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Sound Of Falling review – a complex puzzle box…
The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling,…
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If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not…
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The Bride! review – it’s alive, but at what cost?
At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps…
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Hoppers review – chipper critter comedy
The Pixar name used to signify indisputable quality for an animated film, but their light has dimmed in the past…
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A Private Life review – a limp and convoluted…
The sight of Jodie Foster speaking fluent French is the most engaging element of this limp and convoluted psychodrama from…
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The Elastic Worlds of the Looney Tunes
In emulating all of these artists Browngardt says that a sense of restraint can often be forgotten. “The old shorts knew…
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How the Scream franchise’s mask slipped
When Scream was relaunched/remade/rebooted/requel-ed/whatever in 2022, under the direction of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, something was missing. It treated the…
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Diving into the SXSW film line-up
In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps…
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Sirāt review – a truly staggering, major film
Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,…
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Daniel Blumberg: ‘The ingredients were there to…
Daniel Blumberg is an omnivorous artist, bringing intense conviction and curiosity to song form, improvised live performance, visual artwork and…
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