Mark
Leach
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Cowboys & Aliens
The real tragedy is with all that talent, money and good-will, Favreau has failed to make a satisfying or sufficiently fun B-movie.
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Bad Lieutenant
Cage pulls off one of the greatest performances of his career; his painfully hunched-over appearance is as uncomfortable to watch, as it is utterly compelling.
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Centurion
Neil Marshall has now developed a distinctive cinematic voice and he’s showing the older players that there can be other ways of doing things.
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Where The Wild Things Are
Where The Wild Things Are is a splendid adventure, a passionate escape from the realities of life that endears itself to audiences of all ages.
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Sherlock Holmes
Ritchie has become known for his slightly off-beat films (when not helming catastrophic vanity projects), but there are few hints of anything outside of mainstream filmmaking in Sherlock Holmes.
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The Men Who Stare At Goats
Aptly described as a ‘feel-good war movie’, it charts some of the more bizarre elements of the US military as they experimented with new-age techniques.
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The Box
When the nicest thing that can be said about The Box is that it isn’t quite as bad as Kelly’s previous film; Southland Tales, things don’t bode well.
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The Informant!
Steven Soderbergh takes us on an altogether more cynical and often sarcastic journey through what could have been the biggest corporate scandal in modern American history.
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Law Abiding Citizen
The best thing that can be said about Butler’s performance is that he is as painfully bad as he has always been, so top marks for consistency.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
The film is more than a simple adaption of the much-loved story. It is a wholesale re-imagining of Dahl’s work.
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ABOUT Mark Leach
Mark Leach is one of the UK’s leading commentators on universities and also writes extensively about film. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Times Higher Education and his own blog www.wonkhe.com.