Reviews

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Woman in Gold Review

The year is 1999. Maria Altmann is an octogenarian living in Los Angeles. In Austria, there is pressure on the government to make restitution to survi...

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The Nightingale

Ren Xing (Yang Xinyi) is a young girl being brought up in contemporary Beijing. Her Mother (Li Xiaoran) and her Father (Qin Hao) are busy, thirty-some...

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Review

GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF is a feature length documentary about Scientology made by Alex Gibney. It examines the experiences o...

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Ted 2 Review

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he’s a person in a court o...

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The Emperor’s New Clothes Review

I like Russell Brand. I like Michael Winterbottom…and I like capitalism. So THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES was a must-see in my book. Would the Brand and W...

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Jurassic World Review

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally en...

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Aloha

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling f...

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Partisan Review

Eleven-year-old Alexander lives in a blasted landscape of old, concrete buildings with a Soviet feel. There is the occasional person living in shacks ...

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Spy

Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency’s most dangerous missions. But when her partner fall...

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Mad Max: Fury Road Review

The lead up to MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was littered with disappointment. First the news that Mel Gibson would not return (I was totally up for a grisly old...

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Pitch Perfect 2 Review

I hated myself for liking the first film and was reluctant to watch the second….so how does PITCH PERFECT 2 fare? PITCH PERFECT is the bane of every s...

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Boychoir

Young Stet is a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.  He has a junkie mother who is utterly no help to him. His only support is his teacher Ms. Stee...

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Unfriended Review

The movies takes place on a computer screen of high schooler Blaire, who is watching a clip of her old friend killing herself. She stops when her boyf...

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While We’re Young Review

Ben Stiller knows how to play impotent rage. Many of his characters seem to be wired narcissists with anger management problems. In one way, the chara...

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Infinitely Polar Bear

It’s 1978. Cam Stuart (Mark Ruffalo) is a man from a well-to-do Boston family who should be able to walk into a highly paid job based on his connectio...

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as t...

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The Age of Adaline Review

Age of Adaline is an intriguing film that combines romance, drama and fantasy. So does it work? We meet Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively), an unassuming 2...

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The Gunman Review

Since Liam Neeson and TAKEN, a whole new sub-genre of ageing action flicks have popped up, taking over-the-hill actors and (despite their creaking joi...

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The Longest Ride Review

Nicolas Sparks fans rejoice, here comes another “critic proof” film adaption of one of his novels. The Longest Ride is set in North Carolina, where So...

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A Little Chaos

It is 1692 and King Louis the XIVth of France is moving the aristocrats and nobles of the court to Versailles. André Le Nôtre, the landscape architect...