Reviews by Angus Wolfe Murray

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  Cool And Crazy (2001)

  Norwegian documentary telling the tale of a male voice choir and its members in the remote fishing village of Berlevag.
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  Corps A Corps (2003)

  Review preview for Corps A Corps

  Seigner's performance is as powerful as it is sympathetic.

  Thriller about a stripper who has an accident and comes to suspect her Prince Charming may be a toad in disguise.
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  The Correspondence (2016)

  Review preview for The Correspondence

  The film plays on its clever concept, forgetting that its audience wants the agony to end and the action to begin.

  A relationship between a woman and her tutor conducted almost entirely in the virtual space, takes an unexpected twist.
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  The Corruptor (1999)

  Top cop tries to stop drug-trafficking, only to find his problems worsen when a rookie joins his squad.
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  Cotton Mary (1999)

  An anglo-Indian wheedles her way into a colonial household after a woman finds he can't nurse her baby.
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  The Counterfeiters (2007)

  Review preview for The Counterfeiters

  The tension and sense of death is like a physical barrier to sanity’s guiding hand.

  Surviving the holocaust by forgery.
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  County Kilburn (2000)

  Review preview for County Kilburn

  The plot is minimal, the characters are dysfunctional and the incidents are innocuous.

  Feel-good comedy about an Irish barman in a dead end job.
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  The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

  Swashbuckling adaptation of Dumas' story of a vengeful count.
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  Coupling : Complete Series 1 (2001)

  An intelligent sitcom about relationships, sex and friends with six confused thirtysomething Londoners.
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  Cousin Bette (1998)

  Review preview for Cousin Bette

  The film is neither fish nor fowl, one thing or another, comedy or tragedy. It wavers between vulgar and vapid.

  Revenge and bed-hopping in Balzac adaptation.
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  Cowards (2008)

  Review preview for Cowards

  Love may heal the wounds of adolescence, but emotional isolation is the prison from which these lost boys never escape.

  Communication breakdown and teenage bullying in a privileged Spanish day school.
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  Coyote Ugly (2000)

  A smalltown girl heads for the bright lights to make it as a singer.
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  The Crab (2010)

  Review preview for The Crab

  As a portrait of 21st century man, with his obsession for porn sites, casual blow jobs and dysfunctional relationships, the film is contemporary.

  The fall and fall of an academic wannabe.
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  A Crack In The Floor (2001)

  Review preview for A Crack In The Floor

  The horror cliches are here for a reason, as a tribute.

  A shy nutter has penchant for stray hikers who use his shack for shelter.
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  Cradle 2 The Grave (2002)

  Review preview for Cradle 2 The Grave

  Car chases, explosions, stunts and gun battles have been honed to a level of expertise that retains the highest standard.

  Jet Li attempts to recover black diamonds stolen by DMX and sought after by rival gangs.
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  Crash (2004)

  Review preview for Crash

  Haggis weaves his tapestry with infinite skill, aided by exquisite performances.

  Slice of Los Angeles paranoia, incorporating fear, anger, racial tension and a miracle.
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  Crazy/Beautiful (2001)

  Review preview for Crazy/Beautiful

  This one has good chemistry and a feisty performance from Dunst.

  Poor little rich girl falls for serious-minded Mexican student from poor family.
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  Creature Comforts: Season 2, Part One (2004)

  Claymation opinions on life.
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  Crimson Gold (2003)

  Review preview for Crimson Gold

  Truth unwinds slowly through the body of the text.

  Anatomy of a murder, Iranian style.
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  Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles (2001)

  Aging Aussie crocodile hunter goes undercover to catch art thieves in L.A
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  The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)

  Intrepid animal conservationist, Steve Irwin, wrestles with crocodiles and the CIA.
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  Crossroads (2001)

  Britney Spears and friends take a road trip to LA to enter a singing contest.
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  Cruel Intentions (1999)

  Review preview for Cruel Intentions

  Roger Kumble's screenplay lacks the finesse, charm and wit of Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century classic.

  Les Liaisons Dangereuses reimagined in 1990s Manhattan.
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  Cry Of The City (1948)

  Review preview for Cry Of The City

  When there’s nowhere else to go but the electric chair, what’s another murder if it keeps Marty Rome on the streets?

  A wounded killer goes on the run in New York. Out on re-release in the UK.
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  Cry Woman (2002)

  Review preview for Cry Woman

  With its lack of sentimentality, Cry Woman breaks the mould of beautiful looking, nostalgic filmmaking.

