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Films Reviews (By Retrospect)

Great movies live with you; you carry them around wherever you go and the things they say shape the way you see the world. Did this movie fade away or was every moment burned into your retinas? Was it a quick fix action flick, good for a rainy Sunday afternoon? Or the first day of the rest of your life? Did you hate it with a fury only to fall in love with a passion? Or did that first love drain away like a doomed romance?

Marked out of 5.

Frost/Nixon

Based on the play by Peter Morgan, director Ron Howard’s interpretation hangs on the question of whether either man can pull off an amazing and unpredictable coup


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Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married is a rare and beautiful film which you'd be a fool to miss


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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is inexplicably cosy and warming with incredible visual effects


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Timecrimes

It’s hard to discuss the inner workings of Nacho Vigalondo’s brilliant feature debut without ruining it


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Anvil! The Story of Anvil

If you were to apply Darwin’s theory of natural selection to the world of heavy metal, the result would play pretty much like Anvil! The Story of Anvil


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The International

A vaguely pompous yet mercilessly entertaining conspiracy thriller about global banking baddies


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The Class

The Class is a particularly fascinating encapsulation of issues of identity and race


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Franklyn

It’s not often you see this kind of ambition in British science-fiction


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Surveillance

This Rashomon-esque tale of multiple perspectives and split personalities is devilishly plotted and unremittingly bleak to the last


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American Teen

American Teen is interesting and awkward in equal measures


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Watchmen

Zack Snyder succeeds with an excellent faithful adaptation of Alan Moore’s masterpiece


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Bronson

Nicolas Winding Refn’s mannered biopic is the first to examine its incarcerated subject not as a monster or a victim, but rather as an artist


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