Victor Olliver
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An Education (2009)
93%
4/5
“The 60s period detail is spot on, the script super-knowing. A wonderful surprise of a movie.” –
Teletext
Oct 29, 2009
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Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)
81%
4/5
“Because none of the footage here was ever intended for public viewing - only for MJ's library - the film has a unique and welcome authenticity.” –
Teletext
Oct 29, 2009
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Couples Retreat (2009)
10%
2/5
“Three of the four principal guys in this comedy are well over 15 stone - making them clinically obese by their body mass indexes. They need to lose weight not lessons in "couples skills building."” –
Teletext
Oct 16, 2009
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
64%
2.5/5
“Terry Gilliam is perhaps the only director who could lure in the late Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell AND Jude Law - and still produce a phantasmogoric stinker.” –
Teletext
Oct 16, 2009
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Love Happens (2009)
16%
2.5/5
“Lovers of therapy-speak with its "closures" and "I'm in a good/bad place" will probably warm to this film.” –
Teletext
Oct 9, 2009
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Up (2009)
98%
5/5
“Visually, Up is breathless perfection, a dream ride of vivid colour and wit. It also has emotional depth. Carl's sense of failed purpose is felt: indeed he and Muntz are both, for different reasons, seeking fulfilment.” –
Teletext
Oct 9, 2009
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Zombieland (2009)
89%
4/5
“Zombieland's not the first pic to take the mick of the genre. This one though has a great deal more zest than most.” –
Teletext
Oct 9, 2009
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Creation (2009)
47%
2/5
“Even atheists may smart at the family picnic where a character intones, "All of nature is a battlefield," while neat cucumber sarnies are passed about.” –
Teletext
Sep 25, 2009
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Fame (2009)
23%
4/5
“This may not please M온라인카지노추천 fans but will appeal to primetime 온라인카지노추천 family audiences who've grown to expect the slickness of The X Factor's production values. Loads of talent and plenty of pretty faces. What's not to like?” –
Teletext
Sep 25, 2009
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(500) Days of Summer (2009)
86%
5/5
“Director Marc Webb's debut feature is as far from a Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant vehicle as you can imagine. What better reason to go see it? From start to end his subtle movie feather-teases your funny spots: it amazes, refreshes and it delights.” –
Teletext
Sep 5, 2009
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District 9 (2009)
90%
5/5
“You have to go back to 1979 and the premiere of Alien to find a sci-fi ET movie as thrilling and innovative as director Neill Blomkamp's District 9. His satirical fable on racism delivers all the toys and ploys for the fanboys while teasing and teaching t” –
Teletext
Sep 5, 2009
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
96%
3/5
“Set in war-torn Iraq of 2004, the pic's certainly excellent in many ways. But it never asks the question: "What are these American soldiers doing here?"” –
Teletext
Aug 31, 2009
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Funny People (2009)
69%
4/5
“A relatively sophisticated comedy - despite the male insecurity fixations - and one that rings true on the oddballs paid to make us laugh.” –
Teletext
Aug 31, 2009
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Dance Flick (2009)
18%
2/5
“Dance Flick is a clod-hopping daddy hoofer of a pic that's arrived about a decade too late.” –
Teletext
Aug 20, 2009
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
89%
5/5
“The Dirty Dozen it most definitely is not. It's a war movie like no other, a 21st century film nerd's take on the 20th century's most tragic chapter. Cinderella's slipper and Sherlock Holmes' pipe are among the unlikely delights in QT's best film to date.” –
Teletext
Aug 20, 2009
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Coco Before Chanel (2009)
63%
3.5/5
“We expect a fashion flick to be bitchy, shiny, brittle and superficial. So Coco Before Chanel may give many fashionistas the needle.” –
Teletext
Aug 3, 2009
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Land of the Lost (2009)
26%
1/5
“There's a docu-drama to be made about movies like this. About how no-one had the courage to tell the star: This ain't funny!” –
Teletext
Aug 3, 2009
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The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
51%
3.5/5
“This is a post-9/11 city: terrorism is suspected, the cops are over-armed and trigger happy. Why they don't shoot Ryder when they could is unexplained.” –
Teletext
Aug 3, 2009
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Antichrist (2009)
53%
2/5
“Troma and porn have flogged this sort of stuff for years - the kind of films that don't get previewed by critics.” –
Teletext
Jul 26, 2009
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The Proposal (2009)
45%
3.5/5
“At the Sandra Bullock Movie Factory, a Hunky Co-Star Assembly Line rivets a new head on a standard male muscular body per SB pic.” –
Teletext
Jul 26, 2009
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The Informers (2009)
13%
1/5
“Imagine Absolutely Fabulous without Edina and Patsy, or Dynasty without Alexis, and what have you got? The Informers.” –
Teletext
Jul 16, 2009
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Moon (2009)
90%
2/5
“Not even the marvellous Sam Rockwell (all two or more of him) can quite make up for the lack of dramatic impetus. You watch it and you keep thinking: Oh no, I can't cope with all this acting!” –
Teletext
Jul 16, 2009
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
83%
4/5
“Jim Broadbent's casting is a master stroke. He captures perfectly that blend of scattiness, eccentricity, furtiveness and fear that makes up Slughorn.” –
Teletext
Jul 16, 2009
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Brüno (2009)
68%
3.5/5
“There are sequences of comic genius but you suspect that the huge dollop of cruelty in Cohen has got out of hand - and then the movie wilts.” –
Teletext
Jul 9, 2009
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
46%
4/5
“Ice Age 3 is wittier than Kung-Fu Panda, certainly as slick as Toy Story. The Ice Age franchise shows no signs of thawing out. Come on 4!” –
Teletext
Jul 4, 2009
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