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3 Faces (Se Rokh)

Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces is pared, thoughtful and a little indulgent. We witness how "entertainers" are treated in…

By Joseph Owen
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Fahrenheit 451

Gallingly high-minded and absolutely superficial, this is a wildly conservative adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel, the favoured dystopia…

By Joseph Owen
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Asako I & II (Netemo Sametemo)

This is a strange, almost naïve film that plunges a high-concept romance into a banal, lifeless world. Therein…

By Joseph Owen
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At War (En Guerre)

What would the amorphous Emmanuel Macron make of Stéphane Brizé’s furious political polemic on strike action? Like many…

By Joseph Owen
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Technically impressive, gradual and ethereal, Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night bears little other direct relation to Eugene O’Neill’s famous opus.…

By Joseph Owen
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Mandy

To say that Panos Cosmatos shocked and thrilled audiences with Mandy, this evening, would be a gross understatement.…

By Zoe Tamara
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Angel Face (Gueule d’Ange)

Vanessa Filho’s Angel Face tells the tale of a dysfunctional relationship between a tragically flawed mother and her young daughter.…

By Zoe Tamara
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Crave at the Barbican

"I hate these words that keep me alive I hate these words that won't let me die expressing…

By Laura Foulger
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Girl

If the audience erupting into applause and cheers at the end of the premiere earlier today is any…

By Zoe Tamara