Film Editorial
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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
His previous music-related pictures, ‘Kurt and Courtney’ and ‘Whitney Can I Be Me’ have seen documentarian Nick Broomfield displaying little interest in the actual music, conc...
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Only You
This Glasgow-set relationship drama begins like a mainstream romance, albeit one with tastefully autumnal-hued trappings, then seems to be gearing up for a psychological thril...
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Gloria Bell
Chilean writer-director Leila continues to impress with this very faithful, but nonetheless essential remake of his own 2013 picture ‘Gloria’. Julianne Moore is the titular ch...
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Support the Girls
The Hooters bar-style setting and innuendo-laden title of erstwhile mumblecore auteur Andrew Bujalski’s latest belies a sympathetic and big-hearted study of workers in the wor...
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In Fabric
Genre-bending director Peter Strickland's consumer satire meets comic horror feels like a Giallo picture reimagined as a disturbing early 80s UK sitcom. Sheila (Jean-Baptiste)...
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Sunset
Set in 1913 on the eve of WW1 in the closing days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Laszlo Nemes’ follow-up to his debut feature masterpiece ‘Son of Saul’ is a wilfully oblique ...
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We the Animals
The influence of Terrence Malick and David Gordon Green’s ‘George Washington’ hang very heavily over the debut fiction feature from US Documentary filmmaker Zagar, a coming-of...
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Amazing Grace
In 1972 queen of soul Aretha Franklin, at the height of her commercial success, went back to her roots to record the gospel album ‘Amazing Grace’ over two nights at LA’s New T...
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Long Shot
This passable-ish romantic comedy is a slightly unwieldy combination of Apatow-era raunch, Capraesque fable, and 90s high concept swooners like ‘Dave’ and ‘Pretty Woman’. Roge...
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Vox Lux
Actor turned director Brady Corbet’s audacious but flawed second picture is a pop fable that feels like a mutant riff on ‘A Star is Born’. A chilling 1999-set opening depicts ...
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High Life
Septuagenarian French writer-director Denis’ English language debut picture is a singularly strange but visually drab, and muddled, science fiction picture, its philosophical ...
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Birds of Passage
Co-helmed by his partner Christina Gallego, Ciro Guerra’s follow-up to the striking, hallucinatory debut ‘Embrace of the Serpent’ chronicles the nascent Columbian drugs trade ...
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Woman at War
Writer-director Erlingsson’s follow-up to the striking ‘Of Horses and Men’ is an appealing mix of heartfelt protest picture, deadpan mildly surreal humanism a lafellow Iceland...
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