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Spectre
3AW
Jim Schembri
An exceedingly mediocre exercise in corporate filmmaking that often feels tired and lazy, just like Craig's performance...Spectre promptly plops into the quicksand of Bond cliches, undoing much of the good work of 2012's Skyfall. What a shame.
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Atomic Blonde
3AW
Jim Schembri
After being the only interesting thing in Mad Max: Fury Road and giving the Fast & Furious crew a run for their money in F8 Charlize Theron here consolidates her position as cinema's most dangerous action movie female.
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Sisters
3AW
Jim Schembri
In what can be taken as an extended and belated apology for their woeful 2008 comedy Baby Mama, funny femmes Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) team up as sisters for another girls-behaving-badly slapstick comedy.
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Dolittle
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's an odd, expensive misfire, this. Though he produced it, the wiseacre humour and infectious energy we normally associate with performances from Robert Downey Jr are strangely absent.
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Argo
3AW
Jim Schembri
Ben Affleck proves that his transition from blockbuster poster boy to serious dramatic director is now complete...The film's portrayal of America as a superpower under siege serves as a timely comment on the nation's place in the world today.
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
3AW
Jim Schembri
As a throwaway adventure, Jumanji makes for a terrifically entertaining time killer, its big action set pieces nicely offset with some choice comic acting.
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Avengers: Infinity War
3AW
Jim Schembri
Thankfully, this $300 million entry into the Marvel comic-book movie universe is one of the better films pumped out by Marvel Studios and certainly makes up for the tornado of dung that was Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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High-Rise
3AW
Jim Schembri
The synthetic feel of the piece becomes more and more prominent the more things deteriorate.
2/5
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The Great Wall
3AW
Jim Schembri
A fantasy monster movie starring Matt Damon and a few hundred thousand digitally rendered dragons.
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The Aftermath
3AW
Jim Schembri
The nostalgic aura of old-fashioned wartime romances envelopes this fine, engaging, handsomely produced drama, spiced by an uncommon setting and top-self performances.
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The Darkest Minds
3AW
Jim Schembri
this tripe is thinly plotted and moves at a snail's pace...[yet] as mind-numbing as the film is, it does manage to raise a chief question, which is: how many more of these dystopian teen action flicks are we supposed to sit through?
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Gemini Man
3AW
Jim Schembri
If the plot of this movie sounds vaguely like the kind of high-end pulp Arnie would have made decades ago before he went into politics, you're right. Smith is no Schwarzenegger, yet he brings his swagger to this concerted re-entry into the action genre.
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Man Up
3AW
Jim Schembri
A refreshing British rom-com that happily avoids the cliches we usually get from the American brand. It's also another comedy that celebrates the humour inherent when we see women behaving badly.
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Ernest & Célestine
3AW
Jim Schembri
Beautiful Belgian animated film; the storybook simplicity of the hand-drawn animation has an allure and clarity that reinforces [how] new technology does not render traditional forms of animation inferior or obsolete.
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A Bigger Splash
3AW
Jim Schembri
Talented Italian director Luca Guadagnino shows broader, coarser interests here than he did with I Am Love as he plucks away at the vapourous notions of love, lust and desire.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
The big payoff to the Twilight saga is a solidly mounted, carefully directed exercise in franchise box-ticking... Even the decapitations are done tastefully.
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The Master
3AW
Jim Schembri
There are gaping chasms in the story and side stories that go nowhere. Yet the power of [Philip Seymour] Hoffman's performance is so hypnotic you forgive the film's faults just to revel in his all-consuming portrayal of a man possessed by his own beliefs.
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The Space Between Us
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a tough task blending teen romance with sci-fi, but director Peter Chelsom concocts a pretty good hybrid in a film that delivers some enjoyable high-concept story ideas while turning the trusty fish-out-of-water convention up to 11.
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Why Him?
3AW
Jim Schembri
In a prime example of comic alchemy, Bryan Cranston and James Franco bounce off each other splendidly in a raucous, adult-only comedy where, once again, a naughty veneer encases a film with a healthily conservative message.
