David Dougan

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For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.

Favorite films

  • The French Connection
  • Oldboy
  • The Odd Couple
  • Jaws

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  • Nobody Knows

    ★★★★

  • Cell 211

    ★★★★½

  • The Vanishing

    ★★★★

  • The Virgin Suicides

    ★★★★½

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  • Nobody Knows

    Nobody Knows

    ★★★★

    Today in ‘Hirokazu Koreeda can do no wrong’ news, Nobody Knows is a brilliantly made but quietly devastating tale of the oldest of four children trying to take care of himself and them when their mother leaves and only occasionally sends them money to survive on. 

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  • Cell 211

    Cell 211

    ★★★★½

    A newly employed prison guard turns up a day early to get used to his new surroundings only to be cracked on the head by a piece of the crumbling building during a tour and then finds himself in a cell as a riot breaks out and he has to improvise to survive.

    Alberto Ammann as the guard and Luis Tosar as the leader of the rebellion are both sensational in Daniel Monzón‘s thriller; Tosar is a growling and menacing…

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  • The Counselor

    The Counselor

    ★★★★

    It's exactly what you'd hope for from a Cormac McCarthy-penned script. It's dark and weird and has a bleak, desperate finale. The extended cut is even better than the theatrical release.

    I still can't understand why it took such a critical lashing.

  • The Other Side of the Wind

    The Other Side of the Wind

    ½

    I don’t know who was involved in preventing Orson Welles from ever completing The Other Side of the Wind, but they were doing him and everyone else a favour by doing so.

    The film is unwatchable, incoherent, smutty trash, and however close it is to what Welles wanted his finished film to be, it’s still a godawful mess, horribly over-edited tedious nonsense. It simply wasn’t worth reclaiming or resurrecting, or whatever the people who put this together would call it. This is the reanimated corpse of something that deserved to die, a wasted effort and a laughable addendum to Welles’s legendary career.