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The Golden Spurtle review – very sweet, not…
Eccentric food-preparation competitions are usually the domain of eagle-eyed TV execs who must attempt to work out the drama can…
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From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza review – a…
For anyone that has paid even a modicum of attention to the daily images coming out of Palestine, the scenes that…
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The Fence – first-look review
A period piece inspired by her own childhood as the daughter of a French colonial official in Africa, Claire Denis’s first…
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The Christophers – first-look review
The aging painter Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) of Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers is introduced recording cameos, donning a beret for the occasion…
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Silent Friend – first-look review
It’s a truism to point out that trees, plants, rivers and all flora and fauna contain as much lifeforce as any…
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Below The Clouds – first-look review
If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,…
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The Voice of Hind Rajab – first-look review
This is a near impossible film to review. In a world flooded with propaganda and misinformation about the genocide in Gaza, Kaouther…
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Duse – first-look review | Little White Lies
Pietro Marcello follows his interwar fairytale, Scarlet, by returning to the same time period for a half-literal, half-imagined portrait of legendary…
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No Other Choice – first-look review
In Donald Westlake’s 1997 horror novel ‘The Ax’, a recently laid-off manager at a paper company decides to thin out the competition…
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Ish – first-look review | Little White Lies
While planes roar overhead on their way to or from the nearby Luton Airport, Ish (Farhan Hasnat) and his best…
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