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Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
3AW
Jim Schembri
A hugely entertaining action thriller from a trusted movie brand...All up, MI:5 is a terrifically kinetic, lean, crowd-pleasing spectacle, and yet another cinematic expression of the deep love Cruise has for his audience.
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21 And Over
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's crude, gross, tasteless and made with an almost alarming degree of drive and conviction...the film is undeniably lewd, but can't be faulted for being boring or politically correct...And you have to somehow admire that.
2.5/5
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45 Years
3AW
Jim Schembri
An outstanding, modest, moving adult drama.
4.5/5
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Blinky Bill The Movie
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sweet-hearted, brightly animated, fun-filled children's film...easily the measure of the stuff we see from mega-studios such as Dreamworks and Pixar, and though the animation doesn't quite have their scale or dazzle it's certainly of world standard.
3.5/5
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Olympus Has Fallen
3AW
Jim Schembri
Provided you can handle such deliberate over-kill in the chaotic swirl that goes on here, Olympus Has Fallen offers a super-sized serving of grit-tinged fantasy action guaranteed to satisfy those who don't mind splatter over style.
3.5/5
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Ralph Breaks the Internet
3AW
Jim Schembri
As much fun as Wreck It Ralph was it actually pales in comparison to the sequel, which is such a vibrant, funny, inventive, surprise-filled adventure it reminds you that Hollywood can occasionally get follow-ups right.
4/5
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Son of a Gun
3AW
Jim Schembri
Terrific, taut, tense, balls-to-the-wall action heist film by formidably talented first-time Perth writer/director Julius Avery.
3.5/5
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In the Heart of the Sea
3AW
Jim Schembri
If it's a rollicking sea adventure you're after, it's hard to beat Ron Howard's wave-riding jaunt across the ocean...Howard keeps at bay any retro-fitted enviro-friendly agenda by making the whale the type of villain who doesn't know when to stop.
3.5/5
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Wreck-it Ralph
3AW
Jim Schembri
This A-grade animated Disney charmer hits the nail on the head...director Rich Moore has enormous faith in the ability of young audiences to absorb multiple story strands at once, a belief aided no end by the exquisite quality of the animation.
3.5/5
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Zambezia
3AW
Jim Schembri
The splendid Madagascar films might have spolied us somewhat when it comes to African cartoon animals, but there is enough action and heart in the story to keep things aloft, especially during the big battle climax.
3/5
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Annabelle
3AW
Jim Schembri
An excellent prequel to The Conjuring, this frightfest, beautifully directed by John R. Leonetti, takes us back to the early 1970s for an nerve-jangling, first-class haunting stuffed to the gills with old-school spookery.
3.5/5
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Queen & Slim
3AW
Jim Schembri
Contrived to the point of caricature and arguably guilty of the sins it supposedly condemns, the film is one unholy mess of a message movie, sounding like a shrill appeal to white guilt and unspooling like a blaxploitation version of Natural Born Killers.
1/5
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Coco
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film can be seen as a model of the new wave diversity movement in Hollywood, with its story focus simultaneously acknowledging one of the world's main cultural components while, incidentally, tapping into its lucrative market.
3/5
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Their Finest
3AW
Jim Schembri
There might not be a lot of depth to this fluidly directed slice of nostalgia - Danish director Lone Scherfig doesn't dwell too long on the realities of war - but it does brim with warmth.
3.5/5
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Postman Pat: The Movie
3AW
Jim Schembri
Simply adorable...Plenty of digs at celebrity culture (including great use of Peter Gabriel's Big Time), TV and the film itself spice up a sweet, message-strong story, directed by American Mike Disa (Hookwinked).
3/5
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Step Up To The Plate
3AW
Jim Schembri
More food porn...Though the celebrity status accorded chefs has gone way out of control, this is actually not a bad little documentary.
2.5/5
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Creed II
3AW
Jim Schembri
A pensive, tough-minded, extremely well-directed drama that refuses to take easy options or cop outs.
4/5
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San Andreas
3AW
Jim Schembri
Another green-screen spectacle that demands you turn your brains off at the same time you turn off your mobile phone... a terrific popcorn time-killer...[but] pitted with way too many plot holes and movie coincidences.
3/5
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A Most Violent Year
3AW
Jim Schembri
Moody, engrossing, exquisitely directed period film...Clearly influenced by old-school directors such as Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison, JC Chandor proves a master at building a tense, slow-burn atmosphere in a frost-bitten Big Apple.
4/5
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Ocean's 8
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all, no tension when it comes to pulling off the heist...Ocean's 8 is best described as a movie-shaped collection of brands rather than a movie proper.
1/5
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The Kitchen
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though panned by critics, the only real flaw in this otherwise watchable crime drama is that its proto-feminism is too loudly signalled...Elisabeth Moss provides a cutting portrait of a woman who channels her hatred of bad men into a love for violence.
2.5/5
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Gabrielle
3AW
Jim Schembri
Touching heart string-puller about a mentally challenged young woman... a sincere, thoughtful rendering of that old maxim about setting free the things you love.
3/5
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Frank
3AW
Jim Schembri
A funny, first-class satire on the pop music business in which an avante garde band headed by a lead singer with a huge fake head he never takes off (Michael Fassbender) wrestles with the prospect of becoming popular.
3/5
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The Last Stand
3AW
Jim Schembri
Arnie lurches through the film with a kind of defiant dignity, his signature mixture of self-effacing humour and good ol' tough talk allowing us to buy into the kind of big-screen hero he made us fall in love with all those decades ago.
3/5
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Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
3AW
Jim Schembri
After the near-brilliance Robert Rodriguez achieved with 2005's Sin City comes the sequel that has been promised for so long it crossed that line where people just stopped caring. And with good reason.
1.5/5
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Penguins Of Madagascar
3AW
Jim Schembri
Stamped out by the Hollywood animation cookie cutter, the film will no doubt please kids but, one dares suggest, adults might find the film's non-stop movement and noise somewhat tiring this time around.
2/5
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Raw
3AW
Jim Schembri
From hot new French director Julia Ducournau comes a new breed of hybrid horror that draws on convention yet doesn't have a cliche in sight.
4/5
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Gringo
3AW
Jim Schembri
Corporate drug dealing goes wrong in this engaging, dizzily plotted south-of-the-border ensemble crimedy.
3/5
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The Bourne Legacy
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is too well-made and too well-paced to reek of cynicism...But rather than leaving you yearning for yet more Bourne, this exhausting fourth installment is more likely to have you citing one of the clearly stated themes in the film: "no more".
3/5
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Birdman
3AW
Jim Schembri
Michael Keaton is astounding in this brilliantly conjured piece of stream-of-consciousness cinema by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu...Prepare to be enthralled, dazzled, delighted and disturbed.
4.5/5
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3AW
Jim Schembri
A highly entertaining mess...the kind of loopy, stumblebum spectacle you get when state-of-the-art visual effects collide head-on with the erratic sensibilities of a resolutely mediocre director and the crushing need for a studio to meet a release date.
3/5
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King of Thieves
3AW
Jim Schembri
Directed with a love for criminal procedural detail by James Marsh, the film has its humourous moments, but this...is essentially a hard drama about hard men who remain hard no matter how old they are.
3/5
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The Raid 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
British director Gareth Evans has done a super-charged job presiding over this white-hot Asian action knockout, the dizzying, enthralling, visceral sequel to the hit 2012 film.
4/5
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Wolf Creek 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
A killer film and very satisfying, Wolf Creek 2 is also, hopefully, a sign of a healthy film industry, one buoyant enough to produce crowd-pleasing sequels from crowd-pleasing originals. No shame in that.
3.5/5
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2nd Date Sex
3AW
Jim Schembri
[An] absolutely dire relationship comedy...However generous one's frame of mind might be while watching a film, there is a point where violations of common sense render a movie to be a waste of time. That happens about 15 minutes into this mess.
1/5
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Inherent Vice
3AW
Jim Schembri
The title for this film should have been Incoherent Vice, such is the unfunny, meandering, deliberately confusing plot scribble of Paul Thomas Anderson's attempt at a 1970s crime comedy...seems designed to both infuriate and bore.
1/5
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The Grandmaster
3AW
Jim Schembri
An ornate period film about kung fu that is so godawfully tedious and solemn it seems designed to bore people right into the very fabric of their seats. Even the sub-standard fight scenes are terribly shot.
1/5
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Blended
3AW
Jim Schembri
Even people who hate Adam Sandler - and there are still several hundred million of them around, the majority of whom appear to be movie critics - might at least take some comfort in his move away from gross-out films...to more family-friendly fare.
3/5
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Sinister
3AW
Jim Schembri
Highly effective, tense little fright rouser... If you're a horror fan, you won't be disappointed.
3.5/5
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Escape From Planet Earth
3AW
Jim Schembri
A ripper sci-fi comedy adventure guaranteed to galvanize the attention of the red-cordial crowd...delightful, pastel-coloured, busy piece of bubble-gum kids' cinema has fun playing up all the alien conspiracy theories.
3.5/5
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
3AW
Jim Schembri
Yet another big film that looks just the same as a stack of others. Eternally overcast and dimly lit, there are no fresh idea here... Worse still, you can really feel the strain in the storytelling.
1/5
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Moonrise Kingdom
3AW
Jim Schembri
The reputation of Wes Anderson as one of America's most consistently over-rated directors gets another boost with his latest exercise in stylistic posturing and forced whimsy.
2/5
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Killing Ground
3AW
Jim Schembri
The old scary movie convention about something bad going on in the woods gets an inventive, chillingly effective makeover in the outstanding debut film from Tasmanian writer/director Damien Power...An accomplished, edge-of-the-seat thriller.
4/5
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Underwater
3AW
Jim Schembri
Praise be to the Goddess of Good Timing who has smiled down upon Kristen Stewart by delivering unto us Underwater, a nifty, tense little underwater action thriller that will erase at least some of the memory of Charlie's Angels.
3/5
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99 Homes
3AW
Jim Schembri
A brutally honest, compelling drama about America's housing crisis.
4/5
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
3AW
Jim Schembri
Downright funny kid-movie satire about the horrors of moving to a new school and dealing with a dictatorial principal who hates creativity and loves oppressing students.
3.5/5
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Amazing Grace
3AW
Jim Schembri
The verite nature of the film lends the film an ultra-fresh feel that often makes it seem like it was shot yesterday. Fans of Franklin are in for a major treat, but it's to those who only know her from The Blues Brothers who are most likely to be touched.
4/5
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The Gunman
3AW
Jim Schembri
There are a lot of actors you expect to see headlining action films. Sean Penn is not one of them. Yet here he is proving beyond any sensible question that he can roll, run shoot, stab and bleed with the best of them.
3/5
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Now You See Me 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Full of delicious twists, tricks and double-takes the film, directed with all due flash and dazzle by action man Jon M Chu (GI Joe: Retaliation), is a joy ride full of ideas and magic-world intrigue.
3.5/5
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
3AW
Jim Schembri
The atmosphere throughout is heavy and tense, and the action is staged with Bourne-like brutality and veracity, with one single-shot scene qualifying as a work of action-movie art.
3/5
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Us
3AW
Jim Schembri
To give the film its due most of it is fine, unspooling as a proficient, 1980s-style horror film...But the moment the mayhem stops and the waffle begins, you quickly realise that Peele wants you to take his B-grade splatterfest very seriously, indeed.
2/5
5
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Wonder Woman
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is full of "you go, girl" moments designed to please the genre's long-neglected female demographic. Yet Diana seems far more confident than the film's director, Patty Jenkins...as a narrative the film is over the shop.
3/5
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Winchester
3AW
Jim Schembri
A meandering, underwhelming attempt at a psychological horror story.
1/5
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The Lady
3AW
Jim Schembri
The villains are caricatures, the emotions melodramatic, the politics black-and-white - yet French director Luc Besson moves the saga briskly, and does not back away from the violence.
3/5
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
3AW
Jim Schembri
Liked the first two NATM films? Then guess what? Director Shawn Levy and his producers knew better than the mess with a formula that works and so have delivered more of the same...Throwaway fun.
3/5
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Rocketman
3AW
Jim Schembri
A tightly packed, superbly mounted, decidedly barbed valentine...In keeping with the tradition of the best musicals, the song-and-dance scenes form an intrinsic part of the story [and] brim with creativity, energy and deliciously indulgent camera work.
4/5
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
3AW
Jim Schembri
A $250 million pile of poo.
1.5/5
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St. Vincent
3AW
Jim Schembri
Bill Murray does insouciance so well it's hard to complain, even when watching him go through his well-worn motions yet again in the first half of this enjoyable, if routine, bitter-sweet suburban comedy.
3/5
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Anton Chekhov's The Duel
3AW
Jim Schembri
Irish actor Andrew Scott is excellent as the deceitful, snivelling scoundrel whose habit of taking advantage of the good graces of others hits its limit.
