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Roma
3AW
Jim Schembri
Cuaron's love of long takes - demonstrated so masterfully in Children of Men & Gravity - allows you to soak in all the subtly placed detail about the lives of these people...his understated use of the camera engineers some great cinematic moments.
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Stuber
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a great follow up to The Big Sick for Kumail Nanjiani who has a very likeable, goofball presence. Bautista, too, gets some Mr Magoo-worthy laughs due to his poor eyesight. [But why] does a light-hearted action-comedy feel the need to be so violent[?]
3/5
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Molly's Game
3AW
Jim Schembri
An absorbing, adult drama, Molly's Game is also a cautionary tale about how those brave enough to skate on thin ice have little cause to complain when the ice breaks and the instant chill of reality bites into your backside.
3.5/5
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Monsieur Lazhar
3AW
Jim Schembri
Thankfully, the impressive cast of child actors actually behave like children, not like miniature adults.
3/5
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August: Osage County
3AW
Jim Schembri
The problem with the film is easy to nail: it's a cacophony...Director John Wells seems content to let his actors try to out-act each other, but the combative style proves grating rather than gratifying.
1.5/5
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A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
3AW
Jim Schembri
Funny to a fault...Most admirable about the film is that it relies solely on visual cues to tell its story as it requires the audience to actually think. In the present era, that's some achievement, indeed.
3/5
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Fun Size
3AW
Jim Schembri
Here's yet another example of a DVD film inexplicably receiving a full-on cinema release...It doesn't help that Victoria Justice, pretty as she is, does not exactly ignite the screen with comic charisma.
2/5
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
3AW
Jim Schembri
Lewd, crude, tasteless...It's when Irving dresses Billy up as a girl in a kids beauty pageant that things get crazy. It's one of those moments, folks, where the angels of good taste and decorum desert you and you find yourself laughing like an idiot.
3.5/5
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Turbo
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though the "be yourself" theme is becoming a little too familiar what really sparks the proceedings here are the lashings of wily humour, the takedown of hero worship and a terrific subtext about overcoming the limits others put on you.
4/5
5
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Justice League
3AW
Jim Schembri
More of the same as the DC Comics superhero empire tries matching its rival Marvel's Avengers franchise with its own super-team. The results are loud, flashy and all too under-whelming for being oh-so familiar
2/5
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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
3AW
Jim Schembri
There are some neat, inventive scares in this cheeky, far-superior sequel.
3/5
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Independence Day: Resurgence
3AW
Jim Schembri
What a mountain of crap this movie is.
0/5
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Cinderella
3AW
Jim Schembri
Disney's first-class, straight-faced, irony-free, live-action remake of its own 1950 animated classic is a delightful explosion of colour, costumes, virtue and snarling...a truly beautiful film.
4/5
5
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Richard Jewell
3AW
Jim Schembri
Eastwood directs with great efficiency and dramatic snap; he wastes no time setting up his characters and situations, eliciting top-shelf performances from his cast, some of whom have embraced the opportunity to portray real slimeballs with zeal.
3.5/5
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Neighbors
3AW
Jim Schembri
Bloody hilarious...a loud-mouthed, foul-mouthed, low-brow, bong-sucking, shrill frat house comedy that basically exploits the comic potential of what happens when Animal House lands with a thud in suburbia.
3.5/5
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Hampstead
3AW
Jim Schembri
Much as we love romantic comedies about older-age couples, this over-formulated dollop of treacle makes you pine for the hijinx of It's Complicated.
2/5
5
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Into the Woods
3AW
Jim Schembri
Disney's enthralling, enormously entertaining film version of Stephen Sondheim's 1987 Broadway musical comedy is such a joy it makes you wonder what took them so long...Director Rob Marshall (Chicago) never puts a foot, or a note, wrong.
4/5
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The Lion King
3AW
Jim Schembri
As with Aladdin, the chief virtue of this lavish remake will be to drive people to rewatch the original. With that said, this new Lion King is a terrific big-screen happening, a perfectly entertaining and engaging family film.
3.5/5
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Sherpa
3AW
Jim Schembri
A prime example of right-time/right-place documentary making.
3/5
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Battle of the Sexes
3AW
Jim Schembri
This wonderfully entertaining, authentic-looking recreation captures the feverish spirit of the time as the nascent, all-powerful medium of television fed a media circus that publicised the event as a culture-shifting moment in modern history.
