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The Dark Knight July 2008
Smart directors tend to adopt a one-for-them, one-for-me ideology in their relationship with the studios...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth July 2008
Three dimensions are one too many for this flat tale of geological grandiosity starring good-natured B-movie staple...
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army July 2008
“I’m not a baby, I’m a tumour!” chirps an unusually chatty growth in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. As it happens, this...
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Hancock July 2008
If you can remember the seismic upheaval in the superhero order that was ‘Superman III’, during which the square-jawed...
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Made of Honour July 2008
This is by no means the worst addition to the burgeoning genre of the wedding comedy. Patrick Dempsey follows up his...
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Wanted June 2008
So there’s this white-collar drone named Wesley (McAvoy), see? Only his dad was part of an elite assassin squad that’s been...
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Get Smart June 2008
Fidelity to the source is probably not a fair criterion by which to judge a film based on an intermittently funny 1960s television...
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The Incredible Hulk June 2008
The first thing to say about director Louis Leterrier’s blockbuster monster-movie is that it’s more a stripped-down rerun of...
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The Happening June 2008
M Night Shyamalan’s mix of modern ecological fable and ’50s sci-fi paranoia is not a happening thing. At first, a great deal happens...
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Jumping on the festival bandwagon June 2008
The term ‘festival’ is common currency in our nation of celebrations — it might be the Moon Festival one month or the...