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Knight of Cups
Terrence Malick is back with Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman. The film's as beautiful as you'd expect, but plot a... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Chevalier
What does 'being a man' mean in 2016? That's the question asked by Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier, an absurd buddy-comedy that reduces the masculinity-in... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Chi-Raq
The number of gun-related deaths in the United States has become impossible to ignore. No more so than in Chicago, where the homicide count has now surpassed... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Story of My Death
Albert Serra’s mischievous allegory for the death knell of the Enlightenment and the dawning of Romanticism is a truly singular work. Serra expresses t... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Louder Than Bombs
Memories can be distorted to reframe the past in a more favourable light, but what happens when the truth becomes unavoidable? Joachim Trier’s Louder t... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Odessa International Film Festival 2016 report
A look back at the best on offer at this year's Odessa International Film Festival, from Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake to the festival’s Golden Duke winn... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Stuff and Dough
When Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu won the Prix un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2005, international critics began to take notice of the exciting re... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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I, Daniel Blake
When did it become unfashionable to discuss class and social inequality? Earlier this year, certain parts of the British media were quick to voice their shoc... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Paterson
Jim Jarmusch’s films have always been fascinated with outsiders. His characters are often loners (Only Lovers Left Alive), reprobates (Down by Law) or ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Five daring female coming-of-age films
Inspired by All This Panic, Jenny Gage’s spellbinding documentary following seven teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, we look back at some of cinema'... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Taxi Tehran
Ingeniously circumventing the Iranian state’s ban on his filmmaking, Jafar Panahi’s Golden Bear winner Taxi Tehran is filmed almost entirely with... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Hail, Caesar!
The glamour and prestige of Golden-era Hollywood may be a thing of the past, but its mythology lives on in the Coen Brothers’ riotous new comedy Hail, ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Midnight Special
Jeff Nichols delivers an intelligent piece of blockbuster filmmaking with Midnight Special, mixing super-powers with a thought-provoking family drama about f... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Tale of Tales
Once upon a time, fairy tales were sinister allegories of dogma-like wisdom preaching lessons in morality. Sadly, today they’re best remembered in a mo... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Prevenge
“You'll have no control over your mind or body anymore,” a midwife (Hartley) says while explaining to the pregnant Ruth (Lowe) that a high-pitche... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Ghostbusters
Trolls have had their claws out for Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot since it went into production. Can the comic firepower of Melissa McCart... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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The Son of Joseph
A riff on the Biblical nativity, Eugene Green’s The Son of Joseph follows Vincent (Ezenfis), a young boy determined to uncover the identity of his abse... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Jackie
Natalie Portman’s portrayal of Jackie Kennedy may be the bookies' favourite for the Best Actress Oscar, but Pablo Larraín’s Jackie is... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Cameraperson
There’s a shot midway through Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson that captures the conflict at the core of the film. In an understaffed hospital in N... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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I, Daniel Blake to close Take One Action Festival
Take One Action – the UK’s leading social change film festival – today announced that it will close this year’s event with a special ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (24-30 Jan)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Trainspotting 2 and Hacksaw Ridge Flamingo We&... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Films of 2015 so far: Our mid-year report
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (28 Nov-4 Dec)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including FKA Twigs’ Soundtrack 7, the new season of Gil... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Best Film Screenings in the North (23-30 Sep)
The Skinny presents: Trouble Every Day With Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis immerses us in an atmosphere engorged with desire and dread. Essentially a twi... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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What to Watch This Week (11-17 Jul)
Best new film in cinemas: Ghostbusters When it was announced two years ago that Paul Feig, the writer-director behind kickass, female-led comedies like Brid... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (14-21 Nov)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the Ghost in the Shell trailer, Fantastic Beasts and... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week: 21-28 Nov
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including David O Russell's short Past Forward, starring Girls... 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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Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (18-24 July)
The best film and TV to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, an... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago