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Loving
The marriage of Richard and Mildred Loving in 1958 was a revolutionary act with far-reaching political consequences, but Richard and Mildred were not revolut... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Thelma
A shy and insecure young woman starting life at an Oslo university, Thelma (Harboe) already has enough anxiety to deal with in her life before she falls in l... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Berlinale 2017: Beyond the Competition
It's hard to know how to approach a festival like the Berlinale. The natural inclination is to gravitate towards the highest-profile Competition titles, but ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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BFI London Film Festival 2012: The Highlights
Mea Maxima Culpa (Alex Gibney) A sober but enraging companion piece to his Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa is anot... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Lost & Found: 70s Hollywood Back in Cinema
Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973) The opening scene of Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow is perfect. On a dusty, tumbleweed-strewn highway in No... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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LFF 2014: The Standouts
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison betwe... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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LFF 2014: The Old Guard
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) “I hate characters,” a woman states in Goodbye to Language, and it’s clear she is speaking on behalf... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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LFF 2014: The New(ish) Voices
GIRLHOOD (CÉLINE SCIAMMA) The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boy... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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A Year in the Dark: The Films of 2011
1. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)Few films this year can match The Tree of Life's sense of soaring ambition, and fewer still can match the breathtaking artis... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Light and Shade: The Films of 2012
1. The Raid (Gareth Evans) Vice-like expectation is nuanced only by punishing adrenalin in Gareth Evans’s Indonesian actioner The Raid. Rookie cop Ram... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (1-7 May)
American Gods Anticipation for this small screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name has been feverish. The Amazon Prime show bo... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Lesser-spotted Altmans: seven underrated films from Robert Altman
Canons – like cannons – can be dangerous. They boil artists’ oeuvres down to easily digestible chunks, leaving the non-canonical titles out... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The 12 Best Films at BFI London Film Festival 2017
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) It's hard to imagine we'll see many more perfectly matched performances this year than the two delivered by Rebecca Spence and... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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London Film Festival: Carol and Sunset Song
Carol The postwar boom of 1950s America has by now been roundly picked apart for its veneer of suburban utopia masking repression underneath, but Todd Hayne... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (8-15 Aug)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest film from Todd Solondz, 80s-set coming-of-... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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London Film Festival 2016: The Highlights
1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Films of 2016: Love, Death and Aliens
Given recent votes, we half expected something racist and idiotic like Gerard Butler hokum Gods of Egypt to top this best films of the year poll. This drum t... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (5-12 Dec)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including behind the scenes of the latest Xavier Dolan film an... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (15-22 Aug)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Brady Corbet's extraordinary directorial debut, Andrz... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Films of 2013: Girl Power
1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) The standout line of 2013 comes in the extended third act of its standout film, Richard Linklater’s second unex... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Films of 2014: Aliens, A.I.s and Adolescence
1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Under the Skin is a film that shows you things you’ve never seen before. Jonathan Glazer’s extraordin... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Films of 2017: The Criminally Overlooked Movies of the Year
John Wick Chapter 2 Dir. Chad Stahelski John Wick 2 will never not be underrated, even by the people who thoroughly enjoyed it. Underneath an extra... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Films of 2015: Criminally Overlooked Movies
Beyond the Lights Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood Why it's one of our overlooked movies of 2015: it went straight to DVD in the UK In a more sensible film cul... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Films of 2017: Mid-year report
Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins How did the story of a gay black man from Miami, with a largely unknown cast, become a universally acclaimed box office hit ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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The World and Bobby Fischer: an interview with Liz Garbus
At the height of the cold war, the world’s news cameras focused on a solitary figure sitting at a small chessboard in Iceland. Broadcasters and spectat... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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When Pop Stars Act: The best and worst
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s nerve-shredding epic based on the evacuation of allied soldiers from Dunkirk beach in 1940, is out this weekend and looks ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Films of 2016: The Criminally Overlooked Films
Court is in session. On trial are the critics and audiences who gave short shrift to these great films. The plaintiffs range from overlooked gems (A Bigger S... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago