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Nowhere Special movie review: a father’s final bittersweet task

Fri, Jul 16, 2021
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Beautiful and heartbreaking. A beguiling portrait of love, grief, and pragmatism that unites father and son, built up via tender moments of the most ordinary sort. James Norton’s performance is revelatory.

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A Perfect Enemy movie review: terminal rage

Thu, Jul 15, 2021
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Ridiculous excuse for a thriller — obvious, preposterous, ultimately banal — piles on psychological absurdities as it builds from a maddening middle to an enraging crescendo of misogynist nonsense.

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I’m on two panels at the BFI’s Woman with a Movie Camera fest (now available globally!)

Wed, Jul 14, 2021
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In addition to my two prerecorded panels, I will pop into the live Zoom socials on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. You must buy your ticket by 5pm UK time on Friday. Please join us!

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please review ‘Cultural Artifacts’ if you’ve read it!

Sun, Jul 11, 2021
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Reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and anywhere else that sells ebooks really do help. Plus: A teaser from the book to tempt those who haven’t bought a copy yet. (Also: The serial science fiction project I’ve teased a few times is about to launch!)

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question of the weekend: are you comfortable going back to cinemas yet?

Sat, Jul 10, 2021
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If not, what will it take for you to be comfortable? Or, perhaps you’ve been going to the movies all along during the pandemic, when possible, in which case I’d ask: How safe did that feel, and were you ever worried about your safety?

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Black Widow movie review: spy cruft

Fri, Jul 09, 2021
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Dishearteningly less concerned with giving Natasha Romanoff her own story than with setting up her MCU replacement. Superfluous, backward-looking, its bit of feminism belabored. She deserved better.

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question of the weekend: what are movies for anymore?

Sat, Jul 03, 2021
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The explosive growth of our entertainment options have fractured the pop-culture zeitgeist, and now it seems as if there is little distinction between movies and, say, TV shows. Do movies still stand apart?

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Zola movie review: speed bumps in the road trip

Fri, Jul 02, 2021
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A deliciously badass style — part 70s grindhouse, part verité pseudo-documentary — and all-in performances are undermined by an exploitive gaze, and a combination of failed caper and failed satire.

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Charlatan movie review: more vegetative than herbal

Fri, Jul 02, 2021
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An intriguing story with engaging performances about a compelling real-life character, but oddly inert, and can’t quite make all its many aspects gel into a wholly satisfying or wholly coherent story.

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Les nôtres movie review: sacrificing girls for the greater good

Tue, Jun 29, 2021
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Quietly chilling. A condemnation of supposed propriety over genuine decency, and the sacrifice of children to the illusion of communal cohesion. There are no easy answers here, and no pat resolutions.

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