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101 Reykjavík 7/10 is a Icelandic film from 2000 about being idle, getting wasted and having casual sex;
Toy Soldiers 7/10 is a violent teenage action movie from the early 90s starring Sam Gamgee as a naughty kid at a prep school that gets taken over by terrorists; Louis Gossett Jr and Denholm Elliott also star as the Dean and Headmaster respectively;
Swimming with Sharks (aka The Buddy Factor) 6/10 is a very dated, sour, whining and black-hearted film about how awful it is to work in Hollywood and how everyone's such a bloody shit - luckily Kevin Spacey gives a great performance, this film's value would be close to nil without him;
The White Ribbon (aka Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) 7/10 is the new film from arthouse auteur Michael Haneke (Funny Games, Hidden) set in rural Germany in the year leading up to WWI. This is as heavy-going as modern cinema gets and will surely try the patience of anyone who's not specifically a fan either of Haneke or of slow, black and white, subtitled European cinema in which very little happens and from which, after two and a half hours, few if any conclusions can be drawn.
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