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4.5/5
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Sketch
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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Tells a dark story in vivid colour, with lots of action and laughs, largely thanks to a great cast and truly dedicated technical team.
Posted Oct 29, 2025
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4.5/5
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American Baby
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Pniowsky...has raw star quality of the sort most actors can only dream of.
Posted Oct 29, 2025
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2/5
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Five
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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What does deserve attention here is Harvey Davis’ score, which skillfully balances Lifestyle motifs with horror ones to great comic effect.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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4/5
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Fringe: NIÑXS
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Brave, vivid and very personal.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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3.5/5
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Mr. K
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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Glover is well cast, with the right combination of everyman qualities, clumsy innocence and spiky edge.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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4/5
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Queens of the Dead
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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There is never any sense of an inexperienced director imitating her famous father just for the sake of it. Tina Romero is in her element here, and it’s a long time since the zombie film has felt so alive.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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4/5
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Body Blow
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Immersive and intense, the more so because of its roots in a brutal history of gaybashing by Sydney cops, Body Blow is the sort of all-in atmospheric thriller we don’t see much these days, and definitely worthy of attention.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Serpent's Skin
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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It combines sweet-natured romance with supernatural threat, exploring issues around how to handle power responsibly and what to do about people who give free reign to their darker impulses.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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3/5
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Dear Stranger
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Grapples with big themes in interesting ways.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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5/5
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Angel's Egg
(1985)
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Jennie Kermode
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Unutterably beautiful.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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4.5/5
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A Want in Her
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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It feels organic, spreading outwards from that centre which might swallow everything.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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3.5/5
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Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
(2023)
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Jennie Kermode
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More a portrait of a friendship than of Omar and Cedric as creative artists.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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2.5/5
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A Tooth Fairy Tale
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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A rare example of something which might entertain brave six-year-olds and wistful teenagers alike.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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4.5/5
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Iron Ladies
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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One gets the feeling that most of these women could fill a documentary with fascinating stories all by themselves.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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3/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Amber Wilkinson
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While some directors spend their lives crafting love letters to the worlds they create, Yorgos Lanthimos has developed a fine line in cinematic hate mail to humanity.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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4/5
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Maspalomas
(2025)
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Amber Wilkinson
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Maspalomas’ emotions run deep, with the onset of Covid sensitively handled in ways that sharply bring back the uncertainty of those early months of the disease and the devastating impact it had on many older communities.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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3/5
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Self-Help
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Bloomquist invites us to think again about the type of people who are drawn into cults, and to reflect on what is missing that they need to replace in this way.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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3.5/5
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Beast of War
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Roache-turner achieves a good balance of interpersonal drama and sudden, lurching scares, adding a dash of squaddie-style humour to ease the tension.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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2.5/5
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Deathgasm II: Goremageddon
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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The original film was derided by critics for being crude, exploitative and immature. Fans will be pleased to know that this one delivers more of the same.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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4/5
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Luger
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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There is some excellent work here of the sort that gets under your skin without you noticing, so that when the film abruptly shifts gears in the final scene, it hits you all at once.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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4/5
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The Restoration at Grayson Manor
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Director/co-writer Glenn McQuaid uses larger than life cinematic tropes as a means of getting at his subject effectively.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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3/5
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Theater Is Dead
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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The first half is packed with clues and double entendres. The second becomes more about action.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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4/5
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Appofeniacs
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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The characters are larger than life, each with a distinctive look, to make it easier to keep track. The effect is rather like being at a drunken fancy dress party.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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3/5
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Kitchen Brigade
(2022)
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Jennie Kermode
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Warm-hearted and humorous without losing sight of the manifold injustices many migrants face.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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2/5
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V/H/S Halloween
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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With a wrap-around story by Scotland’s own short film maestro Bryan M Ferguson, we are guaranteed at least some high quality entertainment.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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2.5/5
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The Partisan
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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If you’re already familiar with Krystyna’s story, you’re likely to find the film satisfying enough, if a little weak in places; but if you’re not, you’re really going to struggle to keep track.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Curse of Frankenstein
(1957)
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Jennie Kermode
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The sensitivity of Lee's performance helps to draw out the ambiguities in Shelley's work, and the moral complexities which, acknowledged or not, are a critical component of the story's staying power.
