MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Film round-up: September 11 2015
Reviews of The Visit, Legend, La Famille Belier, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and Irrational Man
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
The Visit (15), directed by M Night Shyamalan
1/5
SIXTEEN years after The Blair Witch Project made found footage all the rage, M Night Shyamalan has finally jumped on the bandwagon.
But it is too little, too late. Shyamalan fails to employ any groundbreaking effects in this supposedly terrifying story about a brother and sister who are sent to stay for a week with their estranged grandparents at their remote Pennsylvania farm.
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