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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret) and The Absent One (Fasandraeberne) movies review: good clean nasty Nordic noir

Fri, Apr 15, 2016
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Grim treats, mining suspense and urgency from intensely plotted dual timelines of brutal criminality. A must for fans of rumpled, cynical, bitter detectives.

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Midnight Special movie review: let the children use it

Fri, Apr 08, 2016
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Intensely gripping drama full of smart, thoughtful, personal twists on some familiar sci-fi ideas. Hums with the hope that a better world is within reach.

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Sold movie review: the life of a child sex slave

Fri, Apr 01, 2016
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Brutal yet sensitively rendered, putting a human face, if a fictional one, on an issue that rarely gets one. Almost Dickens for the 21st century.

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Mojave movie rating: red light

Fri, Mar 25, 2016
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A spoiled melancholy Hollywood brat and a menacing drifter engage in a deadly dick-measuring contest that you will hope neither survives.

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Irrational Man movie review: the measure of a man’s midlife crisis

Tue, Mar 22, 2016
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A blithe and chipper drawing-room comedy that, in a deliciously perverse way, plays with notions of chance and karma and very bitter irony.

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10 Cloverfield Lane movie review: the monsters women have to deal with

Thu, Mar 17, 2016
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A marvelous little movie: compact, efficient, almost unbearably intense, smartly (perhaps accidentally) feminist. A glorious treat of pulp genre fun.

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The Here After (Efterskalv) movie review: what price forgiveness?

Fri, Mar 11, 2016
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Brutally chilling in the banality of its examination of justice and forgiveness. A deeply unsettling film that challenges the empathy it carefully constructs.

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The Divergent Series: Allegiant movie review: walled in by reality

Thu, Mar 10, 2016
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A disappointing downfall from the previous films, the appealing metaphor for nonconformity giving way to dull good-vs-evil battle and dumb plot conundrums.

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Emelie movie review: bad babysitter, under a glossy veneer

Thu, Mar 03, 2016
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A slow-burn twist on the home-invasion story with a creepily classy atmosphere of dread and menace, but where it ends up is the stuff of hoary cliché.

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London Has Fallen movie review: agitprop security theater

Wed, Mar 02, 2016
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A Nuremberg rally for 21st-century America. Pure terror porn: racist, jingoistic, thoroughly obnoxious. Donald Trump voters will love it. *sob*

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