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Steely eyed … Derek Malcolm.

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The Guardian

‘A giant among critics’:

Derek Malcolm remembered by film-makers

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/17/
a-giant-among-critics-derek-malcolm-remembered-by-film-makers

film criticism        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/
film-criticism

film critic        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/17/
a-giant-among-critics-derek-malcolm-remembered-by-film-makers

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/17/
derek-malcolm-obituary

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/27/
philip-french

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/27/
philip-french-the-huge-loss-of-a-lovely-man-as-well-as-an-astonishing-critic

movie critic        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/
movies/life-itself-reminiscences-of-roger-ebert.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/
movies/stanley-kauffmann-erudite-film-critic-dies-at-97.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/
movies/roger-ebert-film-critic-dies.html

review        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/tone/
reviews

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/13/
john-wick-chapter-4-movie-review-release-date

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/08/
ben-hur-review-bekmambetov-jack-houston-morgan-freeman

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/12/
day-the-earth-stood-still

rave reviews        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/sep/24/
colin-firth-kings-speech-oscar

cinematic landmark        USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/03/
599121542/50-years-later-
2001-a-space-odyssey-is-still-a-cinematic-landmark

flawed but extraordinary        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/19/
oppenheimer-review-nolans-atom-bomb-epic-is-flawed-
but-extraordinary

a towering achievement        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/22/
oppenheimer-review-
christopher-nolan-volatile-biopic-is-a-towering-achievement-
cillian-murphy

a brilliant achievement in formal and conceptual terms        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/
movies/oppenheimer-review-christopher-nolan.html

superbly watchable tale of corrupt cops        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/23/
training-day-review-denzel-washingtons-finest-most-sinister-hour

staggering spectacle        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/21/
dune-part-two-review-denis-villeneuve

BBC Radio 4 > Frontrow        UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qsq5

spoiler        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/13/
never-let-me-go-review

spoler        USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/
1178361638/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-spoilers-npr-apology

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/
business/media/18spoiler.html

be panned        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/24/
julian-schnabel-taking-flak

overlong and overstuffed action sequel        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/13/
john-wick-chapter-4-movie-review-release-date

contrived        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/13/
never-let-me-go-review 

one not to be missed

masterpiece        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/07/
the-conversation-50th-anniversary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/25/
1917-review-sam-mendess-turns-western-front-horror-
into-a-single-shot-masterpiece

unsettling masterpiece        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/
movies/killers-of-the-flower-moon-review-martin-scorsese.html

gripping        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/24/
790207374/1917-is-gripping-visceral-and-strangely-beautiful

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