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• I Do (2006)

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  Far from caring much if he will ever get his girl, you just want Luis to act his age and grow some balls.

  A single man hatches a plan for a marriage of convenience and gets more than he bargained for.
• I Do (2012)

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  Despite its heart being in the right place, I Do never does live up to its promise, thanks to melodramatic machinations and often preachy dialogue.

  A British gay man in the US tries to get a green card.
• I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)

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  Tsai has erected a somnolent reverie on alienation, desire and restlessness.

  Migrants in Malaysia dream of sleep, recovery, and each other.
• I, Frankenstein (2014)

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  Our modern Prometheus spends most of the film sprinting from one CGI-overlaid battle to the next.

  Frankenstein's monster becomes embroiled in an ancient war.
• I Give It A Year (2013)

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  Despite the good laughs, I Give It A Year is predictable.

  A newly wed couple think they have found happiness, but will they make their first year of marriage?
• I Have Always Been A Dreamer (2012)

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  A quietly remarkable film that benefits from well-selected interviews with historians, businesspeople, artists and scholars.

  A documentary travelogue and portrait of two cities in contrasting states: Dubai and Detroit.
• I Have Never Forgotten You - The Life And Legacy Of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)

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  Few documentaries can ever have been put together with the same level of meticulous care as this one, clearly the product of exhaustive research.

  A documentary about famous Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
• I Heart Huckabees (2004)

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  This is as inventive and left field as Being John Malkovich, but with broader smiles and bigger issues.

  A man hires a pair of existential detectives.
• I Know You Know (2008)

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  Sometimes funny, sometimes very tense, and ultimately poignant too.

  A young boy harbours suspicions that his father is a spy.
• I Love (1999)

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  Strange but intriguing.

  Lonely soldiers make for revealing viewing in this involved documentary.
• I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

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  Every time there is a gear change from ‘funny’ to ‘emotional’ it grates.

  Mayhem ensues after a high school nerd declares his love for a cheerleader in his valedictory speech.
• I Love You, Man (2009)

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  Ultimately, I felt really good watching it.

  Repressed bloke needs a best man, but finds his best friend.
• I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

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  What makes it work is that the film sticks so close to the form of a traditional Hollywood romance, ignoring the tropes of gay indie cinema.

  Having learned to lie about his sexuality, Steve finds he just can't kick the habit, even after he comes out and falls in love.
• I Need A Dodge! Joe Strummer On The Run (2014)

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  Everything feels flexible in a film that seems to reflect human frailty and twist it into strength.

  The director goes in search of a classic Dodge that Joe Strummer once told a radio host he had lost somewhere in Madrid.
• I, Olga Hepnarová (2016)

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  While the narrative framework may not quite go the distance, the shot choices are never less than exquisite.

  Period drama about a real-life murderer.
• I Pierre Rivière (1976)

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  Allio deserves a medal for coaxing some miraculous performances out of his actors.

  Fictionalised retelling of the story of a man who murdered his mother, sister and brother in 19th century rural France.
• I Play With The Phrase Each Other (2013)

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  Great poets are frantically name-checked as if by way of justification when the overall effect has more in common with that of Douglas Adams' Vogons.

  Four isolated residents of the urban jungle communicate through phone conversations.
• I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005)

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  Le Peron approaches it with the originality you might expect from the avant-garde.

  How a small time crook is used as a decoy in the kidnapping of a Moroccan dissident in 1965.
• I Saw The Devil (2010)

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  A triumph of blood-soaked style over meaningful substance.

  After the daughter of a police chief is murdered by a serial killer, her fiance vows to hunt him down.
• I Sell The Dead (2008)

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  Monaghan and Fessenden are cast perfectly and have a great onscreen rapport, reminding me of a re-vamped Abbott and Costello.

  A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories.
• I Smile Back (2015)

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  The sort of film you'd expect to see in the lunchtime slot on True Entertainment, not in cinemas.

  All is not right in suburbia. Laney Brooks, a wife and mother on the edge, has stopped taking her meds, substituting recreational drugs and the wrong men. With the destruction of her family looming, Laney makes a last, desperate attempt at redemption.
• I Spy (2002)

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  The script is weak and tackles the story with such superficial lightness that nothing makes an impact.

  Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy team up is spoof action thriller, involving an invisible plane.
• I Stay With You (2014)

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  The film is likely to be branded 'controversial', the biggest pity is that there is very little to say about it beyond that.

  When a woman travels to Mexico City to be with her boyfriend, she hooks up with some of his friends... but the trip brings more than she bargains for.
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

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  Makes no sense whatsoever.

  Spoof slasher sequel.
• I Think I Do (1997)

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  Stick with it, because this turns into a very funny and feelgood film.

  Two old flames meet at a wedding and one wants to rekindle their love.
• I Want Candy (2007)

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  A mishmash of all the usual poor wannabe filmmaker clichés

  Two film students find the money to make their first feature by turning it into a porn film.
• I Want To Tell You Something (2006)

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  As a stand-alone documentary feature it is perhaps more suited to late night cable channels.

  An insight into the lives of twin boys who communicate in sign language.
• I Want Your Love (2012)

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  The emphasis on pretentious bohemian characters robs the film of some of its potential appeal.

  A gay man spends his final night in San Francisco before moving back to the Midwest.