Reviews by Angus Wolfe Murray

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  Blades Of Glory (2007)

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  The humour remains below the waist, dominated by Ferrell’s overbearing machismo

  Rival male figure skaters who hate each other enter the Montreal Winter Olympics in the pairs section.
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  Blair Witch (2016)

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  Makes a lot of noise and throws the camera about

  Another group of innocent hikers return to the woods where a previous party disappeared 17 years ago
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  Bleak Night (2010)

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  What's left for those who don't share intimate knowledge of a South Korean schoolboy's mind?

  Winner of the New Current Award at the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival.
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  Bleeder (1999)

  A man becomes violent after his girlfriend gets pregnant.
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  Bleed For This (2016)

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  You could make a film based on the achievement of almost anyone at the Invictus Games and you would be making Vinny's story

  Story of world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza who made a comeback after a near-fatal car crash.
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  Blind Flight (2003)

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  It is a brave decision by the filmmakers to record Keenan and McCarthy's experience entirely from their perspective.

  The story of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy's kidnap in Beirut.
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  Bliss! (2016)

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  So much depends on Freya Park's performance as Tasha. She achieves something many young actors would be afraid to try.

  A runaway teen goes in search of her father.
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  Block (1994)

  A sculptor discovers a stone man inside a block of granite.
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  Bloody Angels (1998)

  Oslo detective comes to isolated community to solve two murders.
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  Blood And Chocolate (2007)

  The forbidden romance between an American artist and a wolf girl in the historic city of Bucharest.
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  Blood Diamond (2006)

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  There is a healthy streak of cynicism running through Blood Diamond.

  Diamonds are a smuggler’s best friend during Sierra Leone’s vicious civil war.
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  Blood Work (2002)

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  As in so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical.

  Clint Eastwood is a retired FBI profiler who investigates a serial killer, just like Dirty Harry.
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  Blow (2001)

  True story of smalltown boy who runs away to California to become the biggest drug dealer.
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  Blue Crush (2002)

  Three girl surfers in Hawaii for the Pipe Masters comp meet guys and ginormous waves.
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  Blue Gate Crossing (2002)

  A Taiwanese high school romance with bicycles.
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  Blue Steel (1990)

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  Silver's performance is a magnificent, chilling accomplishment.

  A rookie girl cop is stalked by crazed killer in the dank streets of New York.
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  Blue Streak (1999)

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  Lawrence doesn't have the style of Will Smith or the manic range of Chris Tucker.

  A safe-cracker returns to retrieve a diamond after a stretch in jail... only to discover the place he stashed it is now a cop HQ.
• The Blue Toon (2004)

  Documentary on the demise of the fishing industry in Peterhead.
• Bogies, Brains And Breakfast (2003)

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  Julia McLean's film is delightfully imaginative, aided by Thomas Scott's excellent score.

  An animated moment in the life of a nose picker.
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  Bogman Palmjaguar (2007)

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  Visually, the film takes risks and loses.

  Docubiog of a conservationist gone wrong.
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  The Bombs (2005)

  Claymation animated bombs in a cake film comedy thriller.
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  Boogeyman (2005)

  A young man is haunted by the fear of being "taken" by paranormal forces.
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  The Book Of Henry (2017)

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  As an original idea from left field it lacks the courage of its convictions

  With instructions from her genius son's carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather.
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  The Book Of Life (1998)

  Jesus and the Devil get together for drinks on the eve of a new century.
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  The Book Of Life (2014)

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  Imagination breaches the boundaries of wonder

  A young man has to journey to the land of the dead and face his greatest fears.
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  Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

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  The franchise is under new management, with Joe Berlinger as writer/director. He retains the spirit of the prototype, while going dangerously deep into the concept of 'perception is reality'.

  Group go on Blair Witch tour with paranoid guide, resulting in bad, bad dreams.
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  The Book Thief (2013)

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  The film gives a good impression of what it must have been like for ordinary people out of the firing line during the last years of the Third Reich

  A girl in Second World War Germany steals books and shares them with others.
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  Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)

  Tom Cruise plays disabled Vietnam vet Ron Kovic for Oliver Stone.
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  Born Romantic (2000)

  The tangled love lives of unrequited men and feisty women in London.
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  The Boss Baby (2017)

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  The script is hilarious and the CGI's lip-and-eye treatment positively perfect

  Some babies are pukealots. Some babies are squeeze-me-cutsies. This baby has the mind of a merchant banker and the skills of con artist. He takes no prisoners.
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  Bounce (2000)

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  Apart from the sheer dullness of these two, the script by director Don Roos doesn't go anywhere. It starts at A, hiccups on B and ends at C.

  A man gives away his plane ticket... only for it to crash and, spurred by guilt, seeks out the widow of the man who took his ticket.
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  Bowfinger (1999)

  Comedy about a desperate B-movie producer.
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  Boxed In (2002)

  An old man in a room with a mouse.
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  The Boxer (1997)

  A former convict boxer rekindles love where he shouldn't.
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  The Boxtrolls (2014)

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  Having set a scene of intriguing grotesquery the plot falls victim of its own invention

  A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
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  The Boys (1998)

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  A mood of barely suppressed violence hangs in the air, like a threat of rabid wildlife.

  A man gets paroled and heads home to his brothers and a house where violence rules the roost.
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  A Boy Called Dad (2009)

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  Sentimentality is rough hewn and barely sophisticated, given the storyline, but the performances are first rate.

  Kid on the run with baby son.
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  Brakes (2016)

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  This is how Brakes comes across. Cynical and homemade.

  Improvised black comedy charting moments in the lives of nine couples.
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  Bread And Roses (2000)

  Exploitation of Mexican immigrant labour among office cleaners in Los Angeles.
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  Breaking And Entering (2006)

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  Breaking And Entering feels genuinely homegrown, with an intelligent script, beautifully handled by actors and director.

  A stolen laptop leads to revelations of loss, love and the quality of mercy.
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  The Break Up (1970)

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  There is something distinctly nasty about a plot that relies upon the sexual abuse of a mentally defective girl.

  The father of a drug addict plots the destruction of his daughter-in-law’s character. Out to own as part of The Claude Chabrol Collection: Vol 2.
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  Breathe (2017)

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  The film reeks of privilege, which should not matter, but it does

  The true story of courage under profound difficulties faced by Robin and Diana Cavendish.
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  The Breed (2006)

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  The Breed is The Descent on an island (10,000 leagues less thrilling).

  Dogs hunt humans on isolated island.
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  Brick Mansions (2014)

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  If you know (Luc) Besson's oeuvre, you know Brick Mansions.

  An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that's surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city.
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  The Bridesmaid (2004)

  Tense thriller about a girl with an appetite for murder.
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  Bride And Prejudice (2004)

  Jane Austen romance, Bollywood style.
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  The Bridge (2006)

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  Director Eric Steel has made a wise decision to avoid the use of narrative voiceover, in favour of a well considered soundtrack.

  Documenting suicides from the Golden Gate bridge.
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  Bridge To Terabithia (2007)

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  An adventure that appears artificial and never feels in any way exciting. However, Hutcherson and Robb are excellent.

  School friends invent a magic kingdom in the woods.
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  Bright Young Things (2003)

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  Where Fry succeeds so well is allowing the intrinsic innocence of these brittle butterflies to be exposed without mockery.

  Biting satire on the Thirties party circuit in London.
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  Bringing Down The House (2003)

  Steve Martin is a tax lawyer and Queen Latifah a convicted bank robber in comedy sparring match.