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  Wajib (Duty)

  ★★★★★

  This is expert filmmaking from Annemarie Jacir, now a veteran of the art house festi...

  Joseph Owen 10th September 2018
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  BlacKkKlansman

  ★★★★★

  Furious, funny and agitating, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman is an explicit, direct...

  Joseph Owen 20th August 2018
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  Trot (Trote)

  ★★★★★

  This is a cold, uninvolving film that indulges in banal ...

  Joseph Owen 14th August 2018
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  “We hurt ourselves with our egos”: Ethan Hawke reflects on his success at Locarno 2018 press conference

  Actor and director Ethan Hawke is this year’s recipient of the 2018 Excellence AwardÂ...

  Joseph Owen 13th August 2018
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  Blaze

  ★★★★★

  Ethan Hawke offers a conventional tale of decline and fall throug...

  Joseph Owen 11th August 2018
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  Likemeback: An interview with director Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli and stars Denise Tantucci, Angela Fontana and Blu Yoshimi

  Italian director Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli presents Likemeback at this year’s ...

  Joseph Owen 10th August 2018
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  All Good (Alles ist gut)

  ★★★★★

  Stoicism leads into repression, repressi...

  Joseph Owen 8th August 2018
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  Glaubenberg

  ★★★★★

  Incest is perverted. That makes it basically exciting, tr...

  Joseph Owen 8th August 2018
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  With the Wind (Le vent tourne): An interview with director Bettina Oberli and actress Melanie Thierry

  French actress Melanie Thierry stars in With the Wind (Le Vent Tourne), showing at this year’s Locarno Fil...

  Joseph Owen 8th August 2018
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  A Land Imagined

  ★★★★★

  A national rejuvenation, an economic miracle, Singa...

  Joseph Owen 7th August 2018