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The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Adam Boult

Love Arbitrage? Tell us about the films you've seen this week

Richard Gere in Arbitrage.
Richard Gere in Arbitrage. Photograph: Green Room Films/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

Have you seen any good films in the last week or two? We'd like to hear about what you've been watching, and whether you'd recommend them to others – although we wouldn't mind also hearing about the the bad ones you'd suggest others avoid.

Here's what our critics had to say about some recent releases – if you've seen any of these over the weekend, or something else entirely let us know what you thought of it:

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Peter Bradshaw said: So uncompromisingly rubbish that it is impossible to watch it without your rage and despair doubling with every minute that passes. You'll feel like making all the Hollywood executives responsible stand up, like naughty schoolchildren, while you rage: "Which one of you greenlit this unspeakably bad film? We're not going home until someone owns up." Read more

Stoker

Xan Brooks said: A full-blown gothic nightmare, replete with cadavers in the freezer and sexual ecstasy in the shower. I'm not convinced it hangs together; I'm not even sure it's good. But its wild undulations cast a definite spell. Read more

Arbitrage

David Cox said: A swaggering master of the universe has been cooking the books at his hedge fund, while playing away from home with a dangerous dame. A fatal car crash looks set to lay him low, but he'll stop at nothing to dodge his comeuppance. You've seen it all before, but lead Richard Gere drenches the proceedings in the old razzle-dazzle. Read more

The Bay

David Cox said: There's much more than revulsion to this sidetrip into genre from Rain Man veteran Barry Levinson. The found-footage contrivance is rebooted to lay bare the multimedia evidence trail that we now leave behind us. Read more

Safe Haven


Peter Bradshaw said
: Nicholas Sparks, the great rom-dram master, is back – his novel Safe Haven has been adapted for the screen, directed by Lasse Hallström. Even though I have had a grudging respect for Sparks's knack for ingenious popular fiction in the past, this latest gushing, smouldering love story is just too ridiculously cliched. Read more

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