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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
3AW
Jim Schembri
Wall-to-wall fun...this good-natured splatterfest [is] a good, gory time with lots of laughs and digitally assisted dismemberment.
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The Equalizer
3AW
Jim Schembri
The indomitable Denzel Washington brings the everyday grit and the no-nonsense sense of right that has become his signature to this full-blooded, bloody big-screen up-scaling of the TV series.
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The Other Son
3AW
Jim Schembri
This moving, emotionally concise human drama is easily one of the most remarkable films about the unending conflict in the Middle East.
4/5
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
3AW
Jim Schembri
An extraordinary film of raw, subtle power that blends jagged reality with elements of myth and moments of magic... easily qualifies as one of the most remarkable and unexpected films of the year.
4.5/5
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I Am Divine
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film's heart is the chequered relationship Milstead had with his mother, whose shifting regard for her larger-than-life son takes centre stage.
3.5/5
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Rough Night
3AW
Jim Schembri
In the interests of promoting the cause of feminism, all of the accusations usually levelled against male comedies for being disgusting and vulgar and sexist, you can...now level those charges at women in comedies.
2.5/5
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Love, Rosie
3AW
Jim Schembri
As romantic-comedies go, this worthwhile, incident-packed effort deserves credit for spending the balance of its time exploring the underside of love...The last time we saw that done this well was 27 Dresses.
3/5
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Bel Ami
3AW
Jim Schembri
Visually, the film is ornate and very attractive while the story, based on the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant, is essentially a pulpy morality tale about the perils of taking short cuts through life. A very satisfying, rough-edged period drama.
3/5
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Wilson
3AW
Jim Schembri
One of those unheralded, unpretentious films that offers unpolished truths about human nature and the awkwardness that comes with honesty. Please don't let this small gem of a film slip by you.
3/5
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Iron Man 3
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film's army of digital artists deliver big servings of neuron-numbing spectacle. Anyone who thinks that's not important should avoid this film.
3.5/5
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
3AW
Jim Schembri
Another gloom-laden fantasy film intended for kids, this one featuring drab direction from Tim Burton and a time-travel storyline that will have you scratching your head.
2/5
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Partisan
3AW
Jim Schembri
Absolutely remarkable feature film debut ...Director Ariel Kleiman delivers a quietly powerful, engrossing tract about psychological seduction, manipulation and good old mind control.
3.5/5
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Magic Mike XXL
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's got to be said that while there's no real story as such in the harmless, totally unnecessary follow-up to the 2012 hit Magic Mike there is an undeniable paleolithic charm to the low-brow lunkhead bromance.
2.5/5
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
3AW
Jim Schembri
Another visually scrumptious cinematic doily from America's master of over-designed whimsy, Wes Anderson, and this one is measurably better than many of his previous efforts in that there's something resembling a plot at the heart of it.
3/5
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ParaNorman
3AW
Jim Schembri
ParaNorman demonstrates - as did films such as Coraline, The Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit and The Nightmare Before Christmas - that stop-motion animation has a texture and warmth that can't (yet!) be replicated by computer.
3.5/5
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The Boxtrolls
3AW
Jim Schembri
A beautiful, visually lush, character-driven fairy tale where dark themes of abduction and deceit are off-set by perky characters and a constant stream of inventive visual humour.
4/5
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Predestination
3AW
Jim Schembri
A dog's breakfast of clashing ideas and concepts; it's confused and confusing, and the more it tries to untangle itself, the deeper it digs itself into an incoherent hole.
1/5
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Sex Tape
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sex Tape is perfectly watchable, funny slapstick contemporary comedy that, like Chef, does a very good job weaving the perils of social media into its plot.
3/5
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Hit & Run
3AW
Jim Schembri
The wafer-thin story...is little more than an excuse for a series of nifty chase sequences and comic interludes, all mounted with the kind of fizzy enthusiasm essential for an inconsequential, enjoyable road movie lark to work.
3/5
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Rio 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Largely boring, repetitive sequel to the 2011 hit about exotically coloured birds of South America who sing and dance.
1/5
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A Little Chaos
3AW
Jim Schembri
Alan Rickman directs Kate Winslet in this charming period chick flick about the woman charged by Louis XIV to design and build a fountain garden in the palace of Versailles.
