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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

Directed by Kirk Jones (of Nanny McPhee), written by lead actor Nia Vardalos, and shot in suburban Toronto, My…

By Catherine Sedgwick
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A Warrior’s Tail

Resilience and heroism are rife in this animation adventure fantasy. Originally released in Russian under the name of…

By Vineeta Sathiamoorthy
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Disorder

Unrelenting, unsettling, yet endlessly gripping, the Alice Winocour-directed Disorder has a tension that percolates beneath every moment. From start…

By Mark Beckett
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Welcome to Me

Are there places where comedy should not venture, subjects that are so sensitive that presenting them as entertainment and…

By Frank Jarman
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The Club

Chile's pre-eminent filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s works (Tony Manero, Post Mortem, No) have focused on violence and corruption in…

By Catherine Sedgwick
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Rock the Kasbah

Bill Murray stars in the somewhat risky and undeniably cringe-worthy comedy, Rock the Kasbah. Murray plays Richie Lanz,…

By Jo Rogers
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Victoria

The single-shot film, where the entire running length is comprised of one continuous take, is still rare enough to be…

By Oliver Johnston
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Mojave

From the briefest glance through Mojave’s credits, you would be forgiven for assuming that this desert-noir thriller was going…

By Andy Jones
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Sing Street

The premise of Sing Street is not a complicated one: a kid at a new school must form…

By James Ager