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London Boulevard

2010

William Monahan

Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Ray Winstone, Anna Friel ...

5.4

6,274

Thriller. Romance In South London, an ex-con tries to go straight by taking a job as a handyman for a reclusive actress.

	Media	Author	Review
		Leslie Felperin Variety	"London Boulevard is like a fancy, retro-styled pocket watch that someone accidentally broke and tried to reassemble with only a vague idea of clockwork"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's a film with plenty of front, as they say, but uses up all its energy, wit and ideas in the first 20 or so minutes, before collapsing into a flurry of boring violence (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Ray Bennett The Hollywood Reporter	"A mix of 1960s Brit gangster-movie flourish and 1940s Hollywood noir, it satisfies not only in the tradition of yarns boiled hard and wry, but as a savvy comment on fame and ambition"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"There is too much to be absorbed in too little time and not enough tissue connecting abbreviated, sometimes unnecessary subplots (...) [It] at least creates some exotic characters"
		Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"Crime, fame, Colin Farrell not a good mix (...) That the plot is the problem comes as something of a surprise given Monahan’s pedigree"
		Alison Willmore AV Club	"A great cast and an intriguing premise are crowded out by a surplus of plot threads that don’t have space to play out, and accordingly come across as clichés"

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