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Atonement – first-look review | Little White Lies
In 2012, just under a year after the end of the Second Gulf War, New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins wrote…
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Paper Tiger – first-look review
When Uncle Gary (Adam Driver) arrives at his brother’s family home in Queens, it’s in a shiny black Mercedes with a fleet…
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Dua – first-look review | Little White Lies
Kids should be able to experience the vital rite of passage that is puberty without a war raging in the background…
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A Woman’s Life – first-look review
Of all the qualities of adulthood, one line from the torch-poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling permeates the second feature by…
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Romería review – beautifully captures the…
In her Golden Bear-winning Alcarrás, Carla Simón meets a family standing on the brink of a monumental life change, chronicling the minutia…
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Kokuho review – a kabuki star is born
Within a short time of being introduced to the budding kabuki performer at the centre of Lee Sang-il’s hit Japanese film…
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Our Land review – superb doc on the right to roam
It’s very rare that you catch a sighting of the c‑word in these august pages, but its usage is warranted in…
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The magnificent range of Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Cynthia bawls, Hortense holds herself together, at first over the phone and then in person. The camera holds mother and…
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History Chasing Its Tail: On Jocelyne Saab’s…
“The June 1967 defeat was tantamount to an alarm bell that aroused the dormant Arab consciousness from its long slumber;…
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The Piano Teacher and The Limits of Desire
Romy keeps fantasising about Samuel, and it’s implied that BDSM now plays some role in her marriage. But, as in…
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