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Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Everyone that surrounds a…
One of the most storied, successful and stylish filmmakers in modern European history, Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar has shelves filled with…
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The Dog Stars review – sickly sweet hopecore
A wave of what is known uninspiringly as “hopecore” is sweeping through theatres. At surface level these films inspire hope,…
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Colony review – messy parade of old genre gimmicks
In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only a handful of titles that truly stand out, and one…
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I Want Your Sex review – even a lesser Araki is…
Too much digital ink has been spilled over the younger generation’s sexual pessimism and aversion to sex on screen. It…
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Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii: Junior Ghosts –…
“You’re doing a lot of hearing and understanding, but I just don’t know if you do,” an embittered helpline caller complains of…
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The ASBOwave and the Cultural Politics of Broken…
Here we see the flipside of this narrative of exclusion: if we are going to be treated as violent scum,…
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Bitter Christmas review – dazzling, late-period…
The maestro of melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar, is currently making some of the finest films of his storied career – during…
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What can we learn from cinema’s Little Odysseys?
On screen, the alienation of these small leads is the root of this moral challenge, and Theodoros Angelopoulos’ Landscape in The…
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Mission – first-look review | Little White Lies
There’s a particular kind of disillusionment that doesn’t resolve itself over a weekend away. It’s the slow, grinding sensation that you’ve somehow…
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Northbound – first-look review | Little White Lies
A rogue elder, an uptight junior, the open road and a moral life lesson idling at the finish line – it’s…
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