Nick Da Costa

Latest Film Reviews

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  Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

  Review preview for Pan's Labyrinth

  Del Toro's film is a welcomingly strange mix of simplistic, questing fairytale and dark, Spanish Civil War-era drama.

  In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a lonely girl encounters a mysterious faun.
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  Inception (2010)

  Review preview for Inception

  It’s less a magician thrilling the people with his showmanship and story, more one with their back turned, too fascinated by their own ingenuity to finesse their narrative.

  DiCaprio's dream spy takes on the ultimate inside job.
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  The Last King Of Scotland (2006)

  Review preview for The Last King Of Scotland

  Perfectly encapsulates what was and still might be Britain's naive political approach towards Africa.

  Ugandan dictator's rise to power as seen through the eyes of a young doctor.
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  The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)

  Review preview for The Last Of The Mohicans

  Mann creates a perfect balance of action and mood.

  The adopted son of a chief tries to protect the daughter of a British colonel.
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  Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007)

  Review preview for Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

  director David Yates has wonderfully twisted the rather stuffy, privileged atmosphere of the previous films and opened it up to the harsh reality of the Muggle world.

  Harry Potter and friends find themselves in trouble as a mysterious stranger seizes power at Hogwarts.
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  Brooklyn's Finest (2009)

  Review preview for Brooklyn's Finest

  Has a brooding and moody power that makes up for what it lacks in originality.

  Trouble brews for three New York cops.
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  Let The Right One In (2008)

  Review preview for Let The Right One In

  Offers a fresh transfusion that obliterates the anaemia of what has gone before.

  A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.
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  The Hurt Locker (2008)

  Review preview for The Hurt Locker

  Bigelow fetishises action and forces us to confront it in the same way Peckinpah did.

  An elite bomb disposal unit struggles to function in the heart of the Iraq war.
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  The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)

  Review preview for The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

  Instead of this being a simple tale of early media obsession in Western form, the film posits Ford and Jesse as mythologically entwined, almost biblically.

  The title says it all...
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  Robin Hood (2010)

  Review preview for Robin Hood

  Not so much the dashing outlaw and his band of Merry Men. Think glum Union Steward and his embittered workers.

  Robin goes back to his roots before the hood.

Features

• Return to the Killing Fields

  18 Apr 2010

  Director Rob Lemkin talks about making Cambodian documentary Enemies Of The People, with Thet Sambath, about the Khmer Rouge.

• Sundance Film Festival 2010: Day Three

  26 Jan 2010

  A chat with John Cooper, The Killer Inside Me

• Sundance Film Festival 2010: Day Two (Part One)

  25 Jan 2010

  We talk to Lucas Black and Aaron Schneider, hear what ASCAP has to offer and review Winter's Bone, Daddy Longlegs and Splice.

• Sundance Film Festival 2010: Opening night and day one

  23 Jan 2010

  Happythankyoumoreplease, Restrepo, Last Train Home and Hesher

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