All (93) Reviews from @incongruousm
Senna - Fascinating, moving & captivating. Great story & insight into a remarkable man. Needn't be an F1 fan. ★★★★✩
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on 6th June 2011
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on 4th February 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - Dark & tense. Perfectly pitched, touch slow. One of the better HPs ★★★★✩
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on 4th February 2011
Skyline - Outstanding effects on tiny budget make it worth a watch. Plot fails swiftly, becomes increasingly daft ★★★✩✩
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on 4th February 2011
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on 4th February 2011
RED - Willis, Malkovich, Mirren & Freeman with big guns & action aplenty. Complete nonsense, but loads of fun! ★★★✩✩
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on 4th February 2011
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on 4th February 2011
Goodfellas - Scorsese's truth-founded gangster story is visual, brutal, violent & perfectly pitched. Excellent. ★★★★★
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on 19th October 2010
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on 1st October 2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D - Mia's back to fight the infected. Again. More of the same nonsense & not very good. ★★✩✩✩
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on 28th September 2010
Tamara Drewe - Funny in places but totally confused & ultimately loses itself. Some will love it. Needs editing. ★★★✩✩
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on 24th September 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs The World - Superb comic book translation if a little over done. Engaging, original & very funny ★★★★✩
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on 24th September 2010
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on 24th September 2010
Salt - Somewhat daft but fairly engaging action thriller. Bit obvious, bit clunky but decent popcorn fodder. ★★★✩✩
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on 20th September 2010
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on 13th September 2010
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on 13th September 2010
The A-Team (2010) - Complete nonsense & somewhat of a mess but surprisingly good fun. Oh, and Jessica Biel... :-) ★★★✩✩
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on 18th August 2010
Knight & Day - Oh dear. Even Tom & Cam can't lift this material above woeful. Never seen bulls kill a car though ★★✩✩✩
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on 12th August 2010
The Karate Kid (2010) - Surprisingly good. Smith excellent & Chan is always watchable. Not Karate but great fun. ★★★★✩
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on 9th August 2010
Toy Story 3 - Simply magnificent. Heart-warming, heart-breaking & just a bit scary. A story-telling masterclass. ★★★★★
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on 2nd August 2010
Inception - Refreshingly intelligent action thrill. Original, disorienting, superbly realised & totally brilliant ★★★★★
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on 2nd August 2010
Funny Games US - Haneke's critique of film violence is tense & thought provoking but not for all. Watts' is excellent ★★★★✩
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on 20th July 2010
L'arnacoeur - Suprisingly sweet RomCom. Not terribly original but just different enough & funny. Really enjoyable. ★★★★✩
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on 5th July 2010
Get Him to the Greek - Brand & Hill get drunk & high. Who cares? Too much slack, lacks laughs. Brand always irritates ★★✩✩✩
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on 29th June 2010
Brooklyn's Finest - Gloomy, bleak woven tale of 3 Brooklyn cops. Violent & brooding but overall plotting disappoints ★★✩✩✩
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on 23rd June 2010
La vie en rose - Superb. Intense, moving & well constructed Piaf biopic. Cotillard is astounding, her Oscar justified ★★★★✩
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on 23rd June 2010
The Disappearance of Alice Creed - Disturbing early on, not as tense as it might be. Cast don't quite click. ★★★✩✩
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on 8th June 2010
Prince of Persia: TSoT - Firmly tongue-in-cheek action caper, never takes itself too seriously. Surprising light fun. ★★★★✩
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on 4th June 2010
Robin Hood (2010) - Ponderous for almost 2 hours. Daft for 40 minutes. Solid enough but way short of expectations. ★★✩✩✩
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on 24th May 2010
Four Lions - An interesting but flawed farce. Could've been about anything. One hilarious scene, many smiles. ★★★✩✩
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on 20th May 2010
Iron Man 2 -Terrible plotting masked by solid (often pointless) action. Starts well, slips away. Just about stays fun ★★★✩✩
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on 4th May 2010
Date Night - Starts well, loses its way in places as it plays with unbelievable. Good number of laughs, I ♥ Tina Fey ★★★✩✩
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on 29th April 2010
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on 19th April 2010
Kick-Ass - Absolutely superb. Witty, clever, subversive. Chloë Moretz is outstanding. Comic violence at its best. ★★★★★
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on 6th April 2010
Shutter Island - Dark, creepy & predictable till 3rd act. Distracting music. Decent effort far from Scorsese's best ★★★✩✩
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on 31st March 2010
Shutter Island - Dark, creepy & predictable till 3rd act. Distracting music. Decent effort far from Scorsese's best ★★★★✩
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on 31st March 2010
Green Zone - Mostly excellent action sequences with solid if eventually overcooked political plot. Well worth a watch ★★★★✩
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on 29th March 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010) - Beautiful, imaginative & in places excellent. Ultimately fails to truly captivate. ★★★✩✩
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on 9th March 2010
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on 2nd March 2010
The Lovely Bones - Solid story, script & performances, strangely kitsch view of the inbetween. Good try, almost works ★★★✩✩
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on 2nd March 2010
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on 22nd February 2010
Chicago - Zellweger's her usual irritating self, but a vibrant, entertaining adaptation of the stage musical hit. ★★★★✩
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on 22nd February 2010
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on 22nd February 2010
Rashômon - 3 stories, 1 event. Classic look at unreliable truth & selfishness of humanity. A storytelling masterpiece ★★★★★