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Where Do We Go Now?
3AW
Jim Schembri
The stupidity of violence and...religious hatred are beautifully boiled down into a microcosm of humanity that [director Nadine] Labaki infuses with vibrant moments of laughter, music and an uneering sense of how differently men and women view the world.
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
3AW
Jim Schembri
As far as sequels go this second-go-round for what sounded like a one-shot deal is actually a nice step up from the delights of the first film.
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Peppermint
3AW
Jim Schembri
From the director of Taken comes another piece of straight-faced, high-voltage vigilante pulp, only this time with a woman in the lead.
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Pete's Dragon
3AW
Jim Schembri
Eventful, issue-driven, well-mounted if somewhat gloomy reinvention of the "lost" 1977 Disney family film...A good ride that feeds the public's seemingly insatiable hunger for dragons.
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xXx: Return of Xander Cage
3AW
Jim Schembri
With all the requisite explosions, chases and gunfights you'd want, Vin Diesel returns to revive yet another action franchise in a highly entertaining, deliriously preposterous crash-bam adventure.
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a by-the-numbers procedural, sure, but the sharply designed sets and snow-blasted locales give the film a great look. Most of all, though, Foy does a really good job as our despondent action protagonist, Swedish accent and all.
2.5/5
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The Lost City of Z
3AW
Jim Schembri
This lavish-looking, leisurely told, large-scale adventure yarn...contains pretty much everything you'd expect: encounters with wild animals, wild humans, dangerous river rides, attacks from natives...and, of course, having to eat unsavoury things.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
3AW
Jim Schembri
French populist Luc Besson delivers a delirious, crazily plotted, visually over-loaded science-fiction fantasy epic clearly designed to top the whackiness of his 1997 film The Fifth Element.
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's one of Allen's lesser films yet, as is so often the case with his B-material, it still features terrific performances...and a cluster of truth-nailing scenes that are better than what you typically find in major releases.
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20,000 Days on Earth
3AW
Jim Schembri
An immaculately crafted [music documentary], absorbing both for [Nick] Cave fans and those hungry for an insight into the coursing of his creative juices.
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Fantastic Four
3AW
Jim Schembri
Bleah...Avoid.
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The Wedding Ringer
3AW
Jim Schembri
A standard, formulaic gross-out bachelor party-type comedy...has a decent amount of laughs for a Friday night in front of the TV with a pizza, but for $20 it's a bit of a stretch.
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The Greatest Showman
3AW
Jim Schembri
Those hungry for a big, old-school musical spectacle with a thin story and plenty of numbers will get more than their fill with the flash-and-dazzle of The Greatest Showman. Hugh Jackman pulls out all the stops for his lead performance.
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Little Men
3AW
Jim Schembri
As with Love is Strange, Sachs shows his love of little moments, nuanced behaviour and unforced, if occasionally forceful, performances, with the turns from the lads oozing with naturalism.
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Runner Runner
3AW
Jim Schembri
A nifty, fast-talking, energetic film that dares turn the virtual - and virtually unfilmable - world of on-line gambling into a high-stakes thriller full of fights, gringos, hungry crocodiles and a perpetually pouting, glammed-up Gemma Arterton.
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In Bloom
3AW
Jim Schembri
Portraying lives a universe away from the malls and frippery of their Western counterparts, Eka (Lika Babluani) and Natia (Mariam Bokeria) cope with food shortages, bullying, bad families, a ramshackle education system [and] forced marriages.
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The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
3AW
Jim Schembri
In the final film of Tom Six's self-consciously sick horror-comedy series, the concept of the "human centipede" - easily the most original and repulsive in modern horror - is merrily taken to its logical conclusion.
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An Interview With God
3AW
Jim Schembri
Burning through a thick layer of cynicism, (Brenton) Thwaites infuses the film's premise with an earthiness and desperation as he tries keeping his life from spinning out of control. Not a bad film, this, though it is, after all, a sermon at heart.
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Like Father, Like Son
3AW
Jim Schembri
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda delivers a quiet, beautifully modulated, touching drama.
