Film Reviews
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Taken (Pierre Morel)
Pierre Morel's energetic exploitation thriller Taken is redeemed by Liam Neeson's commanding performance
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Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 1952 musical-comedy Singin' in the Rain is not only a superb musical, but also a razor-sharp comment on the film industry.
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Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
Otto Preminger's 1952 noir melodrama Angel Face features not only of the genre's most icily complex femmes, but also one of its most sadistic finales.
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The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
Mickey Rourke makes this movie just as much as Darren Aronofsky, and Aronofsky did a fine job himself.
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Under the Volcano (John Huston)
John Huston's inconsistent adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano elusively teeters away from the ambiguities of its source material.
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Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
More akin to The Dirty Dozen than Schindler's List, Paul Verhoeven's Black Book is an energetically lurid and morally complex Second World War Resistance melodrama.
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Transsiberian (Brad Anderson)
Brad Anderson's neglected train thriller Transsiberian suffers from a crucial derailment in the latter stages of its coolly plotted trip.
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Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
Tropic Thunder is less a cavalier comment on the state of Hollywood and more an extolment of its excesses.
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Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
Often unrewarding, the self-consciously awkward Lars and the Real Girl is so quirky it hurts.
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Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Ten years on from American Beauty, director Sam Mendes once again peers behind the white picket fence, this time exploring a 1950’s marriage, but Revolutionary Road reaches the same conclusion: suburbia suffocates the soul.
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