  Tough girl hustles work in China and discovers she has talent as a professional wailer at funerals.
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  CSI: 5.1 (2005)

  The original crime scene investigators come out for a fifth time in Las Vegas, feeling confident and comfortable together
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  CSI: 5.2 (2005)

  Second half of the fifth season sees the team torn apart.
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  CSI: Miami - 1.1 (2002)

  A new technical team hunt killers in Miami.
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  CSI: Miami - 1.2 (2002)

  Second part of the second series of the spin-off police procedural drama.
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  CSI: Miami 3.1 (2004)

  The plots are cleverer and the production values higher, as Horatio Caine and his team solve multifaceted mysteries in Miami.
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  CSI Miami: Season 2 (2004)

  In which Horatio Caine achieves sainthood and Calleigh Duquesne becomes more hands on.
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  CSI: NY - Season 1, Part 1 (2004)

  New York gets its own grittier version of the crime scene invesigations.
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  CSI: NY - Season 1, Part 2 (2005)

  Mac Taylor and his team continue to scour the streets of New York for clues.
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  CSI: NY - Season 2, Part 1 (2006)

  A new season, a new team and the detection rate of serious crime in the Big Apple continues to rise.
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  CSI: NY - Season 3, Part 2 (2006)

  Review preview for CSI: NY - Season 3, Part 2

  Dead hunky guys and half naked hottie corpses make for high ratings - it’s about style, sex appeal and money

  Mac Taylor's team go up market for more bizarre murders, while Stella Bonasera has a scare in a contaminated crime scene.
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  CSNY Déjà Vu (2008)

  Review preview for CSNY Déjà Vu

  What lifts Déjà Vu above the crowd is the raw emotion emanating from the musicians to audiences who are often shocked by the uncompromising nature of their stance.

  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young go back on the road to protest against the continuing loss of life in the war in Iraq.
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  Cub (2014)

  Review preview for Cub

  Makes less sense the longer you stay with it

  A young boy heads to scout camp, certain he will encounter a monster - and he's right.
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  Cuban Fury (2014)

  Review preview for Cuban Fury

  Nick Frost's limited comedic talent cannot stretch to a faux South American dance devil with fire in his heels.

  A former salsa star attempts a comeback.
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  The Cuckoo (2002)

  Lapp reindeer farmer gives refuge to a wounded Russian army captain and a Finn soldier in 1944.
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  The Cup (1999)

  A teenage monk's obsession with the world cup.
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  Cypher (2002)

  Futuristic brainwashed power trip, in which Jeremy Northam keeps changing identity.
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  Czechoslovakians (2003)

  Review preview for Czechoslovakians

  Ian Anderson's script relies heavily on those words that can't be written down without ***s and the acting would enhance a timber yard.

  Strange goings-on in a gloomy Glaswegian restaurant.
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  Daddy Day Care (2003)

  Review preview for Daddy Day Care

  One of the reasons why Daddy Day Care fails is because it is so predictable, so unthreatening and so bland.

  Eddie Murphy opens a day centre for pre-school kids in an opulent suburb of Los Angeles.
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  Dad's Dead (2003)

  Review preview for Dad's Dead

  Chris Shepherd... reflects history's distorted mirror particularly well.

  Nostalgia for a working-class Liverpudlian childhood turns sour.
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  Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

  Review preview for Dallas Buyers Club

  Uncompromising in every respect

  When a fast-living heterosexual redneck develops AIDS, he refuses to take it lying down, and in his struggle makes some unlikely friends.
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  The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

  Javier Bardem is the cop who searches for a revolutionary leader in a South American republic.
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  Dance! Disco Robot (2006)

  Two guys dance with cardboard boxes over their heads.
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  Dancing At The Blue Iguana (2000)

  A glimpse into the emotionally fraught world of strippers at a LA club.
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  Danny Collins (2015)

  Review preview for Danny Collins

  This isn't a lecture about acting your age, nor is it an advert for Viagra. It's far more sentimental.

  An ageing rock star decides to mend his decadent ways and seek out the son he has never met
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  Dante 01 (2008)

  Review preview for Dante 01

  The film sets up an interesting situation, like the pilot of a TV series, and then leaves you, as it were, at the beginning.

  A new arrival with alien powers upsets the equilibrium amongst prisoners in a deep space psychiatric detention centre.