MOVIE
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The Thing With Feathers review – simplistic…
Gluttons for emotional punishment would do well to seek out Dylan Southern’s The Thing with Feathers, an ickily-stylised screen adaptation of…
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Game review – a taut, lean and claustrophobic…
When we meet petty thief David (Marc Bessant), his decision to rob a catatonic drug dealer at a rave has landed him…
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Keeper review – dull horror that stifles all its…
When looking over the output of Osgood Perkins, it’s clear that this is a filmmaker of many ideas, possibly more than…
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Predators review – one of the most valuable…
Despite only running between 2004 and 2007, To Catch a Predator had an indelible impact on popular culture. Fronted by the…
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What Night of the Comet Taught Me About the End…
Preset no. two, my local student-run station, is not interested in boundaries, generationally or sonically. The college kids play an…
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Jay Kelly review – the Clooney of it all…
While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom –…
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Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of…
The film’s title, renamed from the story’s original Save the Green Planet!, speaks to a central fascination of Kubrick spanning from Lolita…
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Predator: Badlands review – a strangely wholesome…
Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles,…
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Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton has never…
A conflicted elegy for an America poisoned by manifest destiny, Denis Johnson’s captivating 2011 novella spans most of a century, from…
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Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I…
Throughout her career, Lynne Ramsay has created some of the most searing character studies in modern cinema. From Ratcatcher to…
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