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June 2013
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is a treat for the eyes but cannot escape its flimsy source material
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May 2013
Judi Dench's embattled M in Skyfall at one point reaches not for a Beretta or one of Q's exploding pens but a few lines of Tennyson. Would the words of Carol Ann Duffy work as well?
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May 2013
All-too-predictable sci-fi and tired post-modern campery imply that original cinematic ideas are rare
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April 2013
The cult of the auteur lets Steven Soderbergh and Danny Boyle get away with self-indulgence
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