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Toronto ‘08: “Brothers Bloom,” “Nick and Norah,” “RocknRolla”
Fataculture — ... , “After shipwrecking with ‘Swept Away’ and misfiring with ‘Revolver,’ Brit filmmaker Guy Ritchie bounces back to top form with ‘RocknRolla,’ a cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious seriocomic caper.” James Christopher , “The problem with Guy Ritchie’s entertaining caper RocknRolla is that it brings back too many jaundiced memories and fails to lay any fresh tracks. We are back in the only milieu in which he ever excelled as a writer, namely the cod-Hogarthian underbelly of London’s modern crime world.” ...

You review: Rocknrolla
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — ... , while The Times' James Christopher says the movie "brings back too many jaundiced memories and fails to lay any fresh tracks". Is this just a case of po-faced Brits laying into one of their own, however? ...