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The Great Arch review – the French landmark gets…

If you happen to be tramping up the Champs Élysées in Paris on a bright summer’s day, you’ll likely see a strange

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How To Make A Killing review – social satire with…

Modern celebrities are a little like social media algorithms. Express an interest in something once, and you’ll be inundated with it

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The Unspoken Desire of Dečki

I have always found it frustrating to articulate queer feelings with other young gay men of ex-Yugoslavian heritage, as even

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Resurrection review – see it on the biggest…

Despite a framing device that vaguely ties its disparate stories together, there’s an extent to which Bi Gan’s Resurrection is essentially

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Sound Of Falling review – a complex puzzle box…

The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling,

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If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…

Forty years on, the film is often branded ​‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not

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The Bride! review – it’s alive, but at what cost?

At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps

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Hoppers review – chipper critter comedy

The Pixar name used to signify indisputable quality for an animated film, but their light has dimmed in the past

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A Private Life review – a limp and convoluted…

The sight of Jodie Foster speaking fluent French is the most engaging element of this limp and convoluted psychodrama from

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The Elastic Worlds of the Looney Tunes

In emulating all of these artists Browngardt says that a sense of restraint can often be forgotten. ​“The old shorts knew