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The Mother of All Lies
A fascinating hybrid of documentary and feature filmmaking, The Mother of All Lies finds Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El…
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Banel & Adama
Banel & Adama is a film of striking individuality, characteristic of its debut director’s youth at a festival…
By Matthew McMillan
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The Idol
Sam Levinson can be a frustratingly petulant filmmaker. Aside from the behemoth, cultural beacon that is Euphoria, his…
By Matthew McMillan
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The Book of Solutions (Le Livre des Solutions)
The central character of Michel Gonry’s madcap ode to the beauty and peril of creativity is Marc (Pierre…
By Matthew McMillan
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If Only I Could Hibernate
The title of the first Mongolian film to play in the official selection at Cannes Film Festival speaks…
By Matthew McMillan
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Firebrand
Even if Jude Law’s somewhat ruggedly attractive voice doesn’t always lend itself to Henry VIII’s psychotic bellows of…
By Matthew McMillan
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May December
May December works on the level of narrative metaphysicality that Todd Haynes has perched upon so proficiently over…
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
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
A decade and a half after the fourth instalment of the epically successful Indiana Jones franchise polarised critics…
By Matthew McMillan
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Black Flies
Black Flies is a New York film if ever there was one; a dark, grimy, dirty assault on…
By Matthew McMillan