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Unutterably beautiful.

Burnt by the Sun 2 plays fast and loose with both actual history and its own fictionally established facts in such a way that those familiar with Mikhalkov's original may struggle to fully embrace the director's most ambitious work to date.

There really is only one person in the world who could play Conan, as sympathetic and brutal as he is, and Arnie definitely pulls it off.

There's still that thrilling Basil Poledouris score and there's some great creature work by Carlo Rambaldi.

A corking action film.

With its emphasis on female nudity, this may be cinema more for the devoted voyeur than the casual viewer - but at the same time it puts the male gaze in its place.

There is plenty of intriguing historical backdrop to this story, and Chadwick manages to incorporate much of it without losing focus on the very personal subject at the film's centre.

The director's trademark vivid cinematography and willingness to explore extremes in tone and content are present and correct here and make Guilty Of Romance as much a frustrating and intensely riveting viewing experience as his other creations.

In the end what makes this a classic is the direction – stately and assured, with a keen eye for a telling image.

The film - whose bleached palette drips with melancholy - is, ironically given all those pent up emotions Uchida wants to outwardly express, best in its quieter moments.

Balabanov massages human nature's ugly heart.

The film throws ideas at the screen so much that it's not only for its two hours and change of runtime that it feels like more than one film at once.

There’s an increasing sense of the unnatural impinging on the natural.

Not so much From Here To Eternity as From Here To This Time Next Week, which is a terrible waste.

Boasting the sort of edgy, quirky slant usually only maintained in short film, it never compromises it's oddness which is a joy.

It is formulaic, but it's also bursting with conviction and insight.

The Turtles movie that I'd have loved as a boy.

Mysterious, surreal and beguiling.

With its sensationalist approach it is always trying to out do its predecessors.