Category: Film Reviews
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The Conspirator
REVIEW: Actor, filmmaker and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford gets back behind the camera for the first time since 2007’s Lions for Lambs with a thought-provoking examination of the witch-hunt trial around the Lincoln assassination that has parallels today.
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Hanna
REVIEW: Hanna is the latest film from Atonement and Pride and Prejudice helmer Joe Wright. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana, it is a fractured fairy tale, filled with stunning cinematography and capable action in equal measures.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
REVIEW: The penultimate piece of the Marvel cinematic universe arrives with Chris Evans as Captain America: The First Avenger. Leading up to the spectacular conclusion in next year’s The Avengers, director Joe Johnston waves the flag for retro adventure.
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Larry Crowne
REVIEW: Tom Hanks gets back behind the camera, and in front of it, bringing Hollywood A-Lister Julia Roberts with him to discuss the plight of the common people in a post-financial crisis world, with a script co-written by My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos.
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Review: 5 Days of War
REVIEW: King of 1990s action Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight) returns from the wilderness with a dramatic left turn to cover the 2008 Russian conflict with Georgia and the hard-working journalists who gave their lives for the truth.
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Beautiful Lies
REVIEW: French starlet Audrey Tautou is reunited with her Priceless director Pierre Salvadori (writer of Wild Target), in Beautiful Lies, a romantic-comedy in which she once again sets out to prove that romance is not dead, it’s just very, very French.
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Bad Teacher
REVIEW: Cameron Diaz adds Bad Teacher to her comedic filmography, and is joined by Justin Timberlake and Jason Segal in the latest film from director Jake Kasdan (Grosse Pointe, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story). Does she earn a passing grade or does the film fail to make tenure?
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Melbourne International Film Festival 2011: What We’ve Seen So Far
The The 60th Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off this week, so we take a look at 22 films we’ve already seen including Sydney Film Prize winner A Separation.
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Review: Wu Xia
REVIEW: The traditional period martial arts film takes on a different twist in Wu Xia, with director Peter Chan combining the historical epic, police procedural and psychological thriller into one action-packed yet impressively handled effort.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
REVIEW: One of the most ambitious and beloved film series of all time comes to a fitting conclusion as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 joins together with its predecessor to form one of the most epic conclusions in cinema history.
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