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Animalia review – sci-fi in the most elusive…

Itto (Oumaïma Barid) is alienated. After a series of elegantly composed shots of a house’s opulent if empty interiors, she is shown

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Cover-Up review – a film worthy of Seymour Hersh

When investigative journalist Seymour ​“Sy” Hersh is asked what made him a suitable candidate to run his father’s store in Chicago,

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Dreamers review – presents the hell of seeking…

If there’s one thing that 2025 has done really well it’s to place out in the open the fact that

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It Was Just An Accident review – straightforward…

You’d be right to want to exact cold, hard revenge on a person who tortured you and planted nightmare imagery of

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Jafar Panahi: ‘We shouldn’t look at cinema too…

Jafar Panahi has had to navigate the most challenging set of circumstances in order to make films. Censored and persecuted

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Female friendship and rebellion: Nana at 20

Starring actress Aoi Miyazaki and pop star Mika Nakashima, Kentaro Otani’s 2005 film adaption of Ai Yazawa’s manga ​‘Nana’ endures because

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review –…

It’s never easy to deliver a sequel to a successful whodunnit, much less a threequel. At this point, the amateur sleuths have begun

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Christy review – this ain’t ringing no box office…

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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Pillion review – a refreshingly sexy and touching…

Although based on the 2020 novel ​‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source

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Zodiac Killer Project review – all filler, all…

Zodiac Killer Project review – all filler, all killer David Jenkins Film essayist Charlie Shackleton takes dead-aim at the true