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Michael Moore sets out to invade countries with desirable systems of government and social services, to claim them for the US in his latest documentary. Listen to my review Read More
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Body swapping, time displacement and comets of mass destruction all feature prominently in Makoto Shinkai’s heart-wrenching adolescent romance. Read my review Read More
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Emily Blunt is the titular heroine in this pulpy adaptation of the hit novel that arguably strikes a better tone than Fincher’s Gone Girl, but is nevertheless deeply flawed. Listen… Read More
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Seth Rogen and Kristen Wiig head up the voice cast in this gleefully outrageous animated comedy about supermarket food discovering their fate. Listen to my review Read More
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Based on Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk follows a group of Iraq war veterans who return to the US in 2004 for a brief victory tour,… Read More
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Na Hong-jin returns with a brilliant and deeply unsettling thriller about small town paranoia and grisly murder. Listen to my review (at 34:00) Read More
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Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake sing and dance and hug as brightly-coloured bequiffed trolls out to rescue their village from certain death. Listen to my review (at 25:45) Read More
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Tom Hanks runs around Florence in his third Robert Langdon adaptation, but a tour of Dante’s Nine Circles might have been more enjoyable. Listen to my review Read More
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As its title proclaims, Feng Xiaogang’s bureaucratic satire I Am Not Madame Bovary has no direct connection to Flaubert’s adulterous heroine. Read my review Read More
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Boo Junfeng’s second feature is an absorbing and impactful drama about a young man, who takes a job at the maximum security prison where his own father was executed. Listen… Read More
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton star in Marvel’s latest superhero entry, introducing audiences to the magical multiverse. Listen to my review Read More
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Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (2013’s Twenty Feet from Stardom) teams up with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma to tell the fascinating and emotionally stirring tale of the Silk Road Ensemble. Read… Read More
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Tom Cruise returns for a second outing as Lee Child’s tough guy former army cop, this time taking down gun runners while wrestling with the notion he may be a father.… Read More
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Following the disappointment of his Hollywood debut The Last Stand, director Kim Jee-woon returns home with a riveting espionage thriller that taps into Korea’s recent trend for patriotic Occupation-era period… Read More
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The premise of Jean Dujardin’s latest comedy sounds woefully misjudged. In a remake of the 2013 Argentinean film Corazón de León, the French Oscar winner (for 2011’s The Artist) plays… Read More
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During the Red Army’s defence of the Soviet Union’s western border in 1941, sharpshooter Lyudmila Pavlichenko chalked up 309 confirmed kills – all Nazis. Read my review Read More
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Denzel Washington heads up a diversified septet of gunslingers in Antoine Fuqua’s better than expected remake. Listen to my review Read More
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Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant sees Ben Affleck play an autistic bookkeeper, whose condition proves to be both a gift and a dangerous burden. Slickly executed yet overly ambitious, the film wrestles with… Read More
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