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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

REVIEW: The Academy Awards dark horse uses 9/11 as a shorthand for sentimentality.

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One for the Money - Katherine Heigl

Review: One For the Money

It's two for the show as Katherine Heigl has visions of a sugary Plum dancing in her head. Now an explosive eighteen books into Janet Evanovich's successful series of

Love - Doze Niu

Review: Love

Telling you everything you need to know in the title, Love is a light alternative to the carbon copy romantic comedies that populate the cinemas at this time

Romancing In Thin Air - Sammi Cheng, Louis Koo

Review: Romancing In Thin Air

Climb every mountain, forge every stream, follow every standard romance movie, until you find your film. The internationally recognised Hong Kong director Johnnie To is nothing if not prolific, averaging

Contraband - Mark Wahlberg

Review: Contraband

Hollywood smuggles another Nordic remake over the border, but the condom carrying the script might have burst somewhere in transit. Óskar Jónasson's Reykjavik-Rotterdam won a slew of prizes at

Weekend

Review: Weekend

Andrew Haigh's sophomore effort explores sex and relationships in a refreshingly frank two-hander about contemporary gay life in the UK.   "You become this blank canvas," explains Glen (Chris

The Delinquents - Kylie Minogue and Charlie Schlatter

80s Bits: The Delinquents

Welcome back to 80s Bits, the weekly column in which we explore the best and worst of the Decade of Shame. With guest writers, hidden gems and more, it’s

My Week with Marilyn - Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne

Review: My Week with Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe lives again as cinema continues to consume its own history in this brief and flirtatious peek behind the lenses of the Golden Era. Despite no more than

BUCK

Review: Buck

Perhaps the last of the true cowboys, or another breed entirely, the story of Buck Brannaman is as thought-provoking as it is beautiful. In Cindy Meehl's debut documentary, her subject

The Grey - Liam Neeson

Review: The Grey

Liam Neeson takes his very particular set of skills, and combines them with Joe Carnahan's own penchant for the grimmer realities of survival, unleashing a truly gripping tale. Joe

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