Southside With You (2016)
How the Obamas became the Obamas – Richard Tanne’s Southside With You is a charming biopic of their first date. Southside With You [rating=4]…
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Foxcatcher (2014)
★★★★★
Carell, Ruffalo and Tatum are a stellar triumvirate in this unsettling and bone-chillingly creepy true story.
Salomé (2013)
★★★★☆
Converting a reading of Oscar Wilde’s banned play into a film, Al Pacino’s Salomé might share the credit, but brings his passion for the theatre vividly to the screen.
The Keeper Of Lost Causes / Kvinden i buret (2013)
★★★☆☆
Suspenseful Scandi crime thriller – a disgraced homicide detective is assigned to the cold cases department and uncovers the unexplained disappearance of a politician five years earlier.
Captain Phillips (2013)
★★★☆☆
Taken hostage by Somali pirates, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips is a taut cat-and-mouse thriller putting a face to human bravery and a very American gun show.
Rebellion / L’Ordre et la Morale (2011)
★★★★☆
Restoring law and order in the South Pacific, Mathieu Kassovitz’s Rebellion is a war of words, bullets and cynical politicians.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
★★★★☆
Released barely a year and a half after the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty rides high on a wave of political currency.