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Synchronic

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have done it again. The filmmaking duo – known for their previous adventurous…

By Guy Lambert
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Assassins

Current events in the West add a chilling, cautionary perspective to this documentary about the assassination of Kim…

By Dan Meier
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The Filmmaker’s House

In a series of interviews, documentary maker Marc Isaacs crafts a feature film in his own home, starring…

By Ella Satin
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Identifying Features

There are few more highly politicised borderlands in the world than the US-Mexico frontier. It is the most…

By Sean Gallen
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12 Hour Shift

Brea Grant’s horror-comedy farce, 12 Hour Shift, offers the minds of its audience no respite from the chaos…

By Mary-Catherine Harvey
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23 Walks

While out walking their dogs one day, pensioners Dave (I, Daniel Blake’s Dave Johns) and Fern (Alison Steadman)…

By Andrew Murray
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The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga's best-selling novel is adapted for the screen in the darkly funny feature of the same name,…

By Emma-Jane Betts
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The Exception

Director Jesper W Nielson once again exchanges television for cinema with the release of the Danish thriller The…

By Guy Lambert
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Quo Vadis, Aida?

It’s July 1995 and the end of the Bosnian War is in sight. Aida (Jasna Đuričić) is working…

By Andrew Murray
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Baby Done

What happens when you want a baby but not to turn into a mum? New Zealand’s heart-warming comedy,…

By Emma-Jane Betts