Student Services (Mes chères études) review: naked ambition
Well-acted but unsurprising, and far more sad than it is scandalous.
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Rafea: Solar Mama review (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Hugely hopeful documentary about women unleashing their potential and putting into practice small-scale, realistic solutions to enormous problems.
009 Re: Cyborg review: hasta la what now?
A whole lotta WTF folded into a derivative, misogynist, and just plain incoherent mess.
Populaire review: just your type
Ridiculously charming as it spins a deliciously retro kitsch magic. (new DVD/VOD UK)
based on a terrible true story (Our Children review)
Harrowing and unsettling…
there’s no way Almodóvar can land this plane (I’m So Excited! review)
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
making sitcom lemonade (Love Is All You Need review)
What starts out as conventional dramedy becomes a charming, wise story about making the most of whatever life throws at you…
The Gatekeepers documentary review: secret police speak out
The Oscar-nominated documentary in which the six living former heads of Israel’s ultrasecretive domestic security agency talk about their antiterrorism work…
Lore (review)
Hints at a new mythology of darkness and light, of scary childhood and even scarier adolescence…
5 Broken Cameras documentary review
A horrific portrait of everyday life on the West Bank, yet one also powerfully warm, funny, and human…
