Short Reviews
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Fast And Furious 8 (2017)
Its all confusing now. Because the team are doing favours, hobbs, who is now doing freelance for the government. Dom is now...
168 words arrow_forwardFantastic 4 (2015)
There's something really wrong with this film and it took me some time to pinpoint exactly what it is. It's the plot....
219 words arrow_forwardHigh Rise (2015)
Welcome to a modernist nightmare where the 60's meet 1984. Early on it's just as ambiguous Hail Caesar, Wheatley is happy to...
125 words arrow_forwardJason Bourne (2016)
If you can get around the really bad casting choice of Vikander (she's too small and her voice is weird) and the...
126 words arrow_forwardCreed (2015)
Adonis Creed is an unoriginal character: (tough young broodish guy angry at the world), and everybody's seen the Rocky formula before, but...
183 words arrow_forwardCrimson Peak (2015)
Gothic romance is not exactly a mainstream genre, but there is a level of accessibility here thanks to fantastic imagery. The film...
162 words arrow_forwardDope (2015)
There is a school of thought, which argues that if you actually notice a film's soundtrack, it has failed, and if that's...
170 words arrow_forwardLion (2017)
It's all a bit 'so what' really. Think Slumdog Millionaire set half in Australia with no gameshow and where nothing much happens....
120 words arrow_forwardTriple X (2017)
What were we really expecting? There aren't Bourne levels of story depth, and it's one of those movies like Now You See...
138 words arrow_forwardHacksaw Ridge (2017)
First with Silence, and now with Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew Garfield is redeeming himself very much as an actor in my eyes (those...
127 words arrow_forwardTrainspotting (2017)
This is as British as British gets. Danny Boyle knows what he's doing, and here he's pulled off a sequel similar to...
128 words arrow_forwardBlack Panther (2018)
In assessing Black Panther, we have to consider that this movie is a product of Ryan Coogler, but also of the Marvel...
1555 words arrow_forwardMoonlight (2016)
Of my many minor and major gripes with Moonlight, none of them bother me so much as the knowledge that the film...
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