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Renoir
3AW
Jim Schembri
Beautiful-looking but largely boring...There have been some terrific films about artists, but this isn't one of them.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Guardians of the Galaxy isn't just a fun-filled, laugh-filled, ripping space fantasy comedy, it's one of the best, most crowd-pleasing blockbusters in years.
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Juliet, Naked
3AW
Jim Schembri
[A] spirited film offers a surprisingly delicate, funny, occasionally barbed account of middle-age malaise...a real gem, and one of the most satisfying romances thus far this year.
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Secret in Their Eyes
3AW
Jim Schembri
Gripping, twist-laden, no-nonsense murder yarn.
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Snowpiercer
3AW
Jim Schembri
Loftily pretentious, though curiously amusing arthouse action movie.
2.5/5
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Rise of the Guardians
3AW
Jim Schembri
In one of the best, brightest, most beautifully realised and visually sumptuous tentpole animation films of the year...an absolute joy to behold, as lovingly made a piece of corporate entertainment as you're likely to find at the multiplex.
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Spotlight
3AW
Jim Schembri
The energetic ensemble cast...lend a moral urgency to the story, though writer/director Tom McCarthy is savvy enough to temper the heroism with the revelation that they were approached years earlier with the same information and did nothing.
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The Predator
3AW
Jim Schembri
Everybody's favourite multi-jawed dreadlocked alien monster is back for a fun, throwaway action splurge. With a large dollop of humour, the film plays like the latest sequel in the Predator series rather than as any attempt to makeover the formula.
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Pet Sematary
3AW
Jim Schembri
a top-notch nail-biter, dripping with atmosphere and boasting a host of creepy tropes expertly deployed to maximise a thick ambience of hope mixed with dread.
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I, Tonya
3AW
Jim Schembri
Bubbling up through Harding's tale is the prejudice imposed upon her because of her lowly class...This gives the film a sharp, if unintended, topicality by identifying one form of 21st-century bigotry that attracts curiously little attention.
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While We're Young
3AW
Jim Schembri
A well-etched social comedy with clear viewpoints about the elastic nature of integrity and compromise.
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Breathe
3AW
Jim Schembri
Actor Andy Sirkis proves his directing chops here with a moving account of the creation of the motorised wheelchair... the film offers a solid, surprising holiday treat for those hungry for adult drama.
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The Way Way Back
3AW
Jim Schembri
Deft, well-etched dramedy about the awkwardness of adolescence.
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mother!
3AW
Jim Schembri
[Darren] Aronofsky, who also wrote the screenplay, nails five of the common qualities nightmares share.
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Marvel's The Avengers
3AW
Jim Schembri
While it reflects a movie culture that has traded originality for scale - one wonders if there's a shred of originality anywhere in the film - The Avengers is grand, throwaway fun.
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The Armstrong Lie
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's an open wound of a documentary, sure, yet there is a pervasive sense Armstrong is using it as another means to redeem his public reputation...You might well find yourself sympathising with him more than reason would otherwise allow.
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Table 19
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film certainly does a fine job replicating the tedium of what it feels like to be stuck at the loser's table.
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Everybody Wants Some!!
3AW
Jim Schembri
Likeable, inconsequential comedy ramble about an assortment of baseball jocks who share a frat house at a Texas college.
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The Fault In Our Stars
3AW
Jim Schembri
An iGen Love Story... warm, well-made, sincere and, most of all, effective. It's designed to get to you.
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Brave
3AW
Jim Schembri
Brave makes for a passable parable about teenage hubris...but it isn't as pacy or as entertaining as many of Pixar's A-grade hits.
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On the Basis of Sex
3AW
Jim Schembri
It hurts to think how good the film could have been had Leder not presided over it with such a leaden hand. Shot as though it was a 1970s telemovie, the lengthy courtroom scenes become quite tiresome as the film lumbers towards its predictable conclusion.
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Love, Simon
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's no questioning the sincerity or the worthy pro-tolerance sentiments of Love, Simon...but, whoa, does this film brim with bad direction.
