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David Parkinson

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Beautiful City (2004) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The humanism that has informed much Iranian cinema since the late 1980s is readily evident in Asghar Farhadi's affecting and often gently amusing drama.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Who Goes Next? (1938) 3/5 EDIT “The banter between the Brits is highly amusing and Meinhart Maur is splendidly Preminger-esque as the monocle-wearing commandant.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review New York Doll (2005) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Greg Whiteley's bittersweet memoir is a compelling confounding of rock expectations that's given added poignancy by Kane's unexpected demise soon after the band's brief reconciliation.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Vodka Lemon (2003) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Kurdish director Hiner Saleem evokes the wry observational humour of Otar Iosseliani (Monday Morning) and Aki Kaurismäki in this gentle take on life in post-Soviet Armenia.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Devils on the Doorstep (2000) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Jiang Wen's sprawling study of life in an isolated Chinese village in the last days of the Japanese occupation provides a fascinating insight into a forgotten aspect of the Second World War. ” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) 3/5 EDIT “Of course it's romcom fluff, but it's beautifully lit, while Norbert Glanzberg's score is lovely and the photogenic Bardot holds her own against the chic Presle and the charismatic Jourdan.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Great Train Robbery (1903) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Its most important contribution to film grammar was the introduction of continuity editing, in which the action cross-cuts between parallel events to increase the narrative tension. ” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Au grand balcon (1949) 3/5 EDIT “While director Henri Decoin includes an extended scene of stunt flying, it's his focus on the human aspects that keeps the various storylines airborne.” – Radio Times Mar 31, 2026 Full Review Pal Joey (1957) 89% 3/5 EDIT “...the demands of the Production Code meant that the screenwriter Dorothy Kingsley had to heavily sanitise the narrative, with the result that an unregenerate heel became merely a flawed hero.” – Empire Magazine Mar 26, 2026 Full Review The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) 45% 2/5 EDIT “This far-fetched sports comedy sequel is sentimental to the point of patronising and overburdened with coy insights into growing up. ” – Radio Times Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Walking Target (1960) 3/5 EDIT “Foster makes an edgy antihero and there's a pleasing snap to his exchanges with Anders's blowsy blonde fatale and Harp McGuire's bullet-headed cop.” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) 3/5 EDIT “Hammer wasn't aiming for subtlety; the film was advertised as being filmed in widescreen Strangloscope, and some of the violence is still shocking.” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Fear No More (1961) 3/5 EDIT “The twist isn't difficult to guess, but Wiesen plays his hand shrewdly to stack the odds against the excellent Powers. ” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Innocent Meeting (1959) 3/5 EDIT “Director Godfrey Grayson makes solid use of his location footage, while encouraging the cross-class chemistry between Lynch and Rogan. ” – Radio Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation (1992) 5/5 EDIT “Not one second of its 1,500-plus minutes is wasted, as Reitz chronicles the social, cultural and political experiences of a group of friends at the Munich conservatoire in the 1960s. ” – Radio Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Celluloid Man (2012) 4/5 EDIT “This epic documentary is most useful as a crash course in Indian cinema.” – Radio Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review After the Apocalypse (2010) 4/5 EDIT “Amid the gruesome revelations and contentious opinions, there are still moments of poignancy and defiant optimism.” – Radio Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Three Sundays to Live (1956) 3/5 EDIT “The situation seems highly improbable, but screenwriter Brian Clemens creates some credible characters, who are played with conviction by Jane Griffiths, as Moore's plucky girlfriend, and Basil Dignam, as his rule-bending lawyer. ” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review State of Fear (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Director Pedro Morelli adopts a confrontational style, dotting the action with showy flourishes and drone shots that retreat from ground level to above the skyline. But he also keeps tabs on the human aspect,” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 47% 3/5 EDIT “Yet, for all Croot's creepiness and some perturbing excursions into the woods, Chainey puts more effort into the atmospherics than the structure of a story that never quite gets its hooks in.” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review Moment of Indiscretion (1957) 3/5 EDIT “The film powers along on its visual strengths, as veteran cinematographer James Wilson and camera operator Nicolas Roeg devise some interesting angles and lighting designs to keep things a touch more striking than the period's average crime quickie.” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% 3/5 EDIT “The film's political naivete was reinforced by William Mellor's glossy lighting of Hans Dreier's platitudinous sets, while its dramatic vulgarity was emphasised by Franz Waxman's bombastic score.” – Empire Magazine Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Circumstantial Evidence (1952) 2/5 EDIT “The solution is rather obvious, but screenwriter Allan MacKinnon compellingly frames the narrative using another case, as Holt's judge father (Frederick Leister) oversees a similar incident involving unreliable evidence. ” – Radio Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Filled with memorable images and nuggets of homespun wisdom, this may be utterly delightful, but there's an edge to the insights into migration and environment change.” – Radio Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% 3/5 EDIT “The idea that a 1958 Plymouth Fury can turn into a jealous mistress is a cracker and, through his ingenious use of close-ups and seductive angles, director John Carpenter turns Christine into the sassiest thing on four wheels.” – Radio Times Dec 17, 2025 Full Review
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