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

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.

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1 week ago Sisu is like an insanely violent Clint Eastwood revenge film...set in rural Finland. Film critic Brian Viner reviews

Like Clint, our hero Aatami doesn't say much. In fact, he doesn't say anything at all; just roars with anger now and then. And the villain bears more than a passing resemblance to Lee Van Cleef.

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

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

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2 w. ago BRIAN VINER: Is Christmas Karma the worst festive movie of all time?

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.

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

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.

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2 w. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Wicked: For Good: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are magnificent in this extravagantly sumptuous sequel

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

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

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.

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