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Films Reviews (By Anticipation)

Ever waited six months for a box-office behemoth? Read a book that you loved and nervously watched the adaptation? Been pleasantly surprised by an off-the-radar independent? Anticipation plays a crucial role in your reaction to a movie. Rather than ignore it, we think it should be measured and acknowledged as part of the movie-going experience.

Marked out of 5.

Diary Of The Dead

After 39 years messing with things that go bump in the Night/Dawn/Day, King George remains the original and best


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I’m Not There

That Haynes succeeds in capturing Bob Dylan's ever-changing essence is attributable to one of the neater cinematic tricks of recent memory


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Lust, Caution

Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution is like a bespoke-suited City shark. Everything is manicured and polished


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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

When a film as impressive as Elizabeth is followed by murmurs of a sequel, reactions tumble into two opposing camps


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Evening

It’s very odd film that can discuss heart-blackening guilt, loveless marriage, pain and regret only to taper off into a dry-eyed ending


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Ratatouille

Pixar's latest is occasionally inspired, but mostly trivial and pointless


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Standard Operating Procedure

In an urgent movie about human degradation Morris' modes of representation seems like the worst kind of apolitical wank-off imaginable


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The Banishment

Andrei Zvyagintsev follows up The Return with another hypnotically beautiful and emotionally captivating tale of a loving marriage undone by masculine pride


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Gomorrah

Matteo Garrone’s intelligent adaptation is an important statement for contemporary Italian cinema


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Burn After Reading

Witty, smart, laugh-out-loud and disturbing too


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Of Time and the City

Amost as emotional to watch as it must have been to make, this is a brilliantly constructed portrait of Davies’ birthplace


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Choke

Clark Gregg’s super-sharp romantic comedy debut adapted from the novel by Chuck Palahniuk


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