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The Way Back
3AW
Jim Schembri
There is a degree of predictability to the film [though] it doesn't detract from the honest quality of the film or from the veracity of the things it has to say about self-control, self-awareness and self-respect - those three things alcohol robs you of.
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Wonder Park
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though the film's copious flash and dazzle will please kids, there's an awful lot of subtext going on here about facing your fear. This is coupled with some pretty nightmarish imagery involving the zombie-chimps, so take the film's PG rating seriously.
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Side Effects
3AW
Jim Schembri
Ripper psychological mystery-thriller...prime, sharply directed guessing game stuff full of plot surprises and great left turns.
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Imperium
3AW
Jim Schembri
[Daniel Radcliffe] shows just how effectively he can harden up for a tough role... the film is pretty brutal about FBI procedure and is super-topical given the ever-present threat of home-grown terrorism.
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John Wick: Chapter 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
If you liked the first one, you'll positively love this next instalment in the straight-faced action franchise starring Keanu Reeves as a hitman who absolutely everybody wants to kill.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp
3AW
Jim Schembri
A hugely enjoyable action offering that happily comes as one of the better efforts from Marvel's infamously erratic output.
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Spider-Man: Far From Home
3AW
Jim Schembri
Most impressive here is the use of a European school excursion to emphasize Peter Parker's enduring appeal, that he is a mere teenager with raging hormones who is still learning about what it means to be a superhero.
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Mystery Road
3AW
Jim Schembri
With a tight-lipped Aaron Petersen as a lonely, personally troubled cop investigating the murder of a local teen, director Ivan Sen delivers a brooding, unsettling, racially charged slice of Outback Noir.
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
3AW
Jim Schembri
Charming, souffle-lite Christmas tale from British director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) about the imaginary adventure the young Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) went through while suffering a rare case of writer's block.
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The Company You Keep
3AW
Jim Schembri
[Director Robert Redford] deftly articulates the moral morass that can arise when idealism gives way to reality; he also has some very definite things to say about the way today's sensation-hungry, click-addicted media operates.
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Escape Room
3AW
Jim Schembri
The superb, stranglehold direction of Adam Robitel draws you in early and never lets go, even after you think things have been resolved...a prime example of the economics of the horror genre. Serve the genre's fanbase and the world is yours.
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Jackpot
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's a bit too much carnage and bloodshed but it's a cracking, crazy, well-paced Norwegian time killer.
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Ida
3AW
Jim Schembri
Anyone with trouble sleeping should trot along to this boring Polish drama about a young nun (Agata Trzebuchowska) who discovers some dark secrets in her family.
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Safe
3AW
Jim Schembri
[Jason] Statham blasts his way through his biggest body count in this satisfying, one-note action film designed very specifically for Statham fans who know his acting limits as well as he does.
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Lasseter's Bones
3AW
Jim Schembri
A splendid example of the sort of subjective documentary film-making championed by Werner Herzog...director Luke Walker throws himself into the legend of Harold Lasseter, the explorer who claimed to have stumbled across a mother lode of gold.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Mira Nair is eager to explore the long-range effects of post-9/11 paranoia, but can't quite get the film's thriller element to click.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
3AW
Jim Schembri
More of the same, only bigger, louder and messier as the pretty-good sequel to the very-good 2011 prequel pushes the "franchise extender" mentality currently consuming Hollywood to new extremes.
3/5
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Insidious: Chapter 3
3AW
Jim Schembri
Straight from the jump-out-of-the-shadows-and-yell-boo school of fright flicks comes this neat, highly effective little haunted house number from Australian director Leigh Whannell.
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Official Secrets
3AW
Jim Schembri
Political films are at their best when they see both sides of a contentious issue. Even with such a raft of good actors putting in such sterling work, Official Secrets falls short of that.
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Zoolander 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
After 15 years in deep freeze, writer/director/star Ben Stiller thaws out his beloved, pea-brained male model Derek Zoolander for a belated sequel and, in the face of the cosmic odds against it, it's quite a fun lame-brained laughfest.
