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King Jack

Wistful coming-of-age tales are on shaky ground these days. Standing out amidst a procession of similar subject matter…

By Andy Jones
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Southbound

There have been plenty of anthological horror movies in the past decade, but very few of them have…

By The editorial unit
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The Maids at Trafalgar Studios

What does it do to a person when their entire life is based around servitude? The Maids suggests that…

By Jonathan Hutchings
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Anomalisa

Anomalisa is absolutely the best adult animated movie of this decade. It’s genuinely funny, uplifting and tragic. This…

By Jim Compton-Hall
Berlinale

Muito Romântico

It’s hard to say exactly what’s going on in Muito Romântico, but to hazard a guess, it seems…

By James Ager
Berlinale

Yarden

Yarden comes from a long line of irrepressibly gloomy Nordic films, although here the angst is less sensational…

By Edward Till
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Truth

Journalists behaving badly sounds like a cheap 90s sitcom, but sadly in the past 10 years it has…

By James Fisher