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Maddie’s Secret – first-look review

A film about a bulimic with the surname ​“Ralph,” starring cis male writer-director John Early as the cis female title character,

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Hamlet – first-look review | Little White Lies

There are shades of Succession in Aneil Karia’s Hamlet: a stylish, uneven adaptation that takes pleasure in entropy and extremity. Set at the estate of a wealthy

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Sacrifice – first-look review | Little White Lies

At a Davos-like gathering inside a cavernous marble mine, global elites in dinner dress enjoy a tweezer-precise amuse-bouche and a performance of Cerrone’s all-time

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Christy – first-look review | Little White Lies

When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was

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Below The Clouds – first-look review

If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,

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Silent Friend – first-look review

It’s a truism to point out that trees, plants, rivers and all flora and fauna contain as much lifeforce as any

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Re-anticipating Megalopolis | Little White Lies

Some see cinema as a form of theatre, and others see it as a form of circus. The great American filmmaker Francis

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100 Nights of Hero – first-look review

No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual

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Girl – first-look review | Little White Lies

In teenage dramas the lesson of the classroom often sets the tone, so when Hsiao-Lee’s (Bai Xiao-Ying) teacher asks his

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Remake – first-look review | Little White Lies

Elsewhere, McElwee films old friends who starred in his earlier films, such as Charleen Swansea, a poetry teacher and friend of