3/5
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One Direction: This Is Us
3AW
Jim Schembri
What's super-odd about this film is its director, Morgan Spurlock. Best-known as an activist documentarian...it's a bit of a shock to see his controversy-magnet name attached to something so tame, formulaic and corporate.
2.5/5
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Midnight Special
3AW
Jim Schembri
A clever blending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, ET and The Day the Earth Stood Still...writer/director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter) weaves the piece together with a deft balance of tension and wonderment.
3/5
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Sightseers
3AW
Jim Schembri
Deftly directed by Ben Wheatley (whose fright-fest Kill List is a must on DVD)...the film is careful not to make light of violence, using comedy to sharpen its sinister edge
3.5/5
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Amour
3AW
Jim Schembri
While [director Michael] Haneke's love of long takes invite you to stare into the corrugated faces of Georges and Anne as their worlds change, there is a leaden quality to many stretches of the film that assume a profundity that simply isn't there.
2.5/5
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Peter Rabbit
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's sad to see how the common sense of some people has been over-estimated by an animated bunny rabbit.
3.5/5
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Mary Queen of Scots
3AW
Jim Schembri
Powerhouse performances from Saoirse Ronan & Margot Robbie drive Josie Rourke's searing chamber piece about one of history's greatest catfights.The film has been Oscar-nominated for make-up, which managed the extraordinary feat of making Robbie look ugly.
3.5/5
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Citizenfour
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Laura Poitras presents a portrait of whistleblower Edward Snowden that is neither demon not saint, though his patriotic motives are clear in that he felt he was uncovering massive abuses of authority.
3/5
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That Awkward Moment
3AW
Jim Schembri
One dares suggest that had the film gone for a more formulaic approach - focusing on one character's plight instead of all three - it might have been tighter and stronger.
2.5/5
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The Look of Love
3AW
Jim Schembri
In this light-hearted period biopic, a cool Steve Coogan brings a cheeky urbane swagger to his portrayal of Paul Raymond, the adult-entertainment entrepreneur who brought nude live shows and softcore pornography to the masses.
3/5
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Men in Black International
3AW
Jim Schembri
Absolutely awful.
1/5
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The Double
3AW
Jim Schembri
Who says you can't have fun with a self-consciously arthouse film? Director Richard Ayoade mashes the styles of Terry Gilliam (lots of ducts), David Lynch (lots of lamps) and the Coen brothers (lots of dim corridors) in this diverting style exercise.
3/5
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Maggie's Plan
3AW
Jim Schembri
Julianne Moore is terrific as the high-IQ wife while Greta Gerwig again shows her flair for these types of wistful independent urban comedies.
3/5
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The Star
3AW
Jim Schembri
Easily the most slapstick version of the Nativity story ever made and one that finally pays tribute to the critical part played by all the talking animals at the manger on that night.
3/5
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Winter's Tale
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's a lot of yapping about miracles in Winter's Tale, a punishingly dull super-natural, high-concept romantic mish mash...And it's just as well. About half-way through you'll be wishing God could miracle your way out of the cinema.
1/5
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Jason Bourne
3AW
Jim Schembri
The world has changed a great deal since the last Bourne and it would have been good to see that seriously incorporated here. It's a tad disappointing to see the Bourne franchise prove itself susceptible to sequelitis.
3/5
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Wadjda
3AW
Jim Schembri
A warm, winning, restless film...Beautiful, modestly progressive and heartfelt, with a wonderful, brash central performance from first-timer Waad Mohammed.
3.5/5
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Kubo and the Two Strings
3AW
Jim Schembri
Man, is it gloomy.
2.5/5
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Thérèse
3AW
Jim Schembri
A boring French film about boring French people...sadly the final film by veteran director Claude Miller.
1/5
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All the Money in the World
3AW
Jim Schembri
As well as being a terrific crime drama, All the Money in the World also has the questionable distinction of being the first major film to entirely replace one of its stars after post-production.
3.5/5
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Neil Young Journeys
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fans of folk rock legend Neil Young who are willing to accept that the guy is well past his prime will respond to the downbeat tone of Jonathan Demme's concert film.
3/5
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Lovelace
3AW
Jim Schembri
Amanda Seyfried brings the mythologised Lovelace to life ...a surprisingly touching, extraordinary biopic. It certainly stands with Boogie Nights (1997) and Hardcore (1979) as one of the few good feature films about porn.
