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Blends zany character comedy and squeamishly surreal grossout with some postmodern wit and knowing parody of action cliché tropes.

Ideal summer entertainment.

Its amiable heroes and starched villains fill out a familiar storyline with gusto.

If the plot development lurks on cusp of credibilty, the characters feel genuinely complex and are given a real sense of humanity by Tomei Reilly and Hill.

We get to witness the birth of a new genre and are confronted with a violent American history that Hollywood fictions have previously not dared to tackle.

It's hard to be tough on a film as warm-hearted as this one is in spirit - like Callahan, it's trying hard even when it fails.

Finding out that your girlfriend is leaving you for another man is humiliating enough, but finding out that he's Russell Brand is another story.

The film lacks strong enough dialogue to do justice to the boldness of its script.

As is the case with too many comedies in the age of Apatow, the female characters all seem like afterthoughts, and the film’s sexual politics are achingly conservative.

The Coens' obvious fun in concocting scenes of mid-century paranoia is infectious.

Fast and funny enough to let even its derivativeness take wing – and, as any seven-year-old can tell you, dragons are cool.

There is no tension, no expectation of trouble. Happiness infuses the land

A gentle, thoughtful, genuinely entertaining film with endearing characters and real ideas.

Judd Apatow has marked himself out as the leader of the pack when it comes to delivering effortless and believable raunchy comedy.

In crash bang lingo this would be dubbed explosivimo

Megamind’s developmental path is less about following a cookie-cutter moral compass than it is about good old-fashioned character development.

While the film does rattle through these pillars of the underdog sports movie narrative, it does so with an element of class, a helping of humour and a knowing wink.

If you’ve ever wanted to see a bagel and a lavash engaging in homosexual activity used as an argument for why Israel and Palestine should just y’know, smoke some weed and get on with each other, here’s your chance!

When the final scene fizzles out to nothing, you know it's been a wasted journey.

I honestly wish I'd written this movie, and I suspect a handful of people my age feel the same way.

Treading a fine balance between self-referential smugness and earnest likeability, the core duo of Baruchel and Rogen get things off to a good start.

Something happens in the courtroom that puts a hammer to the spanner

So while War Dogs includes elements of comedy, reviews describing it as “hilarious”, or pigeon-holing it as such are misleading.

Can anything save this film? No.

This is how you destroy people's dignity and make them yours, Scorsese seems to say.