London critics got to see our first real 2014 movie (as opposed to a holdover from 2013) this week:
That Awkward Moment seems to want to be a sex comedy but is actually a half-baked Richard Curtis-style multi-strand romantic comedy. At least the likeable Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B Jordan are front and centre. The other star-powered film was
Grudge Match, an uber high-concept comedy-drama starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro as has-been boxers setting up a rematch (get it?). It's ok, but played far too straight.
Off the beaten path we had the British comedy
Svengali, about a wannabe music manager trying to launch a band in London against all odds; the implausible horror thriller
The Banshee Chapter, about a journalist looking into illicit government drug trials in the 1960s; the astounding award-winning Greek drama
Miss Violence, which might be the most unnervingly horrific movie you'll see all year; and the moving German drama
Free Fall, which takes a
Brokeback-style approach to sexuality in present-day Europe.
Coming this week: Chris Pine in the reboot
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston in
Only Lovers Left Alive, the comedy
G.B.F., the prison drama
Jamesy Boy and Georgia's acclaimed drama
In Bloom.
We also have the Oscar nominations coming tomorrow, kicking the awards season into high gear for the next six weeks. Follow the action at the
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