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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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Maddie’s Secret – first-look review
A film about a bulimic with the surname “Ralph,” starring cis male writer-director John Early as the cis female title character,…
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Hamlet – first-look review | Little White Lies
There are shades of Succession in Aneil Karia’s Hamlet: a stylish, uneven adaptation that takes pleasure in entropy and extremity. Set at the estate of a wealthy…
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Sacrifice – first-look review | Little White Lies
At a Davos-like gathering inside a cavernous marble mine, global elites in dinner dress enjoy a tweezer-precise amuse-bouche and a performance of Cerrone’s all-time…
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Christy – first-look review | Little White Lies
When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was…
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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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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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Re-anticipating Megalopolis | Little White Lies
Some see cinema as a form of theatre, and others see it as a form of circus. The great American filmmaker Francis…
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100 Nights of Hero – first-look review
No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual…
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Girl – first-look review | Little White Lies
In teenage dramas the lesson of the classroom often sets the tone, so when Hsiao-Lee’s (Bai Xiao-Ying) teacher asks his…
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