Released on: 2001
Rating: 4.70
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (12A)
(Rob Marshall, 2011, Us) Johnny Depp, Penйlope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Claflin. 137 mins
Ahoy! Aha! Ahem. The excitement of another rip-roaring high seas adventure dissipates almost before they set sail in this lightweight epic of action set-pieces and people trying to get stuff they want. Depp is business as usual and the presentation is classy, but the new blood brings little to this non-party, which feels less like a story than a succession of twists and swoops along well-established tracks – like a theme-park ride, in fact. Oh, hang on …
Win Win (15)
(Tom McCarthy, 2011, Us) Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale. 106 mins
Giamatti's hard-up lawyer inherits a whole heap of surrogate family issues, and a teen high-school wrestling ace, in a wry drama that doesn't really stray out of its suburban comfort zone.
Julia's Eyes (15)
(Guillem Morales, 2010, Spa) Belйn Rueda, Lluнs Homar,»
- Steve Rose
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I've not seen The Hangover Part II yet but I'll bet Bridesmaids is funnier
With plum roles for women and an equal commitment to gross-out, Kristen Wiig's movie will be a great Hangover cure
If you're in the market for a fantastically dark gross-out black comedy about clueless young Americans trapped in a never-ending nightmare in south-east Asia, skip The Hangover Part II and just watch Apocalypse Now, reissued this week for the umpteenth time. I'm out of town this week so I've yet to see Hangover II, though I imagine there's a worldwide embargo on pre-release glimpses of its priceless shit jokes and fart oratorios, lest one dime of its projected mega profits be lost to piracy or to unfounded rumours of comedic inadequacy.
The latter, as it happens, has long been my biggest problem with the Todd Phillips oeuvre. My main memories of his last three R-rated comedies – Old School, The Hangover, and Due Date – are of wall-to-wall ads in the month preceding release,»
- John Patterson
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