What we have here is a string of well-made sequences that had zero emotional impact because I cared not one jot for the characters involved.
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The performances are strong, but it’s Cave that really impresses as Violet, the daughter of the King of Highmountain.
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The beautiful, dreamlike quality of The Returned is down to two things: the stunning cinematography, including some majestic panoramic vistas, and Mogwai’s tense and haunting soundtrack.
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Collins’ series is a depressing look at the futility of violence, and as such, this was never going to be a ‘fun’ night out at the cinema.
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Thanks to a fantastic opening montage, we get a true sense of the type of lives the fishermen lead.
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It’s not that these performances aren’t good – they’re great – it’s just that the script is so damn determined to have everything go to sh*t.
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The script focusses on giving all the enemy combatants good reasons to be doing bad things.
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Ethical quandaries, temporal paradoxes and grandiose tragedy are all on the menu, and Steins;Gate goes through all of them one by one.
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It’s Peirce’s direction that really makes this film work. Keeping the camera right up in the actor’s faces, she elicits some brilliant performances from all involved. As an analysis of teenage bullying, the film is a masterstroke.
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I was fully prepared to believe that he’s a much better actor than the Twilight films would have you believe, but if that’s the case then he doesn’t prove it here. Cosmopolis needed a magnetic central performance to keep it all together; Pattinson regularly sounds like he’s merely reciting the lines of a script.
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