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Craig Williams

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A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% 5/5 EDIT “While the romance is indeed achingly beautiful and played out with remarkable maturity, A Place in the Sun’s searing indictment of the American Dream, tinged with both anger and regret, makes it one of the best films to come out of 50s Hollywood.” – CineVue Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% 5/5 EDIT “Nashville is an undisputed masterpiece. Add to that the biting comedy and knockout musical sequences and it's certainly tempting to make the claim for Altman's all-star gem being the best American film of the 1970s.” – CineVue Feb 26, 2025 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Tense yet thoughtful, swooning yet brutal, it's a film of remarkable sensitivity built on sophisticated storytelling foundations.” – CineVue Dec 13, 2023 Full Review The Wicker Man (1973) 91% 5/5 EDIT “An offbeat masterpiece that reveals the dark heart of Britain through the perennial tension between social progress and the burden of the past.” – CineVue Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Pasolini (2014) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Ferrara has made many versions of his Revelations but, here, he unselfishly gives voice to Pasolini's.” – CineVue Apr 6, 2019 Full Review Ricki and the Flash (2015) 64% 3/5 EDIT “Demme plods through the familial tangles, but he tears through the music scenes with real verve. The film comes alive when Ricki is onstage; it's throwback barroom rock, euphorically delivered.” – CineVue Apr 6, 2019 Full Review Squirrels to the Nuts (2014) 46% 3/5 EDIT “Bogdanovich is clearly in his element, even dashing off some excellent post-modern flourishes.” – CineVue Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Entourage (2015) 32% 3/5 EDIT “The key here is the relationship between satire and vacuity in showbiz narratives. Entourage isn't critical of Hollywood; it's in awe of it.” – CineVue Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Honeytrap (2014) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Honeytrap is a finely crafted picture that may be one of the most recently vital films extolling the virtues and dangers of modern British black girlhood.” – CineVue Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Rosewater (2014) 76% 2/5 EDIT “A film so eager to please that it forsakes political grey areas for sentimentality.” – CineVue Apr 5, 2019 Full Review The Salvation (2014) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Though it talks loftily of Westward expansion and the pioneer spirit, it is in essence a picture in thrall to the masters of pulp; from the combustible Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to the unfussy American grit of Walter Hill.” – CineVue Apr 4, 2019 Full Review It Follows (2014) 95% 5/5 EDIT “A beautifully rendered vision of the teenage psyche in the 21st century, it's a stylish, intelligent and densely textured masterpiece.” – CineVue Apr 4, 2019 Full Review The Duke of Burgundy (2014) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Like the nocturnal reveries of Jean Cocteau, The Duke of Burgundy feels out of time, embalmed like a dream; perhaps it's a self-contained prism though which we detect our own part in the games of love.” – CineVue Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Blackhat (2015) 33% 4/5 EDIT “It's ugly, but purposefully so. Mann shoots his characters like they're a ragtag band of warriors... It's both dizzying and disorienting; creating an urgency that's maintained throughout the lengthy run time.” – CineVue Apr 4, 2019 Full Review The Green Ray (1986) 94% 5/5 EDIT “It's a film of unwavering humanity -- unflinching in the face of prickly, tangled emotions -- and yet it is defined by a strange, magical diversion towards the metaphysical.” – CineVue Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Inherent Vice (2014) 73% 5/5 EDIT “A hilariously louche and ramshackle psychedelic noir, Inherent Vice is an audacious stylistic leap for Anderson, but his risks pay off beautifully.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Men, Women & Children (2014) 33% 1/5 EDIT “How hilariously perverse that a film about how we don't communicate any more has nothing to say... This is calamitous, inept filmmaking designed to look and feel "important".” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Life Itself (2014) 98% 3/5 EDIT “[Roger Ebert's] determination is heart-wrenching... The great difficulty for James is in reconciling these powerful sequences with the more traditional elements of a narrative documentary.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review The Drop (2014) 88% 3/5 EDIT “A familiar story of families, criminality and blue collar angst, it's a meaty, entertaining work featuring fine performances from its talented cast, including the final screen bow of the late James Gandolfini.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Mr. Turner (2014) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Mr. Turner is a work that sees Leigh finding the ideal balance between the intimate and the epic.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review You and the Night (2013) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Gonzalez's weakness is one of pace and tone. There are sensational moments in You and the Night, but he can't quite manage to bring it together.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Magic in the Moonlight (2014) 52% 4/5 EDIT “The ace up the film's sleeve is cinematographer Darius Khondji... his sun-kissed lenses and evocative colours make the Cote d'Azur magic hour look paradisaical.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Finding Fela (2014) 60% 3/5 EDIT “It's not Gibney firing on all cylinders, but he still hits on some vital, enduring truths.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Welcome to New York (2014) 77% 5/5 EDIT “Ferrara has created a discomforting vision... In Devereaux, brilliantly played by veteran Gérard Depardieu, the director gives us a monstrously skewed King Lear for the 21st century.” – CineVue Apr 3, 2019 Full Review American Interior (2014) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It's a deeply serious film masquerading as a ramshackle frolic. Armed with a guitar, a shonky PowerPoint presentation and a puppet, Rhys somehow manages to untangle the myth of the West and the allure of man's utopian ideals.” – CineVue Mar 21, 2019 Full Review
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