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‘The Frozen Ground’ is bolstered by pacing and a strong performance, but let down by its poor characterisations

Serial killers have provided ripe material for film for several years, both directly and indirectly. Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal horror classic Psycho famously had a lead character modelled after Ed Gein, while David Fincher’s Zodiac notably took a different tack by focusing on an ultimately unsuccessful investigation.

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‘Spring Breakers’ a fascinating, messy mix of art project and experimental film

Spring Breakers Directed by Harmony Korine Written by Harmony Korine USA, 2013 Spring Breakers could be accused of many things, such as being a gleeful mix of moralistic hand-wringing and heedless excess, but it cannot be accused of not trying. This 90-minute mélange of modern juvenilia is a gaudy, fluorescent, drug-fueled trip, as much an …

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SXSW 2013: ‘Spring Breakers’ fulfills the salacious anticipations but with a surprising bit of darkness

Spring Breakers Directed by Harmony Korine Written by Harmony Korine (screenplay) US, 2012 Spring Breakers, by strict definition, is not a very good film, but that does not mean that is a bad one either. The structure of the story is loose, looping and barely there; the characters lack much substantial development; however, for all …

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