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Journey’s End movie review: where the war winds blow

Fri, Feb 02, 2018
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A descent into the muddy trenches of World War I that is intimate and immediate, melancholy and profoundly moving. An experience as visceral as it is intellectual.

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Their Finest movie review: keeping calm and carrying on making movies

Wed, Apr 05, 2017
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Delightful dry and snarky satire on wartime propaganda, sharp feminist commentary, and a brilliant cast make this snappy historical dramedy a real corker.

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Me Before You movie review: romantic dramedy delusions

Wed, Jun 01, 2016
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This miscalculated romantic dramedy is pathetically simplistic about morally complicated issues, and kind of offensive to those living with disabilities.

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The Riot Club movie review: bad boys never lose

Thu, Sep 18, 2014
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Hooray for a good old-fashioned rich-bastard bashing. But they get the last laugh: These guys are the future masters of the universe. Hooray.

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The Quiet Ones review: possession obsession

Thu, Apr 10, 2014
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The few outright scares are curiously circumspect, but the old-fashioned Hammer Horror atmosphere is appealingly spooky.

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Snow White and the Huntsman (review)

Tue, May 29, 2012
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Would really really like for you to feel the grand, sweeping, larger-than-life mythos, and borrows willy-nilly from Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro to try to do so.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (review)

Tue, May 17, 2011
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I’ve listened to my fellow critics snarking on the film’s many many faults and I’ve laughed, but only at myself, because they’re not wrong and yet still it doesn’t change the fact that I really had a lot of fun with this movie.

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