FILM REVIEW
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Utterly immersive debut from 20-year-old director examines the fragmentary and hallucinatory nature of memory and society through an endless series of frustrating, elusive, and creepy rooms in the basement of a discount furniture store.
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Documenting the ongoing destruction of houses and communities in Masafer Yatta, this essential film pierces through an issue that stubbornly cloaks itself in an aura of complexity. I am quite late getting around to this one, it has already won the Best Documentary after all, but then this is an issue that many of us…
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Brady Corbet’s ambitious film about post-war America and the immigrant experience is a triumph of dimension, style, and design – all qualities fitting for a film centred on a visionary architect.
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RaMell Ross crafts Nickels Boys into a lyrical portrayal of friendship so mesmerising, so devastating, so emotionally suffocating that it washes over you like a revelation.
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Conclave begins in an ambiguous dawn dark, a cardinal rushing to the Vatican to see firsthand that the Pope has died. From here, intrigue thickens and swirls: death, lies, secrecy, ambition, manipulation, tested faith and man tested. This is the whispered and hallowed world of the sacred assembly of cardinals tasked with electing a new…
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A Different Man boldly explores the tension between inner identity and outward appearance, but becomes muddled by uneven storytelling and underdeveloped characters. It is as Edward, played by Sebastian Stan in a fire-hazard of prosthetic, begins tearing chunks of his face off that it becomes clear, even through the gaps of my fingers, that A…
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A compassionate journey of resilience and resourcefulness, Levan Akin’s Crossing navigates the complexities of family, and follows the relationships forged and compromises made in its absence. Silence. The cinema demands it, with injunctions on phones and talking. But it can also command it, creating times when the filmic experience shuts off the outside. Our attention…
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In this buzzy, punky psychological horror, waves of terror build and break like a deranged storm, creating the cinematic sensory experience of walls of fear. A modern, self-aware, and spiky homage to classics of the genre this film more than stands on its own two terrifying legs.
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Agnieszka Holland’s tender hammer of a film Green Border, set amongst the perilous and swampy forests between Poland and Belarus, has sparked condemnation from some within the Polish political establishment, especially Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party. The Minister of the Interior and Administration, Mariusz Kamiński, flippantly dismissed the film as a “brutal attack on…
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