3/5
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Mr. Pip
3AW
Jim Schembri
Based on the novel by Lloyd Jones, the film is a visually lush, surprising, moving story that wears its unusual premise with a deftly blended mixture of lyricism and brutality.
3.5/5
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Good Boys
3AW
Jim Schembri
Good Boys is essentially a look at what a man-child is like when he is still a child, figuring out the path to adulthood and valuing those early friendships that will keep him from having to surrender too much of that pre-pubescent energy as he grows.
3/5
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20 Feet From Stardom
3AW
Jim Schembri
An affecting love letter to those who spent their lives on the edge of the spotlight.
3/5
5
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Paddington 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Gleeful sequel to the 2014 hit family film that avoids the law of diminishing returns by studding a decent plot about a secret treasure with deliciously cheesy turns from A-list actors.
3.5/5
5
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Tonight You're Mine
3AW
Jim Schembri
What could have been a perfectly fine premise for a high-key comedy is negated by the fact that both lead characters are incalculably unappealing.
1.5/5
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Seven Psychopaths
3AW
Jim Schembri
Despite a great cast, a great premise and some great ham acting - a must whenever Christopher Walken walks into frame - the movie's lack of focus keeps it from kicking out of second gear and into the kind of crazy groove it clearly strives for.
2/5
5
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RoboCop
3AW
Jim Schembri
Glad to report that this expensive RoboCop rehash is a worthy reworking of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 action flick.
3/5
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Parental Guidance
3AW
Jim Schembri
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler team up as goofball grandparents in a cheesy, by-the-numbers slice of computer-written family comedy designed primarily as multiplex fodder for the holidays.
2.5/5
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The Water Diviner
3AW
Jim Schembri
The moving message of The Water Diviner is humane and, thankfully, not delivered with a hamfist. Given the formidable list of great directors Crowe had worked with, Ron Howard appears to be the one who has had the most influence on his emerging style.
4/5
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Swinging Safari
3AW
Jim Schembri
Unlike most Australian comedy films, which can barely sustain one viewing, Surfing Safari definitely holds up to a second helping, if for no other reason than to relish the period detail embedded into each frame, right down to the exploding pyjamas.
3.5/5
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That Sugar Film
3AW
Jim Schembri
In a sprightly, highly entertaining tear-through of the sugar load embedded in so-called health foods, Melbourne actor Damon Gameau does a Morgan Spurlock by submitting himself to 60 days of increased sugar to match the average of 40 teaspoons a day.
3/5
5
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Life, Animated
3AW
Jim Schembri
Remarkable documentary chronicling the life of an autistic boy who finds his voice through the mimicry of Disney animated films.
3.5/5
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These Final Hours
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film's fortunes might also have been harmed by widespread over-praising from critics. While the film has its virtues, too many local reviews simply make the film out to be a much more accomplished work than it is.
3/5
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The Great Beauty
3AW
Jim Schembri
For all its high-brow posturing, this film is tedious.
2/5
5
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We're The Millers
3AW
Jim Schembri
A surprising number of verbal gags pepper the lark's broad, knockabout physical comedy, including an uproarious genital joke clearly designed to rival the eye-watering zipper bit from There's Something About Mary.
3/5
5
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The Dressmaker
3AW
Jim Schembri
A winning, whacky, hugely enjoyable slice of Australiana that begins with a whisper and ends with a heck of a bang...unspools as a big, boisterous period comedy driven by a thirst for revenge, a desire for romance and a hunger to entertain.
4/5
5
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The Rover
3AW
Jim Schembri
The skeletal story of The Rover is a case of too much bone, not enough meat.
2/5
5
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Ice Age: Continental Drift
3AW
Jim Schembri
Crowd-pleasing to a fault, the fourth installment of the seemingly endless Ice Age franchise is easily as charming as the previous three, though with a double dose of extra spice via some teen topicality and a lot of high-seas action.
3/5
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Red Obsession
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film isn't so much about wine but about the unstoppable rise of China as the world's next pace-setter...A very entertaining doc, regardless of whether you like a drop.
3.5/5
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
3AW
Jim Schembri
The same-same beasts are only one of the many 21st-century cliches that hobble this over-long, under-whelming film
2/5
5
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Self/Less
3AW
Jim Schembri
What really should have been an engrossing, idea-fuelled sci-fi thriller is, in the hands of ho-hum director Tarsem Singh a strictly pedestrian affair.
