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Sweet Country movie review: an essential confrontation with the ugly not-so-past past

Mon, Apr 23, 2018
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As harshly beautiful as its landscape, this is a stark corrective to the American western it echoes, and a pragmatic confrontation with the deep, tenacious roots of modern racism.

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie review: the stories too painful to tell

Fri, Apr 20, 2018
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A wonderfully old-fashioned tearjerker, with a thoroughly delightful cast, where cosy quaint Englishness is leavened by a harsh reality of World War II that pop culture has ignored.

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Funny Cow movie review: standing up for herself

Thu, Apr 19, 2018
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This is scorched-earth cinema that challenges us to find moments of grace and triumph among misery, cruelty, and emotional frugality. Maxine Peake is absolutely incendiary.

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Beirut (aka The Negotiator) movie review: an American man finds absolution in the messy Middle East

Wed, Apr 18, 2018
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A same-old story of a white man’s angst, set against the “exotic” backdrop of 1980s war-torn Beirut. This brand of Hollywood myopia is tired, uninteresting, and no longer acceptable.

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Borg vs McEnroe movie review: they get served

Tue, Apr 10, 2018
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Excruciatingly suspenseful and unexpectedly moving portrait of the on-court rivalry between the two great tennis players… and the intriguing secret layer to the public dynamic between them.

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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero movie review: dogged soldier

Mon, Apr 09, 2018
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In this centenary year of the end of World War I, this story of a real-life dog who served in the trenches is a gentle, engaging way to introduce kids to an essential piece of history.

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Crowhurst movie review: the worse things that happen at sea

Fri, Mar 23, 2018
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A little bit psychedelic, a little bit queasy, a little bit experimental, a lot existential, this is a jarring, visceral portrait of the around-the-world sailor in over his head.

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Mary Magdalene movie review: the Gospel of Mary

Fri, Mar 16, 2018
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A fiercely feminist and proudly revisionist historical drama that offers a powerful and much-needed rebuke to modern Christianity. Enrapturingly beautiful and intensely emotional.

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The Lodgers movie review: home is where the haunting is

Tue, Feb 27, 2018
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Cursed twins who speak in faux-byronic enigmas, a crumbling manse full of dead birds and velvet drapes, and strained psychosexual nonsense. There’s nothing eerie here, just the puerile and misjudged.

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November movie review: the woods are just trees, the trees are just wood

Fri, Feb 23, 2018
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An all-style and very-little-substance exercise in random oddity and weird imagery. Dispenses with engaging characters and revels in its own meaninglessness as if emptiness were deep and significant.

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