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4/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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It’s a return to form for the film-maker following last year’s limp Kinds of Kindness, a macabre and raucously mischievous comedy that forces us to ask whether we’re really all as rational as we assume.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3/5
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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As the Boss, Jeremy Allen White hits all the right beats without ever elevating the role to anything greater.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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4/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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In Frankenstein, he has created a powerfully entertaining, existential new version of an old story -- not exactly producing something totally unique, but enlivening the familiar tale with haunting performances and some truly striking images
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1/5
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The Woman in Cabin 10
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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All we are left with instead is a lot of under-utilised talent saying meaningless things on a huge, ugly yacht.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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4/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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The story of the troubled MMA champion Mark Kerr is a classic redemptive arc - The Rock makes it raw and compelling.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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This funny, gripping tale of resistance and family, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, is one of the most absorbing films of the year.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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4/5
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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The band are back together as grizzled rockers 40 years later, and they’re still turning it up to 11.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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2/5
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Lightweight and forgettable.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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3/5
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Darren Aronofsky's scrappy crime movie feels a little on the nose, but is injected with plenty of life by its cast of loveable rogues.
Posted Aug 27, 2025
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4/5
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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Lacklustre and confused - it doesn't do justice to the books
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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4/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It remains one of the only films made thus far to capture the madness, anger, and confusion of 2020 – to show how the pandemic brought so many underlying issues, both personal and social, to the boil.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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2/5
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You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment
(2025)
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Ed Power
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Robinson's pantomime villain schtick was out of step with this often distressing documentary.
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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4/5
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Materialists
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans star in Celine Song's latest love-triangle story that teaches us about the perils of perfectionism.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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4/5
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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If you enjoyed the first one, you will find its sequel’s almost obsessive commitment to providing more of the same a comfortingly nostalgic joy.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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3/5
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Bring Her Back is a film that knows how to provoke, but not how to provide much insight.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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4/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Frankly, this is the first Marvel movie I’ve seen in recent years that feels it has genuine emotional stakes – simple, straightforward, family-oriented ones, though they are.
Posted Jul 23, 2025
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3/5
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
(2025)
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Marianne Levy
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Jaws @ 50 isn’t a bad documentary, just a frustrating one. It’s entertaining enough, but you might do better watching the original film instead.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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2/5
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Superman
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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David Corenswet is the best Superman since Christopher Reeve - but muddled plots and villain overload leave this reboot floundering.
Posted Jul 09, 2025
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2/5
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It may have eschewed the CGI slop of its forebears, but even for dinosaur lovers like me this convoluted sequel is absurd and unsatisfying.
Posted Jul 07, 2025
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4/5
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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F1 uses old-fashioned, engine-revving storytelling.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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3/5
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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With a grim realism and a resilient Britishness that recalls the most desperate days of the Second World War, it has grit, suspense, and heart, albeit with some tonal wobbles and plot twists that are sure to raise eyebrows.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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4/5
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Lollipop
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Daisy-May Hudson’s tearjerking family drama is one of the best debut films in recent years.
Posted Jun 12, 2025
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5/5
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Ocean with David Attenborough
(2025)
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Rachael Sigee
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The documentarian takes aim at the greedy corporations causing overfishing in this angry yet hopeful film
Posted Jun 09, 2025
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4/5
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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It's unsubtle and at times nonsensical - but this spin-off of the beloved hitman franchise is a treat for action fans.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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3/5
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The Salt Path
(2024)
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Francesca Steele
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It’s a film that could do with a little more feeling overall – and more fury, too.
Posted May 30, 2025
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4/5
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It’s the father-daughter relationship that takes precedence in The Phoenician Scheme, and Anderson gives us a rather beautiful conclusion of simplicity and acceptance.
Posted May 19, 2025
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3/5
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The Uninvited
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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It may not be saying anything particularly new, but The Uninvited has some... fun at the expense of the superficial, youth-obsessed, often abusive edifice of the film industry – and that’s something we can all get on board with.
