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Despite a committed cast, Cold Souls is a strange beast, starting out interesting before sacrificing all pretense for a weak plot.

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Either a rambling piece of postmodern pretentiousness, or a piece of reflexive genius, depending on your tolerance of Steve Coogan. Worth watching for Rob Brydon's impressions alone.

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Its comedic tone is awkward, but The Informant! is held together by Matt Damon's bumbling, batty turn.

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Matt Damon and Emily Blunt are absolutely electric together, but the script is a muddle of undeveloped ideas, poor plot twists and a weak ending.

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Its visuals and effects are gobsmacking, but Prometheus' convoluted story, lacklustre dialogue and thin characters let it down.

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The cast range from excellent to dull, the CGI is deliberately OTT and Taymor's direction is too eclectic for this relatively simple tale from The Bard.

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Soulful and searching, Rabbit Hole's tender tale of loss and grief features one of Nicole Kidman's best performances.

A wholesome and handsome little flick, with fine direction and lovely performances from Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.

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With both brains and brawn, Source Code invests its characters with intelligence and likeability, keeps the audience on its toes despite a potenitally-repetitive structure, and probes interesting questions on the nature of fate.

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Laughs are big but sporadic, and the three 'employees' are not particularly sympathetic. Still, the three 'bosses' have a lot of fun with their roles.

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The Devil's Double is an excessive, nasty and unsympathetic glimpse at the actions of a horrible human being, and is redeemed only by the energy of Dominic Cooper's dual performance.

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Great performances from its three leads and intricate direction from Mark Romanek help Never Let Me Go overcome very heady material and a script that jumps ahead years at a time, much to its detriment.

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