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4/4
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Wisdom of Happiness
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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He says all respond to “warmheartedness”and love. The time is right given the stressors of the world which he acknowledges but does not name. Highly recommended.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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4/4
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Christy
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Sweeney is exceptional, heavy and muscular for the part, boxes like a champ and takes multiple hits. A bracing, terrifying cautionary tale, a stark true story of a major celebrity living a lie and in fear that may resonate with some women.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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4/4
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John Candy: I Like Me
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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John Candy was a giant of his generation. Physically big, yes, but in spirit, personality and comedy gifts, a behemoth. An outstanding, deeply moving documentary on a one-of-a-kind individual.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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3/4
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Thompson leaves her signature humourous, romantic, period films for something brutally intense, a thriller. A shocking turn in Thompon’s repertoire, a change of pace and one helluva frosty, ugly ride.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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4/4
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Eleanor the Great
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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a celebration of life, a stinging reminder of the pain of the deaths of people we love. Frailty, whims, corrections, surviving and connection are beautifully expressed in his lovely human story.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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3/4
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Swiped
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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A deflating portrait of a women in tech, an industry that needs to improve, of sexism and of being strong when you feel your weakest. She carries on, a warrior.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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4/4
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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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The musical’s about being one’s true self - sexuality, dressing ,believing and living your truth – who you really are – and celebrating with like minded individuals. Linus O’Brien’s wonderful doc Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror reminds us.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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3/4
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Megadoc
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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extremely “inside” – endless hours waiting for things to happen,waiting for all the departments to do what they need to do. Dull, long, unremarkable – not the doc, life on the set.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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4/4
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Triumph of the Heart
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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The film isn’t aiming for an horrific effect, there’s no need. The miracle is that the prisoners’ spirit, power and the hope rise up. Really uplifting stuff especially for these bruising times.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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3/4
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The Antique
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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moves at its own pace, which may be slow for some, but its depiction of Russian life in 2006 is reason to watch. In a film that is heavier on images than words, Valdimir Vadimich is astounding; his quiet performance is sheer beauty.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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4/4
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Checkpoint Zoo
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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The unprovoked Russian war on Ukraine’s heartbreaking toll, cruel and unforgivable, has upended its people and zoo animals ..As the bombardment begins, zoo employees flee. …without a doubt on of the most moving docs in a while.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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2/4
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Loathe Thy Neighbor
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Ok so we have all had bad neighbours. That uncomfortable truth drives Lauren Holly’s darkly funny, sarcastic, absurd comedy. … amusingly “out there” and worth a look
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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4/4
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The Girls Are Alright
(2023)
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Anne Brodie
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a breath of fresh air in the realm of storytelling around women’s friendships.
Posted Aug 08, 2025
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4/4
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Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Kerouac’s legacy roars back to life in this well-made collage of reminiscences as to how his road novel changed the US. The opposite of the way things are now as Americans chase careers, jobs, wealth, status
Posted Aug 08, 2025
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4
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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You can’t make noise laughing or you’ll miss the next thing, and the next. You’ll find yourself grinning at the screen, frozen, waiting, and leaving satisfied.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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3
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Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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Her complicated guitar patterns and vocals were never rehearsed, and seemed somehow out of body, screeches, snarls, sweet melodies, whatever came out of her and her instrument.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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4
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Sunday Best
(2023)
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Anne Brodie
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Not only is this an important docu its also highly entertaining as we stroll down memory lane, one great song and performance at a time.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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3/4
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Angela's Shadow
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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It is the second in a film trilogy from Koostachin, exploring trauma induced by colonialism and the possibility of healing.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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2/4
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Four Letters of Love
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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The film's tuneful and very pretty but never really gels, its messy and could use a hard edit.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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2/4
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Oh, Hi!
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Can’t remember the last time a film made me feel queasy and then Oh, Hi! an unflinching look at love and cruelty ... you may never know the truth about people until its too late. Whew.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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4/4
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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A sad reminder of the evils of colonialism and how racists are created; its plain and out in the open and 7-year-old Bobo may become one of them.
Posted Jul 18, 2025
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2/4
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Operation: Aunties
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Lots of Dark Web, assumed identities and action, but the heart of the series is the friendship between the three, and the ways they are able to put strategies in place to keep women safe.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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3/4
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Portraits of Dangerous Women
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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Odds of the fateful accident seem low but we buy it because the story's carefully constructed and embraces life’s ironies, chances and nuances.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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4/4
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We Are Guardians
(2023)
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Anne Brodie
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Its unbearable watching majestic trees fall, knocking down others and erasing wildlife habitats and species. All hail the women who turned the tables on Big Money.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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4/4
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40 Acres
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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R.T. Thorne’s empathy comes through. Spellbinding, balletic, its a fully realised, striking and challenging creation and one of the best films around.
Posted Jul 03, 2025
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4/4
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Restless
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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...extremely interesting and astute; if you’ve had a bad neighbour, you can relate. If you’ve been a bad neighbour, shame on you.
Posted May 23, 2025
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2/4
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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An improbable, head spinning parade of events that aren’t quite set due to a lack of cohesion and it’s not funny despite being a romcom. Still, it’s nice to think Jane Austen rides again.
