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Wild Foxes review – a confident riff on the…

Taking place in a specialist sports boarding school in France, Valery Carnoy’s Wild Foxes follows the lives of childhood best friends and aspirant

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I’ve Seen All I Need To See review – grief in a…

Memory flickers like an old television left on too late. Images blur, and voices get lost under the crackle of

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History Chasing Its Tail: On Jocelyne Saab’s…

“The June 1967 defeat was tantamount to an alarm bell that aroused the dormant Arab consciousness from its long slumber;

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a stylish,…

In the intervening 20 years between The Devil Wears Prada and its sequel, the fashion and publishing industries have revolutionised. The former

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Hokum review – pure poppycock

A recent assumption about modern cinema – challenged by Caitlin Quinlan – is that if a film makes you cry, it must

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Hey Nostradamus: Conner O’Malley’s American Dream

O’Malley’s videos feature the wild plot twists and whiplash juxtapositions of a short-attention-span culture; watching them can be as abrasive as

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The Sheep Detectives review – cosy doesn’t cover…

Cosy crime gets a CGI spit-shine in Kyle Balda’s likable screen adaptation of Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel ​‘Three Bags Full’. First

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Rose of Nevada | Mother Mary | Vox Lux (2018)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. For Film

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Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching

Hauntings have been a presence throughout David Lowery’s artistic output – naturally in his 2017 breakout A Ghost Story, but even before

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Exit 8 review – one of the better translations of…

Although the settings and specific genre trappings vary, time-loop films are generally united by the theme of bettering oneself in