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Wuthering Heights
3AW
Jim Schembri
Bearing about as much resemblance to the famous 1939 film as chalk does to cheese, Arnold employs the jagged, realist style that defined her excellent films Red Road (2006) and Fish Tank (2009) to great effect.
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War on Everyone
3AW
Jim Schembri
Having given us two noteworthy black comedies with The Guard (2011) and Calvary (2014), maverick writer/director John Michael McDonagh strikes out with this clumsy though admittedly diverting dirge about two corrupt Californian cops.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
3AW
Jim Schembri
Visually, the film is 21st century digital filmmaking at its best... Magnificently realised with what appears to be a limitless budget...director Peter Jackson and his team have gone all out with the staging of Middle-earth war.
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Sunset Song
3AW
Jim Schembri
Hardcore fans of veteran director Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) will likely lap up every sumptuously lit frame of his slow-moving, lovingly composed adaptation of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel...Everyone else, bring a pillow.
1/5
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Whitney
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film sanguinely captures the razor's edge of planetary fame as well as the long-term consequences of childhood trauma. It's a must-see for anyone with even a passing interest in the Whitney Houston story.
4/5
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Deliver Us from Evil
3AW
Jim Schembri
Effectively scary horror flick, set present-day in New York city as a cynIcial cop (Eric Bana) investigates a series of murders that link back to a case of demonic possession involving three Iraq war veterans
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Solace
3AW
Jim Schembri
Anthony Hopkins really is a prime example of that rare breed of actor whose magnetic presence can lift a film a few notches. With Colin Farrell also on board, the film boasts a strong cast that makes you wonder why the film bypassed cinemas here.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
3AW
Jim Schembri
The Force is strong indeed with this final chapter of the triple trilogy...the film delivers on all fronts, combining eye-boggling visuals with a meaty central storyline loaded with a series of resounding emotional thunder bolts. It's quite a ride.
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22 Jump Street
3AW
Jim Schembri
Proving that sometimes the same joke is funnier the second time around, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum return for a major serving of big, broad, stupid laughs.
3.5/5
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Philomena
3AW
Jim Schembri
A beautiful, moving story, directed with unhurried, unforced grace by veteran Stephen Frears (The Queen; High Fidelity). If, at the end of this film, you don't at least get a little misty-eyed, please check your pulse: you might already be dead.
3.5/5
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Frankenweenie
3AW
Jim Schembri
In the very best sense, the film is wall-to-wall eye candy.
3.5/5
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Pride
3AW
Jim Schembri
Amidst all its clumsiness, the film does hit an uplifting note in its final segment, making the point that equality is a matter of human rights, not sexuality.
2.5/5
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A Dog's Purpose
3AW
Jim Schembri
Adorable. A Dog's Purpose essentially gives you five dog movies in one...Director Lasse Hallstrom proved his dog-movie credentials with the modern classic Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) and here pulls on every heart-string without ever going off key.
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I, Daniel Blake
3AW
Jim Schembri
Nobility and dignity for the ordinary person are values Loach has always championed, and they are at the very heart of I, Daniel Blake.
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The Dinner
3AW
Jim Schembri
With a keen sense of how to keep so much verbiage watchable, director Oren Moverman builds tension to near-boiling point ...The latest in a string of strong films from Richard Gere [who] seems to be thriving in this chapter of his career.
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Journey's End
3AW
Jim Schembri
The period recreation is vivid, especially when the whistle blows and the men climb over the top and into a battlefield strewn with barbed wire, bomb craters and mud-soaked corpses. It's a gruelling drama, yet a worthwhile one.
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure
3AW
Jim Schembri
The concluding chapter to this winning, deeply satisfying teen dystopia franchise offers a well-plotted, action-packed adventure several notches above what we saw in any of the similarly themed Hunger Games or Divergent films.
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The Favourite
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is largely an ornately staged, staid wordfest. It features the odd cuss word, naughty sex and some brutal behaviour, but none of the director's stylistic touches make up for the film's overall lack of tension.
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Uncut Gems
3AW
Jim Schembri
Adam Sandler, who also did an impressive non-comedy turn in Punch-Drunk Love (2002), puts in a very strong performance as a hard-bitten businessman determined to survive in a world set out to destroy him.
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The Invisible Woman
3AW
Jim Schembri
The Invisible Woman is a fine-looking period piece and Fiennes has an eye for nuance as Dickens tries handling the public news of his private life in a world that has just discovered the thrill of newspaper gossip.
