Cinema
In 2011 I spent a few months writing film reviews, short and direct: what works, what doesn’t, and whether it’s worth watching. Here are the results, based on what I saw at the cinema in those days.
Originally written in Catalan and translated into English. Film titles are the ones used in Ireland.
Film posters belong to their studios and distributors, and each one links to its page on The Movie Database (TMDB).
| Film | Year | Review |
|---|---|---|
| The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn | 2011 | Spielberg’s digital animation, a homage to Hergé |
| Anonymous | 2011 | Was Shakespeare really the author of his plays? |
| The Awakening | 2011 | A ghost debunker in a 1921 English boarding school |
| Beginners | 2010 | Ewan McGregor, Mélanie Laurent, Christopher Plummer |
| Conan the Barbarian | 2011 | Jason Momoa in the 2011 remake |
| Contagion | 2011 | Soderbergh’s realistic epidemic thriller |
| Cowboys & Aliens | 2011 | Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in the Wild West |
| The Debt | 2010 | Mossad agents, East Berlin, 1964 |
| The Ides of March | 2011 | Clooney directs Gosling in a political thriller |
| Immortals | 2011 | Tarsem Singh’s Greek mythology spectacle |
| Midnight in Paris | 2011 | Woody Allen’s love letter to 1920s Paris |
| Real Steel | 2011 | Robots, Hugh Jackman, Spielberg as producer |
| Red State | 2011 | Kevin Smith on sex, religion and politics |
| The Skin I Live In | 2011 | Almodóvar, Banderas, macabre and delicious |
| The Snowtown Murders | 2011 | The real Snowtown murders, Australia |
| Tyrannosaur | 2011 | Paddy Considine’s raw debut, with Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2011 | Tilda Swinton in Lynne Ramsay’s devastating film |