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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review –…

It’s sad to have to admit but a certain two word review came to mind while watching Rob Reiner’s belated and…

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Playground Love: How Air scored The Virgin…

Nevertheless, Coppola knew what she wanted and, pressed for time, Godin and Dunckle returned to the studio for a weekend. In…

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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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