The Old Man & the Gun is a heart-swelling last hurrah for Robert Redford
A true story more interested in stories than truth.
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There are flashes of brilliance in the at times laborious Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
This film should come with a disclaimer: that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is essential viewing before entering the cinema.
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Does the new and sensationally horrific Suspiria have style, or merely impersonate it?
This remake of the 1977 cult classic is sort of beautiful and sort of horrific.
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The Girl in the Spider’s Web struggles to get going
“Whether you were wanting her or not, Lisbeth Salander is back.”
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Joel Edgerton’s gay conversion drama Boy Erased does more than preach to the converted
Edgerton depicts Christian characters in ways that cannot be dismissed as mere caricature.
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First Reformed is a mesmermising work of faith and rage
Here’s why First Reformed is one of the must-see films of 2018.
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Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old is an emotionally shattering experience
Liam Maguren left enlightened and emotionally shattered.
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Orson Welles’ incomplete lost film is dizzying, audacious, and now on Netflix
It’s also Welles’ giant last-gasp fart at Hollywood, a deeply cynical meta-movie.
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It’s all energy and no feeling in Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody
This famously troubled production reminds us of the difference between energy and feeling.
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The blunt and brutal The House That Jack Built is Lars von Trier at his best and worst
This film splatters blood, death, literally broken heads and spliced body parts around as if the Danish director is painting with them.
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The Seagull is worth viewing for its trifecta of brilliant women leads
In this nervy everybody-in-unrequited-love-with-everybody-else film adaption of the Anton Chekhov play The Seagull, Annette Bening is a…
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Happy Sad Man explores troubled masculinity with much-needed intimacy and variety
The latest from the director of I Am Eleven boasts something that accounts of troubled masculinity so often lack: not just intimacy, but…