3/5
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Jersey Boys
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film doesn't work as a drama, it doesn't work as a comedy and it sure as heck doesn't work as a musical...In all, Jersey Boys delivers the one thing we never expect to see from the latter-day Clint Eastwood: mediocrity.
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12 Years a Slave
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film imparts the casual cruelty of slavery with full force without having to resort to graphic portrayals of on-screen brutality. The film certainly has those, but they are sporadic, well-judged and serve the larger story of a man starved of freedom.
4.5/5
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Drinking Buddies
3AW
Jim Schembri
A touching, truthful look at how friendships work when things go off road.
3.5/5
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
3AW
Jim Schembri
Joining the long, long list of James Bond spoofs comes yet one more in the well-dressed, blandly titled, way-too-long form of Kingsman: The Secret Service... Jam your brain into neutral and you should enjoy most of the over-long shenanigans here.
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The Mule
3AW
Jim Schembri
The economy and efficiency of Eastwood's direction only seems to improve. The Mule moves at a breezy, unforced clip, with Eastwood effortlessly switching from personal-drama mode to action-thriller mode.
4/5
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The Big Short
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a dizzying semi-comic, totally serious ride through the canyons of finance, and while you might not comprehend every single turn of phrase...[Director Adam] McKay is careful to keep the emphasis on the character drama.
3.5/5
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The Danish Girl
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fresh-faced British actor Eddie Redmayne here provides another sterling example of just how deeply he can immerse himself into a role.
3/5
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
3AW
Jim Schembri
A wall-to-wall delight peppered with gags for adults, Spongebob 2 absolutely holds up to a second viewing.
4/5
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Advanced Style
3AW
Jim Schembri
These women clearly get a kick out of flouting convention and there is something admirable in their spirit of defiance, but the doc is average TV at best.
2/5
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The Front Runner
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Jim Schembri
Forcefully directed by Jason Reitman (Up In The Air), the film is essentially an origin story accounting for the venality of today's rabid media culture, covering hot-button topics such as invasion of privacy, newsroom bias and double-standards.
3.5/5
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Game Night
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Jim Schembri
After a deliberately slow start directors John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (working from a screenplay by Mark Perez) hit the accelerator once the game's first victim - or should that be "victim"? - hits the floor. It's all go from there.
3/5
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A Ghost Story
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Jim Schembri
A perfect example of a good idea, half-baked.
3/5
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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Jim Schembri
There is fun to be had as the team of renegade space pirates return...with some funny, impressive action sequences [but it] turns into a high-concept mess involving reel upon reel of planetary destruction, a VFX cliche we are seeing way too much of.
2.5/5
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Force Majeure
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Jim Schembri
Director Ruben Ostlund is more playful than cynical in his exploration of a marriage on the rocks, and his blending of dark humour with lyrical visuals is often arresting.
3.5/5
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Fahrenheit 11/9
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Jim Schembri
The latest anti-Republican tirade from the Oscar-winning maker of films that some people mistake for documentaries is actually quite a hoot...Most of the film is the usual partisan BS, cleverly packaged in a way that even Moore's detractors will enjoy.
3/5
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Glass
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Jim Schembri
The Sixth Sense, The Visit and Split showed that Shyamalan has real talent as a director of suspense, and there are sparks of that here, yet the film strains for your attention and stumbles with a very awkward ending.
2.5/5
5
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Whiplash
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Jim Schembri
Student-teacher relations don't get much more combative than what we see in Whiplash. And firebrand acting doesn't get much better.
4/5
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Fighting with My Family
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Jim Schembri
A heart-warming, uplifting, reality-based Rocky for girls...Self-respect and the need to respect others by looking beyond one's own prejudices are the values underpinning the action. Sports movie tropes all of them, and very well deployed.
4/5
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Mississippi Grind
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Jim Schembri
All good films about gambling are, in essence, anti-gambling films and this one is a cracker.
3/5
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Collateral Beauty
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Jim Schembri
Collateral Beauty really is a nice, innocuous little film designed for those in the mood for an undemanding weepie...Yet, once again we have an example of an unpresuming, mid-range movie becoming a lightning rod for inexplicable online hatred.
3/5
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