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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

“It’s a mess, ain’t it sheriff?” says Deputy Wendell (Garret Dillahunt), staring at thefivebullet-ridden corpses,fourtrashed pick-up trucks and one dead dog that are strewn across the patch of desert scrub.


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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

A director who calls himself by a single name normally sets alarm bells ringing – McG, anyone? – and Tarsem’s prior body of work doesn’t exactly silence them.


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Of Time and the City

Shown to unprecedented acclaim at Cannes, where it was presented in a special sold-out screening, Of Time and the City marks the welcome return to the screen of Terence Davies.


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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

If you’ve never heard of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, don’t worry; you’re in good company


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