3.5/5
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Words And Pictures
3AW
Jim Schembri
Veteran Aussie director Fred Schepisi slams together a gruff Clive Owen with a frail Juliette Binoche for a romantic comedy that dares to have brains as well as heart.
3/5
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The Selfish Giant
3AW
Jim Schembri
Anyone worried that the spirit of British social-realist director Ken Loach might not continue once he goes can take heart. Newbie director Clio Barnard has his style down pat as she tells of two teenage truants who scrounge for scrap metal.
3/5
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Sully
3AW
Jim Schembri
Any lingering doubts that Clint Eastwood was at the top of his game as one of America's premier film directors are swept away by his taut, compelling retelling of the forced landing on New York's Hudson River in which 155 lives were saved.
4.5/5
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Run All Night
3AW
Jim Schembri
With the exception of the first Taken film (which, let's face it, should have been the only Taken film) this taut little Liam Neeson actioner could just be the best shoot'em upper he's done so far.
3/5
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The Pirate Fairy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Terrific stuff, beautifully animated and with a nice, positive message... it is great fun and another example of how new ideas can help keep a franchise fresh.
3/5
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Mad Max: Fury Road
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's fine B-grade mulch, but it's certainly no masterpiece...it's surprising, and a tad disheartening, how readily Fury Road falls into line with so many other production-line blockbusters.
3/5
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Beauty (Skoonheid)
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Oliver Hermanus values quiet, naturalistic scenes of domestic life to build considerable emotional tensions in this finely nuanced film.
3/5
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20th Century Women
3AW
Jim Schembri
Writer/director Mike Mills, who gave us the fabulous film Beginners, tries hard to inject style into this semi-biographical coming-of-age yarn, but it's a long, slow haul.
2/5
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100 Bloody Acres
3AW
Jim Schembri
A horror-comedy is typically much tougher to pull off than straight horror - or straight comedy, for that matter - and that balance is all over the shop in this occasionally giggle-worthy, hap-hazard affair.
2/5
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War for the Planet of the Apes
3AW
Jim Schembri
An exciting, moving closing chapter that again punches the thesis that humans have no inherent right to presume dominion over the earth... We often complain about reboots and sequels. The Apes series is a prime example of how to do it right.
4/5
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
3AW
Jim Schembri
Taking a break from his Transformer showreels, director Michael Bay mounts a frenetic, exciting, realistic recreation of the 2012 battle in Benghazi where a security team made up of ex-soldiers defended a besieged American diplomatic outpost.
4/5
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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
3AW
Jim Schembri
What could have - should have - been a knock-out, gross-out comedy is hobbled by all these awkwardly shoe-horned politically correct asides about sexism, gender inequality and friendship...Oh, if only this film had been made as if it was 1981!
2/5
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Returning director Marc Webb has here grabbed onto two driving principles: deliver a killer final reel and give the audience something they can care for. He's commendably come through on both accounts. Thankfully.
3/5
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The Words
3AW
Jim Schembri
Engrossing morality tale about lying, guilt and just how great a character actor Jeremy Irons has turned into.
3/5
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Memory: The Origins of Alien
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film's chief purpose is to pull focus on the work of the late Dan O'Bannon (died 2009) who first dreamt up the idea.
3/5
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3AW
Jim Schembri
The tone is light, the visual effects are outstanding and the unfairly maligned Megan Fox does a perfectly swell job at the centre of all the action in this heavy-hitting reboot of the cheesy 1980s mock-superhero phenomenon.
3/5
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Stories We Tell
3AW
Jim Schembri
Canadian actress/director Sarah Polley (Away from Her; Take This Waltz) presents an absorbing family history that is so ingeniously mounted it doubles as a wry commentary on the documentary form, examining our willingness to believe what we see.
3.5/5
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Southpaw
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though much has been made of the physical transformation Jake Gyllenhaal put himself through to look like a real boxer, Southpaw is a fairly standard, by-the-numbers boxing melodrama that hits all those beats we're accustomed to through the Rocky films.
2.5/5
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American Ultra
3AW
Jim Schembri
Nerdy Jesse Eisdenberg as an action man? You better believe it as he devours his role as a slacker/CIA sleeper agent who is targeted for termination...A very tight, enjoyable action comedy romp with Kristen Stewart providing great value-add.
3/5
5
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Mommy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Unsettling drama from prolific Canadian director Xavier Dolan tells of the troubled relationship between a feisty, attractive middle-aged single mother (Anne Dorval) and her unbridled, attention-deficient teenage son (Antoine-Olivier Pilon).
