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Zodiac Killer Project review – all filler, all…
Zodiac Killer Project review – all filler, all killer David Jenkins Film essayist Charlie Shackleton takes dead-aim at the true…
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Female friendship and rebellion: Nana at 20
Starring actress Aoi Miyazaki and pop star Mika Nakashima, Kentaro Otani’s 2005 film adaption of Ai Yazawa’s manga ‘Nana’ endures because…
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review –…
It’s never easy to deliver a sequel to a successful whodunnit, much less a threequel. At this point, the amateur sleuths have begun…
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Christy review – this ain’t ringing no box office…
When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was…
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Blue Moon review – one spry night of a fallen…
In 2025, the writer/director Richard Linklater debuted two new features about revolutionary artists at vital junctures of their respective careers.…
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Pillion review – a refreshingly sexy and touching…
Although based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source…
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The Carpenter’s Son review – FKA Twigs’ Mary is…
In the beginning there was nothing and then there was light. Or in the instance of The Carpenter’s Son, in the…
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Sisu: Road To Revenge review – a Suomi western
It is that Finnish word “that cannot be translated” again, and yet which is translated, also again, in opening text, as “a…
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Fiume o morte! review – a lively and creative…
The vainglory of peacocking despots is captured with sardonic wit and homespun creativity in this clever re-staging of a crackpot coup…
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Wicked: For Good review – Chu is as much a fraud…
The accusation of “all style, no substance” gets thrown around often, sometimes appropriately, but what about a film that has neither style…
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