The Myrka’s Film Reviews
30 Films have been rated or reviewed by The Myrka.
Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen (Transformers 2) (2009)
Ugh!
Coraline (2009)
Stunning 3D stop motion animation with a story that will give many a young child the shivers but does enough to keep the grown ups interested.
A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël) (2008)
- A rambling but never uninteresting film about family and the bonds that keep us tied. A very honest portrait of a family Christmas gathering and topped off by always luminous Catherine Deneuve as the family matriarch, this is a film to savour.
Inglourious Basterds (Inglorious Bastards) (2009)
Tarantino gets some great performances, notably from Christoph Waltz and rising star Michael Fassbender but we don't see nearly enough of them and the overblown climax removes the viewer from the subtlety of their work, into a pointless bloodbath. - DVD
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Sherlock Holmes (2009)- Great, mindless fun. RDJ gives his usual good value as our titular hero and Jude Law is surprisingly not annoying.
Avatar (2009)
It looks great but I'm not convinced by a film that feels recycled at best and at worst hammers home with all the subtlety of a brick the dangers of warmongering imperialism and man's destruction of the environment. 
Nine (2009)- The whole thing feels claustrophobic and shut in by it's stagey origins and, a far worse crime for a musical, the songs just aren't very memorable.
Five Obstructions, The (5 Obstructions) (2004)- This film made me want to do several things, and unusually for a von Trier film, they didn't involve violence directed at the mad Dane. Jorgen Leth shows himself to be infinitely patient and brilliantly adept and taking anything von Trier throws at him.
Green Zone (2010)- One helluva ride from start to finish, and while the style of the film makes you think this is Bourne in Iraq, there is a lot more intelligence going on, than in most action films.
Still Walking (2008)
The humour as well as the conflicts of family relationships are magnificently offset with the traditions of Japanese culture and the tension between modern life and the "old ways". A classic!
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