The Painter and the Thief review – an exultant documentary feature drawn to him
There are moments of Benjamin Ree’s new documentary, The Painter and the Thief, that begins to overwhelm you almost immediately
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The High Note review – a tired genre that plays like an average greatest hits album hit that note
The High Note is really just about the same old story you see in almost any romantic drama nowadays. Its
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Sitting in Limbo review – a searing story of the Windrush scandal neither here nor there
This review of Sitting in Limbo (BBC One) contains some spoilers for anyone who doesn’t know the history of the
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Climax (2020) review – let’s just say that Mia Malkova has been in better films Unhappy Ending
I suppose it only makes sense if you’re going to cast a **** star in your film that you spend
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How to Build a Girl review – charming, funny, raunchy and sweet
How to Build a Girl, the zany coming of age comedy that, depending on who you talk to, is a semi-autobiographical
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Survive the Night review – look kids! it’s a couple of falling stars, make a wish. or, just end it now.
I wish we could use clichés like they just don’t make movies like Survive the Night anymore, but that’s sadly
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Debt Collectors review – never has so much been owed… vig in the city
If there are two names I always enjoy seeing next to each other on a movie’s billing, it’s those of
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The Vast of Night second opinion – a scintillating debut film paradoxical parasomnia
Amazon Prime Video’s The Vast of Night is the kind of film put together on a shoestring budget (by today’s
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7500 review – a tight airborne thriller that isn’t much fun rough landing
One gets the sense that you’re not supposed to be having much fun with Patrick Vollrath’s claustrophobic thriller 7500, but
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Resistance review – Eisenberg is boxed in by a formulaic script never mime
Resistance is so frustratingly formulaic it draws comparisons to last year’s criminally overrated stinker, Harriet. While not nearly as ridiculous
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The Lost Husband review – a charming trope always check the garage
I love fishing, and when sitting down to select movies in this day and age, it’s a lot like that.
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Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made review – if any film can kill, it’s this one frankly freaky faux footage
So… I first watched Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made with the intention of reviewing it three weeks ago, and
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The Lovebirds review – a very funny comedy that’s love at first fight
This review of The Lovebirds (Netflix) is spoiler-free. The Lovebirds (Netflix) has the distinction of being the first major movie pulled
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International Falls review – a winning performance from Rachael Harris
Director Amber McGinnis’s International Falls is one of those films that you wish had a little more punch, but you
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Bad Therapy review – the film equivalent of the Duncan Principle Malpractice
There are very few movie experiences where I stopped a film right in the middle. The last time might have
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Gretel & Hansel review – a moody fantasy that gets fittingly lost Brother's Keeper
Most film critics are reluctant to call a film boring since it’s largely seen as a nebulous, anti-intellectual label unbecoming
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Capone review – a proudly uncommercial biopic that slowly dies before our eyes Soils of War
The most interesting question raised by Capone is to what extent its writer-director-editor Josh Trank sees himself in the necrotic
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The Lodge review – a richly atmospheric chiller too stupid to be taken seriously Snow Coincidence
The Lodge, writer-director pair Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s English-language follow-up to Goodnight Mommy, is so clearly calibrated for a
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First Love (Hatsukoi) review – action, romance and a beheading or two gloves off
Leo (Masataka Kubota, Tokyo Ghoul, Death Note) is a modest young boxer, promising, but with no sense of any hope
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We Summon the Darkness second opinion – drop your expectations and enjoy Not what meets the eye
We Summon the Darkness starts off as a coming of age drama but doesn’t stay that way. It looks like
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