4/5
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Steve Jobs
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though it is a decidedly dark portrait that shimmers into shape before us, Michael Fassbender infuses a comic bounce to his performance that neatly counters his regular outbursts of despotism and bad fatherhood.
3.5/5
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Blackfish
3AW
Jim Schembri
Very good, very disturbing documentary by director Gabriela Cowperthwaite about killer whales in captivity and the dangers they present to their trainers...The film contains some pretty vivid footage.
3/5
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Silent Souls
3AW
Jim Schembri
Shot in a series of long single takes in the remote reaches of a chilly landscape the film evokes how the acceptance of loss can bring a sense of peace.
3/5
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Concussion
3AW
Jim Schembri
Will Smith's performance is solid, but Concussion's plodding, procedural nature turns the drama into a bit of a do-gooder dirge.
2.5/5
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Noah
3AW
Jim Schembri
A water-logged turkey...an epic disaster of truly biblical proportions...Bloated, gloomy, super self-serious and - worst of all - boring, the film is so dull and portentous it's likely to make atheists convert, just so they can pray to God to save them.
0/5
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Tomb Raider
3AW
Jim Schembri
Whereas Angelina Jolie played Croft as a cocksure, aggressive Amazonian man-slayer in her two films, Alicia Vikander sees her heroine as more vulnerable, a college-age kid who has to fight harder to come out of fights with big, bad men.
3/5
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Monsters University
3AW
Jim Schembri
Creatively, there's clearly something going on at Pixar...though Monsters University is consistently enjoyable and never less than entertaining, it does have a quality of sameness that we never used to associate with Pixar pictures.
3/5
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The Wall
3AW
Jim Schembri
Very tense, tight exercise in single-locale filmmaking by director Doug Liman.
3/5
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You Will Be My Son
3AW
Jim Schembri
Leisurely paced at the outset, director Gilles Legrand builds a considerable head of emotional steam.
3/5
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The Lone Ranger
3AW
Jim Schembri
As with most big films these days, The Lone Ranger is about 30 minutes too long...but when the Lone Ranger theme inevitably kicks in for the film's amazing train-borne action finale you can't help go all needles and pins.
3/5
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Lincoln
3AW
Jim Schembri
Oddly, Spielberg chooses to set his gabby epic largely indoors...This gives Lincoln a rather inert feel...It's infuriating that spectacular battle scenes are described in the film, but not shown.
2/5
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Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's Tarantino's love of incremental tension-building that really sells - and sets apart - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He's long proved a master at delivering great pay-offs and in that regard he might well have hit a career high point here.
4/5
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Eighth Grade
3AW
Jim Schembri
Her journey [is] handled with an honesty and unforced delicacy that imbues the film with pungent authenticity, right down to Kayla's facial blotches, imperfect teeth and her secret joy over a blossoming friendship.
4.5/5
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Insurgent
3AW
Jim Schembri
Thankfully there's a lot more action in the latest instalment of the Divergent saga, which is great news because it means fewer slow spots during which you can mull over all the holes in both the story and concept of this hyped up teens-vs-adults dross.
2.5/5
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
3AW
Jim Schembri
Perhaps the best thing about Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again is that Meryl Streep, who clocked up one of her most annoying performances as the star of the first film, spends the great bulk of this film not appearing in it.
3/5
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Ferdinand
3AW
Jim Schembri
Cute, Pixar-like, slightly overlong animated adventure about a non-violent, flower-loving, hippie-type bull who is compelled into the ring against his conscience.
3/5
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The Interview
3AW
Jim Schembri
Driven by the blustery, swear-happy, cadence-free performances that characterise most Seth Rogen comedies, this reasonably funny lark at least has the distinction of mixing in some light political satire with the usual knockabout fare we've come to expect
3/5
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Before I Go to Sleep
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Rowan Joffe, who adapted the screenplay from the best-seller by S.J. Watson, pulls off a stylish mystery for most of its duration, though the self-serious tone adds tarnish rather than polish to this otherwise engaging, diverting affair.
2.5/5
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Greta
3AW
Jim Schembri
[A] tepid, uniquely stupid thriller...Think of a lobotomised Single White Female and you'll know what you're in for.
1/5
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Alien: Covenant
3AW
Jim Schembri
To be sure, Alien: Covenant serves up the usual combination of brilliant design, dazzling visual effects and D-grade story that we've come to expect. That said, there's enough movement, action and enjoyable silliness to make it worth sitting through.
