MOVIE
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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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Diving into the SXSW film line-up
In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps…
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The Testament of Ann Lee review – expands the…
The story is delivered through the awed narration of Sister Mary Partington (Thomasin McKenzie), which allows us to enjoy the…
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The Moment review – it’s not that easy being green
On June 7 2024 Charli XCX unleashed a monster. Green, mean and only 41:23 minutes long, ‘brat’ wasn’t just an album – it…
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RIP Frederick Wiseman – In remembrance of the…
I discovered the work of the American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman through sheer pot lock. I used to work for 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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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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My Father’s Shadow review – a very fine picture…
The outskirts of Lagos, 1993: a harried father, Folarin (Sope Dirisu), returning to his tumbledown home, makes the snap decision to…
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