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Alpha – first-look review
“I ’m not afraid to die.” The refrain of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ‘The Mercy Seat’ seems hardcoded into the DNA of J…
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The Love That Remains – first-look review
W hen he speaks of his inspirations, the Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason mentions as many visual artists as movie di…
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Météors – first-look review
B oys will be boys. That’s the kind of idiom that would be used to brush off a fleeting encounter with Mika (Paul Kirche…
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Urgency and ambition in Cannes Acid 2025
O n April 15 of this year, ACID, the youngest and smallest of the parallel selections at Cannes, announced its lineup, w…
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The Secret Agent – first-look review
W hen Marcelo (Wagner Moura) first arrives in Dona Sebastiana’s building, he is greeted by a curious cat whose head is s…
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The Phoenician Scheme review – an absolute gas
A llow me to propose a theory: The Phoenician Scheme is the third part of what we shall loosely and unofficially refer …
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Die, My Love – first-look review
I f you haven’t lived it, it’s hard to explain, that gnawing discomfort that makes you want to do something certified-ca…
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New Wave – first-look review
I t is ironic that Richard Linklater has chosen to homage a film carved out of spontaneous new techniques with one so mi…
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Pillion – first-look review
A lthough based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from …
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Renoir – first-look review
D eath seems to be an omniscient spectre and perennial fascination for promising filmmaker Chie Hayakawa. In her debut P…
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Eddington – first-look review
U p front: I am not the world’s biggest Ari Aster booster. You might even say I was a tad Ari-nostic about his over-comm…
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The Chronology of Water – first-look review
T he transformative power of water lies at the heart of American writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, informed by her adole…
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo – first-look review
I n striking opening credits, boiling copper pours from atop a grey mountain like lava, a sluggish, powerful current tha…
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The Plague – first-look review
T o stand out as a teenager is to make yourself a target. The pack mentality that dominates most group settings for chil…
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Sirât – first-look review
E uphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât, a f…
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Sound of Falling – first-look review
T he old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Fal…
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Do Not Seek the Treasure: The Coen Brothers’ Anti-Capitalist Critique
I n a darkened cinema two escaped convicts seek a few minutes of respite from the hijinks of recent days. Ulysses Everet…
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Enzo – first-look review
T he tragic context behind this film is compounded further by the fact that it is truly wonderful. Veteran French direct…
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