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United States of Love

Tomas Wasilewski’s United States of Love evokes an earnest sense of despair in its portrayal of love, showing…

By Chloe Sizer
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I, Olga

Audiences are unlikely to know the story of Olga Hepnarová, the last woman to ever be given the…

By Tess Colley
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The New Man

Anyone could be forgiven for first believing this film is merely a stylised fictional drama, with a script…

By Sarah Sutton
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We Are the Flesh

Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are the Flesh is strange, inventive and perverse, introducing a new kind of experimental…

By Isabelle Milton
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Panic

The greatest of thrillers are those that convey sheer terror without actually showing anything particularly terrifying on screen.…

By The editorial unit
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Indignation

Adapted from Philip Roth’s book of the same title, Indignation tells the story of Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman),…

By Tess Colley
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Francofonia

Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov brings an engaging exploration of art and history to the screen with his latest…

By Joanna Blyth
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American Pastoral

When it comes to adapting great works of literature for the screen, it’s almost always a mistake to…

By Sam Gray
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Dog Eat Dog

There’s a boisterous, gory charm to Paul Schrader’s film that conceals a rather thoughtful subtext. Based on the novel…

By Alexander Bawden
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The Innocents

World War Two may have ended on September 1945, but for many of its survivors, this was only…

By Sam Gray