MOVIE
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Over Your Dead Body – first-look review
For decades, many movies have warned that marriage isn’t easy. It requires work, communication, and commitment from both parties –…
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Arco review – primary-colour, major-key…
“What if rainbows were people from the future travelling in time?” is the sort of tagline that will make many…
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A Pale View of Hills review – a sombre adaptation…
As the world is very much learning in 2026, war remains a valid and pertinent influence behind many people’s decision to…
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Scarlet review – a disappointing offering from an…
Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness…
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The Great Arch review – the French landmark gets…
If you happen to be tramping up the Champs Élysées in Paris on a bright summer’s day, you’ll likely see a strange…
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How To Make A Killing review – social satire with…
Modern celebrities are a little like social media algorithms. Express an interest in something once, and you’ll be inundated with it…
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Sound Of Falling review – a complex puzzle box…
The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling,…
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If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not…
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A Private Life review – a limp and convoluted…
The sight of Jodie Foster speaking fluent French is the most engaging element of this limp and convoluted psychodrama from…
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The Bride! review – it’s alive, but at what cost?
At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps…
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