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Films Reviews (By Enjoyment)

All other things aside, how did you feel for those two hours? Were you glued to your seat? Did the film speak to your soul? Was it upsetting, disappointing, or just plain boring? Were you even awake?

Marked out of 5.

We Are Together

In a theatrical landscape increasingly sympathetic to the documentary, We Are Together is still something truly special.


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No Country For Old Men

If it’s not a revolution in cinema, it’ll do until the revolution gets here


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Into The Wild

You hear the words ‘directed by Sean Penn’ and you don’t necessarily think hippie spiritualism, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the palliating power of nature


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Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi comes straight out of the underground and socks it to the big boys


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Man On Wire

The memory of Philippe Petit’s wire walk allows the Twin Towers to stand tall again in James Marsh’s stunning film


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The Fall

Endlessly original and wonderfully shot. A banquet for the eyes


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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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Waltz With Bashir

Ten minutes in to Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir, it’s easy to see why this animated documentary was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival


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The Bicycle Thieves

With 60 years of history chattering in your ears, it’s all but impossible to write objectively about Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist masterpiece


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Let The Right One In

Tomas Alfredson’s stunning Swedish love story has re-invented the vampire film


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Helen

Anglo-Irish cinema gets a new, fully-formed identity


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Sounds Like Teen Spirit

An exquisitely poignant, hilarious and uplifting reminder of the power of music, and cinema, to enrich your life


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