Movies
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Hacks was always a love story
Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks…
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Power Ballad review – amiable musical comedy…
The name of the film is Power Ballad; the name of its lead character is Rick Power. Is there anything…
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Tuner review – woefully off-key
Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);…
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Backrooms review – sincerely disturbing and…
Western horror cinema tends to come in waves: 80s slashers, 90s meta-comedies, 2000s torture porn, 2010s found footage, and most…
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Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at…
The end of the war does not produce liberation, but merely transforms one unstable political condition into another. The final…
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The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review
In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides…
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The End of It – first-look review
Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona’s feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition…
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Everytime – first-look review | Little White Lies
An unthinkable tragedy binds together Ella (Birgit Minichmayr), her daughter Melli (Lotte Shirin Keiling) and Lux (Tristan Lopez). He’s the…
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The Birthday Party – first-look review
Though The Birthday Party marks the first time Léa Mysius has directed a film in contention for the festival’s Palme d’Or, the…
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Coward – first-look review | Little White Lies
When fresh conscript Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia) arrives on the Belgian frontline, his fellow soldiers quickly ascribe him the nickname ‘Quiet…
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