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Review of Norte, The End of History (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

Most directors would let the medium be subservient to the rich storyline but not Diaz who elevates and elucidates the themes of the…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

It's hard to deny the spectatorial awe that Cuarón has engendered by the story's end as the film's very title (and theme) of gravity…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

An ironic commentary on the complexity and inherent difficulties of old-fashioned, paper-heavy, analogue detective work…

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Review of X-Men (2000)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

The film gains a lot from the grandiose theatrical casting of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the two main roles, but the rest of the…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

One of the most pictorially concentric American films of recent years…

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Review of Good Will Hunting (1997)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

It's a deceptively good performance by Williams: the schmaltzy raw materials of Maguire would seem to be a trap, but he plays it absolutely…

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Review of Babel (2008)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

An irredeemably overdetermined, far-fetched and transparently schematic piece…

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Review of Babel (2006)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

An irredeemably overdetermined, far-fetched and transparently schematic piece…

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Review of American Pie 2 (2001)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

The filmmakers have essentially engineered the exact same formula as the first film (the lads are now a year into their college lives)…

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Review of Center Stage (2000)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

This unintentionally hilarious variant on the time-old high school/college/'Fame' staple features some of the most rote storytelling and…

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Review of Che: Part One (2008)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 02 Dec 2018

Soderbergh's noble trudge through a ground-level account of the Cuban Revolution as seen through our notional conduit, Che Guevara, is some…

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

We never really see the downtrodden nature of Burnham's life pre-awakening, we just take it as a given from Burnham's own sarcastic narration…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

Russell might have been better served playing against the material somewhat - to draw out its darker, more discursive commentary on the…

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Review of Toy Story (1995)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

All great animated films, certainly those aimed at youngsters, seem to subtly lament the transience of the magic of childhood, and Toy…

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Review of Antz (1998)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

Amid all the ingenuity and smartness, the work fails to move and contains little wonderment - ironically appropriating the zealous industry…

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Review of Legends of the Fall (1994)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

What a magnificent piece of old tosh Legends of the Fall is: playing extremely close to a genius pastiche of the melodrama genre…

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Review of 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

The film ultimately uncannily honours the ethos of Cave the musician, as it in a sense - like him - enjoys mythologising storytelling and…

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Review of Diana (2013)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

This film's flight of fancy in taking Diana to quasi-Sex and the City, 'girl about town' territory goes a touch too far…

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Review of Face/Off (1997)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

Apart from enjoying the narrative hijinks, it's also fascinating to watch both actors interpret the demonstration of the respective…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Pj Nabarro (328) for Patrick Nabarro (306) on 01 Dec 2018

What's so effective about The Guard is how it has just enough of a narrative trajectory to keep it from feeling entirely like a sketch-show…

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