Throughout the film, there's a feeling that the writers are picking their way gingerly through a minefield of possible problems, thereby failing to commit fully to the character of Steven Morrissey.
toppard and director Michael Apted weave a web of intrigue, suspicion and, for God's sake, romance into what might have been as incomprehensible as a computer hacker's notebook.
A complex World War Two tale of intrigue, romance and
code-breaking.
Incapable of breaking through the boobs and banter barrier.
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, are back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold on a risky project that will serve as Vince's directorial debut.
Small-town prejudice and the fear of otherness are roundly exposed for their absurdity, but the sensitivity of the artistic disposition and even the importance of good dental care are also sensibly celebrated.
The unlikely friendship between a gruff bear and an orphaned mouse worries authorities who believe the species shouldn't mix.
Manson is strong in the lead, showing us January's vulnerability - induced as much through terror as anything else - without relying on pity to hold our attention.
After an accident abroad leaves her amnesiac and dependent on a wheelchair, a woman needs help from a family she cannot remember, and gradually discovers why she left in the first place.
As the action progresses, this quickly becomes Marinca's film, as she uses her body language as much as the script to suggest more subtle forms of angst.
An international crew hunt for life on a moon of Jupiter.
There's a tabloid feel to proceedings, with portentous voice-over from Ferdy Roberts and the use of slick but choppy editing to ensure we notice how dramatic everything is.
Examining the 'puzzle' of EU security, focusing on EU foreign affairs and security policy commissioner Federica Mogherini.
The music, a sensitive combination of upbeat local music and a subtle score, helps keep a lively pulse to the slow, sympathetic and non-invasive camerawork.
A woman has to keep the peace
between her three hubbies and
four kids.
The director, perhaps too accustomed to the more limited budget of his early films 77 Doronship and Salamander, imagines the story of Peron's corpse as a series of vignettes, which gives the film a feeling of a unsatisfactorily adapted stage play.
Eva Peron's embalmed body becomes the focal point of clashes lasting a quarter of a century.
Ana Piterbarg attempts the acrobatic and ill-advised feat of presenting the plot of a B movie noir through the prism of arthouse sombreness.
Twin brothers - one a beekeeper with a criminal history, one a doctor - are drawn together into dangerous confrontations in the Argentinian swamplands.
There's something increasingly bland and uninvolving about this Will Ferrell vehicle which, like him or loathe him, you've got to admit is a kind of achievement.
Tale of a middle-aged suburbanite whose life is crumbling.
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