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Peter Calder

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The Exorcist (1973) 78% EDIT “What does impress is the film's early command of suspense. It seems slow to get going, but the malevolence simmering beneath the calm exterior is truly nasty.” – New Zealand Herald Sep 28, 2023 Full Review The King's Speech (2010) 94% 4/5 EDIT “It's a handsomely mounted, finely acted and, above all, intelligent drama that puts flesh on the bones of historical figures.” – New Zealand Herald Feb 26, 2017 Full Review Our Kind of Traitor (2016) 72% 2/5 EDIT “Skarsgard, playing big for once, has fun; Lewis, as a maverick Whitehall mandarin is a pleasure to watch and there's a delicious payoff at the end, but the film as a whole is derivative, flabby and flat.” – New Zealand Herald Aug 18, 2016 Full Review Rams (2015) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Hakonarson taps into something almost mythical: the bearded brothers, who could have stepped off the set of an Old Testament epic, may hate each other, but they share a fierce pride in their flocks' pure and ancient bloodline.” – New Zealand Herald Aug 4, 2016 Full Review A Month of Sundays (2015) 60% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film as a whole takes a well-worn trope and invests it with an unexpected emotional power.” – New Zealand Herald Jul 21, 2016 Full Review Remember (2015) 68% 2.5/5 EDIT “The film's real thrills are to be found in the fragility and confusion of Plummer's performance. At 85, few actors find leading roles and he's the oldest actor to have won an Oscar (for Beginners); he deserved better than this.” – New Zealand Herald Jul 20, 2016 Full Review Labyrinth of Lies (2014) 83% 3/5 EDIT “Fehling, whose face is familiar from Inglourious Basterds and Homeland, has the matinee idol looks to carry a heroic role. But there are several scenes and plot developments that have a schematic, template-like feel to them.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 24, 2016 Full Review Our Little Sister (2015) 93% 4/5 EDIT “An accessible piece of work by one of the medium's great masters.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 1, 2016 Full Review City of Gold (2015) 89% 5/5 EDIT “Be warned: if you go on an empty stomach, you will certainly not last the distance.” – New Zealand Herald May 26, 2016 Full Review Tickled (2016) 94% 4/5 EDIT “A fascinating detective story that comes highly recommended.” – New Zealand Herald May 26, 2016 Full Review Neerja (2016) 100% 4/5 EDIT “If you've never sampled the mainstream output of the world's biggest movie industry, this is an excellent place to start.” – New Zealand Herald May 19, 2016 Full Review Two Days One Night (2014) 96% 4.5/5 EDIT “[Cotillard is] the beating heart of a film that manages to whisper and scream at the same time.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Life of Crime (2013) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “No matter what your favourite is of films based on Elmore Leonard books (and I'm for Out of Sight ahead of Jackie Brown), this crime comedy will deliver a surprise.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Advanced Style (2014) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film struggles to sustain its length, too, but there is much to enjoy.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Elsa & Fred (2014) 33% 2.5/5 EDIT “This story of love in the autumn of life is not without its charms, though it takes a crisp and well-judged performance from Plummer to balance MacLaine's shrill extravagance.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage (2014) 52% 2/5 EDIT “Shakespeare for short attention spans.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Jimmy's Hall (2014) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “A handsomely mounted, yet modest and precise piece of work that unearths a little-known true story of injustice and reminds us all of how the present is always in the shadow of the past.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Finding Vivian Maier (2013) 95% EDIT “Deftly constructed and edited.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Decoding Annie Parker (2013) 54% 1.5/5 EDIT “This is lamentably short of humour. It's also lamentably short of coherence and seems to have been edited by someone with delirium tremens.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Pride (2014) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “A top-flight cast gives it a rollicking, irresistibly entertaining reading that makes up for its occasional implausibilities and sanitised superficialities.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Siddharth (2013) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “It's a striking and polished addition to the catalogue of recent cinema set in India and is a bracing antidote to the spit-shined glibness of Slumdog Millionaire.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review The Lunchbox (2013) 97% 3.5/5 EDIT “This is not a comedy that delivers its humour broadly or a romance that seeks to induce a swoon; it has a restrained, even melancholic tone that dilutes its essential sentimentalism. There's a lot to be said for that.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Locke (2013) 91% 4/5 EDIT “It's a mesmerisingly watchable movie that will leave you both exhilarated and wrung out.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review 52 Tuesdays (2013) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's an imperfect but remarkable little film, and it gives us the chance to see, in Cobham-Hervey, the birth of a star.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review Boyhood (2014) 97% 5/5 EDIT “It is sure to be one of the best films of my year.” – New Zealand Herald May 16, 2016 Full Review
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