Matthew McMillan

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The Kitchen

After proving his mettle on the long-running crime series Top Boy, Kane Robinson (more widely known as Kano)…

By Matthew McMillan
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Men Up

The mid-1990s. The era of cool Britannia, Blur, Oasis, New Labour and an emerging sense of optimism about…

By Matthew McMillan
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Trenque Lauquen

Like the most beguiling mystery narratives, Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen is ostensibly a ghost story. Even before an…

By Matthew McMillan
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Anselm

Wim Wenders returns to the documentary realm with one of two films to be released this year, Anselm,…

By Matthew McMillan
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Fallen Leaves

The latest entry to Kaurismäki’s now quadrilogy of films chronicling working-class Finnish life (after Shadows in Paradise, Ariel…

By Matthew McMillan
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Archie

The title of ITVX's biographical miniseries, Archie, has, affixed to it, the tagline of "the man who became…

By Matthew McMillan
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Rustin

Bayard Rustin’s towering influence on civil rights is often overlooked in the annals of mainstream pop history. The…

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Is There Anybody Out There?

Is There Anybody Out There? is a fiercely personal documentary in which its director and subject, Ella Glendining,…

By Matthew McMillan
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The Animal Kingdom

Thomas Cailley’s debut feature, Love at First Fight, introduced a director brimming with a uniquely acerbic, irreverent sensibility, in…

By Matthew McMillan
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The Zone of Interest

Scratch the surface of most art, and a study of duplexity will reveal itself – a tug of…

By Matthew McMillan