recognisable title without... -
The World's End Review
Everybody knows somebody like Gary King.
King, played by Simon Pegg, is the erstwhile hero of The World's End, the last film in Pegg, co-star Nick Frost... -
The Wolverine Review
The Wolverine isn't the best there is at what it does, but what it does is perfectly serviceable.
Bryan Singer's X-Menushered in the age of the...