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The Nun
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's nuns amok in this bleak, deeply cliched yet effective supernatural spookster.
2.5/5
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Annabelle: Creation
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fans of the Conjuring series will appreciate the film's fidelity to the series' straight-faced style - as opposed, say to the cheesy, comic horror of the Chucky movies - though hardcore horror fans will see some of the jolt moments coming.
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Bully
3AW
Jim Schembri
For all its good intentions...the film does not fight hard enough to rise above the emotions of the issue to explore real solutions.
2.5/5
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Resident Evil: Retribution
3AW
Jim Schembri
Giving their growing fanbase exactly what it expects, director W.S Anderson and Milla Jovovich deliver another thick slice of slick, glossy, futuristic action pulp.
3.5/5
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Daddy's Home
3AW
Jim Schembri
This is the type of comedy Steve Martin would have made in his heydey. Strongly recommended.
3/5
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12 Strong
3AW
Jim Schembri
A fine, very well-made war movie with strong characters, plenty of realistic action and loads of those tough, failure-is-not-an-option Americanisms that always feature in any movie where something has to get done, whatever the cost and whatever the odds.
3.5/5
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The Angry Birds Movie 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
The main difference this second time around is the film's sheer payload of gags, both verbal and visual, that acknowledge the sensibilities of the adults in the audience who are watching with their kids.
3/5
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That's My Boy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Say what you like about Sandler - his fans simply ignore all the critical contempt - his ability to get A-list talent to dive into his comic world is extraordinary...Leighton Meester deserves a special bravery award for signing up to do this.
2.5/5
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Saban's Power Rangers
3AW
Jim Schembri
Kids with limited movie experience might go for it, but that silly M rating is likely to keep them away from this overlong misfire.
2/5
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Grudge Match
3AW
Jim Schembri
Imagine the stars of Rocky and Raging Bull squaring off in a boxing comedy about two old rivals of the ring out for payback. That's about all you need to know about this by-the-numbers, computer-written laughfest.
3/5
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The Last Impresario
3AW
Jim Schembri
A solid, illuminating, entertaining portrait of a highly unconventional producer whose boisterously anti-establishment sensibility allowed him to thrive at a very different, very daring time in pop culture.
3/5
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Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fabulous profile of the American author/commentator/troublemaker, filmed shortly before his death in 2012.
3/5
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Crimson Peak
3AW
Jim Schembri
Urgh. Another slice of over-designed pseudo-gothic crud from the criminally over-rated Guillermo del Toro, who has dutifully followed up his Transformers knock-off Pacific Rim with a bloated, empty-headed haunted house jaunt.
1/5
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Sister
3AW
Jim Schembri
Strong, pungent, snow-laden contemporary Swiss drama...Director Ursula Meier fills the film with unspoken desperation that is almost tear-inducing.
3/5
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Judy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Garland was a complicated mess and Zellweger truly captures her contradictory cocktail of confidence, desperation, ebullience, despair & stage fright. She's a has-been with a crinkled face and a defiant manner eager to reclaim her share of the spotlight.
3/5
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Silence
3AW
Jim Schembri
As one of the unarguable geniuses of American cinema, Martin Scorsese essentially makes two types of films: those soul-searching works that explore the spiritual side of the human condition; and those films you can watch without losing consciousness.
2/5
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
3AW
Jim Schembri
A near-brilliant, dialogue-free, stop-motion feature-length animation based on the TV kids show. Much noise is made, but not a word is spoken as Shaun and his woolly pals leave the safety of their farm and head into the netherworld of the nearby town.
4/5
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
3AW
Jim Schembri
Gore-movie maestro Eli Roth (Hostel) tries changing his spots with this multiplex effort but struggles to conjure up a family film of any real distinction or character.
2/5
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Aladdin
3AW
Jim Schembri
Once you get passed the rather obvious fact that Will Smith is no Robin Williams, Aladdin unspools as quite a zesty, funny, family-oriented, visually delightful magic carpet ride.
3/5
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Ricki And The Flash
3AW
Jim Schembri
We have become so conditioned to calling Meryl Streep a great actress that we tend to regard any performance she gives as great. This, of course, is not always the case, as her work in this boring, badly made, wafer-thin, tiresome film attests.
