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Strictly Sinatra Reviews

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Peter Capaldi, the writer and director of the vaguely amusing and almost engaging Strictly Sinatra, seems to have had two recent strains of British film-making on his mind: the Guy Ritchie school of modern mob capers and the post-modern urban Scottish noir of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. Indeed Kelly MacDonald, who starred .. Read more

Starring	Kelly MacDonald, Ian Hart, Alun Armstrong, Brian Cox
Director	Peter Capaldi
Genres	Drama

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- "...A lovely premise, great Glasgow atmospherics and pungent performances....Song choices and arrangements are first-rate....Armstrong makes a solid impression..."
- 10178
- - Variety
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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  Fly me to the moon !
  
  Entertaining gangster yarn set in Glasgow .. well acted by Ian Hart, Alun Armstrong and the beautiful Kelly Macdonald .. Storyline slightly disjointed, but ... read more »
  
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  - Paul Jay
  - London, England
  - 23 Oct 2004 at 16:50
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  Brian Cox Is A God
  
  Another great british crime thriller - Brian Cox just gets better and better. Highly recommended.
  
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- - Jamie clayden
  - Nottingham, England
  - 24 Mar 2005 at 18:55
- - 3
  - 2
  Fly me to the moon !
  
  Entertaining gangster yarn set in Glasgow .. well acted by Ian Hart, Alun Armstrong and the beautiful Kelly Macdonald .. Storyline slightly disjointed, but ... read more »
  
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- - Paul Jay
  - London, England
  - 23 Oct 2004 at 16:50
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  Kept me thinking about...
  
  Kept me thinking about it after it ended, which ranks it higher than most bog-standard hollywood-type films!
  
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  - EYE
  - 06 May 2004 at 08:30
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  The greatest thing ...
  
  The greatest thing about this little movie is that it goes nowhere and the characters are all a little depressing. I can't speak for whether the director ... read more »
  
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- - Jip#1
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  - 06 Dec 2003 at 14:47
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- - 3
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  Fly me to the moon !
  
  Entertaining gangster yarn set in Glasgow .. well acted by Ian Hart, Alun Armstrong and the beautiful Kelly Macdonald .. Storyline slightly disjointed, but ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 22761
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  - Paul Jay
  - London, England
  - 23 Oct 2004 at 16:50
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  Brian Cox Is A God
  
  Another great british crime thriller - Brian Cox just gets better and better. Highly recommended.
  
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- - Jamie clayden
  - Nottingham, England
  - 24 Mar 2005 at 18:55
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  The greatest thing ...
  
  The greatest thing about this little movie is that it goes nowhere and the characters are all a little depressing. I can't speak for whether the director ... read more »
  
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- - Jip#1
  - STANLEY
  - 06 Dec 2003 at 14:47
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  Kept me thinking about...
  
  Kept me thinking about it after it ended, which ranks it higher than most bog-standard hollywood-type films!
  
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  - 06 May 2004 at 08:30

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Critics' reviews
- "...A lovely premise, great Glasgow atmospherics and pungent performances....Song choices and arrangements are first-rate....Armstrong makes a solid impression..."
- 10178
- - Variety
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...[Hart] does a good job with Sinatra's on-stage mannerisms, handling his mike with just the right level of studied insouciance..."
- 10177
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- You can see what writer/director Capaldi is trying to do, as he plays the self-deluding ambitions of Glaswegian cabaret... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15

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