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Testament Of Youth
Flix Capacitor
Stephen Carty
Testament Of Youth won't convert those who are fundamentally opposed to British period dramas, but it is beautifully shot and elevated by a striking lead performance.
4/5
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The Face of Love
Flix Capacitor
Stephen Carty
The story's plausibility is stretched in places, but it is held together by Bening and Harris, both of whom are wholly convincing at all times.
3/5
5
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The Fault In Our Stars
Flix Capacitor
Stephen Carty
The Fault In Our Stars is unlikely to win over the cynics, but Woodley has a smile that lights up the screen, and you believe in her even when the film's plausibility is stretched.
3/5
5
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The Skeleton Twins
Flix Capacitor
Stephen Carty
The Skeleton Twins follows a fairly predictable trajectory, but it is littered with affecting moments and joyous sequences.
4/5
5
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Killer Elite
Flixist.com
Matthew Razak
I'm always a fan of more Yvonne Strahovski in my life, but her useless character in the film should have been the first thing to go when they were cutting this convoluted mess down to a reasonable running time.
4.5/5
5
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Magic Mike
Flixist.com
Matthew Razak
if McConaughey got any better at playing himself he might cause some sort of paradox.
3/5
5
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Flixist.com
Matthew Razak
It's a trite mess that barely clears enjoyable and only then because the songs are still catchy. Let's just not go again... ever.
4.5/5
5
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30 Miles from Nowhere
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
It's offbeat, witty, and completely entertaining.
7/10
10
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Anima
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
It transcends all other films that focus on human connection. It is raw, powerful, and so passionate that every gesture on-screen feels like a punch to the gut.
9.5/10
10
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BlacKkKlansman
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
I can just imagine a white couple--in their tiny bubble of perfect living--deciding to see that "comedy about a black guy joining the KKK". Little did they know their bubble would soon be popped by Lee, whose finger is pointed directly at them.
9/10
10
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CAM
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
This film isn't about a "near future experience", it's about the present.
8/10
10
8
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101
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1,524
Eighth Grade
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Fisher's performance is piercingly real--frankly the best performance from a teenager I have ever seen.
7/10
10
7
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70
101
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile lacks everything the title states--a bland cocktail that's enjoyable only for the last 20 minutes, after it's subdued you into submission.
4.5/10
10
4.5
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Hot Summer Nights
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
A twenty-second long sequence of a sticky and moist exchange of a lollipop is one of the most immersive sequences I have seen in some time.
5/10
10
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I Am Mother
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
I Am Mother exudes visual sophistication-specifically with its production design, which is intriguing and well suited.
7/10
10
7
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It Chapter Two
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Pennywise is so frightening that the kid sitting in front of me was crying and begging her guardian to take her home.
6/10
10
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Lords of Chaos
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Culkin's performance is subtle and controlled, this is the best we have seen from him in quite some time.
6/10
10
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Low Tide
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Low Tide stands out because of its performances, it's like a surprisingly good appetizer-sampler of the best Generation Z actors.
5.5/10
10
5.5
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Mandy
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Who doesn't love a crazed Cage?
7/10
10
7
10
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70
101
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1,524
Outlaw King
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
There's nothing too eye-catching or unique enough to differentiate the film from others of its kind.
5/10
10
5
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Prospect
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
While many sci-fi films rely heavily on visual effects and the idiosyncrasies of foreign worlds, Prospect entertains viewers in the best way possible: with substance rather than grandeur.
8.7/10
10
8.7
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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Stating the major errors of this film is like saying that rain is wet.
4/10
10
4
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Quincy
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Rashida Jones and Hicks succeed in creating a lively and humble portrait of a true artist while revealing the struggles of aging and loss.
6.5/10
10
6.5
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Rust Creek
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
It doesn't generate the energy and originality a survival thriller needs to, well, survive.
3/10
10
3
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30
101
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1,524
Sorry to Bother You
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
A tiny crazy time capsule of everything wrong with our current society.
7/10
10
7
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70
101
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Will this film win an Oscar for best-animated feature? I sure hope so, because quite frankly it's that good.
9/10
10
9
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90
101
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Starfish
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Starfish is a strong independent film that reaffirms a strong stylistic look doesn't directly correlate with a large budget.
