Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn is The Independent's Film Critic.

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Helen Mirren in Red 2

Film review: Red 2 - Helen Mirren leads a cast of clapped-out has-beens

02 August 2013 09:00 AM

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Bracing stuff: Jeff Bridges and Isabelle Huppert in Michael Cimino's re-released 'Heaven’s Gate'

Film review: Heaven's Gate

02 August 2013 09:00 AM

(15)

Film review: Only God Forgives - Ryan Gosling's Bangkok bloodfest is a hellish bore

02 August 2013 09:00 AM

(18)

Film review: The Conjuring (15)

01 August 2013 07:30 PM

Advance word that this would be the scariest horror since Amityville proves well wide of the mark.

Film review: My Father and the Man in Black (15)

01 August 2013 07:30 PM

This scrapbook memoir of an American legend plays out against an Oedipal struggle that might have gone unacknowledged.

Film review: Paradise: Hope (15)

01 August 2013 07:30 PM

Completing a trilogy begun with Love and continued in Faith, this is the gentlest and most amenable of Ulrich Seidl's dramas of female sexuality. Thirteen-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) is spending the summer at an Austrian diet camp where "discipline" is the watchword for the tubby teen inmates.

Hectoring vulgarity: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy in The Heat

The Heat review: Paul Feig's mismatched buddy caper starring Sandra Bullock really stinks

01 August 2013 12:10 PM

(15) Paul Feig, 117mins, Starring: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy

Best foot forward: Greta Gerwig takes centre stage in Noah Baumbach's 'Frances Ha'

Film review: Frances Ha - Gerwig fulfils Greta expectations

26 July 2013 12:30 PM

(15)

Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine

Film review: The Wolverine - Hugh Jackman's turn as Marvel's hairiest hero is deeply boring

26 July 2013 09:09 AM

 (12A) James Mangold, 126mins Starring: Hugh  Jackman, Rila  Fukushima

Film review: Viramundo (NC)

25 July 2013 08:00 PM

Musician (and ex-culture minister) Gilberto Gil embarks on a globetrotting tour of the indigenous musics of Brazil, Australia and South Africa, a documentary crew in tow. His mission is to – what, exactly?

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