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Glaubenberg

Incest is perverted. That makes it basically exciting, transgressive, absurd and ripe for cinematic treatment. In this case,…

By Joseph Owen
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Dog Days

The ensemble comedy Dog Days is an ambitious film exploring the connection between canines and their owners and…

By Michael Higgs
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A Land Imagined

A national rejuvenation, an economic miracle, Singapore succeeds through something tangible yet perverse: it keeps making itself bigger. Neighbouring lands export sand and…

By Joseph Owen
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With the Wind (Le vent tourne)

Ideas of radical ecology, self-sufficiency and toiling the land offer many narrative possibilities: a well-meaning ode to collective…

By Joseph Owen
Movie

The Heiresses

Bursting with lust, love, anguish and heartache. Cruising at a steady, subdued pace, taking in the class, repression…

By Jake Cudsi
Movie

The Darkest Minds

Teen dystopian drama The Darkest Minds is an ambitious feature based on Alexandra Bracken’s novel of the same…

By Mersa Auda
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Under the Tree

Under the Tree (Undir trénu), Iceland’s foreign language entry at the Oscars earlier this year, takes the building…

By Will Almond
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Alice T.

Radu Muntean's Alice T. is discomfort distilled. A teenage pregnancy is brutally and unsentimentally depicted. This is a…

By Joseph Owen
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Long Way Home (Temporada)

This is not a heinous film. It’s respectable, subtle and – perhaps that most faintly damning of terms…

By Joseph Owen