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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Sew the Winter to My Skin review
★★★★☆ Hiding out in a cave for around a decade, legendary South African outlaw John Kepe (here played with unhingedContinue Reading
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16/10/2018
Film Review: Outlaw King
★★★★☆ Following up his 2016 western Hell or High Water, director David Mackenzie takes us back to medieval Scotland with Outlaw King,Continue Reading
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15/10/2018
DVD Review: Salvador
★★★☆☆ Based on the devastating Salvadoran civil war of 1980-1992, and told from the perspective of American photojournalist Richard BoyleContinue Reading
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15/10/2018
DVD Review: Night of the Creeps
★★★★☆ Fred Dekker’s 1986 Night of the Creeps begins as it means to go on, opening with a frantic chaseContinue Reading
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10/10/2018
Film Review: First Man
★★★★☆ Hot from the success of 2016’s La La Land, Damien Chazelle returns with First Man, his personal take onContinue Reading
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08/10/2018
Criterion Review: My Man Godfrey
★★★★☆ One may not consider the Great Depression as particularly fertile ground for comedy, but contemporary Hollywood would beg toContinue Reading
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08/10/2018
Criterion Review: Cold Water
★★★★☆ Olivier Assayas’ 1994 film Cold Water is just that – a sharp splash of punk cinema, adolescent romance and surrealist imagery,Continue Reading
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08/10/2018
Film Review: Female Human Animal
★★★☆☆ Shot on analogue video, Josh Appignanesi’s Female Human Animal is a visually arresting, surrealist piece whose reach occasionally exceeds itsContinue Reading
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18/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Green Book wins People’s Choice Award
After garnering rave reviews at Venice, Alfonso Cuarón’s luminously beautiful Roma arrived at the Toronto Film Festival to equal acclaim,Continue Reading
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18/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Wavelengths and shorts roundup
The focus of the Toronto Film Festival might be on the hundreds of features that grace the screens of theContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Mid90s review
★★★★☆ Who would have thought that the foul-mouthed kid from Superbad would go on to direct one of the year’sContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: In Fabric review
★★★★★ Following up Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy, director Peter Strickland completes his hat trick with In Fabric,Continue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Her Smell review
★★★★☆ Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss), the front woman of punk band Something She, is in trouble. The band once hitContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: The Death and Life of John F. Donovan review
★☆☆☆☆ In 2006, 11-year-old Rupert Turner (Jacob Tremblay) strikes up a secret epistolary friendship with his TV star hero, JohnContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: American Dharma review
★★☆☆☆ Errol Morris tackles his most disturbing and slippery subject to date, Steve Bannon, in new documentary American Dharma. MorrisContinue Reading