MOVIE
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The Life Of Chuck review – soliloquy soup
This year Mike Flanagan, known best for turning horror’s greatest novels into palatable limited television series for Netflix, is switching…
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The extreme vulnerability of Joaquin Phoenix
Looking at his last four projects, it seems that Phoenix perfected his precise working formula – hyper-ambitious, complex-to-realise films from…
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Together review – Franco and Brie try conscious…
When David Cronenberg wrote The Brood in the late 1970s, the body horror maestro was going through an acrimonious divorce…
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Sorry, Baby review – a film about holding on to…
Something very bad happened to Agnes. It’s hinted at in the first segment of Sorry, Baby, when her best friend Lydie…
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Nobody 2 review – a quick cash grab
After the surprise success of 2021’s John Wick knock-off Nobody, it comes as no surprise that the Hollywood brain trust…
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My Grandmother Trelotótó review – a world of…
Hoping to resurrect her late grandmother, Júlia, Catarina Ruivo combines family archives with rich visuals in a non-fiction film which successfully…
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Materialists review – earnest but underbaked…
When Elizabeth Bennet first gets a glimpse of Pemberley, Mr Darcy’s enormous estate, she experiences a fleeting pang of “something like regret”…
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Unmoored review – jars its own style
A huge sigh releases from deep within Maria (Mirja Turestedt) as she is greeted by a mob of photographers and journalists…
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The queer optimism of My Beautiful Laundrette
My partner and I headed from the suburbs into the city to attend a 40th anniversary screening of My Beautiful Laundrette, a film neither…
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Weapons review – fun but familiar horror hijinks
If you’ve been to the cinema in the past few months, specifically to watch a horror film, you might have seen…
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