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A House of Dynamite – first-look review
Now and then it occurs to me that the future of my very existence, as well as that of the…
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Dead Man’s Wire – first-look review
Anti-heroes make for compelling subjects, particularly in a world as unjust as the one we live in, and 1970s American cinema…
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Songs of Forgotten Trees – first-look review
In 2023, director Anuparna Roy reinvigorated conventional South Asian cinema’s themes of poverty, privilege and patriarchy with her debut short…
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The Stranger – first-look review
François Ozon and Albert Camus do not seem like a obvious fit. The French filmmaker’s rather louche and uninhibited style seems…
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Marc by Sofia – first-look review
Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola met in the early 90s, just before they both became household names. Of course they…
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The Courageous review – a strikingly realistic…
Single mother Jule (Ophélia Kolb) takes her three children to a restaurant and promises to be back in five minutes. A long…
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Afternoons of Solitude review – astonishing,…
The closest literary analogue to Albert Serra’s astonishing new film, Afternoons of Solitude, is Ernest Hemmingway’s lyrical exploration into the…
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The Smashing Machine – first-look review
Of course there have been inevitable (and not entirely unfair) jokes about The Rock running for an Oscar since The…
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Honey Don’t! review – silly and very, very slight
Ethan Coen has earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants when it comes to making art. Whether…
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The Testament of Ann Lee – first-look review
One of my favourite Wikipedia pages is entitled ‘List of people claimed to be Jesus’ which documents, as you might…
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