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Cannes 2012: Killing Them Softly

Cannes 2012: Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik’s stylish gangster film is visually impressive if occasionally lacking momentum

(3 stars)24 May 2012

Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik’s third film following Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, is a bleakly humourous gangster flick with an underlying commentary on modern day moral bankruptcy. It begins with…

The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods

Excellent horror has something in its box of tricks to scare everyone

(4 stars)19 Mar 2012

(15) 94min A film that’s almost impossible to talk about without ruining its multiple pleasures, The Cabin In The Woods is the most original horror movie of the year. Reverential to the genre, yet shaking it up simultaneously, it’s exactly what you’d…

Friends with Benefits

Friends with Benefits

Sappy rom-com fails to deflate clichés of the genre

(2 stars)19 Aug 2011

(15) 109min The rom-com has been a moribund genre for years now, excepting Marc Webb’s acerbic and adventurous (500) Days of Summer. Despite promising a similarly caustic examination of the gap between real-life relationships and romantic clichés…

Let Me In

Let Me In

(3 stars)2 Nov 2010

(15) 116min Just two years after the adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel Let the Right One In was turned into a hit Swedish film by Tomas Alfredson comes the American take on the story and it’s a striking if mildly uneven adaptation. Matt…

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love

(2 stars)22 Sep 2010

(PG) 139min From Nip/Tuck to Glee, director Ryan Murphy has the golden touch when it comes to television. Not so, however, with film. His 2006 adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ memoir Running With Scissors was a middle-of-the-road misfire and much…

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The Cabin in the Woods
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(4 stars) Five sex- and booze-fuelled teenagers get more than they bargained for when they holiday in an isolated log cabin. Co-creators Whedon (Buffy) and Goddard (Cloverfield) deliver the most original horror movie of the year, with something in its box of tricks to scare everyone.
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