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At The Movies - The Good Boss
19 Oct 2022The Good Boss is an award-winning Spanish film about an unusually toxic boss. In it, Javier Bardem proves there's no-one better at selling deviousness wrapped in charm.
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At The Movies - Luckiest Girl Alive
19 Oct 2022The Netflix film Luckiest Girl Alive stars Mila Kunis as a woman in danger of her carefully-arranged life falling apart.
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At The Movies - The 355
19 Oct 2022The 355 - a film that came to life as a blockbuster thriller with a feminist twist and ended up a programme filler on Prime Video. (Stars Oscar-winners Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz and Lupita…
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At The Movies - Amsterdam
12 Oct 2022Pulling off a realistic comedy thriller with an array of eccentric characters played by Hollywood stars is more than writer-director David O Russell can muster, says Simon Morris.
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At The Movies - Memory
12 Oct 2022Memory is an unmemorable action film starring Liam Neeson as an ageing hitman with Alzheimer's.
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At The Movies: Don't Worry Darling
12 Oct 2022Pop star-turned-actor Harry Styles is by no means the biggest problem with this highly publicised film, says Simon Morris.
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At The Movies - Millie Lies Low
5 Oct 2022Millie Lies Low is a comedy-drama about a young Kiwi woman who panics just before leaving for her dream job in New York. Can she fool her friends into thinking that she's in the Big Apple? The film…
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At The Movies - Catherine Called Birdy
5 Oct 2022Catherine Called Birdy is a medieval coming-of-age film about a 13th-century girl with a 21st-century attitude.
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At The Movies - Blonde
5 Oct 2022Blonde is a "fictional biography" of screen legend Marilyn Monroe. Cuban-born actor Ana de Armas is astonishingly convincing in this uncompromising and tragic take on the American Dream, says Simon…
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At The Movies - DC League of Super-Pets
28 Sep 2022DC League of Super-Pets wonders what would happen if Superman's best friend was a dog called Krypto. The best thing about this film is Dwayne Johnson and his buddy Kevin Hart who are genuinely funny.
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At The Movies - Hit The Road
28 Sep 2022Hit the Road is a family road movie from Iran - and yes, it is a comedy.
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At The Movies - Fire of Love
28 Sep 2022Fire of Love remembers Katia and Maurice Krafft - a French volcanologist couple whose passion for volcanoes is only matched by their love of each other.
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At The Movies - Ticket to Paradise
21 Sep 2022George Clooney and Julia Roberts play two warring divorcees who bury the hatchet to break up their daughter's engagement in Ticket to Paradise. Simon Morris's thing about this frothy romcom is the…
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At The Movies - See How They Run
21 Sep 2022See How They Run – a star-sprinkled comedy whodunit – leaves no Agatha Christie cliché unturned, says Simon Morris.
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At The Movies - Maigret
21 Sep 2022The legendary French detective Maigret returns - this time with controversial acting veteran Gérard Depardieu playing a role that seems tailor-made for him.
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At The Movies - Punch
14 Sep 2022Punch is a New Zealand coming-of-age film about the unlikely friendship between a schoolboy boxer and a flamboyant, young Māori singer.
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At The Movies - Pinocchio
14 Sep 2022Magic is replaced by technical mastery in Robert Zemeckis' unoriginal remake of an 82-year-old film classic. Tom Hanks should have run for the hills from this turkey, says Simon Morris.
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At The Movies - Official Competition
14 Sep 2022Official Competition is a satire about the film business, in which two rival actors make their first movie together. Starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez.
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Movie review - Three Thousand Years of Longing
7 Sep 2022Actors Idris Alba and Tilda Swinton and director George Miller are a dream team in this fantastical banquet.
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Movie review - Northspur
7 Sep 2022The New Zealand indie film Northspur is set in a plague-torn future where roaming bandits threaten remote settlements. Starring the late Marshall Napier (Bellbird) and Josh McKenzie (Filthy Rich)…
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Review - Muru
7 Sep 2022Muru is a thriller based on the notorious Tūhoe raids of 2007. Starring Cliff Curtis (The Dark Horse) and Simone Kessell (Obi-Wan Kenobi), it's directed by Tearepa Kahi (Poi E, Mt Zion).
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At The Movies: Beast
31 Aug 2022Beast pits Idris Alba against a revenge-crazed lion in the African bush. Idris plays a widower hoping that a mini-safari may be just the thing to mend things with his two young daughters. Co-stars…
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At The Movies - Farewell Mr Haffmann
31 Aug 2022French cinema veteran Daniel Auteuil stars in this smart and engrossing story about a Jewish jeweller hiding from the Nazis in his own basement.
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At The Movies - A Stitch in Time
31 Aug 2022This heart-warming Australian film about an elderly dressmaker knows exactly who it's designed for, says Simon Morris.
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