2/5
5
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The Magnificent Seven
3AW
Jim Schembri
The big problem with the film is that it has no real reason to exist...The characters are lifeless, the pace is slow, the villain is a wimp.
0.5/5
5
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The Two Faces of January
3AW
Jim Schembri
A welcome hark back to the days when mystery films were chiefly the stuff of cinema rather than TV...an absorbing, finely honed adventure.
3/5
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Romantics Anonymous
3AW
Jim Schembri
Flighty, feather-light French romantic comedy...A very pleasant treat.
3/5
5
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American Sniper
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is not, by any fair measure, a battle hymn or a call to arms. As with The Hurt Locker the film's intent is to engender respect for those doing the fighting, not to justify the reasons for the fighting. American Sniper is pro-warrior, not pro-war.
3.5/5
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Silver Linings Playbook
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director David O. Russell is a little too chipper at times - breaking a restraining order is really no joke - but he brings a breeziness to this likeable tale of two misfits trying to make it work.
3/5
5
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The Gentlemen
3AW
Jim Schembri
In what is easily his best film yet, Guy Ritchie delivers a fabulously entertaining, wickedly funny crime-comedy thrill ride... If Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels was his Reservoir Dogs, The Gentlemen is his Pulp Fiction.
4.5/5
5
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The Visit
3AW
Jim Schembri
Full of high-quality jolts, spooks and some really good laughs, consider this finely honed creepfest a comeback film for writer/director M Night Shyamalan
3.5/5
5
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Ride Along 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Those who loved the comedy stylings of grim-faced Ice Cube and motor-mouthed Kevin Hart from their first hit buddy-cop venture will find nothing to complain about here.
2.5/5
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Florence Foster Jenkins
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sumptuously decorated and rife with comically rich performances, director Stephen Frears draws out a funny, punchy portrait of self-delusion that actually parallels the social patterns that often accompany drug addiction.
3/5
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The Hangover Part III
3AW
Jim Schembri
A prime example of what is colloquially referred to in movie-speak as a "cash grab"...a lame, limp, lazy, lifeless reheating of a formula that got tired the second time around.
0.5/5
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The Host
3AW
Jim Schembri
This limply directed, solidly boring slice of sci-fi twaddle features humanoid aliens who spend much of their screen time staring blankly into the middle distance with glazed eyes. About 10 minutes into this dross, you'll know what that feels like.
1/5
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Diana
3AW
Jim Schembri
The ever-versatile, ever-daring Naomi Watts certainly looks and sounds the part of Diana, Princess of Wales in Oliver Hirschbiegel's sedate, telemovie-like account of the post-fairy tale phase of the doomed Diana's romantic life.
2.5/5
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Ruby Sparks
3AW
Jim Schembri
Is total control over a person any way to run a meaningful relationship? It's a great premise, beautifully played out.
3.5/5
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Kon Tiki
3AW
Jim Schembri
The historic trans-Pacific boat trip undertaken in 1947 by Norwegian hero Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of fellow adventurers is here presented as a daring sea-faring adventure with angry weather and sharks.
2.5/5
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Samsara
3AW
Jim Schembri
Mesmerising, impressionistic movie in which time-lapse photography...is intended to ignite thoughts about the meaning of life, society, technology, God, ecology and robots.
3/5
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The Impossible
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's nothing much to this fact-based film, storywise...It's in the sheer resilience of the characters that the film finds its drive.
3/5
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Devil's Knot
3AW
Jim Schembri
This blandly made dramastisation by Atom Egoyan is an extremely average courtroom piece that, despite strong work by Reece Witherspoon and Colin Firth, feels like a 1970s telemovie.
2/5
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Jackie
3AW
Jim Schembri
A fine film boasting some notably detailed period recreation...As a historical drama about how a nation looked to a single person for its cue about how to react to the murder of its leader the film does make for a solid, if somewhat repetitive, journey.
2.5/5
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Ben-Hur
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sprightly entertaining, certainly comes as something of a relief after the plodding pretension of Exodus and Noah.
3/5
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A Royal Affair
3AW
Jim Schembri
Strongly directed with stately reserve by Nikolaj Arcelif, who paces the absorbing drama well across its long running time, the film's luscious-looking sets suggest the movie benefited from many heritage-protected locations.
3/5
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