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Advisor: Movies you should see this weekend

With so many film releases to choose from, we’ve made it easy by picking our three favourite movies released this week.

Thriller: The Two Faces of January

Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst star in the thriller The Two Faces of January. Photo: Supplied

Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst star in the thriller The Two Faces of January. Photo: Supplied

Director: Hossein Amini
Main Cast: Oscar Isaac, Kristen Dunst, Viggo Mortensen
Genre: Thriller
Classification: M
Release Date: 19 June, 2014
Running Time: 96 mins

Antonia Acott for The New Daily says: Mortensen, Dunst and Isaac are all intriguing in this old school thriller that has touches of The Talented Mr Ripley. 

Comedy: Frank

Director:  Lenny Abrahamson
Main Cast: Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Domhnall Gleeson, Scoot McNairy 
Genre: Offbeat comedy
Classification: M 15+
Release Date: 19 June, 2014
Running Time: 95 mins

Stephen A Russell for thelowdownunder says: Possibly the year’s most surreal, yet perfectly pitched film. Oddly moving.

Arthouse: Good Vibrations

 

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The feel good movie of the weekend, Good Vibrations. Photo: Supplied

Director: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Main Cast: Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Adrian Dunbar, Dylan Moran
Genre: Arthouse, Indie
Classification: MA15+
Release Date: 12 June, 2014
Running Time: 103 mins

Teri Louise Kelly for InDaily says: Good Vibrations, the biopic of one one-eyed man, one ruptured city and one pivotal musical movement, captures the determination of the individual, the disenfranchisement of youth and the sectarianism of violence in a magnificently understated manner.”

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