3/5
5
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Yoga Hosers
3AW
Jim Schembri
Aimless, sloppy, low-budget garbage that will prove especially painful to endure for long-time Kevin Smith fans. Where did all that zeitgeist savvy go?
0.5/5
5
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Adore
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's more depth and feeling to the admittedly provocative premise of this twisted sexual drama than you might expect...It's the excoriating payoff to the story that makes Adoration a cautionary tale with a major sting.
3/5
5
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Mid90s
3AW
Jim Schembri
A small, unorthodox social-realist gem with much to recommend it thanks to some fine naturalistic acting from a young cast.
3/5
5
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Suspiria
3AW
Jim Schembri
A posturing and pretentious bore...Half-way through you'll be hoping Leatherface will appear and liven things up.
1/5
5
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Blood Father
3AW
Jim Schembri
Unexceptional, occasionally exciting chase film with Mel Gibson playing a grizzled recovering alcoholic whose destitute life is given purpose when his missing daughter calls him for help.
2.5/5
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Passengers
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film does serve as a timely metaphor for much of Hollywood product these days: beautiful, exacting visual work helping dress up a threadbare story.
1/5
5
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Elena
3AW
Jim Schembri
Elena takes us into the mind of a woman who has been pushed by life into an uncomfortable corner where she has to choose between different kinds of love...[a]very solid, intense drama.
3/5
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Ted
3AW
Jim Schembri
Rude as hell, funny as hell...While merrily delivering all the coarse anti-PC humour the Family Guy fanbase have a right to expect, the best thing about Ted is also its biggest surprise - it has real heart.
4/5
5
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The Call
3AW
Jim Schembri
A straight-forward, race-against-time thriller...In an alternate universe, one imagines a disciple of Hitchcock making this film in real time and without any violence.
2.5/5
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Trainwreck
3AW
Jim Schembri
As with so many of the man-child comedies of the last decade, the film is essentially a cautionary comic tale, its vulgar veneer serving to veil a set of home-spun truths and conservative values about commitment, loyalty, love and common sense.
3.5/5
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Lion
3AW
Jim Schembri
Unhurried in pace, subtle in tone and simple in structure, this moving, compassionate film engages with the age-old theme of finding one's place in the world, yet through uniquely 21st Century means.
4/5
5
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Celeste and Jesse Forever
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film bears a kinship with the underrated 2006 film The Break-Up; both are, for lack of a better term, post-romantic comedies by exploring the largely virgin territory of what happens long after the meet-cute, when life takes hold and love goes sour.
3/5
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Mortdecai
3AW
Jim Schembri
A dreadfully flat and unfunny film...It really is painful to watch such a terrific actor as Johnny Depp bland out in such a big way.
1.5/5
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A Haunted House
3AW
Jim Schembri
Clearly what the world needs right now is another low-rent horror movie spoof. And this one's not bad. Sticking to Paranormal Activity for its premise, it actually produces some pretty funny moments.
2.5/5
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Logan Lucky
3AW
Jim Schembri
Directed by Steven Soderberg, the film is intended as a backhander to the director's own Ocean's 11 trilogy, which were all glossy, hi-tech, largely unfunny and totally lacking in ideas. Logan Lucky certainly provides an entertaining counter punch.
3/5
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West of Memphis
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's reasonable to question whether the time and resources poured into this project might have been better spent highlighting a miscarriage of American justice that nobody knows about rather than one that enjoys a celebrity profile.
2.5/5
5
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Night Moves
3AW
Jim Schembri
. A master at understatement, [director Kelly] Reichardt elicits very effective, subdued performances from her key cast, who have to keep the lid on their emotions almost all of the time.
3/5
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Now You See Me
3AW
Jim Schembri
Clever, original, wildly improbable, wildly enjoyable and directed with all the necessary flash and dazzle, the film combines the pleasure of a well-engineered heist movie with a twisty-turny plot full of wit, double-takes and sleight-of-camera.
3.5/5
5
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Charlie's Angels
3AW
Jim Schembri
The latest excruciating example from Hollywood of big-budget franchise film-making gone wrong...Not so much a reboot as an act of cinematic vandalism, its only real value being that it reminds us of just how cool, wild and fun those McG movies were.
