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Fine revisionist Western 8/10 ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford‘ is a thoughtful and atmospheric film about the American outlaw myth. A careful and occasionally brutal revisionist western in the mould of Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece ‘Unforgiven‘, Andrew (‘Chopper‘) Dominik’s epic has been crafted with a painstaking, sometimes self-consciously meticulous eye. Like [...]

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Four-story tower of Babel 7/10 Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film follows in the footsteps of his previous works Amores Perros and, significantly, 21 Grams. It mirrors the latter film’s fundamental contrivance by interweaving several seemingly disparate stories operating on different timescales and, in this film, time zones. This is becoming almost a clichéd mini-genre in [...]

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