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Film Archive: Bronson is a horrible, self-indulgent mess of a film
Tom Hardy gives a stunning performance as one of Britain’s most infamous criminals, but unfortunately the…
Film Archive: South Korean drama Treeless Mountain deserves a larger audience
Yong Kim delivers an affecting and memorable follow-up directorial effort to her 2006 feature In Between…
One Day ★★★☆☆
I was an enormous fan of Loan Scherfig’s 2009 picture An Education. It captured a…
Badly plotted and painfully slow, The Girl Who Played With Fire is a dull failure
The first entry in Swedish author Steig Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy became a surprise big-screen…
DVD & Blu-Ray: Everybody’s Fine ★★★☆☆
Kirk Jones’s remake of 1990 Italian drama Stanno Tutti Bene received a less-than-enthusiastic response from some…
DVD & Blu-Ray: Game of Death ★☆☆☆☆
Game of Death is one of the latest releases from Stage 6 Films, Sony’s B-movie…
DVD & Blu-Ray: Water for Elephants ★☆☆☆☆
Set in the American depression of the 1930s, this big-screen adaptation of Sara Gruen’s best-selling…
DVD & Blu-Ray: Submarine ★★★☆☆
Richard Ayoade jumps into his directorial debut with a bit too much enthusiasm, making Submarine a little hard to handle.
DVD & Blu-Ray: Tangled ★★★★☆
Rapunzel is brought back to life by Disney, in a cheesy but thoroughly enjoyable way.
DVD & Blu-Ray: Monsters ★★☆☆☆
Derivative, tedious and rather trying, this low-budget sci-fi road movie is far from the masterpiece…
DVD & Blu-Ray: Charlie St. Cloud ★★☆☆☆
Wonderful cinematography and Zac Efron’s half-decent performance can’t save this boring story.
The Tree of Life ★★★★☆
Terrence Malick’s latest production mixes A-list stars and a stuttering storyline to create an audience-dividing phenomenon.
DVD & Blu-Ray: Doubt ★★★★☆
The issue of child sex abuse is handled carefully and commendably in John Patrick Shanley’s 2009 drama.
DVD & Blu-Ray: Coraline 3D ★★☆☆☆
Because Hollywood is so desperate to con people into thinking 3D entertainment is the best…