MOVIE
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Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a stimulating…
The inner lives of buildings and institutions provide an intriguing and enlivening way of looking at the modern landscape, particularly…
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They Will Kill You review – limb-lopping cartoon…
They Will Kill You opens with a happy family gathered around a dining table. Two young sisters stand out in the dark…
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Fallen Star: In Praise of The Man Who Fell To…
From there, he goes into seclusion in the dry Southwestern landscapes that likely remind him most of home, inadvertently retreating…
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – here comes…
When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more…
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Arco review – primary-colour, major-key…
“What if rainbows were people from the future travelling in time?” is the sort of tagline that will make many…
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Scarlet review – a disappointing offering from an…
Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness…
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How To Make A Killing review – social satire with…
Modern celebrities are a little like social media algorithms. Express an interest in something once, and you’ll be inundated with it…
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If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not…
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The Bride! review – it’s alive, but at what cost?
At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps…
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Sirāt review – a truly staggering, major film
Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,…
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