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The Escape

A film one might expect to be about a bored housewife who runs off to Paris and, as…

By Catherine Sedgwick
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Damascus Cover

Films must be of a certain calibre to be worth watching, and writer-director Daniel Zelik Berk’s political spy…

By Selina Begum
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Sicilian Ghost Story

A ghost story of a different kind, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonia Piazza's new feature tackles not the supernatural, but a gut-wrenching scenario…

By Guy Lambert
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Kaiser

Michael Moore’s first rule for documentary filmmaking is “don’t make a documentary – make a movie”. Enter Louis…

By Euan Franklin
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Iceman (Der Mann aus dem Eis)

Despite life’s difficulties, a glimpse into the daily struggles of a man from the Bronze Age (around 3200 BCE) might restore perspective. In…

By Catherine Sedgwick
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Apostasy

Apostasy, the outstanding new work by debut filmmaker Daniel Kokotajlo, is centred on a family of three Jehovah’s…

By Musanna Ahmed
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Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation

Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation joins a lengthy list of computer-animated children’s films that aren’t especially concerned with…

By Mark Mukasa
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Here we go again indeed! It’s hard to believe that it has been all of a decade since the…

By Guy Lambert
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Spitfire

In celebration of the centenary of the Royal Air Force (RAF), co-directors David Fairhead and Ant Palmer deliver…

By Jake Cudsi