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1971

Curtain up on a nation in turmoil, rebels with a cause, and state secrets stolen from beneath the…

By Hannah Cooper
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Insidious: Chapter 3

If sequels are often disappointing and financially motivated, then prequels – as Leigh Whannel’s Insidious: Chapter 3 is…

By Thomas Jordan
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Black Coal, Thin Ice

It must be tempting to become lost in style and cliché when creating something in the film noir…

By Tom Halbert
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Cub

As The Babadook proved last year, horror films needn’t adhere to the clichéd "all-knowing" trope that plagues contemporary cinema, with children…

By Matthew Lee
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Listen Up Philip

When a film has a narrator it’s always fun to try and guess whether they’re telling you the…

By Joe Manners Lewis
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Timbuktu

Timbuktu is a deeply interesting film that explores the barriers of language and culture with a subtle dark…

By Cassia Morrice
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Best of Enemies

At first glance, Best of Enemies might not seem like riveting cinema; a documentary focusing on the 1968…

By Natasha Furlong
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The Impressionists

Produced by Seventh Art Productions with the support of Sotheby’s, the next movie to be released in the…

By Emily D'Silva
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Queen and Country

27 years after his award-winning feature Hope and Glory, John Boorman takes on a journey through another part of…

By Liloie Cazorla
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The Reunion

Swedish artist and filmmaker Anna Odell devotes her time and effort to saying the unspoken and dramatising the…

By Alex Finch