1/5
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Eddie The Eagle
3AW
Jim Schembri
Cheesy and predictable in the extreme, what matters is that it works...it's the good old British pluck in Eddie's DNA that really sells the film, making it stand out as a true hero narrative in a movie market choking with super-powered comic book ones.
3/5
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The Wolverine
3AW
Jim Schembri
Slick, entertaining, super-hero thrill ride, the only quibbles are its length - every big film these days seems to be 20 minutes too long - and its 3D conversion. Really, it's another example of the marginal difference that process often makes.
3/5
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The Lunchbox
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though this much-touted, cuter-than-cute, try-hard romantic film from India has been showered with festival glory and glowing reviews from across the world, it unspools as a likeable but pretty unexceptional little confection.
2.5/5
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Bad Boys for Life
3AW
Jim Schembri
What? A Bad Boys film with actual substance in its story, along with mega-tonnes of action? Who'd have thought?
3.5/5
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T2 Trainspotting
3AW
Jim Schembri
The Trainspotting team have managed to come up with one of the best examples of how good sequels work.
4/5
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Bachelorette
3AW
Jim Schembri
Limp, lazy, unfocussed...about as funny as flat champagne.
1/5
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Furious 7
3AW
Jim Schembri
Put simply and bluntly, Fast & Furious 7 is great, thrilling, balls-to-the-wall entertainment. It's not only, and easily, the best in the F&F series, it's one of the best car operas you're ever likely to see.
4.5/5
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Little Monsters
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Abe Forsythe leans into the crazy and milks the scenario for a sizeable quotient of laughs...Lupita Nyong'o puts in such a committed performance amidst all the low-budget mock-horror nonsense you'd think she was vying for a second Oscar.
3/5
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Annabelle Comes Home
3AW
Jim Schembri
The spirits unleashed do a splendid job, creating a lot of fun, B-grade spookery using in-camera effects. There is digital work in the film, of course, but all the trickery adheres to a wonderfully effective old-school aesthetic.
3/5
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Compliance
3AW
Jim Schembri
This little independent American film might be the scariest thing you see this year...a shattering film about human psychology of which the young Martin Scorsese would have been proud.
4/5
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
3AW
Jim Schembri
Delivers precisely what is expected to its fans...The super-high quality of the animation, which places Alvin, Theodore and Simon in the real world, remains a real highlight in these innocuous adventures - it really is an unrecognised art.
3/5
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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret)
3AW
Jim Schembri
Very rudimentary, unexceptional Danish police procedural.
2/5
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The Highwaymen
3AW
Jim Schembri
The story behind the demise of legendary Bonnie & Clyde at the well-armed hands of two ageing Texas Rangers gets a solid, unhurried treatment here...Director John Lee Hancock directs the drama with a hard nose and with no love for the celebrity criminals.
3/5
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Non-Stop
3AW
Jim Schembri
Liam Neeson is at it again in yet another enjoyable, disposable French-produced action flick in which a hapless, dishevelled guy with big personal problems is forced by circumstance to jump, run, growl and shoot people - often all at the same time.
3/5
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Under the Skin
3AW
Jim Schembri
A fantastic mind-game of a movie with an uneering sense of how to keep viewers off-balance, Under the Skin is an intriguing, subtle, sci-fi head-scratcher designed to have you guessing - in the best possible way - about just what the heck is going on.
3.5/5
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Foxcatcher
3AW
Jim Schembri
A compelling, quietly disturbing drama about sport, wealth, lost manhood, mother issues and murder.
4/5
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What We Did on Our Holiday
3AW
Jim Schembri
From the makers of the adorable British sitcom Outnumbered comes a lovely, fable-like tragi-comic tale about life, loss, lying and honesty.
3.5/5
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God Bless America
3AW
Jim Schembri
Enjoyable, over-the-top, and nowhere near as black as the premise sounds, God Bless America is essentially an extended comic op-ed piece.
3/5
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World War Z
3AW
Jim Schembri
A roaring good, bloody block party with The Undead.
3/5
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The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fairly funny, made-for-kids sequel to the 2014 animated film about a bunch of city park animals looking for the easy life. [A] fast-moving sequel.
2.5/5
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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
3AW
Jim Schembri
While the reference-filled dialogue delivery is as slick as ever in the latest flick, the tarnish is really starting to show, with fewer big laughs and some surprisingly average visuals.
