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The Ice and the Sky

Luc Jaquet returns to the Antarctic after his stunning documentary March of the Penguins collected an Oscar. This…

By Sean Gallen
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Partisan

The story of a deadly cult and its enigmatic leader, Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan is a somewhat darker way…

By Sarah Sutton
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At Any Price

Set among the sprawling cornfields of rural Iowa, At Any Price seeks to explore issues that are equally…

By Stuart Boyland
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Spotlight

A film in which the Catholic Church is the villain, challenged by a team of journalists uncovering a…

By Mersa Auda
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Room

Room is the dramatic tale of a mother and son (Joy and Jack), forced to live out their…

By Charles Oben
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Joy

“I don’t need a prince”, say a determined and imaginative young Joy at the beginning of this inspirational…

By Emma Clarendon
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The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight opens with a remarkable image: Samuel L Jackson’s major Marquis Warren, sat astride…

By Isabelle Milton
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Sleeping with Other People

Writer/director Leslye Headland made waves with her debut, Bachelorette, and returns with a romantic comedy full of surprises…

By Sean Gallen
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The Danish Girl

The unimaginable feeling of freedom is beautifully encapsulated in Tom Hooper’s film about one couple’s incredible quest to…

By Vineeta Sathiamoorthy
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Yakuza Apocalypse

For a movie about Japanese gangster vampires, Yakuza Apocalypse is remarkably dull. At least at first. Things pick…

By Jim Compton-Hall