Top Rated Films
Bryan Durham's Film Reviews
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Whatever you do, don’t miss this film. And before you do, fish out the DVDs of the first two Hobbit films and watch them back-to-back. It’s a treat for the senses.
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Any good family drama has a well-worn balance of measured ups and downs. Adaptation or not, it can’t bore you too much. This Is Where… seems confused about which side of the fence it wants to be.
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Take an aspirin before walking into this one. Twists and cuckoo-ness apart, it’s curiously not that much of a suspense story. You kinda figure that out in the first half itself.
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The Penguins of Madagascar is worth watching twice. The brilliant animation aside, after three movies with Madagascar’s principal cast, it’s heartening to see some of the other memorable characters get their own film. In this one, they poke fun at the franchise in particular, at spy films in general and get on with the usual gags and some truly brilliant new ones and puns. Because you know, you can never have enough of those…
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First, watch the first two films in this franchise. You will have to or you will be scratching your head through parts of the film. And it won’t be because of the dandruff.
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As Armaan Ji says, “300 rupaiye mein logon ko zindagi mat sikha!” Now, if that’s not a master class on making big money in Bollywood, I don’t know what is. If only Raj-DK had kept it as short,simple and precise, this would be recommended as a two-time watch. In its current avatar, one should be more than enough.
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Denzel Washington steals the show in ‘The Equalizer’. Denzel’s a pretty cool customer for his age. Age seems to slow a lot of action stars down. Thank god, he’s nowhere close to being an Expendable one.
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It’s a disturbingly stark and sufficiently suffocating look at the stuff that makes monsters of men. Recommended watching for every student of human nature.
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This is a film you can take your family to. It’s the kind of a film a child any age can enjoy, despite a few violent moments here and there. But then again, we see far worse on cartoon shows, these days, don’t we?
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Nicely done, Nolan, but maybe I was expecting more… But one thing is for sure, fans of his work are gonna love it. The rest of us, vaguely familiar with his other works, might not find it as accessible. Maybe because its nowhere near as cheesy as an Independence Day? Or maybe because it will come to mean different things to different people. But whatever you think about it, just “don’t go gentle into that good night”.