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Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Prestige: 1 of 19

The Verdict: Professionally made, if slightly turgid. A great cast does well enough, but a range of dislikeable characters and a thoroughly self-important feel mean you'd be better off watching 'The Illusionist'. The Rating: 6/10 Featuring a truly excellent cast, 'The Prestige' promises much, right from the first words of di...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Bourne Ultimatum: 2 of 20

The verdict: A cracking actioner, requiring just the right amount of suspension of disbelief. The Bourne Ultimatum is that rarest of movie entities: a third instalment that improves on the previous two. The rating: 8/10 The third instalment of the Bourne trilogy trundles along at such a confident, relentless pace, it would a...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Blood Diamond (2006): 3 of 23

The verdict: Visceral, powerful, entertaining and emotive. This is proper cinema. Go see it. The rating: 8/10 Blood Diamond is set in Sierra Leone in 1999, a time when the country was in the midst of a bloody civil war. The R.U.F. (militia rebels) terrorised the country's civilian population, killing and maiming hundreds of ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Bridge to Terabithia: 3 of 19

The Verdict: A smart, bittersweet little gem of a movie pitched at the perfect level for growing kids and embittered adults alike. The Rating: 8/10 Ah yes, tween angst, that heinous, hormonally unbalanced beast, it's something Disney have been successfully tapping into for years. With 'Bridge to Terabithia', however, they've...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: A Mighty Heart: 1 of 6

The verdict: At times powerful, this movie tells a story worth hearing. Although flawed, it features an accomplished central performance from Angelina Jolie. The rating: 6/10 A Mighty Heart tells the story of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist kidnapped in Karachi, and the efforts of his pregnant wife and the Pakistani aut...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Kingdom: 2 of 11

The verdict: Slick, tense thriller with plenty of smarts and bucketloads of action. The rating: 7/10 Nothing at all to do with County Kerry, 'The Kingdom' tells the story of the FBI's attempts to investigate a large-scale attack on an Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabian. Ronald Fleury (Foxx) heads the investiga...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Blades of Glory: 3 of 12

The verdict: Cracking stuff, Heder and Ferrell are a superb double-act, and this is laugh-out-loud funny. The rating: 7/10 Man, just lately it seems Will Ferrell can do no wrong. He's top of my list of Hollywood funny men, with 'Talladega Nights' and 'Stranger Than Fiction' both providing seriously good entertainment in 2006...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Charlie Wilson's War: 5 of 19

The verdict: Polished Hollywood fare. Hoffman steals the show and Hanks is great, but the movie, although diverting enough, is underwhelming. The rating: 6/10 Now, if Hollywood ever needed to put an Oscar-worthy 5-a-side team together, they need look no further than the cast and crew that was assembled to tell the story of C...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Casino Royale: 13 of 43

Verdict: Bond, but not as you know it.. a solid reboot for a previously tired franchise. Rating: 7/10 Even as event movies go, James Bond is one of those rare beasts: a franchise that seems to transcend audiences, appealing to many different types of cinema-goer. The old cliche of 'men wanting to be him and women wanting to ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Last King of Scotland: 5 of 14

The verdict: Intense and enthralling, with powerful performances from the two leads, Whitaker in particular is excellent. The rating: 7/10 When Kate Winslet appeared in 'Extras', she turned in a delightfully wicked performance, but in one of her more despicably prescient observations, she conspiratorially points out to jobbi...