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In the year when transgender culture made headlines around the world, Sean Baker’s micro-budget drama shines a spotlight on their unique experience in electrifying fashion. Read my review Read More
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Jake Gyllenhaal underwent an incredible physical transformation to play the lead role in this otherwise by-the-numbers boxing drama. Listen to my review Read More
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Denis Villeneuve directs a breathlessly tense thriller about the war against the South American drug cartels, featuring a cracking lead performance by Emily Blunt. Listen to my review Read More
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Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain star in Guillermo del Toro’s visually rich gothic romance. Listen to my review Read More
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The directorial debut from Australian actor Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Exodus: Gods and Kings) twists an awkward encounter with an old high-school acquaintance into a cracking psychological thriller that offers some… Read More
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Robert Zemeckis helms this dramatised version of Philippe Petit’s death-defying high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. Listen to my review Read More
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Adapted from the novel by Gone Girl scribe Gillian Flynn, and reuniting Mad Max: Fury Road co-stars Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult, Dark Places has suggestions of a moody true-crime… Read More
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A hilarious high school comedy about life in South Central Los Angeles, Dope is a loving callback to such films of the 90s, particularly Boyz N The Hood, Friday, House… Read More
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Jennifer Phang’s ambitious sci-fi drama presents some intriguing ideas about identity and sacrifice in a uniquely female context, but she invests her budget into the wrong elements, and is unable… Read More
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The debut feature from Beijing-born Chloe Zhao focuses on the unlikely subject matter of adolescent Lakota indians in South Dakota. Read my review Read More
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The events that went down at Jordan Hall in August 1971 have been recounted numerous times and inspired at least two films already – Oliver Hirschbiegel’s excellent Das Experiment (2001)… Read More
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The debut feature from Josh Mond, producer of Simon Killer and Martha Marcy May Marlene, is a tough coming-of-age tale featuring a couple of top-notch showboating performances. Read my review Read More
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Pretty straight-forward break-up rom-com about a father of twins struggling to get over a separation. His partner, played by Stephanie Allynne, screws him royally throughout the film, yet is never… Read More
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It was funny watching this immediately after The Wolfpack, as both deal with youngsters expressing themselves through heavily influenced cinematic rip-offs, and also the notion of overbearing parenting. Read my… Read More
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The crazy story of seven siblings confined to their lower-east-side apartment for more than a decade is both troubling yet also amusing, as they live vicariously through their love of… Read More
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Joaquin Phoenix plays a college professor plotting the perfect crime in Woody Allen’s latest comedy thriller. Listen to my review Read More
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Matt Damon is abandoned by his crew on the Red Planet in Ridley Scott’s modern sci-fi masterpiece. Listen to my review Read More
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There is a region in Arizona, close to the border that has unofficially been ceded to the Mexican drug cartels. The military is unwilling to defend it, and the local… Read More
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