The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods

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The fun is in sitting in stunned silence, totally blind to what might happen next, which is a giddy and thrilling ride that’s all-too-rare in cinema.

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American Pie: Reunion

American Pie: Reunion

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It’s been thirteen years since Jason Biggs made love to a freshly baked apple pie and not much has changed as the old gang return.

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Piggy

Piggy

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The incessant instrumentation only serves to amplify the unnecessary melodrama that is central to Piggy‘s problems.

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The Monk

The Monk

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It is just one man’s downfall, not mankind’s. Hardly apocalyptic, and it hardly seems worth all the fuss.

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Angel and Tony

Angel and Tony

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A slow-burner of a hit in its native France, Angel and Tony is a small-scale drama about an oddball romance.

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Headhunters

Headhunters

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With The Girl In The Dragon Tattoo phenomenon kick starting a surge in interest in Scandinavian crime fiction, it was only a matter of time before Norway’s Jo Nesbø found one of his books making the leap to the big screen.

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This Must Be The Place

This Must Be The Place

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This Must Be the Place is a love letter from an affectionate misanthrope, delighting in the ebullient self-delusion of America, the innocent overblown self-satisfaction, the unexamined eccentricity

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Contraband

Contraband

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They – them Hollywood lot – they’re just throwing you scraps, yet they know that in the right mood everyone wants to see proper movies with proper guys doing proper stunts.

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In Darkness

In Darkness

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Brutal, dank, disturbing, devastating, sickening and also pretty scary – In Darkness is a film about the Holocaust, yes, but not quite as expected.

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This Means War

This Means War

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Memorable comedies boast likeable characters, interesting ideas, wit and timing. Passable comedies have at least one of these components. This Means War has none.

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