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Edge of Darkness
Whether he's taking a beating or dishing one out, Mel Gibson is an actor who's energised by violence, so he's perhaps the inevitable choice to play a vengefu... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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The Lovely Bones
The Peter Jackson who directed Heavenly Creatures may have made something special out of The Lovely Bones. Unfortunately, the Jackson who has directed it is ... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
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Ballast
A work of extraordinary depth and compassion, Lance Hammer's feature debut Ballast explores the lives of three characters whose relationship with each other ... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
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The Tree of Life
Simultaneously the most ambitious and intimate work of Terrence Malick's career, The Tree of Life is a film unlike any other in recent American cinema. At th... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Melancholia
It's not much of a spoiler to say that Melancholia is a film about the end of the world. The movie opens with a gorgeous series of oblique images, culminatin... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Beautiful Lies
It's hard to know who we're supposed to be rooting for in Beautiful Lies. Pierre Salvadori's French romantic comedy never quite finds the right tone of eithe... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay's return to cinema is an adaptation of – and an improvement upon – Lionel Shriver's best-selling novel; within the film's opening mo... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai
After revitalising the samurai picture with the thrilling 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's new movie Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai is a change of pace, and a di... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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This Must Be the Place
The most satisfying thing about This Must Be the Place is that it proves that, even after three decades of remarkable performances, Sean Penn still has the c... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Le Havre
Le Havre is Aki Kaurismäki's first film made in France since 1992's La vie de bohème, and it acts as a kind of loose sequel to that picture,... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Festivals
EIFF 2012: God Bless America
Some satires exaggerate for effect, but God Bless America doesn't really have to. The visions of trash culture in Bobcat Goldthwait's film are recognisable f... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Holy Motors
Holy Motors is the first Leos Carax feature since 1999's Pola X, and it sometimes feels as if every single idea, dream and nightmare that he has had in those... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Room 237
It's obvious that The Shining is much more than a mere horror film, but what exactly is it? Rodney Ascher's highly entertaining Room 237 invites a group of S... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Un Certain Regard: Interview with Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément
Xavier Dolan is probably growing weary of film reviews and articles that constantly refer to his age, but when you've had three films screen in Un Certain Re... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Laurence Anyways
Xavier Dolan certainly isn't lacking in confidence. Fortunately, he has the talent to match it. The young director's third feature, Laurence Anyways, ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Quiet Revolution: Haifaa al-Mansour on Wadjda
It's already quite an achievement for a filmmaker to make a great debut film in a country that closed down all cinemas in the 1970s, but when you consider th... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Don Jon
In Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon, the first-time director stars as the beefcake of the title, a cocky stud who has no trouble picking up women, but who stil... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Heaven's Gate
Its notoriously troubled production may have passed into legend, but Heaven’s Gate has finally emerged from its own tangled history to be regarded as a... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Nebraska
All of Alexander Payne’s best and worst attributes are on full display in Nebraska. As Woody (Dern) takes a road trip to collect the million-dollar pri... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Patience Stone
After her astonishing work in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, Golshifteh Farahani’s performance in The Patience Stone confirms her status as on... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Hands Over the City
When a residential building collapses at the start of Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City, it exposes a web of corruption that the director investigates wit... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Spun from an urban myth, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter begins by following its own original path but ultimately becomes mired in a too-familiar brand of U... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Todd Haynes interview: bringing Carol to the screen
After watching Todd Haynes' Carol early on a Wednesday morning, and when speaking to the director just over 24 hours later, the film is constantly repla... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Adam McKay on The Big Short
“Look, this isn't that complicated,” Adam McKay tells The Skinny. “They had these mortgage-backed securities, they were making billions, th... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Revenant
Iñárritu and DiCaprio reach for transcendence, but The Revenant is a slog There’s a gripping 90-minute survival thriller buried som... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Spotlight
Spotlight's presentation may be prosaic, but Tom McCarthy’s ensemble piece packs a powerful punch There’s nothing flashy or attention-... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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A Poem is a Naked Person
“I thought it was more of a movie about him than it was about me,” Leon Russell said when he first saw Les Blank’s A Poem is a Naked Person... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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The Nice Guys
Although he directed Iron Man 3 in 2013, it has been over a decade since the last true Shane Black film – 2005's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – and The Ni... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Dog Eat Dog
Dog Eat Dog is a Paul Schrader film, but not as we know it. From the opening scene, which is reminiscent of Natural Born Killers in its delirious violence, t... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Emigrants / The New Land
Jan Troell's epic two-part drama The Emigrants and The New Land comes to Blu-ray What did it take to leave Europe for a new life in America in the 19th cent... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago