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Ultras review – shoots and scores
Swedish filmmaker Ragnhild Ekner is a diehard IFK Göteborg fan and was partly driven to make a documentary about ultras, a subculture of…
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Michael review – legacy management 101
Forget all the bad stuff you ever knew about Michael Jackson. Wipe it from your mind. If you happen to…
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Lee Cronin's The Mummy | Miroirs No. 3 | The Blue Trail
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, and Gabriel Mascaro’s…
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Departures review – the turbulent journey of…
Like boarding a flight for somewhere promising, only to be met with an emergency landing, Departures never quite reaches the emotional depth…
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How Beef shines a light on the pitfalls of…
Having been in Ashley’s shoes in a moment like this, it’s refreshing that creator and showrunner Lee Sung Jin treats it…
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Diamanti review – a joyful meta-melodrama…
“Do you have any idea of what you will do with this vaginodrome?” A film director is surrounded by at least…
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Rebuilding review – pleasant to a fault
The cowboy – strong but silent, a lonely figure caught between small town domesticity and the absolute freedom of the wilderness…
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The Wizard of the Kremlin review – ludicrous and…
If an almost-three-hour is-it-spoof-is-it-not directed by a French auteur starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin sounds a bit odd, just wait until…
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California Schemin’ review – a predictable and…
This is an amazing example of a famous actor making his directorial debut but then completely stealing the film from under…
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The Stranger review – filmed like a laconic,…
A confession: I am really not a fan of the French filmmaker Franoçois Ozon. He seems like a lovely chap. Literate, passionate, with…
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