Talent Emily Blunt

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Reviews

The Fall Guy review – good stunts, appalling script

In David Leitch's bombastic salute to the Hollywood stunt industry, Ryan Gosling becomes inadvertently embroiled in a nefarious plot while trying to regain the trust of his former lover.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Oppenheimer review – Cillian Murphy’s finest hour

This combustible and relentlessly-paced biography of the “father of the the atomic bomb” is a contender for Christopher Nolan’s best film.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Jungle Cruise

Expectations be damned: Disney’s riverboat caper is one of the year’s most purely pleasurable motion pictures.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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A Quiet Place Part II

Silence is less than golden in this occasionally effective blockbuster sequel which trades horror for action.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Mary Poppins Returns

Everyone’s favourite magical child carer is back in this strangely bland and uncatchy modern refit.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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A Quiet Place

There’s much to admire about this muted horror from actor-director John Krasinksi.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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The Girl on the Train

Emily Blunt stars as a tipsy murder witness in this crushingly perfunctory literary adaptation.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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The Huntsman: Winter’s War

This originality-neutral trawl through a fairy tale fantasy world is saved by the comedy sidekicks.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Sicario

Emily Blunt gets a tough lesson in Mexican-US politics in this visceral drugs war drama from Denis Villeneuve.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Into the Woods

A sing-a-long review of this delightful screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Edge of Tomorrow

A weedy Crusier is dropped into a time-switching sci-fi set-up, with undeniably interesting results.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Looper

Meet Looper, by a country mile the most resourceful, vivacious and savage science fiction movie of 2012.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect

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