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Look Back – first-look review
Japanese writer-director-editor Hirokazu Koreeda has been hit or miss since his Palme d’Or win for Shoplifters in 2018, and that’s putting it…
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The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias – first-look review
“Why do we need a guide to utopias today?” Slavoj Žižek opens by answering his own question inimitably from afar, over…
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Just An Illusion review – an unabashedly feelgood family affair
Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano deliver a glossy, good-natured portrait of family dysfunction in 1980s France. A French nuclear family…
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Pressure review – another war movie for the…
There is a specific kind of historical media in the western world that can be categorised as the thing your teacher…
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London – first-look review | Little White Lies
Hovering a few meters above the city from the window seat of a crowded bus, London (Victor di Marco) ponders how daylight…
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It Will Happen Tonight – first-look review
Directors have often enjoyed toying with Louis Garrel’s onscreen heartthrob reputation. The latest to capitalise on his charisma is Nanni…
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Woman Unknown – first-look review
After a war comes a reckoning. The survivors will sweep the streets and bury the dead – and then start to point…
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Possible Love – first-look review
The tenth commandment prefaces Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love: Thou shalt not covet. Whether it’s thy neighbour’s house or thy neighbour’s…
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Queer Edward II – first-look review
In February 1991, queer writer-director Derek Jarman set out to adapt a 400-year-old Shakespearean play, Edward II, into an avant-garde protest film…
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Primetime – first-look review | Little White Lies
If Hansen’s gum-smacking producer, Andie Bender (Merritt Wever) doesn’t share her star’s unwavering superiority complex, it’s only because she’s got…
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