Movies
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A Day in the Life of Jo – first-look review
Fifteen-year-old Jo (Evita Andriopoulou) is having a bad day. Her dog is missing, she’s late for school, and she had a strange…
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Place to Be – first-look review
The day my grandmother died, an insouciant pigeon sat outside the window as the news broke, unmoved even as our…
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The City of the Living – first-look review
In 2016 the murder of Luca Varani shook Rome. The horrific crime, committed by two young men who barely knew…
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A Good Little Soldier – first-look review
After a brief detour back into romance, French director Stéphane Brizé returns to the genre where he’s found most success and…
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Union Town – first-look review
“Get up, get down,” a chant rings out behind the title card of Barbara Kopple’s Union Town, “New York is a union town!”…
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Joie De Vivre – first-look review
Luca Guadagnino’s fascination with his countryman filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci is well established; he frequently cites him as an influence, and…
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Letters from the Silenced Country – first-look…
Amid countless documentaries about war, genocide and state tyranny, the fact we rarely we see one from Belarus is worrying.…
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I Matter – first-look review
In the caustic, socio-realist coming-of-age drama I Matter, characters find themselves on a constant conveyor belt of cramped institutions. Opening in a Bucharest prison,…
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Company – first-look review | Little White Lies
When Evelyn (Emily Alyn Lind) knocks on a stranger’s door on Christmas Day, she holds a small piece of paper in her…
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Practical Magic 2 review – lacking in magic in…
And so another season passes and the rusted, creaking cogs of the legacy sequel machine continue to turn. The latest…
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