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12/10/2019
#LFF 2019: Deerskin review
★★★★☆ Absurdity and surrealism played with a straight face is Quentin Dupieux’s stock in trade. His latest gonzo reverie Deerskin findsContinue Reading
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10/10/2019
#LFF 2019: The El Duce Tapes review
★★★★☆ The El Duce Tapes is one of the best music docs to come along in a while. Funny, honest,Continue Reading
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09/10/2019
#LFF 2019: Greed review
★★☆☆☆ Michael Winterbottom reunites with his perennial stars Steve Coogan and Shirley Henderson for a satire of the superrich setContinue Reading
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09/10/2019
#LFF 2019: Rose Plays Julie review
★★★★★ In Rose Plays Julie, the latest from dynamic duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, a child of adoption studyingContinue Reading
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07/10/2019
#LFF 2019: Waiting for the Barbarians review
★★★★☆ In J.M. Coetzee’s acclaimed 1980 novel, waiting for the invading barbarians to show up is akin to waiting forContinue Reading
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07/10/2019
#LFF 2019: Synchronic review
★★★☆☆ Blending science fiction, crime drama and psychedelia, Synchronic is the wildly eccentric fourth film by American filmmaking duo JustinContinue Reading
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07/10/2019
#LFF 2019: Blackbird review
★★★★☆ Set around a vast estate on the northeast American coast, in Roger Michell’s Blackbird, a family comes together overContinue Reading
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04/10/2019
#LFF 2019: Leap of Faith review
★★★★☆ Alexandre O. Philippe continues his run of feature-length documentaries concentrated on classic genre movies, with a look at WilliamContinue Reading
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02/10/2019
#LFF 2019: The Peanut Butter Falcon review
★★★★☆ A seemingly mismatched road-trip buddy movie, Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon is heartwarming and filledContinue Reading
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02/10/2019
#LFF 2019: The Personal History of David Copperfield review
★★★☆☆ Acclaimed satirist Armando Iannucci follows up the pitch-black delights of 2017’s The Death of Stalin with London Film FestivalContinue Reading
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22/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Stan & Ollie review
★★★☆☆ Inspired by the book Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours by A.J. Marriot, who also featured as a consultantContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Can You Ever Forgive Me? review
★★★☆☆ In the 1990s, biographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), frustrated with lack of interest in a mooted project about vaudevilleContinue Reading
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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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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Assassination Nation review
★★★☆☆ Assassination Nation plugs America and the age of social media full of bullet holes until the gun goes click.Continue Reading
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15/10/2018
#LFF 2018: All the Gods in the Sky review
★★★★☆ Things have been quiet on the French Extremity front in recent times, but fear not! A director calling himselfContinue Reading