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Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger opens with a standard crime thriller set-up: two brothers, one reckless and one cautious, edging toward…
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Marvelous Mornings
Set in a sleepy Mediterranean seaside town, Avril Besson's feature debut Marvelous Mornings (Les matins merveilleux) follows Charlie…
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Gentle Monster
When films deal with abusive or predatory men, the focus usually settles on revelation, guilt or punishment. The…
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Atonement
Reed Van Dyk's debut Atonement begins with a fatal miscalculation during a firefight in Iraq and follows the…
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We Are Aliens
Kohei Kadowaki's feature debut follows more than two decades in the lives of Tsubasa and Gyotaro, charting their…
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John Lennon: The Last Interview
On 8th December 1980, just hours before he was killed outside the Dakota building in New York, John…
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Tangles
Leah Nelson's animated feature debut Tangles approaches early-onset Alzheimer's with an honesty that is often difficult to sit…
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All of a Sudden
Adapted from You and I – The Illness Suddenly Get Worse by Makiko Miyano and Maho Isono, Hamaguchi…
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Forsaken
Vincent Garenq's Forsaken approaches the Samuel Paty case from an angle that initially seems almost counterintuitive. Rather than…
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The Meltdown
Manuela Martelli's The Meltdown is set in Chile in 1992, at a remote luxury ski hotel in the…
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