1/5
5
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Holding The Man
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Neil Armfield sidesteps melodrama to deliver a heart-breaking, sensitive, poignant portrait of love and loss. Anthony LaPaglia and Guy Pearce provide sturdy support as the fathers...2015 is turning into a stellar year for Australian film
4/5
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Overlord
3AW
Jim Schembri
Julius Avery blends war movie with zombie horror to create a big, fun, action-splattered hybrid film that proposes how the Nazis were working on reanimating dead soldiers during the D-Day invasion. Think of it as Saving Private Ryan of the Living Dead.
3/5
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The Wedding Party
3AW
Jim Schembri
Clumsily cobbled, tonally confused romantic comedy...a terrific premise with strong leads is sadly derailed by too many side stories.
2/5
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Cuban Fury
3AW
Jim Schembri
Cuban Fury is a formulaic, by-the-numbers feel-good dance movie, and as far as formulaic, by-the-numbers feel-good dance movies go, it's formulaic, it's by-the-numbers, and it feels pretty good.
3/5
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Great Expectations
3AW
Jim Schembri
Helena Bonham Carter does something with Miss Havisham that Martita Hunt couldn't quite manage in the brilliant 1946 David Lean film; namely, make it feel as though she never changed out of that damned wedding dress.
3.5/5
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Red Sparrow
3AW
Jim Schembri
Lawrence had a great chance to register a new female action hero into the modern-day canon. What an opportunity missed.
1/5
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He Named Me Malala
3AW
Jim Schembri
A rousing profile of the teenage Pakistani girl the Taliban tried to kill for her belief in education and equality...one of the unintended pleasures is registering how Malala has become the worst possible nightmare to her failed murderers.
3.5/5
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Wish I Was Here
3AW
Jim Schembri
Zach Braff's quality sequel to his quarter-life crisis gem Garden State.
3/5
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Captain Phillips
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Jim Schembri
Captain Phillips is a prime example of Hollywood's unrivalled ability to rapidly reprocess a story from headline to marquee. And it's a splendidly mounted, nerve-racking thrill ride, building to an almost unbearably tense climax.
4.5/5
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Nocturnal Animals
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Jim Schembri
A good way to describe this film is like the cinematic version of a Kinder surprise, with a ripping B-grade badlands thriller wrapped inside an A-grade art movie. It certainly is edge-of-the-seat stuff.
3/5
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London Has Fallen
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Jim Schembri
An unapologetic, proudly political post-9/11 Red State actioner where no quarter is given to the terrorists. Their slaughter is our catharsis, and there's lots of it.
3.5/5
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Grown Ups 2
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Jim Schembri
Adam Sandler's follow-up to one of the most improbable blockbuster comedy hits in film history - Grown Ups took $270m in 2010 - is a similarly plotless, reasonably pleasant, rough-edged comic ramble.
2.5/5
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Bombshell
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Jim Schembri
There are so many places where the film could have gone deeper, but overall it paints an effective and disturbing portrait of the entitlement culture that comes with extraordinary power.
3.5/5
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Toy Story 4
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Jim Schembri
Featuring a decent handful of great laugh-out-loud moments, Toy Story 4 is certainly terrific family entertainment, though it doesn't quite hit the emotional peaks delivered by Toy Story 3.
3/5
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The LEGO Movie
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Jim Schembri
In what is sure to turn out to be this generation's Toy Story, this crazy-funny animated lark takes us into a hyper-happy world where everything is so awesome there's even a pop anthem called Everything is Awesome... fresh and fast and funny.
5/5
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The Hunt
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Jim Schembri
The film's snarky humour is just a ruse to conjure the illusion of controversy. You could say the film offers a cheeky backhander to self-righteousness [but] it would strain any brain to see it as anything but a mischievous piece of splatter cinema.
3/5
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Rock of Ages
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Jim Schembri
This exuberant, hugely entertaining big-screen adaptation of the smash stage musical comedy doesn't put a foot wrong...[Tom] Cruise again proves he's on a mid-life career peak.
4/5
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Emma.
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Jim Schembri
A fine, lush-looking, very well-directed remake starring a cast of relative unknowns and a lot of splendidly upholstered heritage-listed houses.
3/5
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout
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Jim Schembri
A near-perfect blend of old-school cliffhanger movie aesthetics with state of the art filmmaking technology...it joins Bourne, the Fast and the Furious, Transformers and the Dark Knight trilogy as a franchise setting the pace in the 21st century.
4.5/5
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