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VINER

since 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 21:46 UTC

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10 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery: Smart, hilarious, gloriously acted... it's the best one yet ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 28 (Fri) @ 01:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The first Knives Out in 2019 was so much fun that, inevitably, the critical knives came out when its 2022 follow-up, Glass Onion , failed to live up to expectations.

17 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Sisu: Road to revenge... it's violent but exhilaratingly bonkers

found 2025 › Nov › 21 (Fri) @ 02:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Nobody can ever convince me that predictive text-messaging doesn't have a sense of humour.

18 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Christmas Karma: This spectacularly dreadful offering will empty cinemas quicker than an outbreak of dysentery! ⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 19 (Wed) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.

19 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Wicked: For Good: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are magnificent in this extravagantly sumptuous sequel ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 18 (Tue) @ 17:30 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Like last year's film, this one is extravagantly sumptuous on the eye.

24 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews The Running Man: A deadly game of traitors and faithfuls (with a billion dollar prize)

found 2025 › Nov › 14 (Fri) @ 01:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

BRIAN VINER: This version of The Running Man is not a straight remake, although there's a wink to the original with big Arnie on the US banknotes known as 'new' dollars.

31 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Nicholas Hytner's The Choral: Too many duff notes in this sub-par Alan Bennett comedy - but Ralph Fiennes is on song ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 07 (Fri) @ 01:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

This week's good news is that Alan Bennett, now aged 91, has written a new original screenplay.

58 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews James Lucas' Moss & Freud: Arguably Britain's most famous artist painting the country's best-known supermodel is an intriguing story... but this film doesn't tell it especially well ⊕

found 2025 › Oct › 10 (Fri) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Written and directed by James Lucas (and executive-produced by Moss herself), the film focuses not on the finished painting but on its creation, and the pair's evolving relationship.

66 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews A House Of Dynamite: Breathlessly pacy countdown to... NUCLEAR OBLIVION

found 2025 › Oct › 03 (Fri) @ 02:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

BRIAN VINER: How might the United States respond in the event of a nuclear attack, with less than 20 minutes before an incoming missile lands on Chicago ?

80 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson has made something Academy Award winningly special

found 2025 › Sep › 18 (Thu) @ 17:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Now that he's turned 50 and his baby-faced good looks have faded, Leonardo DiCaprio is becoming an expert at playing middle-aged men gone to seed.

87 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Spinal Tap II: The End Continues: Even with names like McCartney and Elton... Spinal Tap hit a few bum notes in spoof sequel

found 2025 › Sep › 12 (Fri) @ 01:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Not many films are revered quite like This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner's 1984 spoof which is often credited with pioneering the 'mockumentary' genre.

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