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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Robbie Collin
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin
There are few plot devices more pleasing than a surprise whose shock value mellows into pure karmic satisfaction, and Echo Valley delivers the toe-wriggler of the year. This pensive, riveting Apple TV+ thriller performs a sort of narrative jiu-jitsu on its audience - using the weight of an early, straightforward twist as leverage in a second, more elaborate one, which cumulatively leaves the viewer breathless and giddy on the mat.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Robbie Collin
“A day without electricity,” mused John C Reilly, as he took to the stage at tonight’s Cannes Film Festival awards. The Walk Hard and Step Brothers star, an unlikely but pleasing Cannes stalwart, was referring to the five-hour power cut that brought much of the city to a standstill earlier today – though not the Palais de Festivals itself, which somehow wangled itself a private supply until the lights snapped back on in the late afternoon.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin
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1 month ago | 
aol.co.uk | Robbie Collin
Wes Anderson’s critics often grumble that he keeps making the same film over and over again. But what’s actually happening is subtly yet crucially different: each of his films only becomes conceivable, let alone possible, thanks to those he made first. No Bottle Rocket and Rushmore? Then no Royal Tenenbaums either. You can’t reach The Grand Budapest Hotel without stopping at The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr Fox first.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin
Seemingly frozen out by Hollywood, the star was given a lifetime achievement award at the festival. Was it the beginning of his redemption? At around 7.50pm yesterday in Cannes, an enormous seven-tiered white cake wobbled its way out of the Carlton Hotel and across the Boulevard de la Croisette.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Robbie Collin
Say what you will about the Impossible Mission Force, but the opportunities for internal career development are pretty good. Back in 1996, Ethan Hunt was a junior agent who was packed off to Prague to retrieve a floppy disc: 29 years later, he’s personally tasked by the US President with taking down an AI-generated supreme being while all of humanity’s future hangs in the balance.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Robbie Collin
The original Lilo & Stitch shared one key trait with its furry blue protagonist: no matter which angle you probed the thing from, it was hard to pin down exactly what it was. Released in 2002 during Disney Animation’s turbulent post-Renaissance phase, it was in parts as close to a Studio Ghibli film as the studio ever came: the appealingly grumpy young heroine, the ravishingly tender line work on its human characters, those invitingly lush watercolour backgrounds.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin
The original Lilo & Stitch shared one key trait with its furry blue protagonist: no matter which angle you probed the thing from, it was hard to pin down exactly what it was. Released in 2002 during Disney Animation's turbulent post-Renaissance phase, it was in parts as close to a Studio Ghibli film as the studio ever came: the appealingly grumpy young heroine, the ravishingly tender line work on its human characters, those invitingly lush watercolour backgrounds.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Robbie Collin
Wes Anderson’s critics often grumble that he keeps making the same film over and over again. But what’s actually happening is subtly yet crucially different: each of his films only becomes conceivable, let alone possible, thanks to those he made first. No Bottle Rocket and Rushmore? Then no Royal Tenenbaums either. You can’t reach The Grand Budapest Hotel without stopping at The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr Fox first.
