Film Reviews by BE

Unnerving for the most part but unrealistic. The new mum never does any shopping, cooking or other domestics and appears to live on a daily pinta. She spends most of her time when not soothing a crying baby, slopping around the flat obsessing about the neighbours downstairs. Not as it happens, without good reason. The main characters are pretty dull and difficult to engage with. Watchable for the most part but with a hurried ending. It looked as if the film budget had run out!

A carefully crafted study of illness and its affect on family dynamics. Alongside this the main charecter, beautifully portrayed by Margherita Bus, is endeavouring to make an actual movie with a not easy to work with male star. Whilst it is not riveting it is, nevertheless, absorbing to watch.

Excellent acting but a very gruelling scenario. Not to my taste but I guess it's life for some people

I did not know anything about this movie before seeing it. I didn't go to the cinema out of choice but I am so very glad I did. Mackenna Grace gives an oscar worthy performance backed up by a very strong cast. Loved it. Bit of difficulty with the American drawl (as usual) , other than that, perfect!

Nicely acted (hence two stars) but characters did not engage me. A dull movie with very little humour. Wish I hadn't bothered.

There were no subtitles to access so I found Kristen Stewart's slurred American drawl almost impossible to understand. Doubt it would have made much difference to this blown up and pretentious piece of cinema work. Watching it was hard work too. Awful.

What a very silly production. Set scenes that don't flow, wooden acting, unrealistic baby scenes and costumes obviously made of then unknown man-made fibre without a crease in sight. Viewing abandoned as I lost patience half way through. One star for the natural acting animals!

A wonderful watch with the ever excellent Al Pacino taking the lead as bank robber 'Sonny' Wortzik in this non fiction presentation.

I checked out the real life story after seeing the movie and found the scenario/characters even more bizarre than the movie. Although over 40 years old, the movie still looks fresh today. Thoroughly recommend.

I viewed this at the cinema against my better judgement as not a great enthusiast of war films but was swayed by the write ups of professional critics. I personally found the film boring and extremely noisy. I was under the impression that film scores were supposed to enhance what is is being shown on the screen. Wrong! The thunderous film score appeared to be competing for the highest decibel emissions along with the deafening noise of diving planes, bombs, artillery and general warfare - and all this in Dolby sound! There were no endearing characters to empathise with and not a German soldier in sight. I understood that during the Second World War, there were over 900 small British boats came to the rescue of our troupes lined up for home on the Dunkirk shoreline. With such a lot of money being ploughed into this film, may be they didn't have enough resources to pay for more than the scant array of craft that eventually showed up on the horizon, seemingly having battled their way across the water to pick up our thousands and thousands of tired, weary and injured soldiers from Dunkirk. From what I've seen of tv footage, we also had far more than 3 Spitfires and a couple of Destroyers battling the enemy at Dunkirk at this time in the history of the Second World War. This film deafened the ears, gave false impressions and to my mind was a waste of time and money. The only redeeming feature was Harry Styles (from the band One Direction) who showed great promise in his first screen role, albeit only a small one.

A delightful French comedy with the charismatic Gerard Depardieu at his best. His on screen daughter, played by Marie Gellain, is also excellently cast. The rest of the cast are strong and the Mauritian setting is beautiful. The movie and GD's verbal crooning as the credits go up, leaves a very warm glow.

A thoroughly miserable and unendearing movie. Over two hours spent watching this very slow burner, devoid of all humour and with an even more miserable ending. I was not aware of this 'true story' and I've no idea why anybody would want to bring it to the screen. One star for the fine acting from all three main characters in this no hoper of a movie.

A well put together neo-western. Good cast with an excellent Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges. A modern scenario with the banks robbing their customers and robbers robbing the banks - taking only loose unmarked notes for what they see as a just cause. Really good soundtrack and thoroughly enjoyed.

A sardonic portrayal of two supposedly adult males, and the wife of one of them, none of whom can shift her permanent state of meloncholy and her periodic attacks of the vapours. Her emotions are stirred up when a thirteen year old boy enters her life (excellently played by Riton Liebman) as does his when he experiences cardinal knowledge with her. Bertrand Blier treads where angels fear to with this one. It's funny in places, dark in others but not without its merits. Gerard Depardieu turns in a good performance but with a distance of forty years, is hardly recognisable as the man we know today.

Al Pacino playing Al Pacino - gusty, enchanting and as powerful as ever. Overall enjoyed the movie. It had a few good twists although wasn't expecting the horror bits. Held the attention throughout.

A delightful 'coming of age' movie which steers away from the usual over zealous and over acted Hollywood portrayal of teenage angst. Excellent performance from Hailee Steinfeld plus a strong cast. Very watchable and just managed to avoid a twee ending. The lack of too many 'Heys' and 'Okays' in the American dialogue is to be applauded!