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Tom Slater
A film that gets under your skin
Where some films opt for cheap torture-porn shocks, Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In ventures into far weirder territory.
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| Wednesday 7 September 2011 |
Philip Hammond
Where did all the goodies and baddies go?
Hollywood’s post-9/11 films have ditched old-style patriotic chest-beating in favour of moral self-flagellation.
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| Friday 2 September 2011 |
Neil Davenport
Sarah’s Key: unlocking French self-loathing
Yet another film about France’s role in the Holocaust suggests the French have ditched self-reflection in favour of self-hatred.
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| Monday 22 August 2011 |
Tim Black
There’s more to this movie than misanthropy
The critics leaping for joy over the sneering at humanity in Rise of the Planet of the Apes have missed the point.
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| Wednesday 17 August 2011 |
Tom Slater
Clichéd encounters of the Spielberg kind
By paying loving homage to the movie-making era of ET, Super 8 only flags up its own lack of magic.
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| Monday 25 July 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The rise and fall of a chess prodigy
From Cold War-era hero to paranoid enemy of the state: it’s Bobby Fischer Against the World.
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| Monday 27 June 2011 |
Rob Lyons
A day in the life of the lonely crowd
Life in a Day editor Joe Walker tells spiked about the making and meaning of his innovative crowdsourced movie.
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| Friday 17 June 2011 |
Tessa Mayes
This film review is brought to you by POM Wonderful
Morgan Spurlock’s hilarious new documentary about product placement is not the anti-corporate exposé it thinks it is.
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| Tuesday 14 June 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The Pipe: a liberal pantomime in the bogs
A film about local resistance to a Shell gas pipeline off Ireland's west coast invites us to boo at the big, bad corporation.
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| Tuesday 31 May 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Dodging the burgers won’t save the planet
New film Planeat claims that a vegan lifestyle can save the world and our health. But where’s the beef?
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| Monday 4 April 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Killing Bono: on the wrong side of history
However much serious rock critics fantasise that U2 were rebellious rockers, the truth is ‘the kids’ rejected them.
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| Monday 21 March 2011 |
Tim Black
Ken Loach’s Route Irish is a dead end
This Iraq War thriller is really a simplistic revenge fantasy for a frustrated and impotent anti-war movement.
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| Thursday 24 February 2011 |
Joel Cohen
Banksy: the joke is the message
Nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar, Exit Through the Giftshop might just be a big hoax. But does it matter?
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| Wednesday 23 February 2011 |
Hamish Ford
The King’s Speech: it doesn’t speak for me
A film lecturer from Down Under slams the portrayal of the monarchy as decent and Aussies as submissive.
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| Monday 21 February 2011 |
Tim Black
A fitting tribute to the ‘forgotten Suffragette’
A brilliant new documentary about democracy-loving Sylvia Pankhurst reminds us that Everything is Possible.
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| Thursday 3 February 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Gasland: how to turn good news into bad
Shale gas might help solve a global energy shortage. So why is Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated doc so down on it?
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| Monday 24 January 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Now, the therapist is the real king
The King’s Speech rewrites the story of George VI through the prism of today’s therapeutic, ‘damaged goods’ culture.
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| Friday 7 January 2011 |
Graham Barnfield
A kind of Eat, Pray, Love for men
Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours combines gorno (that arm-hacking scene) with a tale of spiritual awakening aimed at blokes.
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| Monday 20 December 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Freakonomics: more self-help than economics
The movie of the best-selling book is a popular taster of a worrying obsession with individual behaviour.
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| Monday 20 December 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A queer take on Italian family life
Loose Cannons is an uplifting film about Italian traditions and sexuality, but it ends up looking like a clichéd pasta ad.
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