Avatar

Avatar

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Whilst the technological aspect is well-documented, Avatar is so much more than showcase of innovation. Placed together with a good, albeit familiar plot, and this really is a true form of escapism.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

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Ritchie has become known for his slightly off-beat films (when not helming catastrophic vanity projects), but there are few hints of anything outside of mainstream filmmaking in Sherlock Holmes.

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The Girlfriend Experience

The Girlfriend Experience

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The Girlfriend Experience is one of the more courageous and challenging films to come out this year, and the fact that it Soderbergh’s can give us all hope.

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The Men Who Stare At Goats

The Men Who Stare At Goats

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Aptly described as a ‘feel-good war movie’, it charts some of the more bizarre elements of the US military as they experimented with new-age techniques.

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The Box

The Box

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When the nicest thing that can be said about The Box is that it isn’t quite as bad as Kelly’s previous film; Southland Tales, things don’t bode well.

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2012

2012

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If you can suspend your disbelief as a man with two flying lessons under his belt pilots a jumbo jet and a family escapes a citywide inferno in a car then it makes for compelling viewing.

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The Informant!

The Informant!

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Steven Soderbergh takes us on an altogether more cynical and often sarcastic journey through what could have been the biggest corporate scandal in modern American history.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

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Given that the shoot experienced such tragedy, you’d have to have a hard heart indeed not to approach any viewing with a certain level of sympathy as you view Ledger’s final scenes on celluloid.

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Bunny and the Bull

Bunny and the Bull

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Tragedy never really enters The Mighty Boosh world – it is too wacky, too detached from reality for that – but Bunny and the Bull is as moving as it is funny.

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Glorious 39

Glorious 39

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Poliakoff has made his most recent step up to feature film one of the most dramatic, harrowing tales of the year. It is a shame then that what makes this film most enjoyable is also what dampens its brilliance.

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