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ANDREW PULVER
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• Guardian [UK]
• Observer [UK]

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Total Reviews: 91


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3/5
 
"With no attempt made to even explain the basic rules of Go, this is essentially a study of forehead-kneading concentration, of how to shut out even the most tempestuous of world events." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
The Go Master (2006)69%
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3/5
 
"Despite the unremitting focus on the claustrophobia of outpost life, it's hard to ignore the by-now hoary tropes of the war movie with which Cedar litters his screenplay." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Beaufort (2008)87%
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4/5
 
"If you like your dialogue hardboiled, your lighting shadowy, and your femmes fatales preposterously evil, then look no further: Billy Wilder's 1944 adaptation of James M Cain's insurance-scam novella." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 11, 2008
 
Double Indemnity (1944)97%
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3/5
 
"A documentary examining the Miami drug wars of the early 1980s in exhaustive - and occasionally nauseating - detail." --
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)70%
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Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Earth (1999)69%
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3/5
 
"It's pretty amusing stuff - though it could have been a lot funnier if they had resisted the temptation to shoehorn in quite so many plot twists." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Weirdsville (2007)56%
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3/5
 
"A feature-film condensation of last year's blockbusting BBC nature series Planet Earth - but, in a somewhat spineless move, it has been shorn of David Attenborough's breathy tones and given instead those of Patrick Stewart." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Earth (2007)100%
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"Dialogue is minimal and events, such as they are, are propelled by a whimsicality characteristic of its era." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1976)94%
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3/5
 
"A gentle, unpretentious comedy that posits a why-can't-we-just-get-along approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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3/5
 
"McGowan is a suitably slinky presence as the lead avenger with a machine gun for a leg; blood and pus regularly fill the screen as Rodriguez lets rip with gleeful abandon." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Planet Terror (2007)77%
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2/5
 
"Very gauche stuff." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 27, 2007
 
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)80%
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1/5
 
"Batten down the hatches; here's a film that really blows." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
The Nanny Diaries (2007)34%
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2/5
 
"Shaun of the Dead has set the bar pretty high for this sort of thing; Black Sheep just isn't nearly as funny or suspenseful." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Black Sheep (2007)71%
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2/5
 
"Neil Jordan ought to be doing more challenging material than this overblown, overwrought thriller that has only obvious points to make about the moral swamp that is urban vigilantism." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
The Brave One (2007)43%
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1/5
 
"After two hours of butchered classics, it's just a relief when it's over." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Across the Universe (2007)53%
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4/5
 
"It's slick, efficient, tough-nosed film-making, enmeshing our hapless hero more and more tightly in its narrative coils. Only a matter of time, surely, before Michael Douglas shows up in the remake." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
The Serpent (2006)85%
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4/5
 
"This trip rapidly becomes more about how they interact rather than their gravity defying ball." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
In the Hands of the Gods (2007)85%
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4/5
 
"It won the best first film award at Cannes; somehow, it doesn't seem quite substantial enough to justify that accolade." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)95%
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Posted Jul 28, 2007
 
Lonely Hearts (2007)50%
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3/5
 
"[An] expertly assembled and engrossing documentary." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 14, 2007
 
Deep Water (2007)96%
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Posted Jun 16, 2007
 
Tell No One (2007)93%
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2/5
 
"A beautifully designed but ponderously executed attempt to summon up the spirit of the Austrian fin-de-siècle painter." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 2, 2007
 
Klimt (2006)29%
 No Rating  
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Posted Jun 2, 2007
 
Lunacy (2006)67%
 No Rating  
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Posted Jun 2, 2007
 
Water (2006)91%
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Posted Apr 28, 2007
 
The Breed (2001)n/a
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3/5
 
"There's an undeniable rock-nerd edge here, as one talking head after another showers praise on the man." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man (2006)92%
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2/5
 
"Despite the presence of Wes Craven as a producer, this is really a pretty unscary effort." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
The Breed (2006)8%
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2/5
 
"This one experiments with the putatively brain-frying idea of a man who can see two minutes into the future." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
Next (2007)30%
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1/5
 
"Like some deformed offspring that's been walled up in an attic for 20 years, this resurrects the spirit of Police Academy." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
Reno 911!: Miami (2007)34%
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2/5
 
"Satanic horror films are always good for a laugh, and this one is no exception." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 21, 2007
 
The Reaping (2007)8%
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2/5
 
"Without Sandler, Reign Over Me would be a gloopy, post-9/11 love-in, making cavalier use of a fine but helpless cast." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Reign Over Me (2007)63%
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5/5
 
"This film is a masterpiece." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)85%
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3/5
 
"Dunne [Gosling] is an enjoyable and impressive creation, justifiably recognised with an Oscar nomination for Gosling earlier this year." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Half Nelson (2006)91%
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2/5
 
"The cinematic equivalent of one of those chunky special-forces-porn airport novels." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 14, 2007
 
Shooter (2007)47%
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Posted Apr 7, 2007
 
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)100%
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3/5
 
"One things for sure, they certainly don't make 'em like this any more. Nor, I suspect, would anyone want them to." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 7, 2007
 
El Topo (1970)74%
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3/5
 
"A sympathetic, subtly observed account of Israeli girl soldiers." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 7, 2007
 
Close to Home (2007)67%
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3/5
 
"This is a solidly impressive kids' sci-fi." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2007
 
The Last Mimzy (2007)54%
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2/5
 
"It hovers on the edge of wordy, stagy self-consciousness, but is rendered watchable by the unlikely chemistry between its two leads." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 24, 2007
 
The Gigolos (2006)40%
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1/5
 
"This could be the most morally loathsome film ever made." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 16, 2007
 
The Bridge (2006)69%
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1/5
 
"There's a special circle of hell reserved for whoever thought up the moment where Macht tells Moore she smells like "cake batter"." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 16, 2007
 
Because I Said So (2007)5%
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3/5
 
"Every frame, you feel, is freighted with the tension imposed by the never-appearing white folks. It was, however, laudable in its desire to showcase the talents of African-American performers who were denied opportunities in Hollywood." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 10, 2007
 
Carmen Jones (1954)75%
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3/5
 
"Affecting, if rather esoteric." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 9, 2007
 
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2007)94%
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3/5
 
"It's hard to go wrong with a cute liddle piggy." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 9, 2007
 
Charlotte's Web (2006)78%
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Posted Jan 27, 2007
 
Frostbite (2004)n/a
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2/5
 
"... this falls well short of the Buffy-level resonances at which [Harlin] was presumably aiming." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2007
 
The Covenant (2006)3%
 No Rating  
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Posted Jan 13, 2007
 
Life and Lyrics (2006)n/a
 No Rating  
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Posted Jan 6, 2007
 
Dark horse (2005)n/a
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2/5
 
"There's zero chemistry between the leads; for all their passionate declarations of love, you never believe they've even spoken to each other before the cameras start turning over." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 25, 2006
 
Something New (2006)61%
 No Rating  
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Posted Nov 25, 2006
 
Rampage (1987)43%

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