Hugo (2011)

Watch this, a precious, highly stylised and drama-free whimsy about an orphan boy who discovers the magic of cinema, or simply recall instead that part of each Oscar award ceremony where the presenters heavyhandedly expound film's curative properties. 

★★☆☆☆ 

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The Brothers Grimsby (2016)

A scene involving an elephant's uterus is clearly an attempt at the sort of scandalous, much-talked-about comedy that fans of Sacha Baron Cohen have come to expect of his movies but in this terribly tired story that throws mismatched brothers together in a spy caper, the elephant scene comes after so much other not-very-funny dross that it just reeks of last-ditch desperation and Sacha Baron Cohen who is normally so hilarious when his fictional characters spear social issues in real world situations, here flounders in an entire fiction.

★☆☆☆☆

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