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Valhalla Rising (2010) - Rated 07 Jul 2010
"Valhalla Rising does a few things right; there's some beautiful, arresting imagery on display here, and while the characters, setting and story are all certainly intriguing, they are presented in a particularly opaque manner. There's next to no dialogue, long periods of brooding silence accompanied by a droning, martial-industrial soundtrack, but it's the pace, or sheer lack of it, that really lets Valhalla Rising down, and while I enjoyed the experience, it's not a film I could easily reccomend"
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Vincere (2009) - Rated 21 Feb 2011
"With 'Vincere' Bellocchio and his lead actors present a mature and thought provoking look at one of the most clouded stories of Fascist Italy's past with an uncanny sense of style and dramatic flair that is punctuated by the film's wonderful classical score and Giovanna Mezzogiorno's career defining performance, which is somewhat allegorical of the film as a whole, as like Italian society Dalser too was seduced and betrayed by the charm of the fierce and intelligent Mussolini. A remarkable film."
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Mad Detective (2007) - Rated 07 Jul 2010
"Based around the simple concept of a bizarre, unconventional police detective with the mysterious abillity to see peoples hidden personas, Mad Detective is anything but formulaic and right from the start disuades any notion that this is just another flashy HK crime film. What follows is a highly ingenious, highly inventive and above all, highly entertaining piece of cinema. If you're after a crime film that's as inventive and intriguing as it is enjoyable, you can't go wrong with Mad Detective."
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Exiled (2006) - Rated 07 Jul 2010
"Exiled is a film at odds with itself. On one hand it's a stylish, over the top Hong Kong gangster film, on the other it's a melancholy movie about friendship and the past, but for the most part these two sections compliment each other well. There's a lot of familiarity here right across the board, with a none-too-original plot and a cast of familiar HK crime genre actors, but Exiled does just enough to rise above the glut of HK crime sagas with some good performances around the intricate gunplay"
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