Posted May 09, 2025
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4/5
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The Friend
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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This melancholy comedy starring Naomi Watts, about a woman who inherits a Great Dane following a friend's suicide, is a heart-wrenching meditation on grief.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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4/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Michael B Jordan is arresting in this exhilarating, blood-soaked vampire flick, which combines the supernatural with the political.
Posted Apr 18, 2025
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2/5
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The Return
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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The twisty machinations are a bit too familiar, the pacing a tad too glacial before Odysseus’s revenge finally happens, the performances uniformly good but rather self-serious.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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3/5
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It’s a bog-standard, eat-the-rich message. But it does at least give the otherwise ridiculous unicorn story something to hang its horn on.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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2/5
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Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson
(2025)
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Ed Power
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By fixating on the legal aspects of the story, the music industry which continues to make millions off Jackson’s tainted legacy is left entirely off the hook.
Posted Apr 02, 2025
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3/5
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The End
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Even if the film can feel airless at times, with long, solid shots of the survivors’ banal everyday lives, it does have much to say on the foibles of mankind – and the way society may very feasibly backslide into, well, The End.
Posted Mar 31, 2025
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4/5
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It’s great fun to watch two actors of such calibre play these wicked games of mistrust and deception – it’s even more fun to see Soderbergh handle his story so deftly.
Posted Mar 14, 2025
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4/5
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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Mickey 17 is a highly entertaining absurdist ride that embraces nihilism right up until the moment it tenderly skewers it.
Posted Mar 10, 2025
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3/5
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The Last Showgirl
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Without the narrative scaffolding or depth to surround her character, Coppola’s film can often feel like a message in search of a movie.
Posted Mar 03, 2025
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2/5
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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This dashed-off comedy-horror from the director of Longlegs is cheaply cynical - and as unscary as it is unfunny.
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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5/5
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
(2025)
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Sarah Carson
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This is the best film since 2001's original – a deeply moving and joyful look at grief, friendship and love that is a triumph in its own right.
Posted Feb 12, 2025
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4/5
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Bring Them Down
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Bring Them Down is a granular depiction of traditional rural life that quickly descends into a toxic cycle of violence.
Posted Feb 07, 2025
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5/5
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Hard Truths
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Baptiste is toweringly real: formidable and heartbreaking in her performance.
Posted Jan 31, 2025
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5/5
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Brady Corbet's four-hour post-Holocaust epic is a stunning reflection on ambition and identity.
Posted Jan 24, 2025
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3/5
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Chalamet remains a highlight of the film. He bears an impressive physical resemblance to early 60s Dylan, and he’s nailed the slightly nasal gruffness of the singing voice.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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3/5
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Amsterdam
(2022)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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In the end, though, Amsterdam is a frustrating affair, let down by its own inanity and wayward plotting.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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3/5
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(2022)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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This is a brutal, brilliantly shot movie, which nonetheless can’t help but feel a little derivative.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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3/5
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(2022)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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The protagonists may make you recoil in disgust but the film itself is ultimately plenty of fun.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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4/5
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The Banshees of Inisherin
(2022)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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Brilliantly performed by Irish cinema’s favourite odd couple Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, Martin McDonagh's latest is as dark and absurd as any Samuel Beckett play.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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4/5
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Triangle of Sadness
(2022)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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Has little new to say about human greed but the acting and comic observation is superb
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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4/5
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Armageddon Time
(2022)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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James Gray’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama contains a fierce, unsentimental performance from Banks Repeta - and a marvellous 80s New York atmosphere.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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4/5
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M3GAN
(2022)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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Allison Williams stars in Gerard Johnstone's ingenious film about a young girl and her eerily lifelike doll companion.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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3/5
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She Came to Me
(2023)
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Geoffrey Macnab
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Rebecca Miller's new film might steer dangerously close to whimsy, but it’s witty and charming, and Marisa Tomei steals every scene.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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