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Brian Pendreigh

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The Prestige (2006) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Nolan constructs a fascinating tale that twists and turns at every opportunity, although there is perhaps one twist too many in a slightly overbaked dénouement. ” – Radio Times Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Oldboy (2003) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Oldboy has more to offer than action and violence - it's an imaginative tale of guilt and revenge, with a shocking climax that will live long in the memory.” – Radio Times Aug 5, 2019 Full Review Whisky Galore! (2016) 42% 3/5 EDIT “Eddie Izzard is excellent as the pompous English Home Guard officer, as is Fenella Woolgar as his wife, who clearly sympathises with the locals.” – Radio Times May 18, 2017 Full Review Fences (2016) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Washington treats the source material with a little too much reverence, although his commanding presence fills the screen.” – Radio Times Feb 9, 2017 Full Review A Most Wanted Man (2014) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Hoffman heads an impressive cast and the plot is well crafted, even if the characters and moral uncertainties seem very familiar and the message remains the same.” – Radio Times Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 93% 4/5 EDIT “This outing from Kaufman's oddball imagination is wonderfully intriguing, often touching and typically convoluted.” – Radio Times May 30, 2014 Full Review Fever Pitch (2005) 66% 3/5 EDIT “The Farrellys rein in their usual excesses, but still manage to produce the laughs, albeit accompanied by a dose of terminal cuteness.” – Radio Times May 7, 2014 Full Review Wicker Park (2004) 27% 3/5 EDIT “Convoluted though this plot may seem, at least the inventive visuals from Gangster No 1 director Paul McGuigan keep you engrossed.” – Radio Times Mar 18, 2014 Full Review Chicago (2002) 87% 4/5 EDIT “It took more than a quarter of a century to bring the 1975 musical Chicago to the screen, but it was worth the wait to get it right.” – Radio Times Feb 12, 2014 Full Review Brave (2012) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Pixar's 13th full-length film is the studio's first to feature a female as its central character, and a memorable creation she is, too.” – Radio Times Nov 18, 2013 Full Review Fire in the Night (2013) 100% 4/5 EDIT “There's a powerful insight into the different ways people face death, and how those who do not die come to terms with their good fortune.” – Radio Times Jun 22, 2013 Full Review A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) 45% 2/5 EDIT “Even at 85 minutes, the movie often drags as if there was insufficient quality material to draw upon.” – Radio Times Feb 8, 2013 Full Review Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) 38% 3/5 EDIT “Inoffensive and insubstantial.” – Radio Times Feb 1, 2013 Full Review Zaytoun (2012) 46% 3/5 EDIT “El Akal delivers a winning wide-eyed performance as Fahed that more than compensates for [its] shortcomings.” – Radio Times Dec 27, 2012 Full Review Midnight's Children (2012) 40% 3/5 EDIT “The film is stunningly beautiful. And the story retains at least some of the elements that made the novel so special in its imagination, ambition and scope.” – Radio Times Dec 27, 2012 Full Review Like Crazy (2011) 70% 2/5 EDIT “Wearing its heart prominently on its sleeve, this romance tries a little too hard to persuade its audience that they too should fall in love with its star-crossed protagonists.” – Radio Times Jan 26, 2012 Full Review J. Edgar (2011) 44% 3/5 EDIT “Eastwood rather deftly suggests a man who is both naive and repressed, while making it clear that what really drove him was his work - and his ego.” – Radio Times Jan 20, 2012 Full Review Perfect Sense (2011) 57% 2/5 EDIT “Sadly, the central romance fails to convince as the two leads lack chemistry...” – Radio Times Oct 13, 2011 Full Review Weekender (2011) 9% 2/5 EDIT “The perennial problem with party films is that the viewer is made to feel a wallflower, looking on from the sidelines, and director Karl Golden does nothing to dispel that sense of distance here.” – Radio Times Sep 8, 2011 Full Review Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon (2011) 57% 3/5 EDIT “An insight into an America that many may associate more readily with Steinbeck than the 21st century.” – Radio Times Jun 23, 2011 Full Review Whisky Galore! (1949) 96% 4/5 EDIT “” – Eye for Film Apr 4, 2011 Full Review Never Let Me Go (2010) 71% 3/5 EDIT “While the film has powerful individual scenes and the performances of Mulligan and Garfield convey the anguish of their plight, the work as a whole remains curiously uninvolving.” – Radio Times Feb 10, 2011 Full Review Rabbit Hole (2010) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The performances from Kidman and Eckhart are beautifully judged, while the film is as delicate and as finely nuanced as the characters and relationships it portrays.” – Radio Times Feb 3, 2011 Full Review Jackboots on Whitehall (2010) 44% 2/5 EDIT “It tries to both celebrate and lampoon British culture and spirit at the same time, only the end result is surprisingly flat.” – Radio Times Oct 7, 2010 Full Review SoulBoy (2010) 75% 3/5 EDIT “It's more than a little clichd, with a disco-floor bully who's straight out of panto, but the music and period detail will help take your mind off such deficiencies.” – Radio Times Sep 2, 2010 Full Review
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