Psychiatrist Sam Foster takes on a colleague's patient, talented art student Henry, who announces his intention to kill himself at midnight on Saturday. As Sam pursues Henry, hoping to save him, the world around him begins to fracture and distort and Sam's mad world impinges on Henry's rational one. What's the meaning of the flashbacks to a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are dead people seemingly alive? A hallucinatory New York becomes a dark, fractured, dislocated landscape. An intrig
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
Adam is that no-holds barred, quintessential stereotype of the cinematic nerd, Evelyn is his opposite in every sense, so when the two start dating and Adam begins to transform from dud to dude his friends are not surprisingly intrigued. As you would expect from the man behind ‘Nurse Betty' and ‘In the Company of Men', 'The Shape of Things' has a dark core to its outwardly fun and fluffy heart. Entertaining, but it lacks the quirky genius that marks out some of Labute's previous work.
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THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968) (1968)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A very dated but still entertaining slice of 60s kitsch. McQueen is the incredibly debonaire playboy millionaire, led to commit robbery through boredom, countered by Dunaway, the implausibly glamorous fraud investigator. Much period posing and split-screen shenanigans, with fun results.
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TONY TAKITANI (2004)
CertificationU Our Rating
A sublime film about the nature of loneliness told through the experience of the eponymous Tony Takitani. Brought up by his musician father, Tony lives a socially secluded life until he meets and falls in love with Eiko, a fashion-obsessed fitty, and the intimacy he shares with her is both tender and, ultimately, tragic. A remarkable film, meditatively paced, touchingly sincere with a fascinating aesthetic style, and the soundtrack is measured and judged to perfection. A deeply humane effort fro
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