Posted May 23, 2025
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4/4
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Bad Shabbos
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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...a sly brew of stealth, bold decisions so bizarre and funny they would be unbelievable except for Cliff the doorman whose sheer brilliance mimics a runaway train. It opens corny and silly, quickly becomes edgy and the third act – wow!
Posted May 23, 2025
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2/2
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Being Maria
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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For all the sturm und drang, betrayal and abuse, the film seems bloodless and slow, but left a strong impression of diastase for the perps and empathy for those victimised in their naivete.
Posted May 23, 2025
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4/4
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The Last Role of Charles LeBlanc
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Role of Charles LeBlanc Drugs, dreams, danger, dementia …what a package! It’s exciting, surreal, gritty and human and in twenty minutes accomplishes more than many films manage in two hours.
Posted May 23, 2025
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2/4
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Sarah Silverman: Postmortem
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Sarah Silverman’s blue performances ... fused with white hot anger and pain at losing her father and stepmother nine days apart ...It’s a gritty hour and a bit so the faint of heart need not tune in.
Posted May 23, 2025
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4/4
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Secret Mall Apartment
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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What began as a kind of self congratulatory, anti-establishment rebel yell, the collective became a family that gave back to the community. But how long could it last?
Posted May 02, 2025
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3/4
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Scrap
(2022)
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Anne Brodie
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Given the limited information we’re given, it’s a bit of a puzzle, God forbid Beth straight talks. Kerr’s really pulled off something that could have been problematic. Well worth a look.
Posted May 02, 2025
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4/4
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The Wedding Banquet
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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brings home the old saw – the truth shall set you free. Ahn’s ultra human, complicated story resonates with anyone who has felt themselves protected by misdirection – a false hope – and everyone who has learned forgiveness and optimism and patience
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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3/4
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On Swift Horses
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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This dense three hander is operatic and works on the same principal, that nothing in life is certain, especially where the heart is concerned.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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4/4
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The Courageous
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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It’s an uncomfortable experience; we feel little empathy, but our hearts break for the children. Uncomfortable? Make that deeply challenging. But a triumph of expression and humanity from award-winning filmmaker Jasmin Gordon and actor Ophélia Kolb.
Posted Apr 18, 2025
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2/2
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G20
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Its not a new idea either in life or on film, but it’s a popular entertainment premise, a destabilising hijacking and threatening government. The action is fast and furious but the experience is more linear than fleshed out and feels like a video game.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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4/4
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Final Vows
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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There is a potential of a polluting, toxic open pit mine opening five miles from there; they are downwind. And fewer potential sisters are showing up these days. But they have something we should note, hope and faith.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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3/4
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One to One: John & Yoko
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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They were able to carry out good deeds while rattling conservative cages. The film moves at a pace, crammed with news footage, an almanac of 70s American history as much as the story of John and Yoko. And yes, Yoko sings. You have been cautioned.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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3/4
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Neil Young: Coastal
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Daryl Hannah, Young’s piano playing is gorgeous, delicate, tender, sweet, his music deeply familiar and comforting. It would have been good to see Hannah, we see her back as she scurries out of shots, but there you go
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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4/4
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The Friend
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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The action is internal and emotional as Iris responds to impossible change. Feelings are expressed, but Siegel takes care not to gut punch us.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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3/4
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A Nice Indian Boy
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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Zarna Garg who plays the mother provides a masterclass in acting in a monologue towards the end that is shattering in its wisdom and love.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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2/4
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Holland
(2025)
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Anne Brodie
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Nicole Kidman’s risky and frankly freaky Holland is turgid, florid, sarcastic, cartoonish, and plenty of fun. Watching Kidman crawl in and out of a second-floor window is worth the price of admission.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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3/4
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Darkest Miriam
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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An intriguing oddity, with a memorable, floating grip on the characters and their worlds – no room for fakery.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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4/4
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The Penguin Lessons
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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a realistic, natural journey breaking down the shell of a hopelessness and anger – via a penguin…emerge feeling better.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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4/4
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Misericordia
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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is an unsettling, unobvious thriller, a quiet but gale force knockout that may leave viewers gasping .. an intellectual delight in its depiction of human nature unbound.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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4/4
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Bob Trevino Likes It
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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is just the thing for a positive, warm feeling. … low key, sweet adventures glow with positivity in this feel-good film we all need.
Posted Mar 21, 2025
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3/4
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Can I Get a Witness?
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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Ellie awaits termination, the film avoids grim darkness the story suggests focusing on Earth’s benefits and living live on Earth without laying waste to it.... confusion, horror, sadness, the mundane things that are suddenly urgent and extraordinary.
Posted Mar 14, 2025
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4/4
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Shepherds
(2024)
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Anne Brodie
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Overall, an inspiring story of making changes in one’s life, and the promise of nature, connection and love. “Words aren’t happiness. Being is”.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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3/4
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Seven Veils
(2023)
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Anne Brodie
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Atom Egoyan's complex piece is worthy and offers us a glimpse into his love of the one-act opera which he has staged in theatres twice prior to making the film.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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