2.5/5
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
3AW
Jim Schembri
As action pulp, the venture gets a very solid, if far-from-perfect, working over from Thor director Kenneth Branagh, the former Shakespearean darling who is clearly relishing his stomp into the mainstream.
3/5
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Finding Vivian Maier
3AW
Jim Schembri
Absolutely fascinating doco about the secret life of Vivian Maier, a plain-looking Chicago nanny who secretly took hundreds of thousands of street photographs during her life without telling or showing anyone.
3.5/5
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Zombieland: Double Tap
3AW
Jim Schembri
With very little story to go on director Ruben Fleischer obligingly keeps the intricately choreographed fight scenes coming at a snappy pace, along with the jokes and cultural references, with Elvis Presley featuring heavily.
3/5
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
After 15 years and many failed attempts to escape typecasting, Nia Vardalos returns to the only role anybody seems to care about seeing her in.
2.5/5
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Reality
3AW
Jim Schembri
Captures the 21st-century affliction of learned discontent, where perfectly happy people go in quest of something they think is better. Reality is a thoughtful, intelligent film.
3.5/5
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Lady Bird
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is not so much a coming-of-age story...[it] aims for a deeper truth, being that life's most important lessons come incrementally, in small, touching moments, something Lady Bird comes to appreciate, however reluctantly.
3/5
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Assassin's Creed
3AW
Jim Schembri
More aptly known as Assassin's Crud, this all-but-incomprehensible mess attempts to bring the mega-popular computer game to franchise-ready life...a wall-to-wall dud.
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The Amazing Spider-Man
3AW
Jim Schembri
In what appears to be an attempt to redefine movie mediocrity, the Spider-Man saga comes in for a half-hearted retelling so pedestrian it often has trouble distinguishing itself from the 2002 Sam Raimi film we're all supposed to have forgotten about.
2/5
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The Zookeeper's Wife
3AW
Jim Schembri
The ridiculously versatile Jessica Chastain nails it again with a terrific, touching central performance in this true-life wartime drama.
3/5
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Antiviral
3AW
Jim Schembri
As pretentious as it is boring.
1/5
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Kill the Messenger
3AW
Jim Schembri
A tough-as-nails, deep-browed drama that proves, once again, that doing the right can often backfire on you, especially when dealing with the hypocritical vagaries of the modern media.
3/5
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Alan Partridge
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sadly, Alpha Papa is the cinematic equivalent of trying to retell a joke for the tenth time to the same person. It's a tough assignment laughwise, as Coogan pushes an overdone, over-the-hill character uphill.
2/5
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Extraction
3AW
Jim Schembri
The jewel in the crown of all the masterfully orchestrated mayhem is a brilliantly conceived set piece that combines fire fights, fist fights, car chases, foot chases and even falls from buildings into a continuous 12-minute sequence.
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Snatched
3AW
Jim Schembri
The shebang comes with all the requisite screaming, pratfalling and naughty girl quipping about sex and nether regions...Schumer has an amiable, knockabout presence while Hawn keeps up nicely - especially considering how she [could] play her grandmother.
2.5/5
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Central Intelligence
3AW
Jim Schembri
The enormous Dwayne Johnson teams up with the diminutive Kevin Hart for a very funny mismatched-buddy comedy that blends comic action with a strong anti-bullying message.
3/5
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Adrift
3AW
Jim Schembri
Most of all, Adrift mounts a timely, quiet, stirring statement about our place in the environment, which is at once beautiful, terrifying and utterly indifferent to us, whether we are in the comfort of a population centre or alone amidst its vastness.
3/5
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Black Mass
3AW
Jim Schembri
A grim, sturdy crime tract that owes everything to Depp's immersive portrayal, even as it slowly peters out.
3/5
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The Divergent Series: Allegiant
3AW
Jim Schembri
As usual the digital optics are impressive - the vision of large, derelict structures half-buried in the ground seems a favourite background motif in many blockbusters these days - but the story-telling is as lazy as ever.
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The Old Man & the Gun
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director David Lowery's chief focus is to keep the character of Forrest Tucker within the popular perception of Redford's persona. And it works, both as a light crimedy and as a valentine to Redford.
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Life
3AW
Jim Schembri
An enjoyable, deeply derivative remake of Alien, only instead of deep space it's set in earth's orbit, instead of a clunky floating factory the astronauts fly about in zero gravity on a space station and instead of a giant beast we get a squid.
