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Richard Haridy

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Starred Up (2013) 99% 4/5 “Starred Up may cover familiar ground but it's executed with such arresting authenticity that it's hard to not be drawn in and ultimately excited. This is prison melodrama done amazingly well with sharp performances and visceral attention to detail.” – Quickflix Dec 7, 2014 Full Review Devil's Knot (2013) 26% 1/5 “If anything positive can be gained from Devil's Knot, it's that hopefully it will lead new viewers to the magnificent experiences that await them by watching the superior Paradise Lost trilogy and the conclusive West of Memphis” – Quickflix Dec 7, 2014 Full Review Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) 18% 2.5/5 “Transformers: Age of Extinction is as close to an incoherent mess of movement & noise as cinema gets. Michael Bay is slowly perfecting his brand of blockbuster, and to be honest it's getting quite compelling to watch him fall down this rabbit hole” – Quickflix Dec 7, 2014 Full Review A Most Wanted Man (2014) 86% 4/5 “A Most Wanted Man concludes on a bleakly prescient note, not only in offering an extraordinarily trenchant critique of American foreign policy but also as a moody send off to Hoffman himself.” – Quickflix Dec 7, 2014 Full Review The Infinite Man (2014) 94% 4.5/5 “This is nothing less than one of my favourite Australian pictures in quite some time” – Quickflix Nov 1, 2014 Full Review The Armstrong Lie (2013) 82% 3/5 “The Armstrong Lie has several insightful moments but is most interesting in how it shows us a filmmaker usually committed to finding the absolute truth in his subjects, suffering when he comes across a story where lies and truth constantly intertwine.” – Quickflix Nov 1, 2014 Full Review Ida (2013) 95% 4/5 “A black & white Polish film about a nun in the 1960s exploring her family origins is about as tough as art-house pitches come. Yet, Ida has a remarkable lightness of touch and focus of vision making it impossible not to widely recommend.” – Quickflix Nov 1, 2014 Full Review Life After Beth (2014) 46% 2.5/5 “Life After Beth is an irritatingly undeveloped project. A charming cast and a few moments of inspired lunacy make it passingly worthwhile for genre fans.” – Quickflix Nov 1, 2014 Full Review Non-Stop (2014) 62% 4/5 “For a good 80 minutes, Non-Stop delivers exactly what the title promises - an escalating series of exciting set-pieces with a great, mysterious backbone. This is top grade Hollywood entertainment.” – Quickflix Jul 23, 2014 Full Review Pompeii (2014) 27% 3.5/5 “Sure, every character beat is hammy and predictable, but hey, not everything can be fine dining. Sometimes you just want a good cheeseburger and fries.” – Quickflix Jul 23, 2014 Full Review Tokarev (2014) 13% 2/5 “If you are going to make a B-grade exploitation piece you need to go for excess and insanity. Tokarev commits the ultimate movie sin: it makes a Nicolas Cage revenge thriller simply boring.” – Quickflix Jun 25, 2014 Full Review 3 Days to Kill (2014) 27% 2.5/5 “3 Days to Kill is a frequently bizarre, never boring mash-up that doesn't come together yet perfectly encapsulates everything both good and bad about Luc Besson's recent output” – Quickflix Jun 25, 2014 Full Review Cutie and the Boxer (2013) 95% 4/5 “Cutie and the Boxer is an often quiet, almost fragile piece of cinema that presents us with a spiky and unglamorous relationship, still full of love. It's a beautiful and humane documentary.” – Quickflix May 14, 2014 Full Review The Spectacular Now (2013) 92% 4/5 “Every time the film teeters on the precipice of a generic plot point it satisfyingly withdraws into more subtle and nuanced territory that ultimately coalesces in a final act that is sentimental without being sugary.” – Quickflix May 14, 2014 Full Review The Color of Time (2012) 5% 2/5 “The most pertinent take away from Tar is simply how influential the Terrence Malick aesthetic has become. A fascinating failure, it works better as a class experiment than as a watchable piece of cinema.” – Quickflix May 14, 2014 Full Review The Book Thief (2013) 50% 3/5 “Ultimately not much more complex than the moment in which two children yell "I hate Hitler" across a lake, it imparts the message that Nazis are bad, books are good, and Geoffrey Rush would make a great dad even in WWII Germany” – Quickflix May 5, 2014 Full Review Homefront (2013) 42% 3.5/5 “When Jason Statham stops to pat a kitten after MacGyvering up the bad guy's meth-lab to explode when the lights are switched on, you will either groan or giggle... if you are inclined towards the latter you may find quite a bit of enjoyment in Homefront.” – Quickflix Apr 22, 2014 Full Review Nurse (2014) 64% 2.5/5 “Nurse is one of those modern, pre-fabricated cult movies like The Human Centipede or Sharknado, designed to be talked about amongst friends though never truly satisfying as a genuinely interesting piece of exploitation cinema.” – Quickflix Mar 31, 2014 Full Review Magic Magic (2013) 68% 4.5/5 “If you're like me and enjoy horror films that make you feel odd, unsettled and generally unpleasant, then this is one of the best feel-bad experiences you could have.” – Quickflix Mar 18, 2014 Full Review Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) 38% 3.5/5 “It's not gory, but relies on ceaseless weirdness with scores of jump scares and even an odd Back To The Future 2-style subplot that's undeveloped yet still adds to the overall sense of crazy. Love or hate it, this is pretty effective modern scare cinema.” – Quickflix Mar 11, 2014 Full Review Milo (2013) 59% 2.5/5 “The idea of watching Ken Marino argue with a giant haemorrhoid monster that has just popped out of his butt seems like a crazy must-see moment. Unfortunately, it comes across as flat and uninspired.” – Quickflix Mar 5, 2014 Full Review Why Stop Now? (2012) 25% 2.5/5 “It descends into a series of mawkish, over-melodramatic scenes that are entirely unearned and often unpleasantly noisy. It's never especially funny or dramatic and leaves the viewer feeling unsure of what the filmmakers were really trying to achieve.” – Quickflix Mar 4, 2014 Full Review Alan Partridge (2013) 87% 4/5 “Unlike almost all other English 온라인카지노추천 comedy adaptations (Bean, Guest House Paradiso, The Inbetweeners) Alpha Papa fulfils the comedic promise of a much loved icon and results in one of the funniest films of the past twelve months.” – Quickflix Feb 13, 2014 Full Review Afternoon Delight (2013) 66% 3.5/5 “Soloway teases rather than fully develops several different fascinating ideas in Afternoon Delight and while the flick doesn't ultimately cohere into a wholly satisfying single entity it's still an incredibly compelling experience.” – Quickflix Feb 4, 2014 Full Review Contracted (2013) 47% 2.5/5 “Contracted is an efficiently icky, gross-out exercise in body horror that should please fans of this kind of thing. Still, the lack of any substance below the surface is ultimately too frustrating to ignore.” – Quickflix Feb 4, 2014 Full Review
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