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The Expendables 3
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sylvester Stallone and his gang of gung-ho geriatrics are back with even more firepower and even more story than they had the last time around...Aussie director Patrick Hughes does an exemplary job colouring within the lines. .
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Pink Ribbons, Inc.
3AW
Jim Schembri
One of the hallmarks of a great documentary is telling you something you never expected to hear...This Canadian film will, if nothing else, make you think twice every time you see a pink ribbon.
4/5
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
3AW
Jim Schembri
If tradition is any guide, Joaquin Phoenix is at least up for a nomination for his sterling work as John Callahan, the American cartoonist who only found fame, fortune and a degree of self-esteem after his drunken adventures lead to a road accident.
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Spenser Confidential
3AW
Jim Schembri
A nifty action crime drama, Mark Wahlberg puts in a sturdy, head-strong performance as an ex-cop who has just been released from prison. Lots of tough talk and gunplay, set in Boston, a must for Wahlberg fans.
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After
3AW
Jim Schembri
The leads give it all they've got, and Australian actress Josephine Langford is impressive given the limited range of her role. The film looks pretty and director Jenny Gage, to her credit, knows the rhythms of teen melodrama well.
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Katy Perry: Part of Me
3AW
Jim Schembri
The contrast between the cartoony, fantasy-loving stage image of songstress Katy Perry and the rigours of a relentless world tour give what could otherwise have been a puffy, throwaway pseudo-documentary some real grist.
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You're Next
3AW
Jim Schembri
Amidst all the slashing and killing, director Adam Wingard (working off a script by Simon Barrett) injects a good deal of dark fun into the proceedings, especially when it comes to unmasking the psychos terrorising the family.
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Dark Shadows
3AW
Jim Schembri
In yet another over-designed cinematic letdown, director Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland; Sweeney Todd) weaves a choppy comic tale of resurrected ghouls set in the early 1970s.
2/5
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All Is True
3AW
Jim Schembri
It might well have been the fulfillment of some kind of dream for life-long Shakespeare devotee Kenneth Branagh to play The Bard in a movie. So it's perfectly apt that watching him in All Is True might well induce filmgoers into extended fits of slumber.
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
3AW
Jim Schembri
The rough-edged charm of this redneck reworking of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn radiates from the beautiful, warm performance by Zack Gottsagen...The unforced, uplifting vibe of the film makes it easy to understand its status as a sleeper hit.
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Ricky Gervais: Humanity
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fully aware of his status as a mini-god to the anti-PC crowd, Gervais clocks up his best stand-up special yet as he rubs against the grain on a wide variety of hot-button topics.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
3AW
Jim Schembri
At a point where the ever-extendable Star Wars franchise looked at risk of relying too much on its own legacy and table of cliches along comes The Last Jedi to push the saga into fresh, delightfully dangerous new territory.
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The Turning
3AW
Jim Schembri
Disjointed and unsatisfying. While some stories soar - the titular vignette is stirring and beautiful - too many others fall flat or get lost in the search for profundity as characters spend an inordinate amount of time staring into the middle distance.
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
3AW
Jim Schembri
The law of diminishing returns continues to take its toll on the Lego franchise here as Lego's Ninjago TV series gets the big-screen treatment. The cute self-referencing that peppered [the first two films] goes into overdrive in Ninjago.
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Errors Of The Human Body
3AW
Jim Schembri
A tight, twisty little sci-fi thriller, directed with skilful economy by Eron Sheean.
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The Campaign
3AW
Jim Schembri
Having helmed the Austin Powers trilogy, both Meet the Parents films and Dinner for Schmucks, director Jay Roach deploys his knack for broad comedy with often uproarious abandon. Make no mistake, the film cannot be faulted for having taste.
3/5
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Django Unchained
3AW
Jim Schembri
Tarantino is, in essence, a classicist who invests the bulk of his drama and tension in lengthy dialogue exchanges that are infinitely more compelling that his elongated sequences of cathartic violence.
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Cold Pursuit
3AW
Jim Schembri
As with all of Neeson's latter-day action films, Cold Pursuit is an enjoyable, throwaway time-killer that should satisfy Neeson's fans until it inevitably turns up in a boxed set.
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Snowden
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's no room for ambivalence in the vision of director Oliver Stone, who in his sprawling, highly selective, undeniably compelling biopic tracks Snowden as a frustrated idealist.
