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Starred Up
A star is born in Starred Up. From the minute Jack O’Connell swaggers onscreen he electrifies the picture with the kind of fearless and commanding perf... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Only Lovers Left Alive
If you have ever taken a moment to wonder what a vampire romance directed by Jim Jarmusch would look like, then Only Lovers Left Alive probably comes pretty ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Staying Home: Joanna Hogg on Exhibition
Joanna Hogg has been living in London for over three decades, but it has taken her three feature films to finally make a picture in the city she calls home. ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Obvious Child
Hollywood films have famously shown great reluctance to engage with the issue of abortion in an honest way, so the frankness of Gillian Robespierre’s d... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Finding Fela!
The documentaries that roll off the Alex Gibney production line tend to be at their best when the filmmaker is investigating a big story. Films like Mea Maxi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Leviathan
Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan is a film hunting big game. His fourth feature presents modern Russia as a country rotten to its core – corrupt, hypocri... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Eastern Boys
Daniel (Rabourdin) gets a lot more than he bargained for when he spends an afternoon cruising a Parisian shopping centre for a teenage boy to bring home, and... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Chimes at Midnight
A widespread and misguided perception of Orson Welles’ career – that it was all downhill from Citizen Kane – is turned on its head by Chime... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The Brand New Testament
There’s one good joke in The Brand New Testament. As a priest counsels a homeless drunk by reciting the word of God, the down-and-out replies, “I... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Mike Mills: “Grief can be really empowering”
Thumbsucker and Beginners director Mike Mills is back mining his own life for his art with 20th Century Women. He gives us some background on his very person... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Silence
Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited Silence is one of the Raging Bull and Goodfellas director's greatest achievements The silence is deafening in Martin Sc... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Heal the Living
Heal the Living is the story of one heart that touches many lives. When a teenage surfer (Gabin Verdet) is killed in a car accident, his grieving parents (Em... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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We speak to director and star of psychological thriller Thelma
It’s the penultimate day of the London Film Festival and everyone is tired. Cinephiles across the capital have the drawn expressions and thousand-yard ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Everybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater's ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed and Confused is a seemingly aimless comedy but it has hidden depths At his best, Richard Linklat... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Zoology
There’s nothing special about Natasha (Pavlenkova), the introverted, middle-aged protagonist in Ivan Tverdovskiy's Zoology; nothing, that is, except fo... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story is a Michael Moore film, and by now we know exactly what to expect from this frustrating filmmaker. His take on the financia... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
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GFF 2010: City of Life and Death
Not since Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985) has a film captured the atrocities of war in such a vivid, powerful fashion. City of Life and Death docum... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
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Gainsbourg
Joann Sfar has subtitled his film about iconic figure Serge Gainsbourg 'Vie héroïque'; whether the subject's life deserves that desc... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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Joann Sfar on Gainsbourg
Joann Sfar is certainly not a man who lacks ambition. For his directorial debut, the acclaimed French graphic novelist has chosen to tackle the life of Serge... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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Buried
From the first minute of Buried to the last, we are stuck inside a wooden coffin alongside Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds), an American truck driver being held f... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Catfish
Catfish is a film about a man who strikes up an online friendship with a seemingly ordinary family, and that's about all you need to know. The elemen... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Of Gods and Men
A group of monks find the limits of their faith being put to the test in Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois' perceptive and subtly powerful new film. T... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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GFF 2011: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
3D is widely seen as the cinematic tool of the future, so trust Werner Herzog to take it into the past. Cave of Forgotten Dreams is the mercurial German's fi... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
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Senna
In The Warrior and Far North, Asif Kapadia displayed his strength as a visual storyteller, and those same instincts are at work in Senna, the director's firs... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Outside the Law
Much like his Oscar-nominated 2006 film Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law gives us an Algerian perspective on key events in French history. T... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Crazy, Stupid, Love
There's a moment in Crazy, Stupid, Love where a plot revelation is so beautifully timed it almost redeems the sheer phoniness of what has gone before, but th... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Deep Blue Sea
The Deep Blue Sea is the first narrative feature Terence Davies has directed in over a decade, and the material is a perfect match for this great filmmaker. ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a film of two halves, and regrettably, one half is so much richer than the other, which leaves Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest pic... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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360
Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde is a play with a perfect cyclical structure, and it has already inspired one film masterpiece with Max Ophüls' seductively ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film that has been drawing acclaim ever since it made its debut at Sundance, and it's easy to see why. This tale of a chil... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago