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Film review: 12 Years A Slave

January 26, 2014May 10, 2024 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The most famous shot in Gaspar Noë’s agonizing Irréversible shows a woman in an underground passage in Paris being raped while the

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Film review: Dallas Buyers Club

January 23, 2014January 23, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

How do you know you have HIV or AIDS? Or rather, why would you even entertain the possibility and think

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Film review: The Legend of Hercules

January 23, 2014January 23, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

If only The Legend of Hercules flexed its muscles as much as its main character, maybe everything would have been

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Film review: The Wolf of Wall Street

January 16, 2014January 16, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Despite the moralistic comeuppance at the end, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is almost destined to drive more

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Film review: The Book Thief

January 16, 2014January 16, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

There is something sadistic about the industry inflicting movies on us on a near-annual basis that have to do with

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Film review: Lone Survivor

January 9, 2014January 10, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The one thing all US politicians, no matter how extreme or politically minded, can agree on is that “the troops”

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Film review: Nymphomaniac, Vol 2

January 9, 2014January 10, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The last time we saw Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), she was writhing between the sheets, but in a way different than

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Film review: Grudge Match

January 2, 2014January 2, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Robert De Niro is no longer in the shape he was in when he starred as boxing champion Jake LaMotta

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Film review: Nymphomaniac, Vol 1

December 26, 2013December 27, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Vastly overhyped because of its supposedly controversial sex scenes starring famous actors and actresses, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1

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