Sam Gray

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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    Movie review
    How to Talk to Girls at Parties
    ★★★★★

    In the movies, when aliens land on Earth, they must descend on the Empire State...

    Sam Gray 8th May 2018
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    Film festivals
    You Were Never Really Here
    ★★★★★

    The ghost of Taxi Driver looms large over Lynne Ramsay’s You...

    Sam Gray 13th October 2017
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    Film festivals
    The Florida Project
    ★★★★★

    There’ll be no better title sequence this year than in Sean Baker’s...

    Sam Gray 12th October 2017
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    Film festivals
    The Rider
    ★★★★★

    When you look at a culture from the outside, it can seem like a whole...

    Sam Gray 11th October 2017
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    Film festivals
    24 Frames
    ★★★★★

    Abbas Kiarostami died last year, but his legacy will never be forgotten. The man...

    Sam Gray 10th October 2017
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    Film festivals
    The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    ★★★★★

    The first image of Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film is a bloody,...

    Sam Gray 9th October 2017
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    Cannes
    A Prayer Before Dawn
    ★★★★★

    While the worlds of boxing and prison have separately – and...

    Sam Gray 9th October 2017
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    Film festivals
    Promised Land
    ★★★★★

    There has yet to be a great film about Donald Trump. Perhaps it’s just too...

    Sam Gray 9th October 2017
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    Film festivals
    Redoubtable
    ★★★★★

    Why does Redoutable exist? Godard has always held sway over French cinematic...

    Sam Gray 4th October 2017
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    Film festivals
    L’Amant Double (The Double Lover)
    ★★★★★

    After a few attempts at mainstream...

    Sam Gray 4th October 2017