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Brian Viner

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Film critic, sports writer, lifelong Everton fan ... also author of non-fiction books (eight), father (of three), and husband (of one)
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Brian Viner reviews The Dink: Pickleball? John McEnroe? A killer owl? This comedy really is a hoot!

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The Dink (PG, 102 mins) Verdict: Thoroughly ace Rating: Four out of five stars Let me go out on a limb and declare Apple TV's The Dink to be the greatest pickleball comedy ever made. As far as I'm aware it's also the only pickleball comedy ever made, but we mustn't get bogged down in analytics. It's engagingly daft, even laugh-out-loud funny in places… and you can watch it at home. Pickleball, for the uninitiated, is kind of tennis-lite, played with a plastic ball.
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The Odyssey review: Christopher Nolan's epic is a glorious cinematic experience and a triumph

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Brian Viner The Odyssey (15, 172 minutes) Rating: Five stars Beware of geeks bearing gifts. Sir Christopher Nolan , a film nut since childhood, is by his own admission one of the geekiest of directors and in storytelling terms can also be one of the more long-winded.
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Live action Moana? I don't want to moan, but we've seen it all before: Brian Viner

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Brian Viner, Film Critic for the Daily Mail Moana (PG, 115 mins) Rating: Three out of five stars Verdict: Pointless remake There are flickers of warmth in Moana, Disney's latest live-action adaptation of one of its own hit animations. The $200million question (the picture's reported budget) is whether this is enough to overcome the sense that we as an audience are being suckered by yet another exercise in precision-tooled charm.
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