An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
20.11.09
The creepiest thing about the second adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books - New Moon - is its obsession with teenage celibacy.
13.11.09
Roland Emmerich's latest epic of impending doom, 2012, is perhaps the most intelligent and exciting example of the genre
06.11.09
Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan
30.10.09
An adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her days as a suburban schoolgirl brilliantly captures the spirit of its age in An Education.
23.10.09
Director Wes Anderson chooses homemade kookiness over CGI trickery for his take on Roald Dahl’s classic Fantastic Mr Fox — the result is charming.
16.10.09
There are plenty of wild ideas in Terry Gilliam's latest epic — The Imagination of Doctor Parnassus - but his flights of fancy don't really lead...
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09.10.09
Animation reaches new heights with a powerful myth that touches the part in all of us that remains for ever a child in Up.
08.10.09
Those of us who love London must feel ashamed this week. It is the world's most interesting city, a place of uncommon delights, yet it has been shown...
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02.10.09
Like the neurotic New Yorker, Ricky Gervais is a self-deprecating writer-performer who makes movies on his own terms in The Invention of Lying.
25.09.09
Darwin's life was eventful enough without the added clichés that Creation director Jon Amiel couldn't resist in the retelling of a fascinating story.
18.09.09
Director Nick Love returns to the testosterone-fuelled world of football violence but gives himself too much to live up to by remaking a classic
11.09.09
Inside the world of American Vogue, it’s a joy to find as much journalistic talent and creativity as glamour — and in Anna Wintour and Grace...
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28.08.09
Splattery dramatics are no doubt enhanced by clever use of 3D technology in The Final Destination.
28.08.09
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow's powerful drama of devastated lives, tells the real story of Iraq.
14.08.09
Director Cary Fukunaga's outstanding debut Sin Nombre is one more example of the powerful imagination of Latin America’s film industry.
07.08.09
Adam, a romantic comedy about a young man with Asperger's, tries hard to lay on the sweetness but in the end leaves just a bitter taste.
31.07.09
Coco Before Chanel is sumptuously tailored – if only it had unearthed a bit more of life’s real filth.
24.07.09
Lars Von Trier goes all out for controversy with Antichrist - his tale of a couple wracked with sexual guilt and ends up with a pretentious...
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17.07.09
As the epic Harry Potter franchise approaches its climax, the pleasure is in the rich, complex world JK Rowling has created around the boy wizard.
10.07.09
Puerile and messy the movie may be but Baron Cohen has never been more brilliantly comic and bravely outrageous than in Brüno.
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