Packed full of intriguing characters, offbeat drama-comedy This Must Be The Place even manages to make Sean Penn likeable.
My review of This Must Be The Place in spiked:
Critics should forget the historical inaccuracies - James Cameron’s rereleased blockbuster is a naff weepy and nothing more.
My review of Titanic 3D on spiked:
Werner Herzog’s poignant death-penalty documentary avoids didacticism in favour of unalloyed human experience.
My review of Into the Abyss in Spiked:
The remarkable Belgian filmmaking duo have produced a string of gritty modern classics - this fluffier fairytale is their first flop.
My review of The Kid with a Bike on spiked:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/12294/
It starts as a simplistic, sanitised take on the Holocaust, but finally In Darkness becomes the humanising film it needed to be.
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Thanks to its Indian twist, Michael Winterbottom’s new take on Tess of the d’Urbervilles is no tired costume drama.
Read my review of Trishna on spiked:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/12259/
Yes, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is unchallenging and cliché-ridden. But this bittersweet retiree romp remains a delight.
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Slow thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene – lauded at Sundance, ignored by the Oscars – isn’t challenging, just vague.
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He may have replaced the gore of war with the goo of War Horse, but somehow Spielberg pulls it off.
Read my review of War Horse in Spiked:
Clooney is okay in The Descendants, but the rest of the movie is a shallow and schmaltzy affair.
My review of The Descendants in Spiked:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/12125/
