BRIAN VINER reviews Baz Luhrmann's 'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert': Extravagant, exuberant... this is archive Elvis at his most riveting ○
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6 days ago
It's rather glorious to find that another audience, 49 years after his death, can still be electrified by the king of rock 'n' roll. The film is riveting, and won't leave only diehard Elvis fans all …
7 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Wasteman: A gut-punching prison thriller every minister should see ⊖⊖
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Brutal and harrowing, the gripping prison thriller Wasteman shows us both that British film-making is in good shape - and that the British penal system is not.
14 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Crime 101: It's got an 18-carat cast but this heist thriller is a gold-plated cliche ⊕
We all know what it's like to receive a prettily-packaged present that doesn't quite live up to its wrapping. Crime 101 is like that, a slick thriller with a fine cast.
28 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Shelter: Jason Statham slays everyone again (and his knitwear is to die for too) ○
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When a rugged, taciturn man played by Jason Statham lives alone with a dog in a disused lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, you can bet that he'll turn out to be a special forces veteran.
53 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Marty Supreme: Timothée Chalamet serves up a hit as 1950s table tennis whizz with irrepressible hustle - and scoops a richly deserved Critics Choice Awards ⊕⊕
He defeated rival Leonardo DiCaprio, whose raucous political thriller One Battle After Another took the night's top prize for best picture.
56 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Song Sung Blue: This Neil Diamond tribute act fails to hit high notes ⊕
BRIAN VINER: Craig Brewer's film is based on a true story about a Mid-western husband-and-wife Neil Diamond 'tribute' act, impressively played by Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.
70 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Avatar: Fire And Ash: 197 minutes of turgid sci-fi tosh ⊕
BRIAN VINER: There comes a point in the careers of most revered movie directors when nobody is brave enough to lay a restraining hand on their arm and remind them that 'less is more'.
2 months ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery: Smart, hilarious, gloriously acted... it's the best one yet ⊕
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The first Knives Out in 2019 was so much fun that, inevitably, the critical knives came out when its 2022 follow-up, Glass Onion , failed to live up to expectations.
3 months ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Sisu: Road to revenge... it's violent but exhilaratingly bonkers ⊕
Nobody can ever convince me that predictive text-messaging doesn't have a sense of humour.
BRIAN VINER reviews Christmas Karma: This spectacularly dreadful offering will empty cinemas quicker than an outbreak of dysentery! ⊖
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Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.