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Latest reviews – Page 350
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My Friends, My Loves (Mes amis, mes amours)
Dir. Lorraine Levy. Fr, 2008. 98 minAn idea that probably sounded good on paper - starting with the best-seller status of Marc Levy's source novel - proves inconsequential on screen in My Friends, My Loves, a London-set romantic comedy about two divorced French fathers who chafe at strict ground rules ...
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Dir: Guillermo Del Toro. US. 2008. 115 mins. Trust Guillermo Del Toro to deliver a summer action adventure which is gleefully unpretentious in its desire to entertain while filled with some of the season's most inventive visual effects and creature designs. This bigger-and-better sequel should be a solid hit for ...
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Journey To The Centre of the Earth 3-D (2008)
Dir. Eric Brevig, 2008, US, 92 minutesEffects whiz Eric Brevig (Total Recall, Pearl Harbour) makes his feature debut with this 3-D take on Jules Verne's classic 1864 novel; the result targets children (particularly boys) and their parents. In fact, the 3-D novelty could prove to be more of a draw ...
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Hancock
Dir: Peter Berg. US. 2008. 92 mins.A fun, fairly crisp opening hour gives way to a muddled, entirely unsatisfying ending in the action-comedy Hancock, which finds Will Smith starring as a sullen superhero trying to win over the population of Los Angeles via a very public makeover. Smith's first summer ...
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Wanted
Dir. Timur Bekmambetov. US. 2008. 110 mins. Maximum violence and minimum plot are the formula for Wanted, a flashy comic book adaptation that marks the US debut of Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov. It also marksthe transformation of British actor James McAvoy into something resembling a Hollywood action hero. The ...
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The Love Guru
Dir: Marco Schnabel. US. 2008. 86 mins.The Love Guru 's rascally self-help guru who needs to learn to love himself may be Mike Myers' first original big-screen character in a long while, but he still feels familiar. Trading in Myers' favoured trademark steady diet of scatological humour, outlandish asides and ...
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Dir: Patricia Rozema . US. 2008. 100 mins.Emotionally affecting but dramatically wobbly, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl was made with young girls in mind, but would have been far more effective had it shown enough courage not to play down to its audience. With that said, this adaptation of the ...
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The Rocker
Dir. Peter Cattaneo US . 2008. 102 mins.Sitcom star Rainn Wilson (the US version of The Office) makes a disappointing transition to big-screen headlining with The Rocker, a mostly flat School Of Rock rehash directed by The Full Monty's Peter Cattaneo. The broad Fox Atomic comedy certainly won't do for ...
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Get Smart
Dir: Peter Segal . US. 2008. 110 mins. Offering a little bit of everything but not quite enough of any one thing, Get Smart is a likable jumble of genres that could have greatly benefited from being less ambitious. Despite a strong central performance from Steve Carell, this adaptation of ...