It's a bumper week for movies, but before you buy that popcorn check out what cinema releases are worth your hard earned cash.
The Gambler
3.5/5
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Michael K Williams, Jessica Lange, Anthony Kelley, Alvin Ing
12A
Seventeen years after the Matt Damon-starring gambling drama Rounders opened in cinemas, some of us still can't see John Malkovich on a TV without saying 'Pyay him. Pyay dat man hees mahney' like his character, poker player Teddy KGB. Rounders is one of those movies that you'll happily watch again if it pops up while scouring the channels late at night. The Gambler is destined to be another.
The game here is blackjack, and the guy in way over his head is Jim Bennett (Wahlberg), a literature professor whose all-or-nothing approach to life results in him owing $200,000 to a Korean gambling ring boss (Ing) and $60,000 to a loan shark (The Wire star Williams). He has seven days to pay them both but doesn't seem too bothered about the consequences. Not yet, anyway. Ah yes, that other fine line - the one between cool and stupid.
Sure, it's easy to scratch the head and wonder whether Wahlberg has been miscast as a self-loathing academic, but Ted's straight man does some of his best work here as Bennett, owning the character and...
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Ex Machina
4/5
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander
15 A
Alex Garland's directorial debut, Ex Machina is a taut, tense and elegant sci-fi thriller that is utterly compelling from start to finish.
Garland, best known for the screenplay for 28 Days Later and his book The Beach, takes the reins for this smart and stylish movie that explores the dangers of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence for the human race, as well as the moral issues of man creating thinking beings.
Set in the not-too-distant future, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is a hotshot young coder working for Bluebook, the world's largest internet search engine. He wins an internal lottery in the company to spend a week with Bluebook's reclusive and mysterious CEO, Nathan (Oscar Isaac). After being flown by helicopter...
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