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Happy End **** (2017, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Toby Jones, Fantine Harduin) – Movie Review
What’s wrong with Michael Haneke? Why is he so miserable? Or, if you’re a fan, what’s right with Michael Haneke? And, I suppose this film is both uber-miserable and just right. It may win a […]
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) **** (2017, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel, Grace Van Patten) – Movie Review
A new movie from writer-director Noah Baumbach is usually a pleasure greatly to be anticipated, and this one follows very nicely in the tradition of his Kicking and Screaming (1995), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Margot at […]
Loveless [Nelyubov] ***** (2017, Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Yanina Hope) – Movie Review
Maryana Spivak and Aleksey Rozin play a deeply unpleasant Leningrad couple selling their apartment as they go through a divorce. Their nasty little spats include deciding who should look after their 12-year-old son (Matvey Novikov) […]
Beast ** (2017, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle) – Movie Review
Writer-director Michael Pearce’s 2017 British feature debut drama, the twisty indie thriller Beast, starts quite well, proceeds fairly well, then gets messy mid way and loses it in the last half hour. Jessie Buckley stars as disturbed 28-year-old […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 ***½ (2017, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Kurt Russell, Michael Rooker) – Movie Review
Vol 2 is bright, lively and super-slick, with astounding visuals in a marvellous production, and set to the toe-tapping soundtrack backdrop of ‘Awesome Mixtape #2’. It is an ultra smooth ride, with non-stop laughs and […]
Split *** (2016, James McAvoy, Betty Buckley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula) – Movie Review
James McAvoy luxuriates in his huge star role(s) as a split-personality mental patient with no less than 24 identifiable separate personalities, who kidnaps, imprisons and torments three understandably terrified girls (Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, […]
Free Fire **½ (2016, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Sam Riley, Brie Larson, Jack Reynor, Cillian Murphy, Enzo Cilenti, Michael Smiley, Noah Taylor) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Ben Wheatley’s 2016 black comedy action movie is an often funny but disreputable and not very fresh feeling Tarantino-style crime thriller, with a script (by Wheatley and Amy Jump) that looks like they were making […]