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It Was Just An Accident review – straightforward…
You’d be right to want to exact cold, hard revenge on a person who tortured you and planted nightmare imagery of…
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Jafar Panahi: ‘We shouldn’t look at cinema too…
Jafar Panahi has had to navigate the most challenging set of circumstances in order to make films. Censored and persecuted…
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Dreamers review – presents the hell of seeking…
If there’s one thing that 2025 has done really well it’s to place out in the open the fact that…
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Cover-Up review – a film worthy of Seymour Hersh
When investigative journalist Seymour “Sy” Hersh is asked what made him a suitable candidate to run his father’s store in Chicago,…
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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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