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Crime 101 review – strong cast, weak script
I should start by addressing the elephant in the room: Bart Layton is very clearly a fan of Michael Mann. Making…
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die review – tortured…
Few Hollywood directors deserve a second chance more than Gore Verbinski. A man who had as much creative success as he did…
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Slices of life in the Sundance shorts section
The saddest shorts are sometimes the most absorbing, and two of the best of the festival focused on the weight…
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The President’s Cake review – polished but…
Few birthday celebrations can ever match the surreal spectacle that the Iraqi state would enforce each year that Saddam Hussein…
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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley review – a touching…
In the 29 years since his accidental death from drowning, the life of Jeff Buckley has been simplified into rock ‘n’…
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Wuthering Heights review – pretty vacant
The supporting cast fair no better. Edward Linton (Shazad Latif) is also retooled, now a nice but dull man who lives…
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GOAT review – a visually spectacular sports…
In 2018, there was something quietly revolutionary about the animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Not only did it employ a unique…
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The Strangers: Chapter 3 review – let it die
Renny Harlin just might have made horror history by rebooting a simple home invasion horror flick into an exhaustive trilogy. Whether…
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My Father’s Shadow review – a very fine picture…
The outskirts of Lagos, 1993: a harried father, Folarin (Sope Dirisu), returning to his tumbledown home, makes the snap decision to…
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The disturbing prescience of Mala Noche
To Van Sant, pitting rich against poor was too blunt a binary. Instead, Mala Noche traces the subtle negotiations of power between…
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