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May 16, 2013
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Baz Luhrmann’s hectic Fitzgerald adaptation; profile of a protean drummer; hit-man movie that misses the mark
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May 11, 2013
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May 9, 2013
A captivating runaway adventure; JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek movie; Mira Nair tackles Islam and Islamism; and a Danish drama about a Somali hijacking
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May 2, 2013
Pedro Almodóvar’s airborne comedy; smart young director Adam Leon’s shaggy Bronx movie; a sentimental simian documentary; and more
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Apr 4, 2013
Classical music drama tugs at the heartstrings; deliriously violent comedy; a family journey through Chile’s changing landscapes
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Mar 27, 2013
Danny Boyle’s art-heist movie; poison-pen psychodrama from François Ozon; gang-war and gang-peace
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Mar 21, 2013
Brazilian director’s clever, witty first film depicts condominium life in Recife; ‘Compliance’ explores human gullibility; life of a Naples fish-stall vendor
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Mar 8, 2013
Award-winning director Cristian Mungiu believes that having audiences boo his latest film is a good sign
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Mar 7, 2013
Steven Soderbergh’s thriller mixes paranoia and pharmaceuticals, Frank Langella forms an engaging double act with a robot, plus the prequel to a cinema classic
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Feb 28, 2013
Richard Gere in a money-and-manslaughter thriller, Barry Levinson tackles eco-horror, plus Shakespeare in an Italian prison
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Feb 21, 2013
Wachowskis tackle David Mitchell’s jumbo novel, Malick dishes out more mysticism, war-aftermath road movie has a powerful charge
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Feb 14, 2013
A damning documentary on Catholic cover-ups, Judd Apatow’s latest comedy and Keanu Reeves’ star-studded study of digital film
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Feb 7, 2013
This week’s new films: ‘Hitchcock’, ‘I Give It a Year’, ‘A Liar’s Autobiography’, ‘I Wish’, ‘Warm Bodies’ and ‘No’
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Jan 31, 2013
Reports on Michaël R. Roskam’s miserablist powerhouse, Robert Zemeckis’s moral-uplift mega-drama and Roger Michell’s FDR biopic
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Jan 24, 2013
Nigel Andrews on Steven Spielberg’s biopic, Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden thriller and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to action
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Jan 17, 2013
This week’s new films: ‘Django Unchained’, ‘The Sessions’, ‘Everyday’ and ‘Ballroom Dancer’
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Jan 3, 2013
This week’s cinema releases reviewed: ‘Quartet’, ‘Hors Satan’, ‘McCullin’ and ‘Grabbers’
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Dec 27, 2012
This week’s new film releases reviewed: ‘The Impossible’, ‘Jack Reacher’, ‘Parental Guidance’, ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ and ‘Zaytoun’
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Dec 26, 2012
Soon to be celebrated at London’s BFI, the director is at his best when dissecting the darker side
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Dec 20, 2012
This week’s new film releases reviewed: ‘Life of Pi’, ‘West Memphis’, ‘Pitch Perfect’, ‘Boxing Day’ and ‘Midnight’s Children’
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