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on 16th February 2010
The Wolfman - Ham-fisted & uninspired. Slows to a crawl & production troubles evident on-screen. Brings nothing new. ★✩✩✩✩
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on 15th February 2010
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on 8th February 2010
Avatar - Visually astounding, narratively bereft. Such technical splendour with age-old story & clunky scripting. ★★★✩✩
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on 1st February 2010
Up In The Air - Clooney being Clooney, great cynical look at life in isolation. Farmiga great. Final 3rd unconvincing ★★★★✩
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on 25th January 2010
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on 18th January 2010
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on 12th January 2010
Notting Hill - One of the few great "RomComs". Delightfully sweet, engaging & actually funny. Rises above the dross. ★★★★✩
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on 7th January 2010
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on 4th January 2010
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on 4th January 2010
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on 18th December 2009
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on 19th November 2009
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on 16th November 2009
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on 9th November 2009
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on 3rd November 2009
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on 2nd November 2009
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassuss - Not for everyone but I loved it. Gloriously visual and delightfully Gilliam. ★★★★★
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on 27th October 2009
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on 19th October 2009
Coraline - Unhappy child seeks comfort in parallel world. Beautiful, creepy & quite charming. Touch derivative. ★★★✩✩
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on 16th October 2009
Up - Wonderful! Pixar prove again to be master storytellers. Touching, entertaining & beautiful. Sweet characters. ★★★★★
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on 14th October 2009
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on 5th October 2009
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on 2nd October 2009
Cars - Pixar never disappoint. Really like Cars but may bore some children. Beautiful animation, great characterisation. ★★★★✩
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on 22nd September 2009
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on 17th September 2009
Dorian Gray (2009) - Conservative adaptation. The portrait is sidelined & the descent unconvincing. Firth is excellent 6/10
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on 14th September 2009
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on 12th September 2009
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on 8th September 2009
District 9 - Not quite up to the hype but a solid piece of Sci-Fi with a degree of social commentary. Well worth watching. 8/10
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on 7th September 2009
Smart People - Romantic drama that almost works. Sarah JP I don't like, Ellen Page I do. Interesting characters weakly developed
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on 4th September 2009
Funny People - 2 films, one quite funny the other a mess. The drama doesn't work at all. Apatow has talent though & is improving
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on 1st September 2009
The Time Traveler's Wife - A solid romance which has a few logic holes but hangs together. McAdams is good, Bana less so. 7/10
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on 26th August 2009
The Science of Sleep - surreal but very sweet tale of a man, his dreams & his love. It's odd but captivating. Gondry is peculiar
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on 18th August 2009
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on 17th August 2009
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra - Starts stupid, gets moreso. Totally daft & often awful CGI. A hopeless mess, still made me smile.
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on 17th August 2009
The Taking of Pelham 123 - fairly solid action/thriller that manages some tension but ultimately doesn't quite deliver.
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on 10th August 2009
The Proposal - nuts 'n bolts rom-com that's humourous but average. In no way original. Lacks conviction.
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on 2nd August 2009
Se, jie (Lust, caution) - Beautiful & lavish war-time thriller. An excellent piece from Ang Lee. Really enjoyed it. 8/10
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on 2nd August 2009
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on 27th July 2009
Hable con ella (Talk to Her) is a superb look at obsession and loneliness. Almodovar is producing remarkably good output. 8/10
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on 23rd July 2009
Bruno is interesting. Too many cheap gags that aren't funny. Flirts with insightful social commentary but not enough. Shame 5/10
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on 22nd July 2009
Harry Potter 6 is a great addition. Plot filled, great looking & well paced. Tough book to adapt. Ending lacked any real bite
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on 21st July 2009
Public Enemies feels as though I should like it more. Plenty to like but ultimately found it disappointing. Cotillard = Great.
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on 20th July 2009
My Winnipeg: Interesting if not riveting documentary on this quirky place. Bit surreal. If you like doco's, worth a watch 6/10
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on 20th July 2009
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days - Moving & at times distressing look at illegal abortion. Good if not exactly enjoyable. 7/10.
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on 2nd July 2009
Year One was pretty much rubbish. A few chuckles, no more. Goes for the cheap stuff, seen it all before. 4/10.
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on 29th June 2009
So, The Hangover. Watchable, but instantly forgetable. Just not funny enough. A few chuckle moments but no real laughs.
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on 21st June 2009
Terminator Salvation was a mess. Script, plot, directing all a mess. Even Bale looks bad. Some ok action in places though. 4/10
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on 17th June 2009
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on 10th June 2009
Just got done rewatching Hard Candy. As good as I remember, tense, uncomfortable and brilliant. 8/10.
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on 10th June 2009
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on 9th June 2009