Reviews by Angus Wolfe Murray

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  The Brothers Grimm (2005)

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  It would be hard to underestimate the disappointment that Terry Gilliam fans will feel watching this film.

  Bogus ghostbusters finally meet their match in a genuine enchanted forest.
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  Buffalo Soldiers (2001)

  Cynical depiction of life as a US soldier in Germany, 1989.
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  Bumblebee (2018)

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  Here comes E.T: The Reboot, disguised as a rom-com.

  A transforming VW and a teenager strike up a friendship and try to save Earth.
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  The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years (2016)

  Review preview for The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years

  Things emerge from this affectionate movie that may come as a surprise

  A compilation of found footage.
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  Beautiful Creatures (2000)

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  The body count is Shakespearean and the plot twists wicked.

  Pitch black comedy about an unlikely friendship.
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  Beautiful Losers (2008)

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  Art is a kind of freedom, a balance between revolution and recognition.

  Generation Graffiti evolves from Nineties punk art to New York fame.
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  Beauty And The Beast (2017)

  Review preview for Beauty And The Beast

  You see the money on the screen, which is good, but not the love

  Live action version of the Disney animated fairy tale in which a spoilt prince is turned into a beast and a pretty girl from the village proves that looks aren't everything
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  Because I Said So (2007)

  Cake baking mom-from-hell attempts to control her youngest daughter's love life.
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  Bedazzled (2000)

  The Devil offers the office goof seven wishes in exchange for his soul.
• Bed Bugs Don't Bite? (2004)

  The terror of what darkness brings for a claymation boy and his cat.
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  Before I Go To Sleep (2014)

  Review preview for Before I Go To Sleep

  Who do you trust?

  A woman wakes up each day with no memory of what has gone before
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  Before Night Falls (2000)

  The life of homosexual Cuban writer, from poverty through persecution to freedom.
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  Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

  Review preview for Before The Devil Knows You're Dead

  The way the plot manipulates every worst case scenario is fiendishly clever. Seldom has an ensemble cast meshed so effectively.

  Damage limitation after a jewellery heist goes wrong.
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  Begin Again (2013)

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  It feels right, it feels good, it feels as sweet as a summer's day

  A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
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  Behind The Sun (2001)

  Fable about a boy ordered to avenge his brother's death.
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  Beijing Bicycle (2001)

  A country boy, working for an express delivery service in Beijing, has his bicycle stolen.
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  The Believer (2001)

  Review preview for The Believer

  The intelligence of the writing and the intensity of Ryan Gosling's performance takes it out of the shock horror budget bin.

  An intelligent Jewish boy grows up into an urban terrorist who hates Judaism.
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  Belle (2013)

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  Despite Gugu Mbatha-Raw's fine interpretation, the film feels predictable, as if it were fiction and not based on real events.

  The 18th century upbringing in aristocratic circles of the illegitimate mulatto daughter of the Lord Chief Justice of England's son
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  Belleville Rendez-Vous (2002)

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  Everything about this film is a surprise.

  Animated tale of a boy who loves cycling, his supportive Gran and a dog called Bruno.
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  Belle And Sebastian (2013)

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  Succeeds in transposing its overt sentimentality into an exciting narrative

  The adventures of a boy, his grand-dad and a runaway dog in the French Alps during the German occupation
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  Beloved (1999)

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  Thandie Newton plays it full blown, too self-consciously physical to become anything but caricature.

  A slave is visited by the spirit of her dead daughter.
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  Beloved Enemy (1981)

  Play For Today about the influence of big business on world politics.
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  Besieged (1998)

  An exiled student's relationship with a pianist.
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  Best In Show (2000)

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  Improvised by an exceptional cast of intelligent actors.

  Everyone's barking at the dog show.
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  Best Laid Plans (1999)

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  Builds beautifully before losing its nerve, leaving a bitter taste of irony.

  Film noir about a teacher who sleeps with an underage girl.
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  Best Men (1998)

  A groom ends up in a bank heist with his Shakespeare-spouting pal.
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  La Bete Humaine (1938)

  Review preview for La Bete Humaine

  Renoir’s adaptation of Zola’s novel is beautifully constructed.

  Murder and illicit passion on the railways. Currently out to own as part of the seven-disc Jean Renoir Collection.
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  Better Watch Out (2016)

  Review preview for Better Watch Out

  Careful what you wish for because a more subtle version of torture porn is back

  As a 12-year-old prepares to confess his romantic feelings for his babysitter one Christmas Eve, something starts trying to break into the house.
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  Betty Fisher And Other Stories (2001)

  Ensemble French thriller about the death of a child and the kidnap of another to replace it.
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  Beyond The Sea (2004)

  The Bobby Darin Story as perceived and sung by Kevin Spacey.
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  Be With Me (2005)

  Disparate stories from Singapore on themes of unrequited love and blind courage.
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  Bicentennial Man (1999)

  A robot strives to be human.
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  A Bigger Splash (2015)

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  You have to care for these people to give a damn. That's hard.

  A rock star's holiday is interrupted by the arrival of her old flame and his daughter.
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  Biggie And Tupac (2002)

  Documentary maker Nick Broomfield fails to find out who killed Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
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  Big Daddy (1998)

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  Sandler's five years on Saturday Night Live, as writer and performer, taught him the first lesson of sight bite comedy - keep it simple.

  Bad parenting and basic gags after law school dropout adopts a kid on a whim.
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  Big Fat Liar (2002)

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  The story won't win prizes, but what does that matter when you're having fun?

  Teenage comedy about a high school liar who goes to Hollywood to find the man who stole his deal.
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  Big Fish (2003)

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  Something has happened to Tim Burton. The darkness has left him... The film fails on every level.

  A teller of tall tales remembers the adventures of his youth.
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  Big Hero 6 (2014)

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  A story of courage, conviction and physics in free fall

  A young inventor from Nerd School and an inflatable robot battle the terrible power of a deranged scientist
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  The Big Hit (1998)

  The double life of a hitman is played for laughs and destruction.
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  Big Momma's House (1999)

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  The story doesn't matter. You know it already.

  FBI agent does drag to protect a witness.
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  Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1999)

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  Writer/director Tommy O'Haver has allowed charm to run riot.

  A gay photographer falls for a straight waiter.
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  Biloxi Blues (1988)

  Neil Simon remembers boot camp in Mississippi during the last months of the war.
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  Birthday Girl (2001)

  Review preview for Birthday Girl

  Kidman continues to amaze.

  Nicole Kidman is a Russian internet bride who ends up with a St Albans bank clerk.
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  Blackball (2003)

  British class comedy about a council estate lad with a tearaway talent for bowls.
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  The Blacks (2009)

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  The Blacks is observational, not judgemental. It catches your breath.

  A Balkans war era army unit disintegrates in the woods.
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  Black And White (2000)

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  The sense of a society eating itself alive on a gangsta myth is very strong.

  Rich white kids in New York want to be black, while rappers from the projects exploit them.
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  Black And White (2008)

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  The blackness and whiteness of thought, word and deed is thrust down the throats of the audience to an unnatural degree.

  Broken boundaries, race relations, illicit sex and family breakdowns - Italian style.
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  Black Cat, White Cat (1998)

  Wedding between gangs sparks comedy.
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  Black Mass (2015)

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  It's true what they say about violence. Too much and you become immune.

  The true story of violent criminal turned FBI informant Whitey Bulger in Boston.
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  Black Sea (2014)

  Review preview for Black Sea

  Retains a tight grip on your imagination

  A skeleton crew in a decommissioned submarine launch a clandestine search for Nazi gold under Russian waters.