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32 days ago
The greatest of all Ealing comedies, the 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts And Coronets, really should be left to rest in eternal peace and everlasting appreciation.
40 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Peaky Blinders The Immortal Man: I doff my cap to this gripping, high-octane film where Cillian Murphy is more than matched by Barry Keoghan ⊕
The creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, has excelled himself - and that's a high bar of excellence - with this gripping, high-octane story set during World War Two.
52 days ago
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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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 …
53 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.
60 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.
74 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.
3 months 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.
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.
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'.
4 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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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
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.