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Mr. Turner
3AW
Jim Schembri
The brilliant Timothy Spall puts in a career-topping lead performance in director Mike Leigh's unhurried, largely plotless, strangely mesmeric portrait of British artist Joseph Turner.
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The Cabin in the Woods
3AW
Jim Schembri
Playing on the cliches of the genre, the film avoids being a straight-out spoof by building to a satisfying, over-the-top climax.
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Borg Vs. McEnroe
3AW
Jim Schembri
The intense, and intensely scrutinised, rivalry between Swedish tennis great Bjorn Borg and American John McEnroe during Wimbledon in 1980 gets a terrific, energetic recreation in an historical sports drama that easily matches the Battle of the Sexes.
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Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois)
3AW
Jim Schembri
Extremely likeable and entertaining. Though the film is stuffed full of incidents, writer/director Cedric Klapisch is in no particular hurry, giving the frenzy a nice, natural flow.
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Just Mercy
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's not much you won't see coming in Just Mercy, though its predictability is more than offset by a suite of compelling performances.
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Green Book
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film has a warm, congenially progressive vibe and a wonderfully street line of humour.
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Evil Dead
3AW
Jim Schembri
A spookily effective remake of the ultra-low budget 1981 cult horror classic by Sam Raimi, the gore and blood is so plentiful here it even falls from the sky...A must for fans, Evil Dead also affirms horror as the most remake-friendly genre going.
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Hustlers
3AW
Jim Schembri
A flashy, well-made crime comedy-drama, confidently directed by Lorene Scafaria...The film wisely has moral ballast about what these women do, so anyone looking for a quasi-feminist revenge-against-men lark might be disappointed.
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
3AW
Jim Schembri
Everything clicks perfectly into place in this mega-sized action-comedy both for fans of the franchise and for those in need of a thunderous, undemanding time-killer...There is so much testosterone gushing around you could go white-water rafting on it.
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The Beguiled
3AW
Jim Schembri
A passable, pretty period time filler for the undemanding...The film has been politically corrected to within an inch of its life.
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Ted 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
A laugh-laden road fashioned for fans with just enough character work to make Ted a bong-buddy to care about in between all the jokes about pornography, sex, prostitutes, pot smoking and Comic Con.
3/5
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Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away
3AW
Jim Schembri
Designed as pure confection for the eyes, this largely wordless fare is perfect for kids (how many G-rated films are there around?) and for any stressed-out office worker eager for something to unwind to.
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Paranormal Activity 4
3AW
Jim Schembri
For all its digital gleam, PA4 is refreshingly old-fashioned from the jump-out-and-say-boo school, joyously employing a host of traditional horror movie tricks with consummate skill.
3/5
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The Monuments Men
3AW
Jim Schembri
Directing his fifth film, George Clooney uses the intriguing, fact-based premise to mount a surprisingly light-hearted romp across the battlefield as a gang of art experts...head for the front in search of art. It's sort of like Ocean's Eleven Go to War.
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My Cousin Rachel
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film looks pretty enough but the characterisations are so weak and the plotting so shallow and predictable - there is virtually no ambiguity in the film - you'll feel like hurling your popcorn at the screen every time Rachel tries looking wistful.
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Stuck in Love
3AW
Jim Schembri
A tough, well-etched portrait of the damage a broken marriage can wreak.
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To The Wonder
3AW
Jim Schembri
At times the film actually feels like a parody of an arthouse movie rather than a work produced by a director often unjustly described as a cinematic genius.
2/5
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A Monster Calls
3AW
Jim Schembri
A mature-minded fantasy adventure that has something more on its mind than impressive visuals and pyrotechnic displays...With its themes of loss, acceptance and self-respect A Monster Calls chimes in as a treat for the thinking teen.
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Frozen
3AW
Jim Schembri
You can't go wrong with Disney's absolutely winning animated musical princess fantasy...Already a major box office hit, Frozen is bound to join the Disney pantheon of neo-classics and offers near-perfect holiday entertainment for kids.
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Storks
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fun, forgettable school-holiday fodder...An enjoyable, disposable animated diversion.
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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
3AW
Jim Schembri
As with the previous two installments in this super low-cost, super-lucrative horror franchise, the video verite technique is very effective in creating the feel of spontaneity before delivering some very well-engineered shocks...A great date movie.