3/5
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American Animals
3AW
Jim Schembri
An absorbing, detailed, unintentionally humourous account of [a] hare-brained heist.
3/5
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Tim's Vermeer
3AW
Jim Schembri
Tim's Vermeer is both enjoyable as entertainment and as an intelligently mounted case study of how art and technology complement, rather than grind against, each other. As Penn eloquently puts it: "The problem is we make that distinction."
3/5
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The DUFF
3AW
Jim Schembri
The teen-movie standard about the struggles of the high school outsider is given a good, surprisingly thoughtful going over in an above-average offering that challenges stereotypes and the alleged importance of fitting in.
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The Dark Tower
3AW
Jim Schembri
McConaughey uses his looks and dimpled charm to good effect to conjure a sleazy kind of devil who can kill people with words. But it's not enough to make up for the film's mordant, apocalyptic tone, which has become something of a cliché.
1/5
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The Intouchables
3AW
Jim Schembri
This pleasant, predictable, fact-based tale of an unlikely friendship between a quadriplegic and his carer hits all the sweet spots a feel-good movie must.
3/5
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Thor: Ragnarok
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Taika Waititi and his improbably buffed star Chris Hemsworth have deployed lashings of humour to grease the cogs of yet another wind-up franchise vehicle. And, to their credit, they've done a swell job.
3.5/5
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Inferno
3AW
Jim Schembri
This third adaptation of a mega-selling Dan Brown religio-thriller doesn't have the novelty of The Da Vinci Code or the exploding priests of Angels and Demons, but it does make for another entertaining, proficiently mounted follow-the-clues chase caper.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
3AW
Jim Schembri
Just when Disney's sea-faring fantasy franchise seemed all set to founder comes a leaner, cleaner installment that easily qualifies as the best-paced and most enjoyable of the lot.
3/5
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Joy
3AW
Jim Schembri
A winning, warts-and-all account of how Joy Mangano fought sexism, exploitation and innumerable set backs to get her mop on the Home Shopping Network...Consumed by a defiantly triumphant drive, Jennifer Lawrence out-does herself as a domestic heroine.
4/5
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Daddy's Home 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
As far as family-friendly seasonal puffery goes it's a very well-handled, pleasant goof-a-rama.
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Dark Phoenix
3AW
Jim Schembri
Dark Phoenix is full of the grade-A action we've come to demand from these films. But what really sets it off is the dramatic focus on Jean's journey. This keeps things emotionally grounded, however fantastical the FX sequences get. It's quite a feat.
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The Curse Of The Gothic Symphony
3AW
Jim Schembri
By all the accounts presented in Randall Wood's eminently fun, feisty portrait of artistic eccentricity, the formidable reputation of the mammoth, rarely performed Gothic Symphony by little-known British composer Havergal Brian is richly deserved.
3.5/5
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The Intern
3AW
Jim Schembri
One of those pleasant examples of a movie doing precisely what it promises on the poster.
3/5
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
3AW
Jim Schembri
In that rarest of cinematic turns, the return of 1970s TV news anchor Ron Burgundy is a huge improvement on the surprise 2004 hit...it has a lot more laughs, a much better story and even a point or two to make about the modern news business.
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Boyhood
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a slow-burn drama that works well over its epic length, exploring the nuances of those around Mason rather than lurching for the dramatic spikes and revelations we normally associate with the mislabelled "coming-of-age" sub-genre of teen films.
3.5/5
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Child's Play
3AW
Jim Schembri
Here's a terrific example of how to do a reboot: you take an existing concept, hold on to the central premise, then rethink everything from the ground up...[the film] reminds us of how totally creepy movie dolls have been since 1945's Dead of Night.
3/5
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Ex Machina
3AW
Jim Schembri
With a deep love for clinical white, subtle camera work and the 1971 George Lucas film THX-1138, first-time director Alex Garland fashions a visually stark contest of ideas in what is essentially a high-tech two-hander.
3/5
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UglyDolls
3AW
Jim Schembri
Even undemanding kids in need of distraction might find it hard not to get restless during this word-heavy, woke animation.
2/5
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
3AW
Jim Schembri
McKinnon, who has been something of a blur in films such as Ghostbusters and Rough Night, really comes up a treat here, bouncing off Kunis with a ditzy, infectious energy. With little interest in proprieties, she's a hoot and a joy to watch.
