Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
As I waited for the house lights to dim, the little old lady sitting next to me decided to strike up a conversation. She…
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Finding Vivian Maier
Finding Vivian Maier begins with a series of brisk cuts: we move from one interview subject to another, and as we do so, each…
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Macbeth (2015)
There is perhaps no Shakespearean play more intensely cinematic in its potential than Macbeth. Lean and mean, clocking in at about two hours and…
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Still Alice
Alice Howland has always prided herself on her intelligence and her command of language – two traits which had been instrumental to her appointment…
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Amour (2012)
The main narrative of Amour opens disconcertingly. Retired music teachers – M. and Mme. Laurent – return home after hearing a performance from their former pupil…
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Guest Review from robhendy95: The Internship
‘Hiring them was a brilliant mistake’, an appropriate quote for Shawn Levy’s 2013 feature that see’s Vince Vaughn…
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Some say the book is always finer than the film adaptation —that it catapults a reader’s imagination in a way the camera cannot even…
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