Movies
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Eddington – first-look review | Little White Lies
Up front: I am not the world’s biggest Ari Aster booster. You might even say I was a tad Ari-nostic…
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Urchin – first-look review | Little White Lies
It’s easy to feel invisible in a city of 8.8 million people – even more so if you’re one of…
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Miroirs No. 3 – first-look review
When sad-eyed music student Laura (Paula Beer) is involved in a car crash that leaves her boyfriend dead from an…
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Renoir – first-look review | Little White Lies
Death seems to be an omniscient spectre and perennial fascination for promising filmmaker Chie Hayakawa. In her debut Plan 75,…
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Pillion – first-look review | Little White Lies
Although based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source…
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New Wave – first-look review
Richard Linklater’s homage to the filming of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless brings precious little new to the story of the New…
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Die, My Love – first-look review
If you haven’t lived it, it’s hard to explain, that gnawing discomfort that makes you want to do something certified-capital-C…
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My Father’s Shadow – first-look review
The outskirts of Lagos, 1993: a harried father, Fola (Sope Dirisu), returning to his tumbledown home, makes the snap decision…
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The Phoenician Scheme review – an absolute gas
Allow me to propose a theory: The Phoenician Scheme is the third part of what we shall loosely and unofficially…
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The Secret Agent – first-look review
When Marcelo (Wagner Moura) first arrives in Dona Sebastiana’s building, he is greeted by a curious cat whose head is…
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