MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Cinema round-up: 5th December 2014
Review of St Vincent, Get Santa, Men, Women & Children, Black Sea and Hello Carter
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
St Vincent (12A), directed by Ted Melfi
4/5
A grumpy old man’s unlikely friendship with a young boy which becomes life-changing might spell sentimentality and heart-warming cliches.
But not when the wonderfully acerbic Bill Murray is playing the drunken, gambling and hedonistic curmudgeon who, on the face of it, has no redeeming qualities. Yet Murray gives him an unfathomable charm and humour as he keeps it edgy and real in a superlative performance.
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