MOVIE
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What Night of the Comet Taught Me About the End…
Preset no. two, my local student-run station, is not interested in boundaries, generationally or sonically. The college kids play an…
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Jay Kelly review – the Clooney of it all…
While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom –…
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Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of…
The film’s title, renamed from the story’s original Save the Green Planet!, speaks to a central fascination of Kubrick spanning from Lolita…
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Predator: Badlands review – a strangely wholesome…
Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles,…
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Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton has never…
A conflicted elegy for an America poisoned by manifest destiny, Denis Johnson’s captivating 2011 novella spans most of a century, from…
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Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I…
Throughout her career, Lynne Ramsay has created some of the most searing character studies in modern cinema. From Ratcatcher to…
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Palestine 36 review – tells the story straight
In a landscape of historical subversions and reinterpretations, Palestine 36 tells the story straight. Before revolution brings violent coherence as writer-director…
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Yemi Bamiro on the making of Black Is Beautiful:…
It was the Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised, and Harlem-championing photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite who came to popularise the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” which…
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Relay review – Riz Ahmed shines in this slick…
In the game of poker, the ultimate question is whether at the end of the day one should twist or…
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The wild, wacky tale of Wallace and Gromit: Curse…
Change was in the air at Aardman Animation in the early 2000s. After decades of making a name for themselves through…
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