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Finding Your Feet movie review: it’s never too late for a fresh start in life

Wed, Apr 04, 2018
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A tart, sharp, life-affirming dramedy, one that is slightly more edgy and far less predictable than it probably has any right to be. Celia Imrie and Imelda Staunton are magnificent.

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All I Wish (aka A Little Something for Your Birthday) movie review: sassy birthday

Mon, Apr 02, 2018
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It’s too predictable and too disingenuous about the realities of what it means to be an “older” woman. But Sharon Stone is totally charming.

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Isle of Dogs movie review: a breed apart, or a breed too far?

Fri, Mar 30, 2018
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Absolutely delightful and utterly original, with its lovingly crafted stop-motion animation bursting with sweetness but also with a winking mockery. I have just a few caveats…

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This Beautiful Fantastic movie review: this ordinary normal

Sun, Mar 11, 2018
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An ostensible fairy tale of the creative life in London that tries too hard to be eccentric, while also trying too hard to be grounded and realistic. This is one of those idiosyncrasies that you really can’t have both ways.

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Basmati Blues movie review: like white savior on rice

Mon, Feb 12, 2018
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Part hamfisted critique of Big Ag, part strained romantic comedy, and part insipid musical that’s not much like the Bollywood tribute it’s meant to be. An accidental parody of itself.

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Please Stand By movie review: fan trek

Thu, Jan 25, 2018
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A lovely, gentle geek adventure that appreciates the importance of fandom as a source of inspiration and comfort, with a subtle and resolutely unsentimental performance by Dakota Fanning as an autistic fan.

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Final Portrait movie review: the not-so-fine making of fine art

Wed, Jan 10, 2018
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A bleakly funny, genteelly twisted gloss on the clichés of temperamental creative genius, via the relationship between an artist and his subject, one that questions the sometimes high personal price of great art.

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Brad’s Status movie review: when a white man can’t bear not having all the privilege

Fri, Jan 05, 2018
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Ben Stiller is having another midlife crisis, and only his sincere, heartfelt performance saves this pile of unchecked white male privilege from self-parody. But only just.

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Downsizing movie review: let’s get small (LFF 2017)

Wed, Dec 20, 2017
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Absolutely stupendous: smart, funny, poignant, a true original. A thrilling odyssey of ideas that takes its sci-fi concept to the very edges of extrapolation.

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Menashe movie review: the unhappy nonconformist

Wed, Dec 13, 2017
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A bittersweet, deeply human tale, one with a documentary sense of discovery to its setting: a little seen, highly insular ultraorthodox Jewish community.

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