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Dheepan - film review

26/1/2016

DHEEPAN ★★★★★
Artists at the top of their game. Director Jacques Audiard understands cinema, and 100 minutes of simmering violence gets a release.
My review: http://www.filmaluation.com/dheepan.html

Dheepan,Jesuthasan Antonythasan,Kalieaswari Srinivasan

99 Homes

“I didn’t kick you out, the bank did; I just represent it,” Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) to Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield)

A capitalist drama so heart pounding it might as well be classified as a thriller. Noses maybe turned up at the thought of being preached to. 99 HOMES is not a Ken Loachian essay (though there is nothing wrong with those), it is instead a slickly crafted, tense examination of the fallacy that is first world meritocracy, generally, and the American dream, specifically. Society sans safety net is what is being examined, coupled with morality and legality and their divergence.
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Backtrack - trailer

23/1/2016

Potential psychological chiller?

Dirty Grandpa - YouTube review

23/1/2016

Dirty Grandpa - film review

23/1/2016

DIRTY GRANDPA ★☆☆☆☆
If there is a worse comedy in 2016, we are in for a rough movie year. What was Robert De Niro thinking?
My review: http://www.filmaluation.com/dirty-grandpa.html