Genre Thriller
Haywire
Despite it being packed with thrills, spills and fight scenes, Haywire is tenuously held together by a confusing and poorly paced plot.
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Piggy
The incessant instrumentation only serves to amplify the unnecessary melodrama that is central to Piggy‘s problems.
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A Dangerous Method
Normally with Cronenberg we’re deep into psychosis, subjectively, down in the dirty of our subconscious and nightmares. Here we’re in therapy.
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The Monk
It is just one man’s downfall, not mankind’s. Hardly apocalyptic, and it hardly seems worth all the fuss.
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Headhunters
With the surge in interest for 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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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy matures at its own deliberate pace in a marvellous recreation of sharp 70s style and growing anxiety, fitting of Le Carré’s work.
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Cowboys & Aliens
The real tragedy is with all that talent, money and good-will, Favreau has failed to make a satisfying or sufficiently fun B-movie.
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The Glass Man
Never has freshly squeezed orange juice signified such foreboding.
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Source Code
Jones has delivered a fast-paced, interesting action thriller that is a world ahead of the Denzel Washington-fronted mediocrity that has passed for action in recent years.
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I Am Number Four
If you hate Twilight, teen romance, anything featuring incredibly attractive or hideously deformed aliens or positive portrayals of pretentious amateur photography, give this a miss.
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