From David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, the epitome of the filmmaker’s shift into a cinema driven by compassion and understanding, in which family is a perpetual font of forgiveness, the thing that makes you who you are, no matter how messed up, and the only place you can return at your worst.
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Published 4 Jan 2016
By Adam Cook
An effervescent Jennifer Lawrence elevates the sly comedic tone of David O Russell’s eccentric film.
By Adam Cook
With The Force Awakens out this week, we revisit the Star Wars director’s wondrous 2011 blockbuster.
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