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Cork Film Festival 2018

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date November 27, 2018
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I was at the Cork Film Festival this year, and I saw…lots…of movies. Here’s what I thought of them.

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My Problems With: Bitter Harvest, and Dramatising a Historical Tragedy

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date August 15, 2018
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SPOILERS!!!!! This article contains spoilers for the movie Bitter Harvest. You have been warned.

I was originally going to separate blog reviews for my best and worst films of 2017.

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Tags Aneurin Barnard, Bitter Harvest, Communism, Doctor Zhivago, Emilija, Historical film, Holodomor, Joseph Stalin, Lithuania, Max Irons, My Problems with, Samantha Barks, Soviet Union, Terence Stamp, The Death of Stalin, Titanic, Ukraine, USSR

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2017: Worst of, 10-1

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date January 4, 2018
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Click here to read my Watchlist and Guilty Pleasures list, here for my Worst list 24-11 and here for my Best list 23-11.

Right, no time to waste! Let’s continue this with my 10 worst films of 2017.

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Quick Critique: Atomic Blonde

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date August 30, 2017
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It’s the tail end of the Cold War, weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Tags Action thriller, Atomic Blonde, Berlin Wall, Charlize Theron, Cold War, David Leitch, Deadpool, James McAvoy, John Goodman, John Wick, John WIck 2, KGB, MI6, Soviet Union, Toby Jones, USSR