2.5/5
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Weiner
3AW
Jim Schembri
The bizarre, engrossing story of New York Democratic politician Anthony Weiner is captured in all its pathetic glory in a documentary that will do nothing to redress the reputation of politicians as liars, hypocrites and opportunists.
4/5
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On the Road
3AW
Jim Schembri
A bore...a largely aimless, joyless, cinematically drab road movie full of longueurs and detours populated by dull characters with little or nothing of value to say.
1/5
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
3AW
Jim Schembri
The struggle for free speech in China is given sharp, sobering, disturbing voice through the struggles of cutting edge, digitally savvy, Twitter-loving artist Ai Weiwei.
4/5
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Get Hard
3AW
Jim Schembri
Will Ferrell's one-note performances are becoming a bit tiring. The film plays lightly on the idea of racial stereotyping, but it just isn't funny enough to qualify as any sort of satire or penetrating social comment.
2/5
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Ghost Stories
3AW
Jim Schembri
A few fleeting moments of well-directed tension in the first yarn about a nightwatchman can't make-up for the copy-cat contrivances of the rest of the film.
2/5
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Project Almanac
3AW
Jim Schembri
Given how over-used a movie device time-travel has become it's refreshing when anyone manages to give it a new spin...With an obvious nod to the sci-fi verite hit Chronicle, the film is full of wily movie references and some clever touches.
3/5
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Transformers: The Last Knight
3AW
Jim Schembri
As immensely popular as the Transformer films are, the time is yet to come when they will no longer be seen as multiplex fodder but be acknowledged as the breathlessly entertaining masterpieces of pop art that they are.
4/5
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Les Misérables
3AW
Jim Schembri
The real diamond here is Russell Crowe. As the committed lawman Javert, he proves what a versatile and magnetic actor he is.
3/5
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Looper
3AW
Jim Schembri
The best time travel films play on emotion rather than logic, and once Looper realises this and drops all the tail-chasing about how time travel works it settles into the engrossing action/drama about destiny it should have been from the get go.
2.5/5
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This Is Where I Leave You
3AW
Jim Schembri
Terrific ensemble family comedy-drama...Directed by comedy specialist Shawn Levy who slowly, skilfully shifts gear from comedy to drama as the issues get deeper and ever more complicated. A very satisfying trip.
3/5
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film has been a monster hit, so it's doing its dance with the demographic the way its supposed to. Still, one wonders whether fans of the original show will go with the bandwagon. This reviewer found the film plastic and too predictable.
2/5
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The BFG
3AW
Jim Schembri
Visually, the film is a triumph. Storywise, at nearly two hours, it is a bit of a slog.
2.5/5
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Half of a Yellow Sun
3AW
Jim Schembri
Occasionally powerful but choppy drama set during the atrocity-strewn Nigerian civil war of the 1960s.
2.5/5
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Walking With Dinosaurs
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film should have been called Walking Very Slowly With Dinosaurs. And as well as being shown in 2D and 3D, the posters should have included that the film can also be seen in Zero D, which is the format you experience the film in when you fall asleep.
1/5
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Operation Avalanche
3AW
Jim Schembri
Very amusing, well-made comedy mockumentary, set in the late-1960s, that explains how and why the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked. Director Matt Johnson squeezes a lot out of a scant-budget.
3/5
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A Hijacking
3AW
Jim Schembri
Absorbing, realistic, non-sensationalist drama.
4/5
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What's In A Name?
3AW
Jim Schembri
A huge hit in France, the film's verbal thrust-and-parry is so fast you do spend too much time reading the flashing of subtitles than looking at the gesticulations and exaggerated expressions of the players. Bring on the Americanisation, please.
3/5
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Interstellar
3AW
Jim Schembri
What makes Interstellar one of the best, most enthralling, intelligent and moving science-fiction films of modern cinema is not so much the inter-galactic journey it takes you on as the emotional journey.
4.5/5
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Pixels
3AW
Jim Schembri
Pixels really is a well-made, totally harmless, highly enjoyable piece of family film confection, and it's hard to connect the venomous reviews with the film that's up there on the screen...Sandler must be laughing his heads off at his haters.
3.5/5
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A Walk In The Woods
3AW
Jim Schembri
In one of the most generous pieces of movie casting ever, travel writer Bill Bryson is portrayed by Robert Redford in this lazy, feather-light adaptation of his book about walking the Appalachian Trail.
