Review extract: We had no recollection of having seen this before, but we did, in 2013 (see other review) This time I found it really excellent, brilliantly acted and sympathetically told making the characters strong and avoiding any sentimentality. ...

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Review extract: Nice story although it went on a bit towards the end as they kept not meeting. ...

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A powerful story of the madness of crowds

Review extract: Probably hilarious if you are Finnish or Russian but a bit weird for me as the gags seem obvious and laboured but in a kind-of good way

Review extract: A proposed civil war in today's USA is just the background to what essentially is a Deliverance style road movie about a set of four journalists travelling through an strange landscape. ...

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Review extract: A good story about an older woman trying to extend her life experience through poetry while grappling with her live-in teenage grandson's social awkwardness problems and their consequences.

Review extract: With Russian emigrees in London providing the gangster sex trafficing background a young woman has to confront them. ...

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it seems ridiculous to say it about a tale of a dog and his robot friend, but it was a bit unbelievable at times.

Review extract: Flawed because I didn't really like the family or any of the people in it. ...

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If Camus had made films this might have been one

Ultimately did he do it?

Mid 1960s cusp of the old staid and new swinging styles

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Entertaining light spoof, some jokes a bit repetitive and obvious (eg the interviewer chasing the camera)

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Review extract: Echos of Wes Anderson in the stylised performaces and mis-en-scene. ...

Well it really is total rubbish

Review extract: A charming picture of the tensions of extended family life against a background of external threat in a gorgeous setting.

Review extract: A slow and slightly intense movie about a withdrawn child finding her place in the world. ...

Review extract: A wonderfully crafted film and a good story set mostly in 1950's Rio with episodes from the parallel lives of two close sisters intertwined. ...

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Review extract: Slow paced, minimal dialogue, at first intriguing as we discover his fixed daily life, but ultimately we learn nothing - why is he living this happy life, what ws his past that brought him to these sunlit uplands. ...

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Review extract: Much better made than Manhunter and the prelude with Agent Graham capturing Hannibal provides a nice lead-in. ...

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Long(ish) and languid with a lot left unsaid in terms of the resonances between Lawrences life and Rama's. Ultimately unsatisfying

A different way of telling a story with an animal as the lead character

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Review extract: Convincing slice of life for a female student in early 60's France (outside Paris). ...