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The Tall Man (2012)

The Tall Man (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Nov 25, 2012Child Abducting Boogeymen/Conceptual Reversal Twister
Pascal Laugier returns with this fascinating effort about a small town subject to child abductions by a possible boogieman. A film that is as blatantly manipulative as it is ingenious in its way-out twists and turns where everything we assume is going on at the outset is eventually turned completely on its head
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Wrong (2012)

Wrong (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 16, 2014Gonzo Surrealism
Quentin Dupieux's follow-up to the hilariously culty Rubber, an absurdist film about a man setting out to find his missing dog. You keep expecting something as mind-bendingly hilarious as Rubber but this is more of a mild amusement in the David Lynch-ian deadpan surrealist vein
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Holy Motors (2012)

Holy Motors (2012)
Rating: ★★★★
Oct 27, 2012Surrealism/Man's Cryptic Journey Through Various Disguises
Genuinely mind-screwing effort from Leos Carax. Imagine a version of Cosmopolis as hijacked by Alejandro Jodorowsky - a series of surreal vignettes that arrives at a major "huh?" ending
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Mood Indigo (2013)

Mood Indigo (2013)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 15, 2014Wackily Surreal Romance
After the disastrous misstep of The Green Hornet, Michel Gondry returns to the surreal whimsy of The Science of Sleep. A film where Gondry delights in scene after scene of visual nonsense and serving up all the appealingly capricious silliness he can muster – creativity for creativity's sake alone
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Mindscape (2013)

Mindscape (2013)
Rating: ★★
Mar 2, 2015Therapist Journeys Inside People's Memories
It would be safe to say that without Inception there would be no Mindscape, which involves people entering memories rather than dreams but is similar in many other ways. Where this fails is in having no interest in the sf potential of the idea beyond using it as springboard for a thriller plot
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Beauty and the Beast (2014)

Beauty and the Beast (2014)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 18, 2015Fairy-Tale
Adaptation of the fairytale that takes place in an exquisitely dreamy sumptuousness – a stunningly designed, costumed and photographed world that has a genuine magic. However, the motion-capture animated Beast looks far too much like a CGI effect
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Paddington (2014)

Paddington (2014)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 17, 2015Talking Bear
From the awful slapstick-heavy trailer, the prospects for this seem dismal – less Paddington Bear than a reprise of the live-action Yogi Bear. The finished result confounds expectation and the story of a small unassuming bear at large in the world comes full of considerable charm
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Brick Mansions (2014)

Brick Mansions (2014)
Rating: ★★
May 2, 2014Near Future Action/Walled-Off Ghetto
The English-language remake of the Luc Besson-produced Banlieue 13. The electrifying parkour scenes of the original now seem routine and the film's social set-up so thinly sketched as to be negligible as science-fiction
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Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Aug 8, 2015Aardman Animation
Probably the loudest I have laughed and the most unabashed fun I have had in a theatre all year. The most 100% successful of all of Aardman's films to date at capturing the quirky and uniquely homesy style of their short films, this comes with gags packed in every single frame
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April and the Extraordinary World (2015)

April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 3, 2015Animation/Steampunk Alternate History Adventure
Animated film that takes place in a Steampunk alternate history. This brims over with an extraordinary degree of visual invention from the amazingly detailed vistas of the world to a script tossing in quirky twists and wacky inventions
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The Little Prince (2015)

The Little Prince (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 20, 2016Animation/Young Boy Alien Visitor Fable
On its own terms, a frequently lovely film. The director made a big thing of how much he loved the Saint-Exupery original but makes a completely different story with only occasional Little Prince interludes
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The Warriors Gate (2016)

The Warriors Gate (2016)
Rating: ★
Oct 2, 2017Videogamer Transported to Ancient China
Luc Besson written/produced effort where a videogamer kid is transported to Ancient China. A blatant copy of The Forbidden Kingdom that manages to be fundamentally implausible on every level and one of the worst attempts to pander to the Chinese box-office
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What Happened to Monday (2017)

What Happened to Monday (2017)
Rating: ★★
Sep 3, 2017Overpopulated Dystopian Future
From Tommy Wirkola, director of Dead Snow and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a film where Noomi Rapace plays seven identical sisters hiding their existence in an overpopulated dystopian future, A film where neither the scenario nor the central characters end up convincing in any way
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The Son of Bigfoot (2017)

The Son of Bigfoot (2017)
Rating: ★★
Jun 10, 2021Animation/Family with Bigfoot Genetics
The title is misleading as this features no Bigfeet but is an animated film about a family that sprouts all-over body hair and big feet. This quickly falls into the usual formulaic inanities of the modern animated film
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Muse (2017)

Muse (2017)
Rating: ★★
May 18, 2018Man Haunted by Supernatural Muses
Jaume Balaguero has become one of the most promising of modern Spanish genre directors, principally on the basis of the [Rec] films. However, this supernatural mystery that resembles one of Dario Argento's Three Mothers films fails to quite come together
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The Night Eats the World (2018)

The Night Eats the World (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 15, 2019French Zombie Film
The zombie genre has become creatively overused and exhausted in recent years but this French entry plays with an appealing originality, sort of like a low-key version of Dawn of the Dead where a man builds a Parisian apartment building into his own paradise
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The Room (2019)

The Room (2019)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 21, 2019House With a Room That Answers Wishes
Not to be confused with Tommy Wiseau's bad movie classic. This comes from Christian Volckman who made an impressive debut a few years ago with the animated Cyberpunk film Renaissance. Moving to live-action, this creates an air of unspeakable dread as a couple buy a house that has a hidden room that can manifest anything they wish for
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The Pod Generation (2023)

The Pod Generation (2023)
Rating: ★★
Dec 15, 2025Future Where Babies Can Be Born Externally
SF film that plays out like it should be an episode of Black Mirror where Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a couple who sign up for a process where a baby can be gestated and born externally inside an egg
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Survive (2024)

Survive (2024)
Rating: ★★
Nov 30, 2025Catastrophic Reversal of the Earth’s Poles
A French catastrophe film where the Earth’s poles abruptly reverse, transforming what was ocean into a desert. A survival film that is based on a premise that is fundamentally scientifically absurd
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Flow (2024)

Flow (2024)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 28, 2024Animation/Animals on a Journey
A delightful animated film from Latvia made entirely without dialogue, following a group of animals fleeing as their territory is flooded. The winner for my top film of 2024.
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