Film Editorial
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Fighting With My Family
The bad old days of noughties Britfilm are revisited in this disappointingly rote comedy drama, directed by Stephen Merchant and based on the 2012 documentary ‘The Wrestlers: ...
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Under the Silver Lake
Writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to the excellent teen horror ‘It Follows’ plays like a rambling stoner take on Hitchcock in David Lynch trappings. Garfield, ...
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Foxtrot
This tonally audacious anti-war triptych from Israeli writer-director Samul Moaz was inspired by his experiences in the army. The first part is a harrowing depiction of grief ...
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Benjamin
Writer-comedian Simon Amstell’s debut feature plays like a mumblecore take on Woody Allen’s ‘Manhattan’ relocated to hipster Hoxton. Morgan is the titular character (and presu...
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Burning
South Korean director Lee Chang-Dong’s latest picture is an oblique but bewitching thriller adapted loosely from a short story by Japanese writer Haruki Murakmi. Jong-su (Yoo ...
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Adapted from writer Lee Israel’s memoir of the same name, this wildly enjoyable and intelligent comedy drama showcases a wondrous straight acting debut from Melissa McCarthy. ...
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Green Book
This amiable comedy drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between a racist Italian American bouncer and an African American musician, based on a true story, may so...
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On the Basis of Sex
This rote and drearily dutiful biopic focuses on the formative years of liberal hero and Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from her enrolment as a young Jewish woman...
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The animated Dragon trilogy wraps up with this dramatically satisfying and disarmingly stirring conclusion. Norse nerdy hero Hiccup has succeeded his father as ruler of the Vi...
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If Beale Street Could Talk
For the follow-up to his melancholy masterpiece ‘Moonlight’, writer-director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’, but what should be an ideal mat...
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Boy Erased
Australian actor-turned-director Edgerton’s second film is a heartfelt but uninvolving adaptation of gay writer Garrard Conley’s memoir of growing up in a conservative Christi...
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The Favourite
Greek director Lanthimos’s third English-language picture, a rollicking and bawdy period piece set in the early 18thcentury, sports more than a whiff of Peter Greenaway’s pois...
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Monsters and Men
This hard-hitting but clumsily didactic Brooklyn-set drama takes its inspiration from two real life incidents that occurred in 2014: one, the shooting of young man Eric Garner...
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