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Baby Driver
3AW
Jim Schembri
Terrific, character-driven action comedy... Wright again shows his mastery of blending comedy with high-octane action.
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The Benefactor
3AW
Jim Schembri
Well-etched character piece about a high-spirited philanthropist (Richard Gere) with no family...writer/director Andrew Renzi keeps things straightforward and gets terrific performances out of Gere and especially Theo James.
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Hysteria
3AW
Jim Schembri
While there have been a lot of films of late involving human-machine interaction, Hysteria serves as an overdue reminder that mechanical devices can, in fact, perform helpful services that don't involve killing people or drilling through skyscrapers.
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Paris Manhattan
3AW
Jim Schembri
First-time director Sophie Lellouche keeps this puff pastry-thin piece of romantic fluff as light and inconsequential as it needs to be.
3/5
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Zootopia
3AW
Jim Schembri
The dazzling design of Zootopia offers a non-stop stream of invention and visual wit that perfectly enhances a surprisingly involving plot...A gleaming gem of a film.
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Alpha
3AW
Jim Schembri
An engrossing survival film about the plight of prehistoric people trying to make ends meet amidst the beauty and savagery of a landscape they are a few aeons from dominating.
4/5
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The Shack
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film deals in starkly spiritual terms with the issues of loss, hatred and forgiveness, and raises a lot of common questions about who's side God is on...In a brave performance, Worthington brings a salty edge to his character.
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The Hummingbird Project
3AW
Jim Schembri
[The film] joins the recent raft of unusual, unusually engrossing business films such as The Big Short, The Founder and Joy...Salma Hayek plays the corporate boss like an ultra-cool Bond villain, keen to crush her competitors under her killer stilettos.
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The Professor and the Madman
3AW
Jim Schembri
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary might not instantly sound like the basis for much of a movie, yet the combination of Mel Gibson and Sean Penn with a pretty compelling historical backstory ends up delivering a solid historical drama.
3/5
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The Night Before
3AW
Jim Schembri
Loaded with party drugs and with Rogen putting in yet another of his rote man-child performances - really, Seth, enough already - it's a pleasant enough time-killer though all the improvised scenes with over-lapping dialogue are a little hard to make out
2.5/5
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Pacific Rim
3AW
Jim Schembri
Undoubtedly the worst big-screen film since M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender...To put it bluntly, Pacific Rim deserves the derision usually lumped upon Transformers 2.
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Jurassic Park
3AW
Jim Schembri
Some things have dated - Sam Jackson wouldn't be allowed to smoke in the office; everyone would have mobiles; Google Earth would have kept the island from being kept a secret - but the power of the film's pioneering CGI remain strangely undiminished.
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Spy
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a back-handed compliment, sure, but Spy is easily Melissa McCarthy's best movie yet.
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Fifty Shades Darker
3AW
Jim Schembri
A well-made sex melodrama designed for the mommy-porn loving masses. It's like a soap opera with bondage, or Mills & Boon with whips and handcuffs...it offers soft-centred transgression for supermarket shoppers, polite perversion for the multiplex.
3/5
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Freeheld
3AW
Jim Schembri
The citizens-vs-city hall story has a distinct Frank Capra resonance to it, especially when a media-savvy gay activist, played superbly by Steve Carell, chimes in with his dial-a-crowd protesters.
3/5
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Night School
3AW
Jim Schembri
Any film that celebrates the value of education and its ability to improve one's prospects deserves major kudos. Kevin Hart has a huge black audience in the US so it seems he's keen to work in some positive messaging amidst all the pratfalls.
3/5
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Tolkien
3AW
Jim Schembri
Well-directed with a close eye by journeyman Finnish director Dome Karukoski, the film looks handsome and offers a well-rounded look at the English class system while also providing insights into the inspirations behind Tolkien's visions.
3/5
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The Watch
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's one of those sad occasions where the bringing together of funny people mysteriously negates their ability to be funny.
1.5/5
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Brooklyn
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is certainly lovely and well-acted, but the nerve it has obviously hit is not immediately obvious. Perhaps it's the film's very modesty - its lack of pretense, grandeur and histrionics - that accounts for its appeal.
3/5
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Holy Motors
3AW
Jim Schembri
As an oddball art film that openly invites you to wonder what it's all about, the film lacks ambition or any real vision, but it's certainly never boring.
