Film review: Starred Up (18)

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Starred Up
(18) 106mins
★★★★✩

The process of de-humanising begins from the first frame. Eric (Jack O'Connell) is moved like a pawn, treated like a loon and reduced to a series of louse-ridden tick boxes.

Dance review: Shadowland, Peacock Theatre

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DANCE
Shadowland
Peacock Theatre
★★★★✩

At the end of Shadowland, by way of an encore, the flexible folk of US-based Pilobolus said thanks - more accurately "cheers" - to the London crowd with a YouTube friendly silhouette romp depicting their journey across the pond.

Film review: Need For Speed (12A)

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Need For Speed
(12A) 130mins
★★★✩✩

How long will it be, I wonder, before the star of this game-to-screen howler loses his prefix?

Film review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (15)

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
(15) 100mins
★★★★✩

Director Wes Anderson often creates films that inspire admiration rather than love. They are products of the intellect, not unruly effusions of the heart.

Spiral Notebook: The arrogance of now

COMMENT

By Giles Broadbent

It is staggering to modern eyes that the Paedophile Information Exchange should have found any currency at all, let alone the championing voice of an authoritative body such as the National Council of Civil Liberties in the '70s.