The Year So Far
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Royal Warriors: When Michelle Yeoh Was Her Best Self
As vacuous and enervating as the annual cycle of awards season pageantry can be, there’s someth...
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Making A Murderer: Black Trauma And The Media In Alice Diop's Saint Omer
"Nothing makes sense in this story.” Those words, spoken by Fabienne Kabou as she stood trial f...
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The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70
Few actors are more beloved than James Stewart. In rom-coms such as Vivacious Lady and The Shop...
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This Is Ourselves: Music And Memory In Aftersun
In the cathartic, climatic scene of Aftersun, the film’s past and present storylines dramatical...
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Bad Education: Tár And The Sadistic In The Artistic
In the arts, discipline is everything. Without it, you can’t reach the diligence or stamina nee...
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Feel The Film: Mark Jenkin On Enys Men
“I remember going to a 16mm film screening of David Lean's Oliver Twist in the hall of the vill...
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If These Walls Could Talk: The Stone Tape At 50
Charles Babbage is best known as the father of the modern computer, but he had other ideas, too...
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Happy Ending: How Guillermo Del Toro Reinvented The Fairytale
Fairy tales are, by their very nature, fantastical stories. Often set in far-away kingdoms fill...
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Film Reviews
Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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