James Marsh
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Emily Blunt is the titular heroine in this pulpy adaptation of the hit novel that arguably strikes a better tone than Fincher’s Gone Girl, but is nevertheless deeply flawed. Listen… Read More
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Seth Rogen and Kristen Wiig head up the voice cast in this gleefully outrageous animated comedy about supermarket food discovering their fate. Listen to my review Read More
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Based on Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk follows a group of Iraq war veterans who return to the US in 2004 for a brief victory tour,… Read More
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Na Hong-jin returns with a brilliant and deeply unsettling thriller about small town paranoia and grisly murder. Listen to my review (at 34:00) Read More
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Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake sing and dance and hug as brightly-coloured bequiffed trolls out to rescue their village from certain death. Listen to my review (at 25:45) Read More
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Tom Hanks runs around Florence in his third Robert Langdon adaptation, but a tour of Dante’s Nine Circles might have been more enjoyable. Listen to my review Read More
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As its title proclaims, Feng Xiaogang’s bureaucratic satire I Am Not Madame Bovary has no direct connection to Flaubert’s adulterous heroine. Read my review Read More
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Boo Junfeng’s second feature is an absorbing and impactful drama about a young man, who takes a job at the maximum security prison where his own father was executed. Listen… Read More
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton star in Marvel’s latest superhero entry, introducing audiences to the magical multiverse. Listen to my review Read More
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Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (2013’s Twenty Feet from Stardom) teams up with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma to tell the fascinating and emotionally stirring tale of the Silk Road Ensemble. Read… Read More
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Tom Cruise returns for a second outing as Lee Child’s tough guy former army cop, this time taking down gun runners while wrestling with the notion he may be a father.… Read More
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Following the disappointment of his Hollywood debut The Last Stand, director Kim Jee-woon returns home with a riveting espionage thriller that taps into Korea’s recent trend for patriotic Occupation-era period… Read More
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The premise of Jean Dujardin’s latest comedy sounds woefully misjudged. In a remake of the 2013 Argentinean film Corazón de León, the French Oscar winner (for 2011’s The Artist) plays… Read More
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During the Red Army’s defence of the Soviet Union’s western border in 1941, sharpshooter Lyudmila Pavlichenko chalked up 309 confirmed kills – all Nazis. Read my review Read More
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Denzel Washington heads up a diversified septet of gunslingers in Antoine Fuqua’s better than expected remake. Listen to my review Read More
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Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant sees Ben Affleck play an autistic bookkeeper, whose condition proves to be both a gift and a dangerous burden. Slickly executed yet overly ambitious, the film wrestles with… Read More
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Following the success of superhero film Chronicle and last year’s American Ultra , screenwriter Max Landis turns in another oddball action rom-com with Mr. Right, directed by Paco Cabezas. Read… Read More
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Dante Lam is back to his explosive best with this high octane action thriller following Chinese undercover agents working to bring down a Golden Triangle drug cartel. Listen to my… Read More
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