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If it ain’t broke… 6/10 The trend of the director’s cut has long become a dubious exercise in profit-making. Hilariously, a quick Amazon search of ‘director’s cut’ reveals extended edits of such dizzying filmmaking classics as Troy, The Chronicles of Riddick, Daredevil and Welcome to the Jungle! And for the few good examples that I [...]

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The thrill of the chase 8/10 Mel Gibson might have alienated a core part of his audience by choosing to film in a dead Mayan dialect, but Apocalypto’s cinematic conceit is universal: this is a chase movie, and a very good one. In fact, anyone who has watched a movie in foreign language will have [...]

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