Movies
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Two Prosecutors – first-look review
Innocent people nabbed from their homes and imprisoned under false pretences. Terror-driven interrogation methods employed to secure phoney confessions. Revolting,…
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Magic Farm review – Amalia Ulman has plenty up…
How do you follow up an acclaimed debut? Amalia Ulman’s answer is to commit to satirical absurdism wholeheartedly. Following her…
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Final Destination: Bloodlines review – an absurd,…
It’s now 25 years since Fly 180 departed JFK airport bound for Paris and promptly blew up above the New…
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Hallow Road review – heavily signposted horror
Dread is a constant in this Babak Anvari directed chamber piece mostly set inside a car on a late night…
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Sirât – first-look review | Little White Lies
Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,…
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Dossier 137 – first-look review
This robust if hardly revelatory police procedural coasts on an detailed and charismatic lead performance from Léa Drucker. In late…
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The Plague – first-look review
To stand out as a teenager is to make yourself a target. The pack mentality that dominates most group settings…
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo – first-look…
In striking opening credits, boiling copper pours from atop a grey mountain like lava, a sluggish, powerful current that exists…
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The Chronology of Water – first-look review
The transformative power of water lies at the heart of American writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, informed by her adolescent dreams…
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La Petite Dernière – first-look review
For all its big themes, there is a vagueness to Hafsia Herzi’s anecdotal character study about a 17-year-old named Fatima…
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