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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) | Movie Review

Gary Oldman is George Smiley, a weary intelligence officer who’s been worn down by decades of employment in Her Majesty’s sneakiest service. Even in a flick packed with heavyweight British actors, the...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

Drive (2011) | Movie Review

I’m going to avoid any vehicular puns here, but to use to obvious metaphor, Drive is an American muscle car. Sleek, sexy, and extremely powerful – but not overly refined or with much intricacy going o...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

The King of Fighters (2010) | Movie Review

On the ‘videogame movies are awful’ scale, what are you expecting? Based on the beat-‘em-up series, King Of Fighters is very much in the latter part of that spectrum. It starts badly but not terribly,...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

The Skin I Live In (2011) | Movie Review

Antonio Banderas performs in his mother tongue in Almodovar’s utterly compelling thriller. The ultimate mad scientist, Robert Ledgard (Banderas), is a pioneering plastic surgeon creating a brand new t...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

The Tree Of Life (2011) | Movie Review

Terrence Malick does not like to be rushed. Held in high esteem for great films Days Of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, at the time of release, The Tree Of Life was only the fourth film for which he's s...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

X-Men: First Class (2011) | Movie Review

The worst thing that a superhero film can do is the origin story. Spider-Man 2 was better because it didn’t spend an hour developing Peter Parker’s ‘I can do what now?’ surprise. Same for The Dark Kni...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

The Social Network (2010) | Movie Review

Before the opening credits have rolled, the quality of The Social Network is evident. Then-future Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is sat in a crowded bar opposite his girlfriend, wh...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

Wall Street Money Never Sleeps (2010) | Movie Review | Michael Douglas, Shia LeBeouf

The 23 years between the original Wall Street and this sequel make GT's schedule look like a soap opera production line, but that long wait was just excellent timing. The first film was an operatic ex...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

The Walking Dead Season 1 (2011) | Series Review | Norman Reedus, Andrew Lincoln, Lauren Cohen

As anybody who has ever tried cheating on their girlfriend with a zombie will tell you, walking corpses and love triangles don’t usually mix. (‘Why is there an ear in your pocket, darling?’) But this...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

The Tourist (2010) | Movie Review | Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp

It takes a special kind of talent to pair Hollywood darlings Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp together without generating anything remotely approaching chemistry. Yet The Lives Of Others director Floria...

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@gonklavez9 · 3 years ago

The American (2010) | Movie Review | George Clooney, Thekla Reuten

There are two demographics of moviegoers who’ll love The American. First, folk enjoys watching George Clooney in full-on amoral mode, wandering about being sad, weary, and still unbelievably handsome....

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