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Richard Armitage

The Lodge movie review: stuck in miserably mushy snow

Thu, Feb 27, 2020
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This exasperating movie is so obnoxious it could be deliberately trolling us. Wants to have its ambiguous cake and eat it, too, smothered in a gloomy frosting. *extremely pinches nose in despair*

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Ocean’s Eight movie review: revenge of the women

Thu, Jun 14, 2018
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Breezy fun that sticks a shiv into Hollywood’s — and the larger culture’s — disdain for women. Wonderfully subtle comic performances from a great cast having a ball make for a perfectly suitable light diversion from the world right now.

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Pilgrimage movie review: faith in a time of weaponized religion

Thu, Aug 24, 2017
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Moody, atmospheric, even beautiful in its grimness; a medieval adventure unlike any we’ve seen before, with a sharp attention to psychological and moral realism.

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Overdrive movie review: dumb and dubious

Tue, Aug 15, 2017
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More plot holes than plot, this overly convoluted, deeply stupid Fast and Furious wannabe is crammed with clichés and memorable only when it’s laughable.

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Hannibal: the thrill is the terror, and the terror is the thrill

Mon, Aug 31, 2015
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Perverse. Completely perverse. And completely seductive. Do I love it, or is it evil? Is it a wrong thing if it’s both?

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Old Vic’s The Crucible with Richard Armitage now on VOD

Sun, Mar 29, 2015
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Just a heads-up for the fangirls…

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies movie review: there and back again… at last

Wed, Dec 10, 2014
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I fear that Peter Jackson has been suffering from a similar affliction to the dwarf king’s “dragon sickness”: a compulsive lust for epicness.

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Into the Storm movie review: all wet

Fri, Aug 22, 2014
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A movie to make you despair of the found-footage conceit (if you weren’t already). Suddenly Twister looks like Shakespeare.

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The Crucible (starring Richard Armitage) stage review (The Old Vic)

Tue, Jul 15, 2014
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A very earthy and spookily atmospheric production suffers from some dated attitudes: not those of the 1690s but the 1950s.

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London photos: another Richard onstage

Thu, Jun 26, 2014
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Richard Armitage. The Crucible. Tix acquired. Oh baby.

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