3/5
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Arrival
3AW
Jim Schembri
A yawn-inducing snoozefest that borrows from every science fiction film from The Day the Earth Stood Still to Contact...Those hungry for a good old-school, alien-based sci-fi adventure will decry the films lack of ray guns.
1/5
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Cosmopolis
3AW
Jim Schembri
Another Cronenberg film badly in need of an exploding head.
1/5
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Arctic
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film does bear more than a passing resemblance to other recent survival films, perhaps reflecting the universal truth that when it comes to surviving in the wild, the elements can be as harsh as they are indifferent to the suffering of lost humans.
3/5
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Dead Man Down
3AW
Jim Schembri
A scatter-brained plot never quite works itself out.
1.5/5
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Booksmart
3AW
Jim Schembri
Actress Olivia Wilde's wonderful directorial debut [is] a singularly unconventional, extremely funny, occasionally insightful tale of high school hijinx, girl talk and how reality can sometimes slap you in the face at the least convenient moment.
4/5
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Taken 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Watching sexagenarian action man Liam Neeson lurch through Taken 2 reminds us that there was at least one dude missing from the cast of The Expendables...suffers from chronic franchise fatigue.
2/5
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Bohemian Rhapsody
3AW
Jim Schembri
The long-awaited, much-feared biopic of Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury turns out, thankfully, to be a respectable and respectful tribute to glam rock's most flamboyant ambassador...Rami Malek carries the film with aplomb.
3.5/5
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The Edge of Seventeen
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Jim Schembri
Edge of Seventeen hits the pubescent nail soundly on the head with a sureness of touch that easily makes it one of the best and most honest films thus far about the turmoil, delights and utter confusion of the teenage years.
4/5
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Thanks For Sharing
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Jim Schembri
A likeable, well-meaning muddle of a movie, Thanks For Sharing takes the light road through the serious sex addiction of three New Yorkers.
3/5
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Finding Dory
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Jim Schembri
Kids around six and eight will likely love the offerings here but adults might find their patience tested by this brilliantly rendered but rather wet serving of Disney franchise extender.
3/5
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Point Break
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Jim Schembri
There's no disputing the visual quality of the film's stunt sequences: people dive out of planes, through buildings, off cliffs...Unfortunately, there's no trace of the homo-erotic bromance that fuelled the original.
1.5/5
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Midsommar
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Jim Schembri
A disturbing and dark tale of manipulation, alt-religion, bizarre rituals and debauchery that might just leave you aghast...Fans of 1973's classic The Wicker Man will appreciate Midsommar's respectful nods in the manner it delivers its deepest frights.
4/5
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La La Land
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Jim Schembri
As loving a valentine as the film is to old-school Hollywood, the rapturous reception it has received might be a collective reaction against Hollywood's current trends, as enjoyable, breezy and ceaselessly entertaining as it is.
3.5/5
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Cats
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Jim Schembri
Cats is the kind of modern movie musical that will have you humming the visual effects as you leave the cinema...For such a feather-weight musical the direction is just too dour. It's like trying to have a skip in your step while wearing moon boots.
2/5
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Minions
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Jim Schembri
The origin story of those little yellow jibberish-spouting helpers who populate the Despicable Me franchise is an hilarious, ridiculously entertaining, joyfully infectious affair...a cheesy, cheeky knockout.
4/5
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The Hitman's Bodyguard
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Jim Schembri
With fireballs, gun fights and fast cars at every turn, this is an above-average slice of tongue-in-cheek B-grade movie mayhem, with the two leads breezily matching the love/hate spark of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the Lethal Weapon films.
3.5/5
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Stoker
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Jim Schembri
The first English-language film from South Korean firebrand Park Chan-wook (Thirst; Oldboy), Stoker is a pungent mood piece spiced with mystery, murder and plenty of unsettling emotions.
3.5/5
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Venom
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Jim Schembri
Marvel Studios have now officially hit the bottom of the barrel as one of its third-rate, C-grade creations known mainly to Marvel's fanboy base gets his own mediocre movie.
2/5
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The Angry Birds Movie
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Jim Schembri
A fast, funny, deliriously silly, breezy piece of animated folly - far too low-brow for Pixar, far too dragon-free for Dreamworks....A phone app turned into a fun family film? Makes you glad you lived this long.
3.5/5
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Shot Caller
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Jim Schembri
A tightly packed, top-shelf crime drama with a great cast.
3.5/5
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