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The Lincoln Lawyer - ★★★

Reminiscent of a 40s noir thriller without the noir.
Slick, slightly sleazy hard-drinking lawyer has to defend suspicious rich kid who may or may not be a murderer (although he obviously is).
Hard boiled (like an egg) story, told in a fairly unflashy way, maybe a little overwhelmed by the soundtrack sometimes - having 'Moment of Truth' by Gang Starr playing in a legal thriller at the resolution of the plot is a bit too literal but otherwise this is a decent film.
Fairly realistically done except of course for the main lawyer character who although he seems to live from the back of his car and drinks almost constantly, still maintains a successful career and comes over as quite likeable. 
It's wrong to generalise, but in the real world, all lawyers are evil cunts.

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Tucker and Dale vs Evil - ★★★★
Reverse horror/comedy.
College students go camping in the woods and run into hillbillies with chainsaws and woodchippers. Much bloodshed, death and fun ensues.
Enjoyable spoof without the knowing smugness of most spoofs.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - ★★
Finally after 10 years, it's over and the private school system triumphs over the nose-less.
This film had two speeds, really slow and balls out. The balls out bits were better but it was difficult to see what was going on in the dark.
This was the probably the darkest film I've ever not really seen.
The story was weak, consisting mostly of one big battle, where inexplicably rather than kill all the annoying children in one go, he who must not be nosed stops half way through to allow the film to painfully explain the unnecessary complications of the plot.
Then the boy dies, then he comes back to life - because ermm.. it's magic. Although everyone else who gets killed (and let's face it, not enough of them do) stays dead.
The End. No. There's an epilogue.
It's years later and everyone is wearing make-up to look older and they have children who potentially look as annoying as them and they're off to wonderful public school to join the elite. Fuck off.

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Mary and Max - ★★★

Australian clay animation film about the friendship between an 8 year old girl in Melbourne and a 44 year old New York man with Asperger's Syndrome.
Dips into occasional mawkish over-sentimentality but generally has a decent script, some amusing scenes and a darkish tone that makes it worth a watch.

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Kung Fu Panda 2 - ★★

Bland, computer generated, panda-based cartoon.
Instantly forgettable but not offensively terrible.
May not be target audience.

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Batman: Year One - ★★★

Well it's an animation based on a graphic novel. No it isn't. It's a cartoon based on a comic book (Batman 404-407) - as if adding the word novel after something gives it some form of literary value.
This is basically Batman when he was a bit shit.
Sort of like Batman Begins but in cartoon form and you can actually hear what people are saying.
Not bad but lacking anything story wise or visually to make it really interesting.

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Alphas Series One - ★★★

Almost overcomes the bad smell left behind after the slightly similar 'Heroes'.
Nearly has a different enough idea of strangely powered misfits, sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them to avoid getting sued by Marvel.
Generally as a whole (and several other qualifiers) this probably just about succeeds by introducing the slight twist that with great power comes some sort of ironic drawback.

It tends towards a fairly standard formulaic plot structure, each episode dealing with a new strangely powered villain, while a vague sinister organization lurks in the background.

Out of the six main characters, three are bearable with the best lines going to the high functioning autistic kid. The other three are bland cyphers for not particularly interesting abilities.

Hopefully the next series will start with their messy deaths and no-one caring.

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Drive - ★★★★

Mechanic/stunt/getaway driver sleepwalks through life until things get a bit unpleasant.
Starts off slow with lots of meaningful looks, arty cityscapes and slightly annoying music and mostly stays that way. Occasionally veers off into horrific vein slicing, head stomping ultra-violence.
Maybe tries too hard to be an enigmatic updated man-with-no-name type western but does so with some style and without chaps.