6.5/10
10
6.5
10
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65
101
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The After Party
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
While it might be all in good fun, there's no way in hell a dorky pasty white teenager would be able to sneak into Atlantic Records.
3/10
10
3
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30
101
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The Dark
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
If you need some visual inspiration, maybe give this film a watch. Otherwise, this is a hard pass.
3/10
10
3
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30
101
10
1,524
The House That Jack Built
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
It stands as a representation of ego and misogyny from a filmmaker who deems it necessary to reaffirm his controversial status.
0/10
10
0
10
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101
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The Lighthouse
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Those Eggers boys really have a way with words.
10/10
10
10
10
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100
101
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1,524
Under the Silver Lake
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Strange just for the sake of being strange.
5/10
10
5
10
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50
101
10
1,524
Venom
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Well, sorry to break it to you, but Venom is one massive missed opportunity.
3/10
10
3
10
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30
101
10
1,524
Vox Lux
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Many of Corbet's ideas are half-baked--on the surface, Vox Lux is a mess of popstar clichés and when you dig deeper it's a convoluted jumble of opinions about the aging societal idol.
5.5/10
10
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What Keeps You Alive
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
What Keeps You Alive is beautifully and effortless composed. Long takes will swiftly and smoothly carry you throughout the barren woods and rustic cabin, while gradually building tension that lasts until the films final moments.
7.5/10
10
7.5
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Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Floated Alternative Culture Magazine
Danielle Del Plato
Won't You Be My Neighbor welcomes us back to that space during this time when some of us need it most--allowing ourselves to take off our jackets and pull on a warm sweater.
9/10
10
9
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A Prayer Before Dawn
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
A Prayer Before Dawn will leave you pulsating long after you've left the cinema.
4/5
5
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3
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Call Me by Your Name
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
It works well as a coming of age story and examination of how people communicate when they are unsure of the other's feelings.
3/5
5
3
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1,525
Good Time
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
The social commentary that runs throughout especially on people on the fringes of society and the harsher treatment people of colour suffer is well done with a lightness of touch that allows the viewer to reflect rather than feel manipulated...
5/5
5
5
5
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Journey's End
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
It's a visual assault of the most important senses - heart and mind. A must see.
4/5
5
4
5
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3
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1,525
Last Flag Flying
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
Last Flag Flying will take you by surprise - it has both style and substance.
4/5
5
4
5
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3
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1
1,525
The Beguiled
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
In fact you could say it could be viewed as a companion piece to that film told from the female perspective where the traditional object in fact objectifies the subject, Corporal McBurney, and lays bare the question of who is deceiving who.
4/5
5
4
5
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3
5
1
1,525
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
Forget all reason and logic and just let Lanthimos and the incredible cast be your guide.
3/5
5
3
5
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2
5
1
1,525
The Shape of Water
Fopp.com
Rosalynn Try-Hane
There is so much to delight visually here as well as the beautiful and captivating film score. It's a striking masterpiece that flows just like water.
5/5
5
5
5
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1,525
True History of the Kelly Gang
For What It's Worth
Tom Meek
The take on Kelly by [Justin] Kurzel is an alluring, muddled meander punctuated with madness, mayhem and tedious backstory.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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1,526
The Birds
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
More novelty than spectacle, but overall a chilling exercise in nihilistic terror.
3/5
5
3
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3
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1,527
The Gunfighter
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Henry King's, and Gregory Peck's, best sagebrusher -- bar none.
4/5
5
4
5
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4
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1
1,527
Invaders from Mars
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Wm. Cameron Menzies' almost-masterpiece of Cold War paranoia, bracing and impactful despite some conspicuous gaffes in the costuming-and-effects department. The underlying beauty of it all is a tacit understanding that yes, It Can, Too, Happen Here.
4/5
5
4
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1,527
Tales of Terror
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Among the least of the Corman-Price Poe pictures, but rendered imperishable by its hilarious/horrific wine-tasting scene between Peter Lorre and Vincent Price.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,527
Another You
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Pathetic attempt to recapture the vanished magic of a once-effective comedy team.
1/5
5
1
5
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1
6
1
1,527
Blade Runner
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Futurism meets film noir in the most satisfying S-F picture of its day.
4/5
5
4
5
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4
6
1
1,527
Cry Freedom
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Often harrowing and naturalistic but ultimately self-important in its indictment of police-state politics.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,527
Dave
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Darned near the Second Coming of Capra in Reitman's account of common decency under siege by political treacheries.
4/5
5
4
5
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4
6
1
1,527
Die, Monster, Die!
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Lovecraft Lite, from the studio that made the world safe for Edgar Allan Poe.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,527
Far and Away
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Overblown would-be epic of the Western frontier.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
6
1
1,527
Kindergarten Cop
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Kid-friendly violence -- what a concept.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
6
1
1,527
Man's Best Friend
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
... a canine Frankenstein with real bite.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,527
Mississippi Burning
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
6
1
1,527
Orgy of the Dead
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Ghastly, but only in the sense of ineptitude.
0/5
5
0
5
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0
6
1
1,527
The Petrified Forest
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Gangster Existentialism deluxe.
4/5
5
4
5
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4
6
1
1,527
The Wild Angels
Fort Worth Business Press
Michael H. Price
Essential entry in the biker-flick craze of the 1960s and '70s, a heartfelt plea for nihilism and abnormalcy in a world enslaved by Civilization.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,527
Life as We Know It
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Christopher Kelly
Life as We Know It turns into a reasonably honest consideration of what it might mean to have to honor the dead by raising their living, breathing, pooping, screaming progeny.
3/4
4
3
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1,528
Auto Focus
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Christopher Kelly
While Auto Focus isn't very much fun to watch, it exerts a queasy, powerful hold on us.
4/4
4
4
4
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6
7
2
1,528
Blackhat
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
A dim-witted, dullard of a thriller about hacking and terrorism for profit that has one saving grace: timeliness...Being current only gets you so far when the script is techno-babble nonsense and the acting is as wooden as the Sequoia National Forest.
1/4
4
1
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Flash of Genius
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Christopher Kelly
...The movie seems to have been crafted on an assembly line that specializes in inspirational tales of ordinary Davids triumphing over merciless Goliaths.
2/4
4
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Hall Pass
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Christopher Kelly
Any time a movie needs to resort to two sequences involving unexpected bowel moments for laughs, you know you're in trouble.
1/4
4
1
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1,528
The Attorney
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
The Attorney features a powerful, energetic performance by Woo-Seok.
4/4
4
4
4
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6
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1,528
The Outsider
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
The Outsider doesn't break the action movie mold in any way but it is an efficient little, low-budget crime thriller that has the good sense to not overstay its welcome.
3/4
4
3
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1,528
This Is 40
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
There are few laugh-out-loud scenes. Yet maybe that's the point. That life isn't about the grand gesture but the little day-to-day details that keep us grounded and human.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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1,528
National Treasure
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Christopher Kelly
The best cinematic comfort food you could ask for.
B+
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Saw
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Scott Von Doviak
Elwes is simply jaw-dropping -- a hysterical tornado of overemoting who puts William Shatner at his hammiest to shame.
F
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The Talent Given Us
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Christopher Kelly
[A] one-of-a-kind movie that sends the family road-trip genre happily spinning into these self-obsessed, overanalytical times; it's National Lampoon's Vacation as re-imagined by Dr. Phil.
B+
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Stuber
Fort Worth Weekly
Kristian M. Lin
Director Michael Dowse does have a talent for escalating mayhem.
3/5
5
3
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
Fortune
Isaac Feldberg
Its expressions of what art can signify -- how much a look can carry, what power is contained in the making of an image (and who gets to make it) -- don't just resonate. They're revolutionary.
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V for Vendetta
FoxNews.com
Roger Friedman
I don't care what they say: there's no way that first-time filmmaker McTeigue made 'Vendetta' on his own. It's simply too good, too well done, too complete a vision.
4/4
4
4
4
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X-Men: First Class
FoxNews.com
Justin Craig
With spectacular effects and an engaging story, X-Men: First Class is a standout period adventure film that just happens to be about superheroes.
4/5
5
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Almost Famous
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Even today, this euphoric road trip perfectly captures the self-destruction of touring musicians in the 1970s. Music isn't about cocaine and long hair, free love and road trips... it's about a feeling.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
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1,534
Beautiful Boy
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
There are moments that are touching, but Beautiful Boy fails to dig deep into emotional depths. It skates the surface and refuses to evolve further than showing us how Nic's a smart kid on a bad path, David's a good dad trying his best...
2/5
5
2
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2
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1,534
Bohemian Rhapsody
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Queen's subsequent rise to global fame is told through vignettes that are jolting and badly edited together, often arriving without context or connection
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
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Booksmart
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Booksmart doesn't want to make fun out of the nerds, and it has no interest in lecturing young audiences about sex, school, and prioritising one's education. It tells you it's okay to make mistakes.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
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1,534
Disobedience
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Disobedience works much better when the director lets McAdams and Weisz play their feelings out through soft glances and subtle touches. The plot gives itself away too soon, however, leaving the third act feeling empty and unfulfilling.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
9
2
1,534
Driven
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Driven skirts over the facts in order to offer audiences a light-hearted dramedy reminiscent of American Hustle (2013).
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
1,534
Dumbo
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
This live-action adaptation is, ultimately, just a pleasant and safe filmgoing experience. It's not unenjoyable but it lacks the emotional hook of the cartoon.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
1,534
Fences
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
This isn't a showy film with a lot of excitement but this is a masterclass in acting from one of the stage's fiercest writers.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
1,534
Green Book
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
. If one doesn't think too much about it, it's easy to enjoy Green Book on a surface level because it's well-intentioned Oscar-bait with touching performances...
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
1,534
I, Tonya
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
I, Tonya isn't about whether Harding was involved in Kerrigan's attack, but a portrait of America at the dawn of the 24-hour news cycle and the rise of becoming famous through notoriety.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
1,534
Jackie
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
I challenge anyone who sees this movie not be moved by the scene where Jackie watches Lyndon B. Johnson be sworn into office aboard Air Force One, with fragments of her husband's skull still adorning her clothing.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
1,534
Judy
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Despite the production's shortcomings, it's an uncomfortable watch and tragic because this isn't just Judy Garland's story but an example of Hollywood repeating itself.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
1,534
Lady Bird
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Forget the insane hype and you may have a better experience with it. Gerwig's script is gentle and accessible, but also lacks the surprises of a Lena Dunham (Girls) screenplay, the sass of what Diablo Cody (Juno) might have brought to things...
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
1,534
Ladyworld
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
It's immediately clear the film's intention is to disorientate and disturb audiences, so it's a shame it does nothing more than irritate. Never has a so-called thriller been less thrilling and more forgettable
2/5
5
2
5
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1,534
Love, Simon
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
What really makes this film a feat of queer cinema is how ordinary it is. It's a love story between two men, but without tragedy and angst, seeming quite radical for how sweet it is.
4/5
5
4
5
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1,534
Prey
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Prey might've been forgivable if it dived headfirst into its sense of ridiculousness, but it's ultimately too boring to even be so-bad-it's-good.
1/5
5
1
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9
2
1,534
Professor Marston & The Wonder Women
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
The arc of Marston's career is so fascinating that it seems a waste to boil the details down into such an ordinary biopic, merely ticking off his achievements
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
1,534
Rocketman
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
We've all seen the biopic about the sad but talented little boy who finds fame and fortune before descending into a dark world of drink and drugs but you've never seen a film that blends fantasy, musical, and biopic so seamlessly...
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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7
9
2
1,534
Rough Night
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Ultimately, the film's humour is predictable and the premise is well-trodden turf that's been done better elsewhere, and what laugh-out-loud moments that do exist are few and far between...
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
1,534
The Day Shall Come
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
The truth laid out by the film's sobering finale is simple to understand and will leave audiences walking out of the cinema breathless. Not since BlacKkKlansman has a finale with so many laugh-out-loud moments also felt like such a slap in the face
4/5
5
4
5
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6
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1,534
The Farewell
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Until the closing shot, this is a celebration of Asian actors, traditions, and relationships, never tainted with the need to please multiplex audiences of the west.
4/5
5
4
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The Favourite
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Despite being a costume drama it feels more modern than its corset-wearing peers. If you're not a fan of usual uptight period films, don't let the historical setting put you off.
4/5
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
Many will discredit the movie, but there is something oddly charming about it. It's twee and idealistic, believing there's good in everything and everyone, and today we all need a bit of daydreaming.
3.5/5
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The High Note
Frame Rated
Amelia Harvey
The High Note is a pleasant and unsurprising stroll through the music industry. It allows you to peer through a window into this world without allowing you to get to know anyone inside.
3/5
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