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The Tree of Life Effect
Malick, a graduate of Harvard’s philosophy department, featured similarly philosophical conventions and naturalistic cinematography in his earlier works like Badlands and Days of…
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The Great Arch review – the French landmark gets…
If you happen to be tramping up the Champs Élysées in Paris on a bright summer’s day, you’ll likely see a strange…
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How To Make A Killing review – social satire with…
Modern celebrities are a little like social media algorithms. Express an interest in something once, and you’ll be inundated with it…
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The Unspoken Desire of Dečki
I have always found it frustrating to articulate queer feelings with other young gay men of ex-Yugoslavian heritage, as even…
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Resurrection review – see it on the biggest…
Despite a framing device that vaguely ties its disparate stories together, there’s an extent to which Bi Gan’s Resurrection is essentially…
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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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