Reviews by Jane Fae

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  Bastille Day (2016)

  Review preview for Bastille Day

  Almost every action movie nowadays borrows from every other action movie and this one happens to be done incredibly well.

  A CIA agent and a pickpocket attempt to uncover police corruption in Paris with the dubious help of an activist's ex girlfriend
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  Only The Dead (2015)

  Review preview for Only The Dead

  A dark and disturbing exploration of war and, darker still, the impact of reporting on war - a textbook illustration of what happens when you look into the abyss.

  A journalist's frontline snapshot of the war in Iraq.
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  The Danish Girl (2015)

  Review preview for The Danish Girl

  In the sense that this is a film produced for a mainstream audience about a subject of which it knows little, it is not bad.

  The story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe.
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  Les Prostituées De Lyon Parlent (1975)

  Review preview for Les Prostituées De Lyon Parlent

  While it is clearly supportive of the occupation, the film avoids wider political analysis; it is, finally, about women speaking about their lives.

  A fly on the wall documentary about sex workers protesting police inaction over a series of murders.
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  The Lady In The Van (2015)

  Review preview for The Lady In The Van

  By locating its own dedicated critic within the action of the film, it is possible to point out the triteness and question whether life can be so simply encapsulated within the tidy confines of literature.

  A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked on his driveway.
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  Tokyo Fiancée (2014)

  Review preview for Tokyo Fiancée

  Director Stefan Liberski catches both mood and place very well.

  A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.
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  Spectre (2015)

  Review preview for Spectre

  The ultimate catch is that Spectre is no longer the villainous outsider. Their badness is corporate: its core, global surveillance and information technology.

  A message from Bond's past sends him on the trail of a sinister organisation.
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  Under Milk Wood (2015)

  Review preview for Under Milk Wood

  Kevin Allen succeeds, brilliantly, in creating something new, fresh and thoroughly engaging.

  Dylan Thomas' tale of a Welsh seaside town.
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  Minions (2015)

  Review preview for Minions

  Minions is very funny.

  Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
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  Jurassic World (2015)

  Review preview for Jurassic World

  It’s nonsense. Tolerable nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless.

  The addition of a new creature to the Jurassic World theme park leads to trouble.
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  The Man Who Saved The World (2014)

  Review preview for The Man Who Saved The World

  The story of Stanislas Petrov is one that needs to be told and The Man Who Saved The World is a near perfect telling of it.

  The story of why Stanislav Petrov saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
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  John Wick (2014)

  Review preview for John Wick

  Engaging in approximately the same way that a shoot-em-up arcade game is engaging.

  A retired hitman pursues the men who killed the dog given to him by his dead wife.
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  Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015)

  Review preview for Fifty Shades Of Grey

  Fifty Shades is romcom without much com: an old-fashioned soft porn flick designed to appeal to women “of a certain age” (and younger).

  A student's life is irrevocably changed when she meets a tormented billionaire.