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Review of Sexy Beast (2000)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

An extended short film par excellence, and we're permitted to luxuriate in Glazer's skills…

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Review of The Act of Killing (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

To take Anwar's own dramatic projection of his gradual humanisation seems a much more murky and less conclusive process than Oppenheimer…

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Review of Key Largo (1948)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A classy little '40s chamber piece that is competently handled by writer-director John Huston and supremely well acted by its starry cast…

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Review of In the House (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

An unconvincing, sub-Almodóvarian twist on fantasy projection, sexual awakening, and the unreliability of storytelling…

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Review of All the President's Men (1976)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A bravura piece of filmmaking to rank alongside his earlier 'paranoia' gem, The Parallax View…

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Review of The Maltese Falcon (1941)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

There's two competing frames of reference throughout: the narrative itself, then a meta-narrative with the characters continually voicing…

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Review of The Sixth Sense (1999)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

One of Hollywood's most accomplished genre films of the last 20 years…

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Review of Breathe In (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A beautifully realised piece of cinema, and Doremus seems to understand that storytelling on film needn't just be about dramaturgy, but…

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Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

Carruth places us in the same radical position as his two stranded protagonists, who have been forced into a Thoreauvian journey to…

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Review of The Big Wedding (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

If the whole set-up wasn't so apologetically dire, you could call its politics offensive…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

A quasi-Derridan, deconstructionist enquiry by Sarah Polley into her family history…

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Review of The Big Sleep (1946)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

The plot's complexity and slow unravelling of its subject matter of exploitation, blackmail and murder, make it the obvious precursor to…

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Review of Syriana (2005)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

I'm hard-pushed to think of a more cynical and self-critical American picture, and one that so radically and empathetically portrays the…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 16 Dec 2018

One of the most charming Hollywood screwball comedies of recent years…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 15 Dec 2018

It's pure aesthetic the whole way through, and, certainly, for the first 30-40 minutes the genuinely unsettling atmosphere is brilliantly sustained…

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Review of My Friend Dahmer (2017)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 15 Dec 2018

What's impressive is despite the film's huge subtextual residue (Dahmer's future serial killer status), Meyers still wraps it all up in a…

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Review of Roma (2018)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 15 Dec 2018

Cuarón is dangling a cathartic hook as Cleo 'overcomes' personal tragedy with a heroic gesture…

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Review of Far from Heaven (2002)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 15 Dec 2018

Haynes was miraculously able to provide a commentary on class, gender and race relations that not only dissected the utopian fallacy of…

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Review of Sightseers (2012)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 09 Dec 2018

It's hard to quibble with Sightseers, and its satirical, observational eye is spot on, mining to laser-like effect hitherto underdocumented…

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Review of Changeling (2008)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 09 Dec 2018

Changeling is such a dead weight of poor, blandly prestigious Hollywood genre cinema…

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