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#LFF2016: Ma’ Rosa, Pyromaniac, All This Panic

Thu, Sep 29, 2016
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Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.

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#LFF2016: Down Under, Indivisible, Wild

Thu, Sep 22, 2016
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Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.

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#LFF2016: A Date for Mad Mary, Chasing Asylum, The Dreamed Ones

Tue, Sep 20, 2016
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Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.

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The Girl with All the Gifts movie review: I believe the children are our future…

Mon, Sep 19, 2016
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Stakes out its own fresh place in an SF subgenre that is well played out, and rehumanizes it ways that are both extraordinarily moving and deeply unnerving.

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Kubo and the Two Strings movie review: quest for family

Mon, Sep 12, 2016
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Magic, music, and monsters come together to create a marvelous fairy tale that’s scary, sweet, and full of tough emotions that kids’ movies often avoid.

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Margarita with a Straw movie review: this ain’t no pity party

Tue, Jun 14, 2016
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Open, frank, funny romantic dramedy about a young Indian woman living with cerebral palsy. A perfect antidote to the disability pity porn of Me Before You.

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Holding the Man movie review: grand romance, no qualifiers needed

Fri, Jun 03, 2016
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Told with a lovely romantic sweep and full of raw, honest emotion, this is a gay love story that’s also just a great love story, full stop. Yay.

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Sculpting Time: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky movie retrospective review: tragedy, trauma, and torment, Russian-style

Fri, May 20, 2016
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A significant new retrospective of the legendary and hugely influential Russian filmmaker is a fresh opportunity to see some gorgeous films on a big screen.

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X-Men: Apocalypse movie review: everyone knows the third movie is always the worst

Thu, May 19, 2016
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About precisely nothing other than pure pulp comic-book soap-opera rigmarole, overshadowed by clichés, implausibilities, and missed opportunities.

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Bad Neighbours 2 (aka Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising) movie review: the misbehaving girls next door

Mon, May 09, 2016
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Teenaged girls behaving badly, depicted with a positive vibe. Progress? Turns out grossout movies don’t work even when they’re kind of feminist.

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