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Pressure
(1976)
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Hanna Flint
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Ové powerfully presents a cross-section of Black perspectives – and the tensions those differing ideas provoke.
Posted Nov 13, 2023
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Bottoms
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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Bottoms is a sharp, painfully funny and exuberant addition to the high-school movie hall of fame.
Posted Nov 06, 2023
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The Pigeon Tunnel
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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The Pigeon Tunnel is a curious documentary that invites you into the world of John le Carré, but I might just have to read his spy novels to learn a little more about David Cornwell.
Posted Oct 21, 2023
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The Exorcist: Believer
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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The young actresses impressively sell their possessed characters; dead stares, ominous movements and menacing line delivery to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up – even if the devil’s profanity is a lot tamer this time around.
Posted Oct 07, 2023
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Dumb Money
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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In the words of GameStop, ‘power to the players’ – Dumb Money is a game worth playing.
Posted Oct 02, 2023
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The Old Oak
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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The Old Oak might just be the most potent cinematic comment on post-Brexit Britain without ever uttering the word.
Posted Oct 02, 2023
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Fremont
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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The tone feels like a cross between Napoleon Dynamite, Limbo and a Yorgos Lanthimos film where no line is superfluous to proceedings.
Posted Sep 16, 2023
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Scrapper
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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It’s a sassy debut that balances cynicism and idealism through two brilliant central performances, with Regan anchoring the weighty themes of grief, abandonment and social disillusionment with honesty, humour, and hope.
Posted Aug 21, 2023
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L'immensità
(2022)
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Hanna Flint
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A visually, aesthetically and emotionally dynamic story that captures the immensity of living.
Posted Aug 12, 2023
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Joy Ride
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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Joy Ride shows what you can achieve when you have exquisite chemistry on screen and rowdy writers behind the scenes.
Posted Aug 07, 2023
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Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
(2022)
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Hanna Flint
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Squaring The Circle is a funny, access all areas time capsule to remind us that art doesn’t have to be hanging in the Louvre to be considered a masterpiece
Posted Jul 23, 2023
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Barbie
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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I have to give props to Gerwig and Baumbach for managing to paint this film with as much pathos as they do pink.
Posted Jul 23, 2023
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Hairspray
(1988)
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Hanna Flint
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Waters has a true knack for both celebrating and mocking a particular cultural milieu with equal flair and fancy.
Posted Jun 26, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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An exhilaratingly, mind-boggling examination of the act of not acting, acted beautifully.
Posted May 14, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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As swansongs go, Gunn’s farewell to the MCU is finely tuned.
Posted May 10, 2023
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
(2021)
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Hanna Flint
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I wasn’t ready to have my soul squelched by the sweet adventures of an anthropomorphic exoskeleton. Yet this gorgeous animation delivers more than a few profound statements about life, community and family.
Posted May 01, 2023
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
(2022)
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Hanna Flint
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I haven’t felt so personally moved by a film grappling with the subject of ecoterrorism since Paul Schrader’s First Reformed.
Posted May 01, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin
(2023)
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Hanna Flint
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Both Aldridge and Groff bring a deep humanity to proceedings as they exhibit all the fluctuating emotions of fear, anger, humour and love that come with playing contrasting personalities in a couple faced with the most unfair of life-threatening choices.
Posted Feb 13, 2023
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A Man Called Otto
(2022)
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Hanna Flint
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Marc Forster and screenwriter David Magee previously worked together on Finding Neverland, so they know just how to frame tragic circumstances with a lighter touch, while not skimping on the emotional gut punch
Posted Jan 25, 2023
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