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Affleck carries the film – with the help of that jaw: Manchester By The Sea reviewed

Francesca Steele 11 January 2017 11:49

Everyone in Hollywood knows that if you want some good jaw-clenching you go to an Affleck brother. To older brother…

Dull and impenetrable: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin reviewed

Francesca Steele 19 January 2016 11:39

Fans of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon be warned: this is not that. Never have I watched a film where the…

Magic Mike XXL reviewed: stripping can be sexy – but lying on a pinned-down woman’s face is not

Francesca Steele 6 July 2015 18:17

It’s hard to overstate how much I wanted to like Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to the 2012 Steven Soderbergh…

Entourage review: its obsession with boobs, babes and oiled up bodies continues

Francesca Steele 17 June 2015 14:54

Look, could everyone please stop denigrating the Entourage movie for spurious reasons like ‘it feels like an extended episode of…

The Falling reviewed: a film of beauty and magic

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Long live the glockenspiel, that typically dull percussion stalwart usually relegated to primary school memories, along with humdrum gym classes…

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Birdman soared past longtime favourite Boyhood at the 87th Academy Awards, as Alejandro González Iñárritu’s hilarious Hollywood satire unexpectedly took…

Leviathan: the anti-Putin film the Russians tried to ban that’s tipped for an Oscar

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