The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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Though this version of Gatsby is full of jarring elements at first appraisal, the combination of a faithful script, high production values and excellent performances creates an absorbingly eccentric artistic statement. Whether it’s a statement you’ll relish is another matter: this is ‘Gatsby’ on a cocaine binge.

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Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness

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The second film in the rebooted Star Trek franchise, helmed by director JJ Abrams, is even more campy, all-guns-blazing, sci-fi fun than the first.

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Hitchcock

Hitchcock

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If you’re looking for thrills, you’ll have more fun with watching Psycho itself. And if you want a glimpse of the psychology that drove the man, there’s always Vertigo.

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Gangster Squad

Gangster Squad

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Like a fedora-flecked post-war vision of Starship Troopers, Gangster Squad is about as politically correct as a punch in the kidneys.

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Midnight’s Children

Midnight’s Children

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Metastasizing war, schisms of family to mirror the schisms of topography, lust, hunger, upheaval, religion, nuclear bombs, forced sterilization, annihilation, and love. And hope. And second chances.

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Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect

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Pitch Perfect is scabrously funny without relying on post-modern references or descending into nastiness.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Is it unfair—and pointless— to discuss a film in relation to other past adaptations, to judge it by what it’s not? But, on the other hand, do we need another version of Great Expectations?

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Amour

Amour

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With Amour, you will remember the film, and you will remember the emotions, and there will be no humiliation in the crying.

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Ernest & Celestine

Ernest & Celestine

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Gabrielle Vincent’s children’s books have been brought alive with the same painted tones and styles that first accompanied the series. It is a sweet, quaint and charmingly unusual animation.

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Good Vibrations

Good Vibrations

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Hooley was committed to changing people’s lives to music, constantly believing that there were others like him who – despite the troubles surrounding them – loved Belfast, loved Northern Ireland and loved music.

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