MOVIE
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Hacks was always a love story
Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks…
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Tuner review – woefully off-key
Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);…
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The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review
In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides…
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Coward – first-look review | Little White Lies
When fresh conscript Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia) arrives on the Belgian frontline, his fellow soldiers quickly ascribe him the nickname ‘Quiet…
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu review – an…
Beyond these two, the main character arc of the film involves Rotta, the muscle-bound son of Jabba the Hutt, played…
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La Libertad Doble – first-look review
In the year 2001, the Argentinean filmmaker Lisandro Alonso kinda created a blueprint for a new form of hybrid cinema with his…
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Dua – first-look review | Little White Lies
Kids should be able to experience the vital rite of passage that is puberty without a war raging in the background…
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Kokuho review – a kabuki star is born
Within a short time of being introduced to the budding kabuki performer at the centre of Lee Sang-il’s hit Japanese film…
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The magnificent range of Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Cynthia bawls, Hortense holds herself together, at first over the phone and then in person. The camera holds mother and…
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The Piano Teacher and The Limits of Desire
Romy keeps fantasising about Samuel, and it’s implied that BDSM now plays some role in her marriage. But, as in…
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