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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

7 / 10

WHAT I LIKED: There's no getting away from the fact that 'Olympus Has Fallen' is utterly preposterous and blindly patriotic to a sickening extent, but director Antoine Fuqua always seems to have the ability to make the ridiculous thoroughly grippi... Read the full review »

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The Color Purple (1985)

8 / 10

WHAT I LIKED: Every character in The Colour Purple is a very different, interesting, multi-layered person. And yet, all are victims of some kind of suppression at some point in their lives, all deal with that in different ways, and all ultimately... Read the full review »

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

6 / 10

WHAT I LIKED: A war movie was surely the ultimate genre for Kubrick to go for - not only because it was one not previously tackled by him, but also because it's the perfect place to explore the nature of man because war sees people pushed to their... Read the full review »

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

5 / 10

WHAT I LIKED: In many ways it could be argued that Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick's first and only attempt at a serious character piece, and on the one hand that does make for an interesting film with someone at the centre you can (for once) inve... Read the full review »

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The Equalizer (2014)

8 / 10

WHAT I LIKED: The Equalizer is - first and foremost - a good character-study which plays the cards of its intriguing central character close to the chest - slowly unraveling a mysterious man as the film progresses. We begin in his apartment where... Read the full review »

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Source Code (2011)

7 / 10

WHAT I LIKED: Source Code's strongest asset is its clever mystery and the way Ben Ripley's script chooses to reveal its cards as it progresses. At the very start in a rather genius scene in which a man appears to be trapped inside another man's bo... Read the full review »

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Braveheart (1995)

9 / 10

WHAT I LIKED: Mel Gibson's Braveheart is the ultimate movie epic - a historic story of war, romance and tragedy about suppressed people rising up that's executed with both pathos and cinematic splendor to make for three hours of rousing entertainm... Read the full review »

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