Jim Broadbent

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Review: The Iron Lady

Streep's not enough to save this one
Meryl Streep's two films with Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia and this silly biopic, demonstrate that even when the world's greatest actress is at the peak of her powers — whether dramatic, comic, or musical — it's not enough.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 10, 2012

Review: Another Year

Mike Leigh's new film bristles with anxiety and loneliness.
It joins a list of English films that do not make me want to visit England. Maybe because it's too much like here.
By A.S. HAMRAH | February 24, 2011

Review: Perrier's Bounty

A poor man's In Bruges
Irish gangsters, at least in the movies, like to talk.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 06, 2010

Review: Perrier’s Bounty

Mayhem with an aura of Celtic winsomeness
Irish gangsters, at least in the movies, like to talk.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 15, 2010

Review: The Young Victoria

No wonder there are more films about Elizabeth I
Who knew Queen Victoria was such a babe?
By PETER KEOUGH | December 22, 2009

Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Half-Blood isn't half bad
For teenagers, everything seems like the end of the world: popularity, school, love, family, treacherous conspiracies, the war between good and evil wizards.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 17, 2009

Review: Inkheart

A nice diversion
How novel: a fantasy adventure for children that's not afraid of the dark while espousing the joys of the printed word, with nary a fart joke to be heard.
By BRETT MICHEL | January 20, 2009

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Much more than a Lifetime Movie for Men
Director Anand Tucker's focus on compromise and memory over pre-fab, end-of-life resolutions is realistic and powerful.
By CHRIS WANGLER | June 11, 2008

Numb Skull

Indiana Jones’s mild Kingdom
You can’t say they don’t warn you.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 22, 2008

The odd couple

Revisit one of the great films about the artistic process
British director Mike Leigh is known as a master of kitchen-sink realism, making films about family and relationship conflict weighed down by the demands of contemporary working-class existence.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | February 13, 2008

Hot Fuzz

Laughs and piles of bodies
Picture Agatha Christie buggered by Michael Bay, with (old-school) Peter Jackson administering lube.
By BRETT MICHEL | April 18, 2007