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Leigh Paatsch
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No saving Grace. It’s really that bad
GRACE Of Monaco: The bank balances of rich fat cats are at stake. Only Nicole Kidman’s Grace can save the day. What will she do? Don’t ask. What should you do? Don’t watch.
Groundhog Day meets War of the Worlds
EDGE of Tomorrow: It’s the cleverest affair to carry the Cruise brand in years. Even if you’ve written the bloke off, you might just want to take a look.
Woodley faultless in well-balanced weepy
THE Fault in Our Stars: Shailene Woodley gives a pitch-perfect lead performance in a movie that hits the tear ducts of its target audience like a weep-seeking missile.
Jolie casts her spell to save Maleficent
MALEFICENT: It may go down in history as the cheapest-looking $200 million movie ever shot, but an inspired Angelina Jolie stops the rot.
Gripping tale delivers daunting conundrum
OMAR: Israeli interrogators make a Palestinian freedom fighter an offer he cannot refuse in this Oscar-nominated film that gets everything right.
Q: Is MacFarlane’s new movie funny?
A: NOT really. A Million Ways to Die in the West has a gastrically panicked Neil Patrick Harris, some offensive jokes and an ungainly lead. And that’s just the start.
Quality time with a quality human being
GARDENING With Soul: A no-nonsense nonagenarian nun delivers pearls of wisdom in this absorbing and genuinely memorable documentary.
Jolie works her magic in Maleficent
BY THE twenty-minute mark of Maleficent, it looks for all the world as if Angelina Jolie has bet her long-awaited movie comeback on the wrong horse.
ScarJo strips but little’s laid bare
UNDER the Skin: Don’t try to decipher what happens when Scarlett Johansson’s character lures single men to her home. In all likelihood, you will be wrong.
Return Trip even more amusing
THE Trip to Italy: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon serve up a delicious mix of whip-smart, world-weary banter and celebrity impersonation duels.
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