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Napoleon review: An absurdly vacuous account of a legendary figure

Napoleon review: An absurdly vacuous account of a legendary figure

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At times humorous, uncomfortable, and bizarre, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is a triumph in marketing but a disaster in biography, characterized most glaringly by a serious of obtuse characters, bewildering editing, and alienating narrative choices
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Culturally significant and agonisingly existential: Blade Runner at 40

Culturally significant and agonisingly existential: Blade Runner at 40

After 40 years Blade Runner is still an extremely poignant and thought-provoking film
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House of Gucci: Fashion flick could go faster

House of Gucci: Fashion flick could go faster

A review of the highly-anticipated true crime drama from Ridley Scott, House of Gucci starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver
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Review: All the Money in the World

Review: All the Money in the World

Ridley Scott’s gripping true-story drama escapes from the shadow of Kevin Spacey’s omission, and does so with great aplomb
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Review: Blade Runner 2049

2017 seems to be the year in which Harrison Ford finally cares about his acting performances again
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Review — Alien: Covenant

Out of this world, or familiar failure?
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Review: The Martian

Ridley Scott’s latest return to the sci-fi genre is a success thanks to stellar performances from its A-list cast
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Review: Exodus: Gods and Kings

Eleanor Stead feels that Ridley Scott’s latest fails to put the ‘epic’ in Biblical Epic
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Keeping the Faith

Film Editor Sophie James explores the mixed relationship between the Bible and film
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Review: The Counsellor

I’d like to start this review by saying this: I really wanted to like this film. In fact, I wanted to love it. Unfortunately, The Counselor is just terrible. The film revolves around a lawyer (Michael Fassbender), inexplicably only known as “Counselor”, who involves himself in a drug deal with an extravagant drug dealer/nightclub owner […]
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