Movies
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Which side are you on? – Harlan County, USA at 50
Kopple’s film itself has an elegiac quality to it, the rugged beauty in her setting and in the weathered faces…
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The Social Reckoning review – a diluted version…
Among the many things David Fincher’s The Social Network gave us back in 2010 – countless memes, one of the greatest teaser…
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The Lost Children Of Tuam review – a sombre…
The basic fact of the matter is, if you really want to nudge up the quality or impact of a film…
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Tenzing review – a familiar story reaches new…
In 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest. But for…
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Landscape Collector: the scout behind Hollywood’s…
In Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming The Odyssey, ancient Troy is played by the Ksar of Aït Benhaddou, an 11th-century Moroccan fortress…
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The Weight review – gold in them hills
At the absolute least, debutant director Padraic McKinley is probably going to be bombarded with work offers on the back…
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Digger review – a satire with no meaningful target
For those still bitter that renegade Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu’s divisive theatreland satire Birdman beat out Richard Linklater’s Boyhood…
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Cotton Queen review – reclaims the crown for…
For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it,…
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Extra Geography review – a delightfully…
A teen girl’s best friend is more important than her first kiss and while few would willingly admit to this…
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Charles Melton: ‘It was like a waking dream’
We’re calling it the biggest Oscar snub of modern times – Charles Melton should have been recognised for his tremendous…
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