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Couple in a Hole

The premise of Couple in a Hole is a simple if unusual one: the film tells the story…

By James Ager
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Miles Ahead

Miles Ahead is not a traditional biopic, in that it doesn’t chronicle the milestones in the late musician’s…

By The editorial unit
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1915

Tackling sensitive historical subject matter has to be carried out with a delicate and shrewd touch, but approaching it…

By Mark Beckett
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Boulevard

After struggling to find a distributor, the final onscreen appearance by the late great Robin Williams is finally…

By Natasha Furlong
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Midnight Special

Midnight Special sings from the Amblin hymnbook with such fervour that it could almost be construed as plagiarism,…

By James Ager
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Motley’s Law

Try to visualise being the only foreign attorney working in Afghanistan in 2013, just as front-page politicians once…

By Jasmin Valjas
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The Absent One

An adaptation of one of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q novels, The Absent One, directed by Mikkel Norgaard, is…

By Catherine Sedgwick
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Papusza

The dirty streets of post-war Poland look on as an expectant mother shuffles through town to her encampment.…

By Sarah Button
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Anguish

With a host of credits to his name as a producer, including The Lake House and Spike Lee’s…

By Thomas Unsted