Review
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Tom Cruise puts his life on the line once again in another audacious series of hair-raising stunt sequences, cobbled together around a high stakes global espionage caper. (at 12:36) Read More
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It took a while, but I finally managed to scale Dwayne Johnson’s modestly ridiculous disaster action movie, in which he plays a one-legged security expert trying to save his family… Read More
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Ma Dong-seok, the towering man mountain best known for his supporting turn in zombie thriller Train to Busan , is given a rare opportunity to flex his acting muscles –… Read More
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The long-awaited sequel to Pixar’s 2004 hit sees Mr. Incredible stay home with the kids – including an increasingly volatile Jack Jack – while Elastigirl is called into action, in… Read More
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Playing in front of Incredibles 2 is the Pixar short Bao, which focuses on a mother’s strained relationship with her son, and is worthy of mention all on its own.… Read More
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Gender roles within the Hirata household are the subject of the third instalment in Yoji Yamada’s surprisingly durable family comedy series. What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life… Read More
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Taiwanese horror comedy Secrets in the Hot Spring proves an invigorating summer treat, thanks to lively direction from first-timer Lin Kuan-hui and winning chemistry between the film’s trio of heartthrob… Read More
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Ingmar Bergman’s classic tale of plague, death and life’s big questions returns to the big screen. (at 21:40) Read More
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Two hold friends head into the Scottish Highlands on a hunting trip, only for events to quickly escalate into a horrific battle for survival. (at 10:43) Read More
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Set in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war in 1982, Beirut follows a former US diplomat as he is persuaded to return to Beirut and negotiate the release of… Read More
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Paul Rudd teams up with Evangeline Lilly for a refreshingly light-hearted, low stakes superhero romp that dispenses with villains and crime-fighting in order to lay some more conceptual groundwork for… Read More
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Winner of the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Shoplifters sees Hirokazu Koreeda pool his favourite themes into a heartbreaking drama that ranks among his very best. The… Read More
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NBA star Kyrie Irving dons old man make-up to expand a series of successful Pepsi commercials into a full-blown feature film, about a team of ageing ball players heading back… Read More
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The latest Blumhouse horror flick borrows elements of It Follows and Final Destination, as a group of college kids get tricked into playing a deadly game. Read More
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A twisting, tragic romance involving magicians and their doppelgängers, Colors of Wind appears, on paper at least, to suggest a Japanese reimagining of Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. Allusions are also… Read More
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Primarily known for her controversial documentary SOS Tehran (2002), Iranian filmmaker Sou Abadi’s first narrative feature is not the hard-hitting drama one might have expected. Instead, Some Like It Veiled… Read More
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Fuminori Nakamura’s 2014 novel Last Winter, We Parted was a big hit in Japan. It was hailed as the author’s greatest work, but was also deemed unfilmable because of its… Read More
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Sylvester Stallone reprises his role from Escape Plan (2013) as security expert Ray Breslin, who specialises in breaking out of maximum security prisons. While he shared top billing with long-time… Read More
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