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Bedtime Stories (G) 3½ stars National release
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Dickensian slice of Mumbai
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Audience and actors trapped together
Quarantine (MA15+) 2 stars National release JOHN Erick Dowdle’s horror film Quarantine, is as shambolic as Twilight is elegant.
Elegant bloodsuckers
Twilight (M) 3½ stars National release THE vampire film is the sexiest genre of screen horror and also the most threatening.
Audience and actors trapped together
Quarantine (MA15+) 2 stars National release JOHN Erick Dowdle’s horror film Quarantine, is as shambolic as Twilight is elegant. It has an excuse to be so: like The Blair Witch Project (a film that has a lot to answer for) and Cloverfield, the concept here is that everything we see was shot by a video camera.
Journey from the past
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Baz musters an outback epic
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Tearjerker on shaky foundations
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