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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4/5
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The Curse
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Bright, white-painted spaces give way to slowly deepening blues as the story progresses, so that when we see the colour red, it leaps out at us.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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2/5
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Coyotes
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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The sense that the characters have accidentally wandered into the wrong film is exacerbated by the fact that we see very little direct interaction.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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5/5
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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In Good Boy, Indy the dog delivers not only a great animal performance, but one of the best performances by anyone this year.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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4.5/5
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Every Heavy Thing
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Most of Reece’s works are first and foremost character studies, so it’s not surprising that his adherence to plot doesn’t last; the film is better for it.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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3.5/5
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Dolly
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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It’s hard to describe the plot without it sounding laughable, but as a viewing experience it is, at times, riveting.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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3.5/5
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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A serviceable thriller with a good bit more soul than most.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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4/5
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The Vile
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Heavy layered with meaning, the film shifts uncertainly underfoot, deliberately discomfiting viewers.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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4.5/5
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The Ice Tower
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Cotillard is at her very best as a character we see only from the sidelines – earthy and opinionated in flashes, yet frozen by her art.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Tree of Knowledge
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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The Tree Of Knowledge is handsomely shot, intelligent, self-conscious and unabashedly peculiar.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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4.5/5
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Happyend
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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A thoughtful, shrewd examination of the impact of rapidly developing technologies."
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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3.5/5
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Compulsion
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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There’s an action sequence towards the end which is among the director’s best.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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4.5/5
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Out Standing
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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It’s the mass of minor incidents along the way which give it power, and it’s Charbonneau’s commitment to presenting them in this way that makes this an important work.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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3.5/5
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Lucid
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Lucid is surprisingly coherent once the pieces start to come together, and it’s among the more successful experiments in this sort of portraiture.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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3.5/5
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My Bigfoot Life
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Like many of the best documentaries, this is primarily about human relationships, and it doesn’t take long to see the value of the community that has grown up amongst bigfoot enthusiasts.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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4/5
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California Schemin'
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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The lads’ delight at their early success is engaging, and both stars acquit themselves well.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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5/5
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I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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It's clear from the start where most of this is going but that doesn't make it any less of a joy to watch."
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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4.5/5
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Tape
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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Bizhan M Tong opens up the setting and lets in more light, giving viewers more room to breathe whilst making his characters seem more exposed.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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4.5/5
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Lost Land
(2025)
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Amber Wilkinson
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The choice of child protagonists not only adds to Lost Land’s emotional heft but also brings home the extra level of uncertainty and confusion felt by youngsters across the globe forced to make these sorts of dangerous odysseys in hope of safe haven.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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4/5
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Franz
(2025)
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Amber Wilkinson
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Playful biopic that rips up chronology and frequently tears down the fourth wall so that we’re never sure if we’re going to be the ones looking into the fishbowl of his life or the ones being inspected.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4.5/5
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Holding Liat
(2025)
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Jennie Kermode
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Her experience is, of course, only that of an individual, and cannot represent what happened to all of the other hostages, but it still has significance.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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3/5
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Dirty Boy
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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A film which, though it’s messy and doesn’t always hit the spot, goes to interesting places.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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4/5
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The Courageous
(2024)
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Jennie Kermode
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Jule’s sheer resourcefulness makes her a compelling character to watch.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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4/5
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The Tale of Silyan
(2025)
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Amber Wilkinson
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The director employs a sturdy mythical backbone of storytelling but it’s the emotional heart provided by Nikola and his family that are the real magic touch.
Posted Sep 07, 2025
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