Movies
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Whalefall review – an underwhale-ming survival…
As a child who grew up attending Sunday school every week, I suppose I’ve thought about being swallowed by a whale more than…
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Rebellion – first-look review | Little White Lies
It’s hard not to feel numb to today’s endlessly grim headlines. Anti-migrant blockades in Portsmouth; Reform lobbing political hot potatoes…
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Case 137 review – dodgy cops get a taste of their…
In late 2018, France ground to a halt on the back of the gilets jaunes protests in which naffed-off labourers downed…
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Forgotten Island review – pop-culture nostalgia…
Nostalgia for the Nineties has, by now, overtaken pop-cultural nostalgia for the Eighties. You can see it in the cut…
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Naza review – confronting the horrors of genocide
For 75 of the 80 minutes of Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA, we are in the dark. Only literally, for the…
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Amanda Kramer: ‘Being a beautiful woman has fear…
Amanda Kramer has long been fascinated by the strange, often funny ways we perform ourselves into being. With By Design,…
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By Design review – seat of learning
Camille (Juliette Lewis) seems to have perfected the art of being present without ever quite being seen. But to be…
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Ray Gunn – first-look review
This is a fantastic film, in all senses of the word. Brad Bird, part of the original Pixar brain trust, who…
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Michelle Yeoh – Pre-Millennium Actress
A spiritual summation of Yeoh’s career until that point, The Stunt Woman sets out to explore a landscape of rampant risk, but doesn’t…
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Elsinore – first-look review | Little White Lies
I never went to film school, but I know from friends and the dripfeed chatter of academic folk tales that the…
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