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City Of Tiny Lights is like a Raymond Chandler story that's been parachuted into modern-day west London. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2017. There's hardboiled and then there's just ...
Sep 12, 2016 · ‘City of Tiny Lights’: Film Review | TIFF 2016. Riz Ahmed, the breakout star of HBO's 'The Night Of,' plays a low-rent London private eye in a murky case involving drugs, developers and ...
Apr 3, 2017 · City Of Tiny Lights; City of Tiny Lights review: "A rich, rewarding crime film, shot with real skill" By James Mottram. published 3 April 2017. Comments; GamesRadar+ Verdict
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Rated: 3/5 Apr 9, 2017 Full Review Carolyn Mauricette Cinema Axis See City of Tiny Lights for what it does right: updating a classic film style with a person of colour as the lead in a racially ...
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5/10. Gumshoe. Prismark10 27 March 2018. A contemporary hard boiled private detective neo noir thriller set in London. The voiceover is provided by Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed) looking after his cricket mad dad (Roshan Seth.) He is a hard drinking, chain smoking rather dinghy private eye in London.
Apr 9, 2017 · Despite the hard-boiled voice-over narration, however, detective thriller City of Tiny Lights is far from convincing as a modern-day noir. Not that the movie, adapted by Patrick Neate from his 2005 novel and directed by Pete Travis (Dredd), doesn’t try hard. It ticks off almost all the gumshoe-movie clichés: a chain-smoking, whiskey-slugging ...
Apr 7, 2017 · City Of Tiny Lights is certainly different, in that no one really makes private-eye noirs anymore, but is significant mainly in that it shows Ahmed as a leading man whose presence can be banked on ...
