Movies
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The Secret Agent review – Mendonça Filho’s most…
When Marcelo (Wagner Moura) first arrives in Dona Sebastiana’s building, he is greeted by a curious cat whose head is split…
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Mary Sweeney: ‘David considered The Straight…
Released in 1999, The Straight Story is often overlooked among David Lynch’s filmography for being the most ‘conventional’ or the…
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Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up review –…
The Looney Tunes have admittedly fallen on hard times in recent years. As far as animation was concerned, David Zaslav’s…
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Little Amélie review – a dazzling little film
A spirited Belgian moppet, indomitable in her curiosity and boasting eyes as green as a rolling summer meadow, learns about life,…
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Joachim Trier and the science of self-doubt
Walt Whitman famously professed in his poem ‘Song to Myself’ to “contain multitudes”, and in doing so encapsulated the mysteries…
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How representation of sexual assault is changing…
Sorry, Baby joins the growing number of films that refuse to visualise the moment of sexual violence. Speaking to Little White Lies,…
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Whistle review – this sucks and blows
Watching a film about an Aztec death whistle is, I imagine, similar to the act of blowing an Aztec death whistle: what…
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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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