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| All guns blazing in gangster duel |
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Between the clatter of machine guns and the blasts of testosterone, you might get the impression Michael Mann’s Public Enemies is a gangster movie. Sure it is, wise guys. But more than this it’s a romance, an expression of love for a period in American history that spawned the last great outlaws.
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| North by Northwest |
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“Thats's funny, that plane’s dustin’ crops where there ain’t no crops.” It’s the cue for one of the most famous scenes in a film which, 50 years on from its first release, remains pretty close to peerless.
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| A Blunt treat in blood money tale |
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Stop me if you have
seen this one before.
A dysfunctional but likeable American family with secrets and lies to hide find themselves caught up in a world of which they know little.
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| Year One |
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There’s a pleasing symmetry to Harold Ramis’s otherwise lame comedy. Not only is it set in 1AD, most of the jokes date from about the same time. Boom, boom.
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| Rudo & Cursi |
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If they were not scrabbling to make a living at a banana ranch in Mexico, brothers Tato and Beto (Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna) could be the next Christian Ronaldo and Artur Boruc.
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| Fermat’s Room |
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You'll want to sharpen those wits before tackling this tricksy Spanish thriller with more hair-raising turns than a mountain road at midnight. Four brilliant mathematicians – think Carol Vorderman to the power of ten – are
summoned to a remote location by the Fermat of the title.
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| My Sister’s Keeper |
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Nick Cassavetes’ My Sister’s Keeper opens with an 11-year-old girl suing her parents to gain medical emancipation from them because she’s tired of being a donor for her leukaemia ravaged sister.
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| Katyn |
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In the opening scene of Andrzej Wajda’s magnificent wartime drama, nominated for a best foreign film Oscar last year, fleeing crowds of Polish civilians are crossing a bridge from both ends.
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| Mary and Max |
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Two things you need to know about this offering from the Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot. One: apart from Pixar’s Up, it’s probably the best animated film you’ll see this year. Two: featuring subjects such as mental disability, loneliness and suicide, it’s
definitely not for children.
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| The Maiden Heist |
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Peter Hewitt's affable caper takes you back to a softer, more innocent cinema era when it was enough simply to have a group of big-name stars being silly for a while.
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| The Crimson Wing |
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Unlike Mary and Max, this is a film for all the family - albeit with one slight warning.
A documentary about Tanzania’s flamingoes, it’s the first offering in the UK from the new Disney Nature label.
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| Adventureland |
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Graced by some of the most watchable young stars around, this coming of age tale set in a down at heel theme park deserves to win the biggest cuddly toy imaginable.
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| Wasted |
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The thing about urban Scotland is we’re simply bursting with reasons to be cheerful. As we tiptoe through the tulips of full employment, zero social problems and endless sun-dappled days, we’re almost in danger of being too happy.
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| Blue Eyelids |
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Shy, lonely Marina has grown used to nothing exciting happening in her life. She gets up, goes to her humdrum job at a factory in Mexico City, and comes home again. So when she wins the factory raffle, an all expenses paid luxury holiday, she’s thrilled.
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| Telstar |
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The life and wild times of pioneering record producer Joe Meek are unspooled in Nick Moran’s energetic but uneven biopic.
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