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The Rider

Another valuable result from recent debates about gender equality (as well as respect for women) is awareness of…

By Euan Franklin
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Faces Places

A film literal to its title, Faces Places unites exceptionally influential artists JR and Agnès Varda as they bring…

By Guy Lambert
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Lucky

Lucky, Harry Dean Stanton’s eponymous and semi-autobiographical anti-hero, is sitting in his pants, snarling at a game show…

By Will Almond
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Winter Ridge

There’s always some scepticism when low-budget movies can’t reach to a safe 90-minute standard. There are obvious exceptions…

By Euan Franklin
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Puzzle

Marc Turtletaub directs this portrait of the middle-aged Agnes facing up to an existential stasis. Trapped in a…

By Jake Cudsi
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American Animals

Thousands of years ago, man hunted to stay alive. Now that survival is taken for granted, man hunts…

By Rosamund Kelby
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Within moments of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, battle lines have been drawn and the hero and enemy neatly distinguished.…

By Ed Edwards
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The Seagull

The action of The Seagull takes place in a country house in Russia at the start of the…

By Euan Franklin
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Upgrade

August was awash with tech-based thrillers: a standalone sequel to Unfriended (Dark Web), a tedious horror about a…

By Euan Franklin
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The Happytime Murders

The problem with The Happytime Murders isn’t that there aren’t any laughs (there are) but that there are three…

By Will Almond