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FILM REVIEWS
Feb 1
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
The Zone of Interest is unlike any other movie about the atrocities of the Holocaust, but it purposely strips away so much emotion,...
Jan 28
THE COLOR PURPLE
It might have been a smash Broadway hit, but The Color Purple makes for a middling movie, where an odd balance between hard-hitting drama...
Jan 22
POOR THINGS
The unapologetically eccentric female empowerment fable Poor Things wows and confuses in equal measures, so while there is much to admire...
Jan 21
WHAM!
Biographical doc Wham! is always engaging thanks to smart editing and the use of fun old footage and interview segments, but the film...
Jan 17
LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS
The only problem the unwieldy new Michel Gondry film Le Livre des Solutions is likely to solve is chronic insomnia as its disjointed,...
Jan 16
PRISCILLA
An excruciatingly tedious biopic, completely devoid of drama, that reveals next to nothing about its subject, Priscilla could have done...
Jan 14
GOLDA
A fascinating, controversial figure gets the bland, safe biopic treatment in Golda, which gives as little insight in former Israëli PM...
Jan 13
MONSTER
Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s peels away layers of mystery, emotion and heartfelt insight into the human condition in the touching Monster, which...
Jan 9
MARRY MY DEAD BODY
Once you get past the often very broad action comedy tone of Marry my Dead Body the film rewards you with a sweet, poignant message that...
Jan 7
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVA)
A story historically steeped in exploitative voyeurism gets a human, heartfelt rendition in Society of the Snow, even if the film is...
Jan 5
HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE
Suspense and indignation combine unevenly in unapologetic message movie How to Blow Up a Pipeline, in which fine performances from an...
Dec 29, 2023
ROBOT DREAMS
The utterly charming and wonderfully animated Robot Dreams effortlessly sweeps you along from one anecdotal scene to the next, until the...
Dec 27, 2023
THE HOLDOVERS
Alexander Payne fashions a curmudgeon, elegiac Christmas in The Holdovers yet he infuses the movie with such humour, warmth and indelible...
Dec 25, 2023
PAST LIVES
Astute, tremendously relatable observations about love, regret and lives not lived permeate the gentle gem Past Lives, culminating in a...
Dec 22, 2023
SALTBURN
Emerald Fennell doubles down on the many flaws of her first feature in Saltburn, a maddeningly incoherent, needlessly shocking, toothless...
Dec 21, 2023
BANK OF DAVE
With some more finetuning Bank of Dave could have been the undisputed feelgood film of the year but even in its current, thematically...
Dec 18, 2023
MAESTRO
Combining artistic ambition with intimate drama Maestro sees Bradley Cooper make an impressive leap forward as a director. Alas the movie...
Dec 17, 2023
CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET
Despite my fondness for stop-motion animation I cannot deny that Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has no real artistic or narrative reason...
Dec 15, 2023
PERFECT DAYS
Charming but understated to a fault, Perfect Days gives intriguing insight in the life of a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo but is so...
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