2/5
5
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Lights Out
3AW
Jim Schembri
A poorly executed child-in-peril piece of fright-free crud involving a deadly ghoul you can only see when the lights are out. So, why not stock up on high-powered torches? It's a weak horror premise, poorly done.
1/5
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Denial
3AW
Jim Schembri
If there's anybody left who's in any doubt about the versatility, range and sheer courage of British acting legend Timothy Spall, his performance in this searing Holocaust drama will set you straight.
3.5/5
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Mental
3AW
Jim Schembri
A shrill, uneven affair that is light on laughs and populated with characters who either lack sympathy or deserve more of it...the story constantly tries to out-crazy itself.
2/5
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Hounds of Love
3AW
Jim Schembri
A splendid example of tense, throat-tightening horror, made all the more vivid because of its everyday setting...the performances are searing.
4/5
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Unfriended
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fresh, original and genuinely ingenious...Easily stands alongside the original Blair Witch Project and the best of the Paranormal Activity films as a prime example of using household technology to mediate a nerve-jangling frightfest.
4/5
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Annie
3AW
Jim Schembri
As much as we fear remakes of classic films there are, on occasion, heartening examples where it's done right. Here we have a nicely updated, jazzed-up version of the unfairly maligned 1982 John Huston musical.
3.5/5
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The Souvenir
3AW
Jim Schembri
The nuance-rich, slow-burn direction by Joanna Hogg really works for about the first hour before a dramatic inertia sets in and turns the enterprise into yet another mumblecore dirge about drug addicts.
2.5/5
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The Post
3AW
Jim Schembri
At a time when the reputation of the press is probably as bad as it has ever been, people have a tendency to embrace the folk memory of that time when the media was considered the pursuers and upholders of truth, not as self-serving and biased.
3.5/5
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Lee Daniels' The Butler
3AW
Jim Schembri
If you've ever wanted to know what Oscar bait designed with a slide rules looks like, The Butler is it. Think of The Butler as The Help Goes to the White House. That's not a slam, by the way [but] it is a big story spread thinly over two episodic hours.
2.5/5
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Girls Trip
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's another Bridesmaids-inspired stumble through the tropes of bad-girl comedy, which includes the mandatory set-piece involving the expulsion of bodily waste...and plenty of blue talk, which is now a regular, if not defining, feature of female comedy.
3/5
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Aloha
3AW
Jim Schembri
Aloha actually sports a pretty good clutch of storylines, but it just takes too long for them to kick in.
2.5/5
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Friends With Kids
3AW
Jim Schembri
Starring much of the Bridesmaids troupe, this film shares with that movie a coarse sense of humour skilfully blended with the underlying theme that stability trumps flakiness and that...family values really do rule.
3.5/5
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Fading Gigolo
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's no real depth to Fading Gigolo, but it is a likeable lark that has the smarts to stay on the right side of silly. Had it pushed its one-joke premise, watching it could have been a painful experience.
3/5
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Macbeth
3AW
Jim Schembri
A well-made, arrow-straight, disappointingly conventional version of Shakespeare's greatest potboiler...the film simply droops in comparison to earlier versions.
2.5/5
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
3AW
Jim Schembri
A remarkable documentary about a remarkable woman...[Director Pamela] Green re-assembles her life with deep respect and a palpable love for an artist who bypassed the dictates of convention and rewrote the rules to suit herself.
3.5/5
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Cars 3
3AW
Jim Schembri
As usual with Pixar, the film looks like a moving work of digital art, though its inordinate length might test the patience of six year olds who will love the brilliantly staged action but not all the exposition-heavy dialogue.
3/5
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Strange But True
3AW
Jim Schembri
With revelations at every turn, director Rowan Athale and writer Eric Garcia prove themselves dedicated to unpredictability, with each scene designed to have you guessing how it will plug into the increasingly bizarre story.
3/5
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Top End Wedding
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sadly, for a film purporting to be a rom-com there are just too many awkward scenes, implausible romantic interludes and just not enough laughs...the story is pitted with inconsistencies and scenes that don't make emotional sense.
2/5
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The Place Beyond The Pines
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is unfortunately front-loaded with more art movie cliches than you can count, but once they get out the way the trans-generational story does close its grip on you.
