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The kids got kick

OUT NOW! THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE remains imaginative, poignant and entertaining despite its football based premise.

Mar 15, 2012 by in Film

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Lost girls

OUT NOW! TREELESS MOUNTAIN is the unsentimental yet heart-wrenching story of two unwanted kids and their incompetent carers.

Mar 1, 2012 by in Film

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More than one can chew

OUT NOW! Relying on cheap didactic tricks,TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA is too big a topic for this production to handle.

Dec 29, 2011 by in Film

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Confronting the past

OUT NOW! With excellent casting, the dual time periods in one life are well played in SVINALÄNGORNA.

Dec 8, 2011 by in Film

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Dispelling the classics?

OUT NOW! ANONYMOUS should have stuck with more Shakespeare and less Roland Emmerich.

Nov 9, 2011 by in Film

K.O.! Film beats book

OUT NOW! Better as a visual than in print, ONE DAY is the simple story of true love that isn't positively drivel.

Nov 3, 2011 by in Film

Clueless critters

OUT NOW! THE FUTURE attempts to tug at your heartstrings, but only inspires vague pity in some and indifference.

Oct 27, 2011 by in Film

Teenage drips

OUT NOW! In RESTLESS, the unbelievable good looks of Henry Hopper are the real tragedy of Van Sant's love story.

Oct 20, 2011 by in Film

Kidnapped plot

OUT NOW! In ABDUCTION, Twilight star Taylor Lautner beefs up for this spy story so top secret, it may not exist.

Oct 13, 2011 by in Film

Copied confusion

OUT NOW! COPIE CONFORME is a budding romance that doesn't blossom into cinematic bliss.

Oct 12, 2011 by in Film

The art of the indie try

OUT NOW! THE ART OF GETTING BY does more than get by, it totally succeeds.

Sep 29, 2011 by in Film

Momentum recession

OUT NOW! MARGIN CALL contains a gilded cast of actors but fails to stimulate interest amidst a feature of shop talk.

Sep 29, 2011 by in Film

The odd fuzz

OUT NOW! THE GUARD gives the kind of performances that keeps you guessing and save the film.

Sep 22, 2011 by in Film

Still water runs deep

OUT NOW! The grim subject matter of LE HAVRE is given a fairy tale veneer by the Finnish auteur.

Sep 7, 2011 by in Film

A round of British

OUT NOW! Food from the point of view of those meant to actually enjoy it makes TOAST a success.

Aug 11, 2011 by in Film

Hip hop hoax

OUT NOW! I'M STILL HERE lands with an air of annoyance and not much more.

Aug 11, 2011 by in Film

Shang-why?

OUT NOW! SHANGHAI is cobbled together crap with no real sense of style or direction.

Aug 11, 2011 by in Film

Win some

OUT NOW! WIN WIN has Paul Giamatti keeping a family afloat in a film with only a moderate pinch of morality.

Aug 3, 2011 by in Film

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Dream on

OUT NOW! LES AMOURS IMAGINARIES is lacking just that – love and imagination.

Jul 7, 2011 by in Film

Provincial lives

OUT NOW! CEDAR RAPIDS sends it's fish out of water story up the right creek and it's a winner.

Jul 7, 2011 by in Film

From Russia with love

OUT NOW! THE WAY BACK follows a group of gulag escapees who walked from Siberia to India.

Jun 30, 2011 by in Film

You're fired

OUT NOW! Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts pretend to be poor people.

Jun 29, 2011 by in Film

The bang bang flub

OUT NOW! While the film could address interesting moral issues, THE BANG BANG CLUB deals with none of them.

Jun 22, 2011 by in Film

Beautifully established roots

OUT NOW! Terrence Malick's TREE OF LIFE may be trying to do too much, but it works wonderfully.

Jun 16, 2011 by in Film

World portrait

OUT NOW! LIFE IN A DAY is aware that there is always someone crying, laughing, being born, or dying.

Jun 8, 2011 by in Film