Reviews

  • The Woman in the Fifth Review

    The Woman in the Fifth Review

    1.5/5
    Pawel Pawlikowski’s disappointingly belated and tremendously unsatisfying return, following 2004′s lyrical and lovely My Summer of Love, may be explained by the director’s recent history. When he was about 60% of the way through making The Restraint of Beasts in 2006, Pawlikowski’s wife fell gravely ill, and the film had to be abandoned. Pawlikowski’s wife [...]

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  • Young Adult Review

    Young Adult Review

    4/5
    Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) had it all in high school. She was tall, beautiful, the prom queen, and had a jock boyfriend to match. Fast forward twenty years and she’s moved from suburban Mercury, Minnesota, to the metropolis of Minneapolis. She lives in a swanky condo with a tiny, fluffy dog and is the author [...]

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  • The Descendants Review

    The Descendants Review

    4.5/5
    A humorous yet touching exploration of dealing with loss, Alexander Payne’s The Descendants is every bit as enthralling as his previous efforts. Like Payne’s usual fare, the plot deals with characters in amongst a period of transition. In this case it is George Clooney’s Land Baron who begins to bond with his two daughters after [...]

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  • Haywire Review

    Haywire Review

    4/5
    Leaving Jolie’s Salt shivering in the corner, Soderbergh’s latest offering is an exercise in how to make great action cinema. The plot may sound typical; a covert operative is double crossed and must work to uncover a conspiracy. However the delivery is certainly anything but conventional, with a strong female character and art house pretensions. [...]

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  • The Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think Review

    The Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think Review

    4.0/5
    The Chemical Brothers have now been around for more than fifteen years. I remember hearing them as a teenager (back when my response to all dance and electronic music was a glib ‘just a load of beeping, isn’t it?’). My opinion began to shift about five years ago, when I discovered the Swedish band The [...]

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  • Girl Model Review

    Girl Model Review

    3/5
    Supermodels, living the stuff that our mortal dreams are made of, those beautiful demi-gods who earn millions of dollars and literally don’t have to put their own socks on. In their documentary Girl Model, David Redmon and Ashley Sabin take a look at what happens at the bottom of the heap, the adolescents and prepubescents [...]

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