2.5/5
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Judy & Punch
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's no mean feat drawing comedy from the darkest of topics, yet Foulkes seems blessed with a sureness of touch when siphoning humour from tragedy, eliciting uncomfortable laughs from black moments as she shapes her story into a feminist revenge fable.
3/5
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King of Devil's Island
3AW
Jim Schembri
Very good but very heavy; the film's chilly, snow-blasted environs accurately reflect the tale's dour tone.
3/5
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Amy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Brutally honest, lovingly made biographical documentary chronicling the rise, fall, recovery and relapse of Amy Winehouse, modern music's most tragic talent... A compelling, absolutely heart-breaking portrait.
4/5
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Pitch Perfect
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's girl-bonding aplenty in this upbeat comedy about a high-school a capella competition in which voice-only singing, envy and vomiting play key roles...it's Glee with extra sass.
3/5
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Rising From Ashes
3AW
Jim Schembri
Inspiring, tough-hearted documentary about the formation of the Rwandan cycling team in the wake of the 1994 genocide.
3/5
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's possible [the film] represents a new form of post-content cinema, wherein the compression of so many plot holes into a single narrative creates the illusion of coherence...watching [it is] akin to having an orbital sander pressed against your brain.
1.5/5
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Home
3AW
Jim Schembri
A pastel-coloured visual delight with an emphasis on soft-edges and bubbles, director Tim Johnson (Antz; Over the Hedge) aims the film squarely at kids who won't mind the regular overdoses of touchy-feely cheese.
3/5
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Thunder Road
3AW
Jim Schembri
A moving, engrossing, darkly amusing portrait of a self-effacing man living on the edge who is slowly being pushed by circumstances to a nervous collapse. Another arthouse jewel that deserves attention.
4/5
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Still Alice
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's heart-breaking to watch, made all the more poignant by Julianne Moore's largely subdued, deeply moving performance.
3.5/5
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Jim Schembri
With the immeasurable aid of a great cast, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen; The Hunt) mounts a very honourable adaptation of Thomas Hardy's sweeping melodrama about lust, doomed romance and how not to pick a husband.
3/5
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The Act Of Killing
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Jim Schembri
A truly haunting documentary masterpiece.
5/5
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Pain & Gain
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Jim Schembri
Without having to worry about giant robots or special effects so much, director Michael Bay gets the chance to properly exercise his talent for film comedy, a quality that laces a lot of his films and that too many critics are loathe to acknowledge.
3/5
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Ali's Wedding
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Jim Schembri
While it's nice to praise a movie for good intentions it's what ends up on screen that matters. In the case of Ali's Wedding what begins with a solid premise and the promise of a cross-cultural rom-com descends into a scrambled, sexist mess.
1/5
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Dredd
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Jim Schembri
Far from the mess of the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version - in which they made the mistake of taking the character's helmet off - this all-new take on the no-nonsense comic book anti-hero is a tightly packed, trapped-in-a-building action blamfest.
3.5/5
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Chicken People
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Jim Schembri
Chicken pride and genetic engineering are at the heart of this winsome, semi-serious non-mocking documentary about the exacting preparations a very diverse group of chicken-loving yokels undertake for the 2015 Ohio National Poultry Show.
3/5
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Into The Storm
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Jim Schembri
This is great, big, cheesy fun, a ripping thrill-ride of a film designed to make you gasp and woo in between intakes of over-priced popcorn... it certainly shows just how far digital visuals have come since the awful 1996 Jan De Bont film Twister.
3.5/5
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Terminator Genisys
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Jim Schembri
Astonishingly bad high-tech turkey...director Alan Taylor ditches any emotional connection to the original in favour of the usual 21st century tangle of clashing storylines amidst a blizzard of very expensive, very loud, very boring visual effects.
0.5/5
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The Hate U Give
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Jim Schembri
The film certainly can't be faulted for the courage of its convictions, though there are too many spots where the dialogue sounds like it came off a civil liberties pamphlet.
3/5
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Mortal Engines
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Jim Schembri
Star Wars on Wheels.
2/5
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Wonder Wheel
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Jim Schembri
Woody Allen proved his knack for getting unexpectedly strong performances from unexpected sources when he cast comedian Andrew Dice Clay in Blue Jasmine. Here Allen does the same with Belushi's moving portrait of working-class decency.
3/5
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