FILM
September 2012
Vertigo is now the "Greatest Film Of All Time". Like Citizen Kane, it excites more admiration than love
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July/August 2012
In Cosmopolis, Robert Pattinson is aiming for mainstream leading man territory
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June 2012
Tim Burton serves up the same old tosh, but Sacha Baron Cohen still skewers dictators and liberals
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May 2012
Can you remember when you last heard a cinema audience laugh together at the same joke?
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Written each month by Standpoint's regular film critic, Peter Whittle, and occasional guest columnists
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