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25/04/2018
Film Review: Beast
★★★★☆ Loosely based on the ‘Beast of Jersey’ serial killer who terrorised island residents in the 1960s, writer-director Michael Pearce’sContinue Reading
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22/04/2018
Criterion Review: The Awful Truth
★★★☆☆ Cary Grant will forever be one of Hollywood’s brightest stars. But icons rarely come fully formed, and Leo McCarey’sContinue Reading
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22/04/2018
DVD Review: Cure
★★★★★ A series of brutal killings, happening seemingly at random and by multiple killers, are connected by strange ‘X’ shapesContinue Reading
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16/04/2018
DVD Review: Early Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Three Films 1980-1983
★★★★☆ One of the most important filmmakers in Taiwan, Hou Hsiao-Hsien was once lauded as “one of the three directorsContinue Reading
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13/04/2018
Film Review: Truth or Dare
★★☆☆☆ The plot of Blumhouse’s latest horror Truth or Dare, in so far as it can be discerned by humanContinue Reading
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13/04/2018
Film Review: A Gentle Creature
★★★★☆ Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, In the Fog, Maidan) returns to fiction filmmaking with A Gentle Creature: a gloomy,Continue Reading
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12/04/2018
Film Review: Western
★★★★★ The expression goes “Home is where the heart is”, but in Valeska Grisebach’s terrific new film Western, home isContinue Reading
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12/04/2018
Film Review: Custody
★★★★☆ In France, a woman dies every two and a half days as a result of domestic violence. Xavier Legrand’sContinue Reading
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05/04/2018
Film Review: Wonderstruck
★☆☆☆☆ In UK cinemas this Friday, acclaimed American director Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, Carol) misses his target with unusuallyContinue Reading
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05/04/2018
Film Review: Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco
★★★☆☆ James Crump’s latest documentary explores the coterie of artists, models and writers who formed around the pioneering fashion illustratorContinue Reading
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05/04/2018
Film Review: 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute)
★★★★☆ Making its world premiere last year at Cannes and walking off with the Grand Prix, Robin Campillo’s AIDS dramaContinue Reading
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02/04/2018
Film Review: A Quiet Place
★★★★☆ With two high-profile sci-fis offloaded to Netflix in recent months – one sagely (The Cloverfield Paradox), the other moreContinue Reading
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02/04/2018
Criterion Review: La Cage Aux Folles
★★★★☆ Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) live a glamorous, if tempestuous life as the owner and star ofContinue Reading
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30/03/2018
DVD Review: Score: A Film Music Documentary
★★★☆☆ Whether roaring fanfares, scything murderous strings or tear-jerking themes, film music is explored in Matt Schrader’s new documentary Score,Continue Reading
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29/03/2018
Film Review: The Island and the Whales
★★★★☆ Documenting the lives of the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands and a way of life which is under threatContinue Reading