3/5
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Only the Brave
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film also serves to highlight the dearth of such films in Australia. It's not as though there aren't similar heroes to celebrate, yet the persistence of cultural cringe seems to prevent local filmmakers from producing films such as Only the Brave.
3.5/5
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The Spectacular Now
3AW
Jim Schembri
If John Hughes was still alive, The Spectacular Now is precisely the kind of film he'd make...Very earthy, true-to-life & honest, with naturalistic performances so good you won't mind hearing the word "awesome" 4000 times.
3.5/5
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Woman in Gold
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a ripping yarn, this, deftly directed by Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) and full of emotional cadences, subtle shifts of mood and changing motivations.
3.5/5
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The Hunt (Jagten)
3AW
Jim Schembri
The story is as chilling as the snow-dusted Christmas-time setting; it is measured, non-sensational and takes a sobering, slow-burn look at the way people behave when their common sense is replaced by hysteria.
3.5/5
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R.I.P.D.
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's MIB meets Ghost via Ghostbusters in this flat, FX-driven drivel...Apparently, they're not just scratching the bottom of the Hollywood ideas barrell, they've worn all the way through and are now hitting the floor.
1.5/5
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Fast & Furious 6
3AW
Jim Schembri
With an apparent brief to set a new franchise record for on-screen vehicular mayhem, the film's signature sequence involves the car-crunching daylight pursuit of a tank as it powers down the wrong side of a Spanish freeway. It's magnificently nuts.
3.5/5
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Maleficent
3AW
Jim Schembri
Visually luscious...a full-blooded gothic fantasy fuelled by dark themes about motherhood, betrayal and redemption. Maleficent should also hold particular appeal for the date-movie demographic in that it's essentially an elongated revenge fantasy.
3.5/5
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Miss You Already
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight; Thirteen) strains to pump warmth and humour into the piece; too often moments that reach for realism stumble into mawkishness and emotional histrionics.
2.5/5
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Jim Schembri
Director Martin McDonagh injects his signature brand of dark humour into the proceedings to create an absorbing portrait of how ignoble the quest for justice can be and how moral foot-stomping can often signal that something important is being overlooked.
3.5/5
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How To Change The World
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Jim Schembri
Flat-out excellent documentary detailing the origins, evolution and internal squabbling of Greenpeace. Far from propaganda.
3.5/5
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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Jim Schembri
The most important thing about enjoyably trashy, title-says-it-all action films such as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is to keep everything moving so fast and on such a huge scale that nobody will care too much about how monumentally silly it all is.
3/5
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The Children Act
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Jim Schembri
Thompson shines as the heart of the film, her increasingly troubling confrontations with Fionn Whitehead conveying the transformative power one person can have on another.
3/5
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Bait
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Jim Schembri
Sounds like loads of fun - and it should have been.
2/5
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A Wrinkle in Time
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Jim Schembri
Whatever magic the presence of a giant Oprah Winfrey was meant to bring to this kid's fantasy sci-fi extravaganza by Ava DuVernay (Selma) has been lost in a largely antiseptic swirl of visual effects and right-on virtue signalling.
2/5
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The 5th Wave
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Jim Schembri
What begins with the giddy prospect of a fun apocalyptic alien invasion movie steadily morphs into yet another futuristic heavy-browed teens-vs-grown-ups movie. As its young, reluctant action star Chloe Grace Moretz (Carrie; Kick Ass) gives it her all.
2.5/5
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Cloud Atlas
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Jim Schembri
An epic, genre-hopping, unique adventure that effectively shoe-horns six films into one...Cloud Atlas achieves that rarest of all things for a film this big: it is engaging and consistently entertaining as well as providing brain food.
4/5
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Captain Fantastic
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Jim Schembri
An emotionally strong, heartfelt film written and very well-directed by Matt Ross, who fills the running time with plenty of colour and conflict.
3/5
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Dracula Untold
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Jim Schembri
Dracula Untold should have remained so.
1/5
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The Emoji Movie
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Jim Schembri
What a fine, funny, family-friendly film The Emoji Movie is.
3/5
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Robot & Frank
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Jim Schembri
First-time director Jake Schreier never forces the gentle emotional undertow that explores aging and dementia, the result being a charming, touching ode to elderly people and the humanist potential of technology.
3/5
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Destroyer
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Jim Schembri
When the history of this generation's most accomplished actresses is written, Nicole Kidman will easily stand out as one of the bravest and most daring if her performance in Destroyer is anything to go by.
3.5/5
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