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  Blue Valentine: 'That's love dying, right there on the screen' - video

  Video (2min 50sec), 14 Jan 2011:

  Xan Brooks invites young lovers to weather Derek Cianfrance's powerful yet mannered relationship drama

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  The Next Three Days: 'Convoluted, clunky and wildly implausible'

  Video (2min 51sec), 7 Jan 2011:

  Paul Haggis's big, noisy thriller about a husband attempting to break his wife out of jail is tunnelling to nowhere, says Xan Brooks

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  Little Fockers: 'Pukes all over the festive holiday'

  Video (2min 17sec), 24 Dec 2010:

  One, two, three and out for Meet the Parents as Xan Brooks takes 'the runt of the franchise' to the slaughterhouse

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  Catfish: 'A film that's both victim and villain'

  Video (3min 04sec), 17 Dec 2010:

  Boy meets girl. Boy requests girl. Girl accepts. That's about as far as you can trust this provocative, gripping Facebook 'documentary', says Xan Brooks

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  Somewhere: 'A portrait of the young rich painted by the young rich'

  Video (2min 41sec), 10 Dec 2010:

  Stephen Dorff plays a rich, handsome and lonely Hollywood star in Sofia Coppola's latest film. It's a good job she cares about him, because we won't, says Xan Brooks

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  Secretariat: 'Soft, slow and suspect'

  Video (2min 34sec), 3 Dec 2010:

  Diane Lane and John Malkovich star in a racehorse biopic that limps and lists to the finish line, says Xan Brooks

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  Unstoppable: 'Somewhere between unwatchable and unmissable'

  Video (2min 20sec), 26 Nov 2010:

  Tony Scott's runaway train thriller 'whistles past originality on the fast track to cheap thrills', says Henry Barnes. But this is no sleeper

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  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – 'A billion-dollar school production of Lord of the Rings'

  Video (3min 03sec), 19 Nov 2010:

  Harry and the gang are on the run from a resurgent Voldemort as this massive franchise lumbers its way to the grand finale, says Xan Brooks

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  My Afternoons with Margueritte: 'Gentle, sun-dappled and lazy'

  Video (2min 36sec), 12 Nov 2010:

  Xan Brooks searches in vain for dark undertones in Jean Becker's syrup-soaked drama starring Gérard Depardieu

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  Due Date: 'This route is already worn from overuse'

  Video (2min 35sec), 5 Nov 2010:

  An odd-couple road movie starring Robert Downey Jr and The Hangover's Zach Galifianakis, Due Date looks like it was knocked together at speed, says Xan Brooks

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  The Kids Are All Right: 'A bittersweet drama that opens the door and lets us in'

  Video (2min 15sec), 29 Oct 2010:

  This comedy drama sees Julianne Moore, Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo on excellent form in a smart, crisp portrait of an unconventional family, says Xan Brooks

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  Carlos: 'A Godfather-style saga with reach and swagger'

  Video (2min 29sec), 22 Oct 2010:

  Opt for the five-and-a-half hour version of Olivier Assayas's biopic of Carlos the Jackal over the abridged version, says Xan Brooks. You can't have too much of a good thing

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  The Social Network: 'A revenge of the jocks drama'

  Video (2min 43sec), 15 Oct 2010:

  He's socially awkward, misunderstood and lonely, but it's not Mark Zuckerberg you feel sorry for in David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's telling of the Facebook story, says Catherine Shoard

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  Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 'Bubbles pop. The fun can't last'

  Video (2min 47sec), 8 Oct 2010:

  Gordon Gekko is back, with macho posturing aplenty. But this a flawed and reckless sequel, says Xan Brooks

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  Buried: 'Cramped and pointed'

  Video (3min 17sec), 1 Oct 2010:

  Rodrigo Cortés's Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds as a US contractor buried alive in the Iraqi desert could be a comment on imperialism or a schlocky B-movie. It's great as both, says Xan Brooks

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